Composers and Authors
Six Animal Songs (Isherwood)
By Stephen Yates
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Med to low voice and piano. Each between 1 to 2 mins.These six songs are taken from a volume of nonsense poems entitled People one ought to know by Christopher Isherwood, written in 1922 to amuse himself and a young friend, the manuscript lay forgotten until the early 1980's when it was finally published.
Though each of the poems bears the name of a member of the Animal Kingdom (Ferret, Elephant, Bat, Hippo, Cormorant, Giraffe), Isherwood clearly wishes the reader to identify a certain type of human animal, sometimes unpleasant, often perplexing or indeed just plain stupid. Sometimes though, the poet does ask us to view some poor hapless creature with a degree of compassion which is quite moving.
Composed 1988
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- Six Animal Songs (Hippo) - sheet music
- Six Animal Songs (Ferret) - sheet music
- Six Animal Songs (Bat) - sheet music
- Six Animal Songs (Giraffe) - sheet music
ISMN 9790720078564
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Songs from Australia CD
By Various Composers
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$25.00
See also online, Songs from Australia teaching manual and sheet music for all 27 songs.
Wirr002
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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)
Spirit Dances
By Marina Marsden
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$25.00
Violin and piano works performed by Marina Marsden (violin) and Clemens Leske (piano). Works of composers Anne Boyd, Ross Edwards, Matthew Hindson, Dulcie Holland, Miram Hyde, Stephen Leek, Wilfred Lehmann, Peter Sculthorpe, Margaret Sutherland and Stephen Yates. Wirr 025
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1 The Big 5-0 (Matthew Hindson)
Divertimento (Dulcie Holland) [1-5]
2 Statement,
3 Scherzetto,
4 Ostinato,
5 Reprise
6 Soliloquy (Wilfred Lehmann)
7 From Saibai (Peter Sculthorpe)
Polish Variations (Wilfred Lehmann) [8-11]
8 Theme, in the Style of a Mazurka and Variation I
9 Variation II - Scherzo (Prestissimo)
10 Variation III
Nocturne
11 Coda (Mazurka Tempo)
12 White Cockatoo Spirit Dance (Ross Edwards)
13 Serenade (Miriam Hyde)
14 Movements (Stephen Yates)
15 Goombungee (Stephen Leek)
16 Repetepetition (Matthew Hindson)
17 Beside Bamboos (Anne Boyd)
Sonatina (Margaret Sutherland) [18-20]
18 Gaily rhythmic
19 Singingly
20 Lively and teasing
Three Aquatic Excursions
By Stephen Yates
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$20.00
Solo piano, grade 6 AMEB. - 1. Moderato, c.2'05
- 2. Andante, c.0'40
- 3. Moderato assai, c.3'05
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ISMN 9790720093666
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Three Bad Preludes (for two very good friends)
By Stephen Yates
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Solo piano - 1. Andante, c.1'45
- 2. Allegretto, c.2'00
- 3. Affettuoso, c.3'30
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ISMN 9790720140087
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Three Fugues
By Stephen Yates
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$20.00
Solo piano. Grade 4-5 AMEB - 1. Maestoso, c.1'20
- 2. Alla breve, c.1'20
- 3. Moderato, c.1.20
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ISMN: 9790720093567
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Three Preludes
By Stephen Yates
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Solo piano, grade 6 AMEB - 1. Moderato, c.0'50
- 2. Marcia, c.0'50
- 3. Andante Maestoso, c.1'30
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ISMN 9790720093574
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Three Preludes for a dear friend
By Stephen Yates
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Solo piano, Grade 4 - 1. Spiritoso, c.0'35
- 2. Moderato, c.1'15
- 3. Andantino, c.1'15
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ISMN 9790720093581
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Three Tobacco Songs - Song Cycle
By Stephen Yates
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$22.00
Medium to high voice and piano.
A collection of three amusing songs about tobacco
1. Tobacco I love, c.4'40
2. Tobacco is a filthy weed, c.2'00
3. Tobacco reek, c.2'00.
Composed 2013
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ISMN 9790720133775
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Trouble with Geraniums, The (Peake)
By Stephen Yates
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Medium to High voice and piano, c.1'40
AMEB Manual List C, Level 2 4th grade. Trinity College/Guildhall Singing Syllabus
Set to words of Mervyn Peake. See song cylce of four songs by the same title.
Composed 1995, rev. 2000
Recorded on Songs from Australia (Wirr 004) and Simply Songs (Wirr 001) by Wendy Dixon and David Miller, available online
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ISMN 9790720126258
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Trouble with Geraniums, The (volume)
By Stephen Yates
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$30.00
Medium to High voice and piano. A collection of four songs set to words of Mervyn Peake. Composed 1995 rev 2000. - 1. An Angry Cactus does no good, c.1'50
- 2. O Little Fly, c.0'52
- 3. O Love! O Death! O Ecstasy! c.2'50
- 4. The Trouble with Geraniums,1'40
Songs 1 and 4 are on Trinity College/Guildhall Singing Syllabus and recorded on Songs from Australia and Simply Songs by Wendy Dixon and David Miller, available online.
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- Trouble with Geraniums - sheet music
- Trouble with Geraniums - audio
- An Angry Cactus - sheet music
- An Angry Cactus - audio
ISMN M720011097
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Verleyphine
By Stephen Yates
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$30.00
Flute and piano, c.8'40Composed 1995 rev 2011
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ISMN: 9790720140063
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