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Songs for the Moon

By John Peterson

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A cycle of four songs for soprano and piano.
  • 1. Alone and Drinking Under the Moon, c.6'15
  • 2.  Full Moon Rhyme, c.4'20
  • 3.  Moonlight in the Forest, c.4'00
  • 4.  Prayer to the Young Moon, c.4'10
These songs take their texts from several poets who lived in quite different parts of the world in order to offer a variety of perspectives on our relationship with the moon.  Composed 2016

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Songs for Young Singers

By Richard Peter Maddox

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Voice and piano.  Composed 2000
  • 1. Washing Day c.0'40,
  • 2. My Hat, c.1'20,
  • 3. Shopping, c. 1'30,
  • 4. The Beach, c.1'30,
  • 5. The Kangaroo (Duet), c. 1'45.

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 ISMN 9790720164922
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Songs from Australia

By Miller, Dixon, Aggett, Foulsham

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By David Miller, Wendy Dixon, Cathy Aggett, Linda Foulsham.
Songs from Australia has been written as a resource for performers, teachers and students to assist in the development of individual interpretation and performance skills.  Pedagogical, musical and performance ideas are discussed for 27 Australian songs.  Each entry includes information on the following: textual analysis, performance and vocal techniques, musical concepts, piano accompaniment, phonetics, range and tessitura, pronunciation guide for diction, composition details, composer biography and available recordings and details teaching outcomes.  A CD of MIDI accompaniment for each song is included.  A glossary provides musical definitions and general explanations.  Songs from Australia approaches each song as an entity.  The interpretative and technical information provided for each song is offered to assist the teacher and student to build a successful performance.  

The Songs from Australia authors believe that a singer cannot perform a song without a thorough understanding of the original poem; this philosophy has been their impetus.  For this reason, the book provides the Textual Analysis before exploring how the composer has set the text.  (The poems have been presented and vocabulary assistance has been included where deemed (necessary).
Performance Techniques have been included to encourage individual interpretation.  They consider vocal technique, diction, phonetics, style, textual and musical information, pedagogy and exercises.  The exercises provided are specific to the song; however, most have a wider application and will be of assistance in different song settings.  (The Appendix lists such alternative uses.)  The section, Musical Concepts, discusses melody, harmony, tonality, duration and form, (tempo has been considered in the body of the text when it has a direct impact on interpretation).  

Songs from Australia is in no way the definitive text; it is anticipated that it will be used as a spring-board for further interpretation and analysis.  In their own way, each of the four co-authors have been researching Australian songs; the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus for 2005  was the catalyst for this collaboration. 
The selection and grading of songs follows the new Australian component of the 2005 and 2009 Trinity Syllabus.  AMEB grading is indicated where appropriate.  The Trinity Syllabus Australian selection is comprised mainly of art songs.   The art song is characterized by the close relationship of text and music; a song exists because the composer has an emotional reaction to a text.  In Songs from Australia, Horace Keats chose the exquisite words of the poet Blake; Carl Vine was inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Ester Rofe could not disregard the tragic plea of the contemporary Australian poet, Tom Rothfield, and in stark contrast, Mervyn Peake’s witty observations of humanity captivated Stephen Yates.  The folk songs, such as Moreton Bay and Waltzing Matilda, evolved from the story-telling tradition and are in a genre of their own. 

This is the first time that a book and accompanying MIDI file of this nature has been published on Australian songs.  Studio singing teachers, school music teachers, performers and anyone interested in Australian song will appreciate this new concept. Each of the 27 songs  has been recorded on CD by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller and is also titled Songs from Australia and is available online.

A computer generated accompaniment CD included for all songs.

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Many of these works are available separately, see titles in catalogue.

ISMN M720041988  ISBN 1876829095

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Songs from Australia CD

By Various Composers

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Features 27 Australian songs from the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus 2005, performed by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller.  Composers include: Leek, Vine, Glanville-Hicks, O'Leary, Rofe, Brahe, Stove, Yates, Keats, Tregaskis, Dixon, Sculthorpe.

