Composers and Authors
Fear (Montaigne)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$15.00
Baritone and piano, c.1'50 - Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date c. 1938
- Tempo: Marked Allegro con fuoco, crochet equals one hundred. A study of the 'fear' of losing one's wealth!
Words Montaigne
Recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and John Pringle and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online
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ISMN M720011363
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Fig Tree, The (Hodgson) - high
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano (high) and piano, c.2'50
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date c.1938
- Tempo: Editor's marked the song Minim equals fifty. A setting of poetry with oriental simplicity, leaving no doubt that the "Fig Tree is the loveliest in the land".
Words Rose Marie Hodgson
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Simply Songs (Wirr 001) both CDs available online
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ISMN M720007342
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Fig Tree, The (Hodgson) - low
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano (low) and piano, c.2'50
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date c.1938
- Tempo: Editor's marked the song Minim equals fifty. A setting of poetry with oriental simplicity, leaving no doubt that the "Fig Tree is the loveliest in the land".
Words Rose Marie Hodgson
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ISMN M720007359
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Fishing Pools, The (Mackenzie)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'25
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: c.1943
- Tempo: Marked Moderato, crochet equals 60. A vivid depiction in both words and music in one of the deep pools that dot the Australian coastline.
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ISMN M720007403
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Five Chinese Poems
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$25.00
Soprano and piano
- Grade: 6-8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1933, arranged 2018
- Tempo: Five examples of the simplicity of early Chinese poetry, matched by piano parts of equal poignancy and beauty.
Poets as indicates, all words translated to English.
Two Chinese Poems of The Wild Country (Ch'u Yuan).
Hymn to the God of Fate (Ch'u Yuan).
- Tempo: Allegro
Clearing at Dawn (Li Po).
- Tempo Andante
A Vision (Chih-Wen).
- Tempo: Andante
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ISMN 9790720209715
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Five Songs of Love
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$25.00
Soprano and piano
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Composed 1939-44
Poems by Jean Stanger; Catherine Beck; Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 1. Speak Softly (Stanger), c.1'30
2. Tomorrow (Stanger), c.1'15
3. A Dream? (Stanger), c.1'40
4. I Loved the Things You Said (Beck), c.3'25
5. How Do I Love Thee? (Browning), c.2'55
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ISMN 9790673140011
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Five String Quartets
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$125.00
Volume of 5 string quartets with soprano voice.Recorded on Movement CD (Wirr 050) by Louise Page (soprano) and The Linden String Quartet, available online
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Audio samples
- 1. In What Other Places do You Live? (Henderson)
- 2. Plucking the Rushes (Anon. 4th C. Chinese)
- 3. The Fishing Pools (Mackenzie)
- 4. The Point of Noon (Brennan)
- 5. Yellow Bracken (Powys)
ISMN M720041018
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Four Tiny Songs (Brandon)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$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
From a Bridge of Dreams - CD
By Various Composers
Regular price
$25.00
22 flute and piano pieces performed by Emma Knott (flute) and David Miller (piano). Included are works by Australian composers as Ian Cooper, Frank Millward, Betty Beath, Michael Dixon, Nigel Butterley, Wendy Suiter, Brennan Keats, Ann Carr-Boyd, Horace Keats.
Wirr 005
Print music for all of the works are available online.
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1 Serenade (Ian Cooper)
2 Callin the Turtles In (Frank Millward)
3 Nawang Wulan (Betty Beath)
4 From a Bridge of Dreams (Betty Beath)
5 Music for Gillan (Betty Beath)
6 Locan (Michael H Dixon)
7 Locana's Concert (Michael H Dixon)
8 Inner Life (Michael H Dixon)
9 Evanston Song (Nigel Butterley)
10 The Wind Stirs Gently (Nigel Butterley)
11 Sunflowers (Wendy Suiter)
12 Silver-Eyed Gull (Brennan Keats)
13 Ann and Del in Oz (Ann Carr-Boyd)
14 Ann and Del (Ann Carr-Boyd)
(The following composed by Horace Keats arr Brennan Keats):-
15 Over the Quiet Waters
16 Mermaids
17 By the Lily-Pond
18 I Will Build My House in the Water
19 Plucking the Rushes
20 Goldfish
21 Sea Breeze
22 The Valley Lay Smiling Before Me
Galleons (Mackenzie)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano and piano, c.1'44,
- Grade: 7
- Genre: Neo Classical:
- Date: 1937
- Tempo: Marked Andante, a poem of strong word imaging expressed with simplicity and a piano part to match.
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ISMN M720007427
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Garden of Death, The (Wilde)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Baritone and piano, c.1'20
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: c.1940
- Tempo: Marked Lento. A highly descriptive setting, both words and music, of a garden with sombre tones.
Words by Oscar Wilde
Included in the ANZCA Singing Syllabus for 2008
Composed c.1930s
Recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on a Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) available online
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ISMN M720060323
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Glamour (Dalrymple)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$10.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'50
- Grade: 6
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1944
- Tempo: Marked Andante, a simple reflection of a war torn weary World.
Words by Edith Dalrymple.
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