Art Song
Crepuscule [Twilight] (McCrae)
By Horace Keats
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$12.00
Soprano and piano, c.1'35
- Grade: 6
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1940
- Tempo: Andante tranquillo a charming song full of poetical and musical imagery.
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) available online
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Cycle of Six Songs, A
By Alexander Burnard
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$35.00
Six songs for baritone and piano, words by John Wheeler.
- 1. The River,
- 2. Night Piece,
- 3. Berceuse,
- 4. There's Snow on the Mountains,
- 5. Magnolia,
- 6. Carol.
Composed 1952
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Dawn (Bottomley)
By Horace Keats
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$10.00
Soprano and piano, c.1'10
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1935
- Tempo: Marked Allegretto, crochet equals ninety six. A highly atmospheric song with considerable interaction with the pianist.
Words by Gordon Bottomley.
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ISMN M720007038
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Dream Land (Rossetti)
By Miriam Hyde
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$15.00
Medium to high voice and piano, c.1'50composed 1933. Words by Christina Rossetti
Composed 1933.
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Dreams at Eventide (Brandon)
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
S
oprano and piano, c.2'30
- Grade: Included on the Trinity/Guildhall Singing Syllabus and AMEB Manual List D, Level 2 Cert of Performance
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1942
- Tempo: Marked Lento e tranquillo, a bucolic dream of the aftermath of life, culminating with the words: "And look again in your dear eyes."
Words Herbert Brandon
Recorded by Gavin Lockley (baritone) and Clemens Leske (piano) on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040), and by Wendy Dixon (soprano) and David Miller (piano) on Songs from Australia (Wirr 001) both CDs available online
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ISMN M720007076
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Dust of Snow (Frost)
By Horace Keats
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$10.00
Soprano and piano, c.0'30"
- Grade: 4
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: c.1940
- Tempo: Marked Allegretto, crochet equals eighty. A very simple poem of impending death?
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Echo (Rossetti) - voice and piano
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
Soprano and piano c.4'00
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: c. 1930
- Tempo: Marked Moderato, crochet equals eighty. A song of the afterlife.
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ISMN M720007656
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Ego (Sterling Levis)
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.3'50,
- Grade: Assoc. Dip
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1943
- Tempo: Marked Andante and was described by a Sydney Morning Herald music critic after a recital of Australian songs; "The Australian songs, save for the late Horace Keats' deeply thoughtful Ego, a work wrought with high musical skill, varied from the conventional to the commonplace."
Words Edith Sterling-Levis
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) available online
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Elegy
By Wendy Hiscocks
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$20.00
Voice and piano, c.2'30". Grade 7The Elegy's anonymous poem, sometimes ascribed to the American Makah tribe, was given to the composer after the death of her mother-in-law Trudl Howat in 1993. Trudl's spirit of light and adventure is well reflected in verse, and in setting it to music the composer was able to express her own feelings of thanks and of fond farewell.
Composed 1993
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Elegy (Howarth)
By Brennan Keats
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$15.00
- Grade: 7
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 2003
- Tempo: Minim equals 52, the poet Guy Howarth expresses rage rather than grief that the one he loved has been taken away by death. A dramatic song both in words and music.
Recorded on the CD Simply Songs (Wirr 001) by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller, available online.
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ISMN M720041667
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English Songs, The
By Colin Brumby
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$28.00
Medium voice and piano. Composed 1976 rev 2000Settings of five metaphysical poems:
1. Goe, And Catche A Falling Starre (John Donne), c.3'30
2. Thernos (William Shakespeare), c.4'00
3. The Lark Now Leaves His Wat'ry Nest (Sir William Davenant), c.3'10
4. Come, Come, What Doe I Here? (Henry Vaughn), c.2'50
5. The Souldier Going to the Field (Sir William Davenant), c.3'15
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- 1. Goe, And Catche A Falling Starre - sheet music
- 1. Goe, And Catche a Falling Starre - audio s
- 2. Thernos - sheet music
- 2. Thernos - audio
- 4. Come, Come, What Doe I Here? - sheet music
- 4. Come, Come, What Doe I Here? - audio
ISMN 9790720093413
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Eternity's Sun Rise (Blake)
By John Peterson
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$35.00
A cycle of five songs for mezzo-soprano and pianoTexts from the writings of William Blake
composed 1995
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- 1. Auguries of Innocence - sheet music
- 2. On Another's Sorrow - sheet music
- 3. Holy Thursday - sheet music
- 4. Endless Night - sheet music
- 5. Eternity - sheet music
- Audio samples:
- Auguries of Innocence, c.2'00
- On Another's Sorrow, c.2'40
- Holy Thursday, c2'40
- Endless Night, c.2'30
- Eternity, c.2'40
Recorded by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Australian Song Cycles Vol 1 (Wirr036) available online
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