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Dark, the Light, The
By Diana Blom
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$28.00

A long song and short story. Helen Garner is a very fine and evocative Australian short story writer and ‘The Dark, the Light’, from Postcards from Surfers (Penguin 1985). Almost a music theatre work in miniature because of the different musical styles matching different text moods, the song can be sung by memory, but also with the score held as if reading the story to an audience. Composed 1997
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Fair Maid of the Mill, The (Medium)
By Bruce Daniel
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$60.00
Song cycle for medium voice and piano. Die Schöne Müllerin D.795
Original German text by Wilhelm Müller.
It is a story that takes its audience on a journey that is dramatic as well as musical. The songs come fully alive only as the story reveals itself to the audience in real time, as the composer intended. It is hoped that this edition may offer English-speaking singers and audiences the immediate experience that German-speakers take for granted.
The edition is a translation not of poems but of song lyrics. There have been many such attempts in the past but I have yet to see one which comes anywhere near a credible or convincing realisation of Müller’s poetry as it appears in the context of Schubert’s music. (David Miller, pianist)
Edited 2018 by Bruce Daniel
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ISMN 9790720209616
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Fairy Tale, A (Adams)
By Horace Keats
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Soprano and piano, c.2'00
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1939
- Tempo: Moderato
Words Ruth Adams
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ISMN 979072020231723
Four Epigrams
By Stephen Yates
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$22.00

All songs included on the Trinity/Guildhall Singing Syllabus and recorded on the CD Simply Songs and Songs from Australia by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller and available online.
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Four Haiku
By David Keeffe
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$25.00

Composed 2007.
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- Broken Moon - sheet music, c.1'36
- Coolness - sheet music, c.1'24
- Ebb-Tide - sheet music, c.2'00
- Flowers in the Evening - sheet music, c.2'25
Four Tiny Songs (Brandon)
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
Baritone and piano
- Grade: 6-8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1945
- Tempo: Four brief insights to the charm in life.
Words Herbert Brandon
- I Know a Road- audio
- Tempo: Marked Andante, crochet equals seventy-two
Johnny and Jimmy - sheet music
- Tempo: Marked Allegro, dotted minim equals eighty
- Two Lovers - sheet music
- Two Lovers - audio
- Tempo: Marked Lento, crochet equals sixty six
Thousands of Roadways - sheet music
- Thousands of Roadways - audio
- Tempo: Marked Moderato
Recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) available online
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ISMN M720007083
Library, The
By Diana Blom
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$28.00

This long song takes its text from the novel, Maestro (1989), by Peter Goldsworthy. The story follows the search by a teenage boy seeking information about the past of his elderly Viennese piano teacher through the stack of shelves in the Library of Adelaide University.
Composed 1996
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Portrait of America
By Diana Blom
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Portrait of America draws together, through music, the poems of four American writers. Two of the poems have become popular and are better known than their writers, but for the other two, the writers are better known than the poems. The songs, a cycle ending with a reprise of the first song, celebrate American writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries while exploring the colours and moods of the tenor voice and piano. The songs were composed for American tenor, Kevin Hanrahan. Composed 2018
- The Last Song
- I am the little Irish boy
- A Shadow
- Indian Prayer
- The Last Song (reprise)
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Rats of Tobruk, The
By Paul Paviour
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$12.00
Voice and piano.
Words and music by Frederick Whaite, edited by Paul Paviour
The manuscript was given to Paul Paviour as part of a collection of works from the family of a deceased relative. Its history, and author, are unknown. However, “it is part of Australia’s history, the Australian troops held out in Tobruk in 1941/42 and did a magnificent job and should be commemorated”. (Paul Paviour)
Composed 1943
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Remembering Babylon
By Diana Blom
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$35.00

This long song takes its text "human differences and eternal divisions "from the novel of the same name, by David Malouf. Each of the four songs portraits the different characters in the novel. Composed 1997
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Selected Songs, Vol. I
By Rudolf Werther
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$45.00

Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. German lyrics, English translation included.
Composition dates unknown
Edited by David Wickham
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Six Songs of Faith
By Paul Paviour
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$35.00

- 1. Love Divine, which Never Ends (Charles Wesley)
- 2. Swords in to Ploughshares
- 3. Holy Spirit, Love Divine (Samuel Longfellow)
- 4. Crowned with Glory Now (Thomas Kelly)
- 5. The Quiet Voice (G W. Armitage)
- 6. If Only (Christina Rossetti)
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