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Breaking of the Drought
By Roy Agnew
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for Orchestra.
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Composition date c.1928
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ISMN 9790720166889
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Breaking of the Drought - Study Score
By Roy Agnew
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Conductor's Study Score in A4 format
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Breaking of the Drought, The - CD
By Jeanell Carrigan
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JULIE JONG EUN BARBER, soprano, JEANELL CARRIGAN, piano,
DAYNA JOHNSTON, clarinet, ASHLY ZHANG, secondo piano duets
Robert (Roy) Ewing Agnew (1891-1944) was a man who dominated the musical scene in Sydney in the first half of the 20th century and his creative ability was admired by fellow musicians both in Australia and abroad. He is remembered as a brilliant, virtuosic, and flamboyant performer who graced the stage in England and Australia, and an important and influential teacher.
His musical output consists mostly of songs and piano works. The wonderful songs are recorded here as the complete collection for the first time. The songs by Roy Agnew are unique in compositional terms and in the context of English art songs of the early twentieth century. Although Agnew was a passionate Australian, the songs, like most of his piano music, do not always reflect Australian cultural yearnings and most are not based on the poetry of Australian writers.
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[1] The World’s Wanderers (Shelley) 1:37
[2] To morrow (Shelley) 1:16
[3] A Widow Bird (Shelley) 1:37
[4] Dirge (Shelley) 1:12
[5] Invocation (Masefield) 1:07
[6] Beauty (Masefield) 1:52
[7] June twilight (Masefield) 1:46
Two piano duets:
[8] i. Green Valley 1:38
[9] ii. The Village Fair 1:10
[10] The flowers of sleep (Daley) 2:04
[11] Beloved stoop down thro’ the clinging dark (Zora Cross) 2:34
[12] Infant joy (Blake) 0:55
[13] To a sleeping child (Blake) 1:46
[14] Cradle song (Essen) 2:18
[15] The Breaking of the Drought (Matthews) 9:26
[16] Tears (Wang Seng-Su) 1:17
[17] Sorrow (Tennyson) 2:02
Two Songs without Words for voice and clarinet:
[18] i. Expressively 2:52
[19] ii. At a Moving Pace 2:17
[20] I don’t like Beetles (Fyleman) 0:52
[21] Dusk (Williams) 1:21
[22] O moonlight deep and tender (Lowell) 2:01
[23] She comes not when noon is on the roses (Trench) 1:07
[24] Cradle song (Naidu) 1:30
[25] Hie away, hie away (Scott) 0:48
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Sheet music and samples are available for all these works visit: https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/collections/composers-and-authors/roy-agnew
Breaking the Drought (Book)
By Rita Crews and Jeanell Carrigan
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Biography of Roy Agnew: Composer, Pianist, Teacher
by Rita Crews and Jeanell Carrigan
Foreword by Emeritus Prof. Larry Sitsky AO
Robert (Roy) Ewing Agnew (1891-1944) was a man who dominated the musical scene in Sydney in the first half of the 20th century and his creative talent was admired and recognised by fellow musicians in Australia and abroad. He is remembered as a brilliant, virtuosic, and flamboyant performer who graced the musical stage in England and Australia, and as an important and influential teacher in the private sphere of his home in Ashfield; for many years at Kambala School for Girls and in the last year of his life as a staff member at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. He was celebrated as a composer of great originality who was led to “abandon the limitations of key and tonal relationships.”
This book aims to ‘break the drought’ of apathy towards a composer who bridged the gap that many had not dared before between the compositional trend of the conservative ‘English pastoral style’ and the modern language of Europe. Agnew dared to be scandalous!
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- Chapter 5:
- Sonata Poeme (fragment)
- Sonata Ballade (fragment)
- Chapter 6:
- From Australian Forest Pieces:
- When Evening Shadows Fall
- By a Quiet Stream
- Forest Grandeur
- From Rural Sketches:
- The Shepherd on the Hill
- A Starry Night
- From Youthful Fancies:
- The Gurgling Brook
- The Sunlit Glade
- A Sleeping Child
- From Holiday Suite:
- Spiders
- Lullaby
- The Party
- March of the Soldier Ants
- From Contrasts:
- A Child’s Dream
Country Dance - Chapter 7:
- Poem no. 1 from Two Poems (1922)
- Poem no. 2 from Three Poems (1927)
- Prelude no. 1 from Four Preludes (1925)
- Prelude no. 4 from Four Preludes (1925)
- Prelude no. 1 from Three Preludes (1927)
- Prelude no. 3 from Three Preludes (1927)
- Chapter 8:
- Deidre’s Lament
- Nocturne
- Album Leaf
- Two Pieces: Meditations, Looking Back
- Drifting Mists
- Rabbit Hill
- An English Dance
- A Country Lane
- Chapter 9:
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https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0018/5896/1460/files/green_Valley_3_133e295e-6c1a-49fd-a488-ab538e7321b4.mp3?v=1652501038Green Valley
- Chapter 10:
- Beauty
- A Sleeping Child
- Dusk
- Chapter 11:
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0018/5896/1460/files/Breaking_Of_The_Drought_d4da8cb9-4157-43db-a877-b9870cf16c82.mp3?v=1652500972Prologue of The Breaking of the Drought in the piano version.
ISBN 978 1 876829 84 1
Breathless
By Mark Matthews
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9 piano solos on life, love and friendship.This set of piano solos, starting with "B" of the musical alphabet, is the second of a septology, which progressively follows the keys from A – G.
In this set, the Ionian, minor, Locrian keys and modes are the palate for compositions. Composed 2017.
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- 1. Be mine ... or c.3:57
- 2. Beginnings c.4:53
- 3. Be Natural c.3:44
- 4. Breathless c.4:32
- 5. Buena Vista c.3:24
- 6. Be There c.2:59
- 7. Bilocriance c.6:04
- 8. Besquinne c.3:53
- 9. Believe c.3:51
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| Be mine ... or |
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Be there |
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| Beginnings |
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Bilocriance |
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| Be Natural |
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Besquine |
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| Breathless |
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Believe |
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| Buena Vista |
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ISMN 970 0 720172392
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Breathless Lover
By Houston Dunleavy
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Solo piano c.8'00. Professional levelComposed 2003
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ISMN M720011156
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Breeze and You, The
By Frank Millward
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Brass Quintet, c.5'45Composed 2011
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Brennan Songs - volume
By Horace Keats
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A collection of 11 songs for soprano and piano set to poems of Christopher J Brennan.
Recorded by soprano Jane Parkin, (Sharon Olde, second soprano) and pianist Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) (samples below), and by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online
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| How Old is my heart | |
| I am shut out of mine own heart | |
| My heart was wandering in the sands | |
| Of old on her terrace at evening | |
| Once I could sit by the fire hourlong | |
| Peace dwells in blessing | |
| Spring Breezes | |
| The Point of Noon | |
| We sat entwined | |
| White Wind | |
| Drowsy Chime | |
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ISMN M720007762
Bridal Entry and Wedding March
By Miriam Hyde
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For organ or piano
Composed 1973
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Bridal Song
By Miriam Hyde
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Medium to High voice and piano, c.1'10
Words by Valerie Barton.
Composed 1962
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ISMN 9790720126227
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Bridge to the Sky
By Yvonne Barton-leach
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SATB a cappella (with piano rehearsal), c.3'40Poignant words after the death of a loved one.
Composed 2008
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ISMN 9790720151533
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Bridges, Currents, Ripples
By Houston Dunleavy
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Solo bass clarinet, c.10'0. Professional levelDownload samples
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