Australian Heritage Series
Lullaby by Gordon Watson
By Brennan Keats
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For piano solo, c.2'35
Composed 1939
Composed by GORDON WATSON (1921-1999), written for and edited by Brennan Keats.
Gordon Watson was a renowned International pianist, for more information please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Watson_(pianist)
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Lyrics from the Chinese
By Phyllis Batchelor
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Voice, flute and piano.Eight settings of ancient lyrics, collected and translated by Helen Waddell.
Edited by David Wickham for the Australian Heritage Series.
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ISMN 9790720209043
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Meeting of Two Worlds, A: The Life and Times of Composer Meta Overman
By Patricia Thorpe
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$30.00
Meta Overman (1907-1993)The aim of this book is to bring Meta Overman ‘alive’ by presenting her in all aspects of her life, and as much as possible through others eyes with letters, critiques and conversations. I view this publication as a jumping off platform for further research so that anyone may take up the story from any point that curiosity or interest dictates; and in so doing not only be richly rewarded, but add a further piece to the jigsaw being painted of this amazing woman and her music.
Metaborphoses
By Meta Overman
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$40.00
Six pieces for two flutes, c.7'00
The parts are equally challenging and often canonic.
- Sequences
- Fanfare
- Recitative
- Dance
- Romance
- Resolution
Composed in 1981
Edited by Jeanell Carrigan.
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Monograph
By Felix Werder
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Solo piano in three movementsComposed 1999
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Moorish Dance
By Linda Phillips
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$25.00
Violin and piano, c.6'00. Grade: Advanced (A.Mus +)
This dance-like work for violin and piano has never been published and on the manuscript, there was no composition date. It belongs to works composed in a Jewish style of which Phillips established herself as one of the leading composers in Australia in the twentieth century. The work is in ternary form and characterised by an interplay of melodies between the two instruments.
Edited by Jeanell Carrigan
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Musette and Gigue
By Dulcie Holland
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For saxophone and piano, c.5'00. Grade 5
Musette & Gigue is a short work written for well known saxophonist Clive Amadio. Amadio performed and broadcast this piece on ABC radio and the BBC. He also performed it in many festivals and music clubs
The fact that Clive Amadio performed the Musette & Gigue so many times and even included it in the two pieces he recorded for UNESCO indicates that it was well-received during his lifetime and that he deemed it worthy of preservation. It is hoped that this new, typeset, published edition of Musette & Gigue will revive this little gem.
Composed 1950
Researched and edited by Nessyah Gallagher.
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Music for the Salon Trio - CD
By Jeanell Carrigan
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Goetz Richter (violin), Minah Choe (cello), Jeanell Carrigan (piano)
On the 23rd of October 1911, the recently formed Salon Trio gave their first recital at the St. James Hall in Sydney. The players were Miss Dorothy Curtis, violin, Miss Florence E. Brown, ‘cello and Miss Mirrie Solomon [Hill], piano. This was a significant occasion because it marked the presentation of a new chamber music ensemble consisting of piano, violin, and cello, playing compositions of a genre not yet extensively explored in Australia. The program consisted of trios by Schott, Vidor, Grieg and Mendelssohn . At the time Sydney did not have a strong chamber music tradition and there are no reviews or notifications of any other permanent piano trio to be found. This was an all-female group of instrumentalists, performing in a public venue, also highly unusual. However, over time the pianists were replaced by Iris de Cairos-Rego, then Frank Hutchens (who was a good friend of Alfred Hill) and so these three pianists, also composers, wrote pieces for the trio., as did Alfred Hill.
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Piano Trio in A Minor (1912) Iris de Cairos-Rego
Andante moderato
Allegretto moderato
Andante tranquillo
Allegro
Trio for Pianoforte, Violin and Cello (1916) Mirrie Hill
Allegro maestoso
Scherzando
Andante con moto
Allegro
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1914) Frank Hutchens
Maestoso – Allegro
Trio in A Minor (c. 1915) Alfred Hill
Allegro con brio
Waiata Aroha (A Māori Love Song) - Andante
Finale – Allegro moderato
Music of Meta Overman, The - Queen of Colour and Fantasy
By Jeanell Carrigan
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$50.00
Respected by fellow composers and performers, Dutch/Australian composer Meta Overman was one of the foremost contributors to musical cultural life in Australia in the middle of the twentieth century.
The music of Meta Overman is innovative, individual, sometimes humorous, expressing amazing creativity and powered by an urge to present strong visual imagery. Of particular interest to performers is the way that Overman suggests images in her music which are so tangible that they have an almost visual quality. Overman was also a composer who was very influenced by the work of others, and she adopted different styles throughout the many compositional periods in her life, colouring these with her own individual musical language. It is impossible to separate the person Meta Overman, with her strong spirituality and beliefs, and the composer Meta Overman: one was the result of the other. her output covers all genres including opera, ballet, and orchestral works. There are seventeen works or sets of works for piano solo, five for orchestra, six sets of songs, five choral works, eleven operas including one three-act opera, four ballets and twenty-four chamber
works, some of which are for two pianos.
Each chapter discusses Overman’s works composed during a particular period of her
life. Most will be discussed in terms of musical language, motific development and inspirational aspects and the important points for a performer. To compensate for any sparsity of verbal description will be the inclusion of QR codes which link to sound files – musical examples – of many works which have been recorded or filmed. These will give a performer’s interpretation of the works and enable the reader to ‘get the full picture’ for themselves.
Nature Studies Vol. 1
By Phyllis Campbell
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$25.00
Four Piano solos:
- 1. Moonrise over Sydney Heads;
- 2. The Creeping Fires of Spring;
- 3. Seaweed;
- 4. Dreaming Rocks.
Date of Composition 1925 - 26.
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Nature Studies Vol. 2
By Phyllis Campbell
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Four Piano solos:
- 1. Orchards in Spring;
- 2. A Tree;
- 3. In Autumn;
- 4. Waking Wood.
Date of Composition 1926 - 28.
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Nine Short Songs
By Janet Keats
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Nine songs for soprano and pianoComposed 1946-47
- Poems by Hugh McCrae
- 1. Song of the Rain
- 2. A Lost Friend
- 3. The Wedding Ring
- 4. Country Visitor
- 5. Suzanne
- Poems by Kenneth Mackenzie
- 6. You re absent as the Sun at Midnight
- 7. Harlequinade
- Poem by Dennis Glenny
- 8. A Point in Happiness
- Poem by Padraic Colum
- 9. Oh, to have a Little House
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