Dictionary of Sydney
  1. The Dictionary of Sydney
  2. Subjects
  3. Culture and Customs
  4. Performing Arts
  5. Music

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Music

Subject
Alpen, Hugo
Austral String Quartet
Bishop, Anna
Bochsa, Nicholas
Bodgies and African American Influences in Sydney
Bradley, Joseph
Breeding delinquents: Surf City 1963-1966
Building Bridges Association
Castell, William
Christian, Mary Ellen
Clutsam, George
Collegium Musicum
Deane, John Phillip
Delany, John
Ellard, Frederick
Garcia School of Music
Kelly, Frederick
Lemmone, John
McCormick, Peter
Monk, Cyril
Monk, Varney
Nathan, Isaac
Packer, Charles
Paling, William Henry
Paul, Mrs John
Percy Grainger at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Plummer, George
Spagnoletti, Ernesto
The Beatles in Sydney
Transcript: Mr Peter Granville-Smith recalls his family singing in the little Union Church Hoxton Park
Truman, Ernest
Wallace, William
Worgan, George
de Cairos-Rego, George
de Cairos-Rego, Iris
Advance Australia Fair
Ahitereria
Australia
Australia the Wide and Free
Australian Bird Waltz
Berceuse
Commemoration Ode
Como Waltz
Cooey! An Australian Song
Creole Cradle Song
Crimea: Alma, Inkermann, Balaklava
Currency Lasses
Friday on My Mind
Gumbery jah (Harry's song)
Hail! Men of America, Hail!
Heart's Desire
Koorinada Braia
Leichhardt's grave
Lilac Time
National Country Dances
Paean on Leichhardt's return
Plantation Songs
Robert and William Grey organ
Six O'Clock Rock
Six Songs from the South
Stockrider's Song
Stomp
Sydney Flour Song
Sydney Railway Waltz
The Australian Ladies
The Australian Quadrilles
The Cornstalk Polka
The Damask Rose
The Southern Euphrosyne
The Sydney Corporation Quadrilles
Waiata Poi
Alfred Square bandstand
Green Park bandstand
Palings Warehouse
Sydney Conservatorium of Music building
Verbrugghen Hall
Big Day Out
Carols by Candlelight
Oratorio of 1836
Rolling Stones concert Enmore Theatre 2003
Beach House
2MBS-FM
AC/DC
Albion Brass Band
Arts Club
Austral String Quartet
Australian Academy of Music
Australian Music Examinations Board
Beale Piano Company
Bill Haley and the Comets
Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs
Black Lace
Bondi-Waverley Music Club
Building Bridges Association
Burt's Milk Bar
Chappell & Co
Christian Concert Company
Cold Chisel
Collegium Musicum
Conservatorium High School
Cooper Bailey's International Show Band
Crowded House
Còisir Ghàidhlig Astrailianach
Don Cossack Choir
Dragon
Dutch Choir and Folkloric Group Dee Why
EMI
French's Tavern
Garcia School of Music
Glebe Brass Band
Hawaiian Eye
Hill, Norman & Beard (Aust) Pty Ltd
J & N Tait Concert Management
Jadran tambouritsa band
Jazz Action Society
Lincoln Records
Marrickville Municipal Symphony Orchestra
Mastertouch Piano Roll Company
Mendelssohn Quintet Club
Midnight Oil
Musica Viva
Musical Association of New South Wales
Māori Hi-Five
Māori Troubadours
Māori Volcanics
New South Wales Academy of Music
New South Wales State Orchestra
Nicholson & Co
No Age
Opera Australia
Orpheus Club
Purple Onion
Quin Tikis
Radio Birdman
Ray Brown and the Whispers
Redgum
Rembrandt Male Choir
Rowe Street Records
Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney
Silver Lining
Split Enz
Stray Dags
Sunrise Choral Society
Surf City
Sydney Balalaika Orchestra
Sydney Civic Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Sydney Flute Club
Sydney Liedertafel
Sydney String Quartet
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Angels
The Atlantics
The Beatles
The Easybeats
The Missing Links
The Necks
The Strollers
The Vibratones
WH Paling & Co
Whisky a Go Go
Young Australian Band
Zerbini Quartet
de Groen's Vice Regal Band
Abravanel, Maurice
Aengenheyster, MF
Allpress, HG Rivers
Alpen, Hugo
Amadio, Neville
Anson, Peter
Arrau, Claudio
Austral, Florence
Bailey, Amelia
Baker, Frederick
Baker, Glenn A
Barnard, Len
Barry, Keith
Bate, Stanley
Beecham, Thomas
Beilharz, Kirsty
Bell, Gladstone
Benjamin, Arthur Leslie
Berg, Charles
Bishop, Anna
Blevins, Jim
Bochsa, Nicholas
Bockelmann, Thomas Paul
Boland, Eugenie