See also online, Songs from Australia teaching manual and sheet music for all 27 songs.
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1  Monkey and Turtle (Stephen Leek)
2  Love Me Sweet (Carl Vine)
3  Come Sleep (Peggy Glanville-Hicks)
4  Moreton Bay (arr Mark O'Leary)
5  Dinah's Song (Ester Rofe)
6  Bless this House (May Brahe)
7  Waltzing Matilda (arr Cowan/O'Leary)
8  Lullaby (R J Stove)
9  An Angry Cactus Does No Good (Stephen Yates)
10  The Trouble with Geraniums (Stephen Yates)
11 Dreams at Eventide (Horace Keats)
12  My Dark-eyed Acushla (Horace Keats)
13  O Yellow, Yellow Sweet (Alan Tregaskis)
14  I Will Build my House in the Water (Horace Keats)
15  The Lamb (Horace Keats)
16  Love's Secret (Horace Keats)
17  Plucking the Rushes (Horace Keats)
18  Love Song ( R J Stove)
19  Epigram I (Stephen Yates)
20  Epigram II (Stephen Yates)
21  Epigram III (Stephen Yates)
22  Epigram IV (Stephen Yates)
23  Nature's Changes (John Wayne Dixon)
24  Columbine (Horace Keats)
25  Sea Wraith (Horace Keats)
26  The Stars Turn (Peter Sculthorpe)
27  Evening (John Wayne Dixon)

 

Songs from the Beasts' Choir

By Betty Beath

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A cycle of five songs, c.8'00.  Grade 8 to Dip
Poems written by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold in the tranquil atmosphere of the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Louis-du-Temple, south of Paris, translated from the French by Rumer Godden. In these short prayers, simple, humorous and intimate and delivered in the characteristic manner of each creature, there is something very close to the spirit of St Francis.  Composed 1975


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Songs from the British Isles

By Horace Keats

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A collection of 12 songs for soprano and piano.

Many of these songs have been recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) and by John Pringle and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online

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Songs of a Watchful Man (Howlett)

By May Howlett

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Three songs for medium to low voice and piano, c.12'00
Words by May Howlett.  Composed 1989 rev. 2011

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Songs of Grief and Sorrow

By Diana Blom

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Three songs for soprano and piano. Words by Milissa Deitz

When Milissa's little girl died unexpectedly, her mind fractured. In order to show the vertigo, disassociation and hyperarousal of what is known as complicated grief, the non-confluence between image, sound and word was uppermost in conceptualising the film, All the Little Boxes, directed by Iqbal Barkat and Milissa Deitz and written by Milissa Deitz, with cinematographer, Vincent Tay.

Songs of Grief and Sorrow draws on texts from the film script shaped into three aspects of grief, sorrow and memory. The songs were first performed by Australian soprano, Ayşe Göknur Shanal with pianist Eugenie Tamplon.
Composed 2021

  • Grief
  • Sorrow
  • Memory

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    Songs of Life

    By Horace Keats

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    13 songs transposed for low voices.

     Many of these songs have been recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) and by John Pringle and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online

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    Songs of Love and the Night

    By John Wayne Dixon

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    Collection of 5 songs for soprano or tenor and piano. Grade: Assoc Diploma and above. 
    Composed 2004
    • 1. It Is the Evening Hour (John Clare). c.3'30
    • 2. I Love All Beauteous Things (Robert Bridges). c.1'15
    • 3. Night (Frederick John Dixon). c.5'15
    • 4. Wild Nights (Emily Dickinson). c.1'45
    • 5. The Summer Night Was Mild (Gustav Falke). c.4'15
    These songs have been recorded by Pamela Mildenhall and David Vance on Mermaids (Wirr 033) available online. 


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    Songs of Mystic Jade (Ssu-K'ing T'u)

    By Hugh Dixon

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    Cycle of 7 songs for Soprano and piano, Grade 7 to A.Mus
    Composed 1979 rev 2003.

    * [below] have been recorded on the CD Simply Songs (Wirr 001) by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller and available online.


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    Songs of Stone and Silence (Campbell)

    By Michael Atherton

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    Soprano, mezzo-soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, Bilma (clapsticks), Violoncello.

    Poetry by David Campbell

    Each title comprises a series of four-line poems that depict Aboriginal rock engravings, mainly in theKu-ring-gai Chase National Park, Sydney, and NSW - Ku-ring-gai Rock Carvings; Sydney Sandstone (Rock Carvings); and Devil's Rock and Other Carvings.

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    ISMN 979072010123

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