Vocal
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
Garland for St Francis, A
By Betty Beath
Regular price
$40.00
Duration for the complete cycle is c.18'00
The texts evoke the simplicity and complexity of this saint and are inspired by the seminal point in the life of St Francis. Composed 2002
1. I Had a Dream (David Cox), c.1'10
2. Yes, my friends of Assisi, I have gone mad (Carlo Carretto), c.1'20
3. Francis and the Leper (Brother William SSF), c.2'45
4. How Sweet to Feel (Carlo Carretto), c.1'10
5. Sermon to the Birds (Giovanni Pascoli T/John Gransden), c.3'00
6. Psalm 96, 11/12, c.1'00
7. Instrumental Meditation (piano), c.1'45
8. Soliloquy (David Cox), c.2'45
9. Prayer - St Francis (St Francis), c.2'40
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- 1. I Had a Dream - sheet music
- 1. I Had a Dream - audio
- 5. Sermon to the Birds - sheet music
- 5. Sermon to the Birds - audio
- 6. Psalm 96 11/12 - sheet music
- 6. Psalm 96 11/12 - audio
- 8. Soliliquy - sheet music
- 8. Soliliquy - audio
- 9. Prayer - St Francis - sheet music
- 9. Prayer - St Francis - audio
ISMN 9790720115115
$35.00 for instant PDF downloadGather Ye Rosebuds (Herrick)
By John Martin
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$12.00
Lyrics by Robert Herrick.
Composed 2011
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Gay Comes the Singer (Mediaeval Latin Lyrics)
By Miriam Hyde
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$15.00
From Medieval Latin Lyrics translated by Helen Waddell.
Composed 1948
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General's Garden, The
By Peter Mcnamara
Regular price
$25.00
Baritone and piano c.10'00
The lyrics are taken from extracts of letters from General Sir John Monash written while he was on active duty at Gallipoli. After such intensive fighting his letters home were filled with longing for his former life and in particular his garden. A solemn and introspective song in 'lieder' tradition but includes more modern techniques. Winner of the Gallipoli Songs Prize in 2015.
Composed 2014.
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Gentle Water Bird, The (Neilson)
By Margaret Sutherland
Regular price
$25.00
Words by John Shaw Neilson
Composed c.1954
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The Gentle Water Bird (voice) - sheet music
ISMN M720060330
$20.00 for instant PDF download score and part
Gilly of Christ, The, Op.49
By Fritz Hart
Regular price
$55.00
- 1. I follow a star
- 2. I am the gilly of Christ
- 3. By a wondrous mystery
- 4. When rooks fly homeward
- 5. The gilly of Christ
- 6. Christ, wandering with the Twelve
- 7. The dark is magical
- 8. The women bore their children
- 9. He staggered thro’ the burning street
- 10. Twilight fallen white and cold
- 11. The moon is in the marshes
- 12. I am the mountain singer
- 13. At morning tide
Researched and edited by David Wickham
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Given the Time (Holford)
By Betty Beath
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$15.00
Inspired by a short text by the late Franz Holford. A fun piece, perhaps an encore piece. Set in 5/8 time the accompaniment suggests the plucked strings of a guitar or mandolin.
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ISMN M720072937
Glamour (Dalrymple)
By Horace Keats
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$10.00
Goldfish (Mackenzie)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano and piano, c.1'50
- Grade: 7
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1935
- Tempo: Simply marked quaver equals sixty. This slow moving but effective song depicts the slow yet graceful movement of these ornamental fish which the poet likens to his lover's hair.
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ISMN M720007441
Grandchild's Lullaby, A
By Brennan Keats
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$10.00
Voice and piano, c.1'20
Words by Brennan Keats
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ISMN 9790673410578
Greedy Octopus, The
By Michael Atherton
Regular price
$8.00
Words by Stephanie Wade.
Composed 2012
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