Bonynge, Richard
Bradley, Joseph
Brown, Ray
Browne, Allan
Buddee, Julius
Bukovsky, Miroslav
Bushelle, John
Butt, Clara
Campbell, Matiu
Carmody, Kev
Carter, Bryce
Carter, Frances Mowat
Caspers, Ella
Castell, William
Cazabon, Albert
Christian, Emily
Christian, Mary Ellen
Clare, John
Clutsam, George
Cole, Nat King
Collins, Lottie
Concannon, Gertrude
Cooke, Nelson
Cordner, William
Coughlan, Frank James
Covell, Roger
Cramer, Madame
Crossley, Ada
Dal Monte, Toti
Date, Tina
Davidenkov, George
Davidson, Frankie
Davis, Sammy Junior
Dawson, Peter
Deane, Edward
Deane, John
Deane, John Phillip
Delany, John
Devlin, J
Dolma, Garpa Dawa
Dowd, Ronald
Ellard, Francis
Ellard, Frederick
Ellard, William
Erskine, Norman
Evans, Lindley
Falson, Ron
Forde, Florrie
Garrett, Peter
Gaston, Ed
Geddes, Alan
Geia, Joe
Gibb, Bert
Gibbs, John
Gibson, Florence
Gillespie, Dizzy
Giorza, Paolo
Goddard, Doris
Goldner, Richard
Golla, George
Goossens, Eugene
Gordon, Lee Lazer
Gotsch, Carl
Gotsch, Leonore
Grainger, Percy
Hanney, Fred
Hardy, Col
Harrigan, John William
Harrison, George
Harrison, Zillah
Hawkins, Coleman
Hayes, Catherine
Heard, James Charles
Heifetz, Jascha
Hibbler, Al
Hill, Alfred
Hill, Mirrie
Hines, Marcia
Hudson, Eliza
Hutchens, Frank
Hyam, Lottie
Jagger, Mick
James, William G
Jones, Jonah
Jones, Maureen
Jones, Vince
Joosten, Harry
Joye, Col
Katayama, Shinshiro
Keats, Horace
Kelly, Frederick Septimus
Kelly, Paul
Kidman, Nicole
Kingi, Noel
Laine, Frankie
Lammers, Isidoor
Lanceley, Carrie
Lane, Don
Lawrence, Marjorie
Lee, Sammy
Leggo, Charles William
Lemmone, John
Lennon, John
Levarrier, Ivonne
Lewis, Jeannie
Little, Jimmy
Livermore, Reg
Llewellyn, Ernest
Mackerras, Charles
Maling, Roy
Marriott, Edward
Marsh, Henry
Marshall-Hall, George
Martin, Jessie
May, Ricky
McCartney, Paul
McCormick, Peter
Mills, Jonathan
Moncrieff, Gladys
Monk, Cyril
Monk, Varney
Muset, Joseph
Nathan, Isaac
Neeson, Doc
Nicol, Jimmy
Nicol, Johnny
O'Doherty, Chris
O'Keefe, Johnny
Orchard, Arundel
Packer, Charles
Paderewski, Ignaz
Page, David
Paki, Peter
Paling, Richard
Paling, William Henry
Paul, Mrs John
Phelps, Bertha Emily
Plummer, George
Post, Joseph Mozart
Prerauer, Maria
Rawlins, Adrian
Ray, Johnnie
Reichenberg, Joseph
Roach, Archie
RoadKnight, Margret
Robinson, John
Rooney, Kate
Russell, Katherine
Santley, Charles
Sculthorpe, Peter
Sebastian, Guy
Shankar, Ravi
Shaw, Artie
Silva, Mac
Sinatra, Frank
Spagnoletti, Ernesto
Spagnoletti, Ernesto jnr
Staehelin, Lucas
Staell, Henry
Starr, Ringo
Stewart, Nellie
Stewart, Rex
Stubbs, Thomas
Tashi, Garpa Nyima
Tauber, Richard
Teka, Tui
Tenana, Mat
Thistlethwayte, Rai
Thorpe, Billy
Tibbits, George
Toppano, Peggy
Truman, Edwin Philip
Truman, Ernest
Tschaikov, Anton
Vanda, Harry
Verbrugghen, Henri
Vost-Janssen, S
Waaka, Gugi
Wallace, Elizabeth
Wallace, Isabella
Wallace, Wellington
Wallace, William
Weigand, Auguste
Westlake, Donald
Whelan, Albert
Wilden, Henri
Williams, Claude 'Candy'
Wilson, Teddy
Wirth, Johannes
Wong, Denis
Wong, Jap Kuan (Keith)
Worgan, George
Wright, Stevie
Young, Angus
Young, George
Young, Malcolm
Zuel, Bernard
de Cairos-Rego, George
de Cairos-Rego, Iris
de Cairos-Rego, Rex
de Gunst, Mollie
de Muro Lomanto, Enzo
de Waart, Edo
A broadcasting party who descended nearly 3000 feet below Sydney Harbour, Balmain August 1926
Advertisement for Jubilee Singers, Wesleyan Centenary Hall, York Street, c1892
Anna Bishop as Lucrezia 1857
Anna Bishop c1860s
Anna Bishop, c1870
Anna Bishop, soprano, 1868
Arrival of the Beatles at Sydney airport, 11 June 1964
At 90, Melba's Teacher Still Works On... 1938
Audience listening to Anna Bishop singing 'Home Sweet Home', Melbourne Punch, 22 May 1856
Band playing at a Popular Dance night at the Trocadero 1938
Beatles fans in the rain outside the Sheraton Motor Inn, Potts Point 11 June 1964
Bodgies, widgies have might night - but def! February 1951
Brazilian Carnival poster 1979
Carols by candlelight in Hyde Park, Sydney December 1970
Catherine Hayes at the Victoria Theatre, Sydney 1854
Catherine Hayes c1857
Class 1A percussion band at unidentified Sydney school c1950
Como Valse c1905
Couple looking at Sydney Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts brochure, 1960s
Cover of 'The Balmain Polka' by Ernesto Spagnoletti 1857
Cover of 'Six songs from the south' 1916
Cover of The Australian Bird Waltz sheet music 1850-59
Cover of the colonial edition of the song 'Your King & Country Want You: A Woman's Recruiting Song' by Paul A Rubens 1914
Cover of the sheet music 'St Leonards Scottische' by Ernesto Spagnoletti 1863
Crowd watching La Traviata at the first Opera in the Park concert in the Domain 1982
Crowds outside the Chevron Hilton hoping for a glimpse of the Beatles staying in the Sheraton Hotel opposite, Macleay Street, Potts Point 11 June 1964
Crowds singing the national anthem during Armistice celebrations, Martin Place 12 November 1918
Dame Joan Sutherland performing in La Traviata at Opera in the Park 1982
Departure of Miss Catherine Hayes from Sydney 18 October 1854
Dragon at the Aria Hall of Fame, Melbourne 2008
Drummer Peg Clark plays as June Howarth and Ray Shart dance to band on the way to Broken Bay on the South Steyne, December 1953
Easybeats with Gold Records received for sales of their single 'Friday On My Mind' , 15 May 1969
Eugene Goossens November 1956
Exclusive Memoirs of Madame Christian, 1935
Field's transcription of Harry's song 'Iah, iah, gumbery ja' in The London Magazine, November 1823
Frederick Septimus Kelly
Frederick Septimus Kelly, after John Singer Sargent 1915
From Saturday afternoon till Monday 1926
Front cover 'Hymn to Sydney' 1897
Gay Choir, Macquarie Street, 1981
German migrant Rudolph Goldbach playing with band at Leo's Bistro, 1965
Government House stables 1842
Government House stables 1872
Grave sculpture, St Stephen's Anglican Church, Newtown, Sydney, 1936
Guy Sebastian in Sunrise Seven interview 2007
Harry Rickards on the cover of sheet music of 'Where is my Nancy?' c1880
I. Nathan, Esq 1854
If you're a square you'll have to get hep to bodgey language, March 1951
Introduction to The Australian bird waltz 1850-59
Irish National Association Pipe Band and Cardinal Gilroy at the St Patrick's Day Sports, Sydney Sports Ground 14 March 1965
Isaac Nathan's opera 'Don John of Austria' 1847
Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer
Jim Davidson's ABC Dance Band give a public performance in Martin Place 12 January 1939
Jitterbuggers at the Trocadero February 1948
Johnny O'Keefe 1962
La Perouse Aborigines' Mission: music at the annual outdoor rally of the United Aborigines' Mission 26 January 1931
Land of the Sunny South, All Hail 1879
Latvians rehearse for Sydney Festival 1959
Letter from William Joseph Cavendish (previously Castell) in Parramatta to M Castell [probably his wife] in London, 20 April 1833
Life with American Squadron, descriptive fantasia 1908
Madame Christian 1892
Man busking with a one-string fiddle made from a kerosene tin, Sydney, 1929
Marjorie Lawrence at Sydney Town Hall c1944
Marrickville Municipal Symphony Orchestra at Marrickville Town Hall, 9 May 1937
Monument in memory of NC Bochsa, erected by Anna Bishop over his grave in Camperdown Cemetery, 1856
Mr WH Paling's new establishment in George Street 1883
Māori male musical group in native costume arrive on TEAL aircraft at Mascot 18 January 1960
PIX studio portrait of Johnny O'Keefe 27 August 1959
Paul Cullen at the Palatial Theatre, Burwood 1936
Percy Grainger 1910-20
Portrait of Hugo Alpen, Superintendent of Music, Department of Music, Department of Public Instruction of New South Wales, 1884-
Program for Mr E Boulanger's grand evening concert on Monday, June 11, 1855, at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Ray Brown and the Whispers performing at a union picnic c1965
Reg Mombassa, drawn 2013
Rolf Harris amuses diners at a nightclub in Sydney 1966
Roosevelt nightclub, Kings Cross September 1944
Rydalmere: a polka song 1886
Salvation Army, Oh! 1887
Score to two quadrilles 'Kurry Jong' (Currajong) and the fourth quadrille is 'Woo-loo-moo-loo' by William Castell 1833
Singer Ray Brown, photographed at Channel 9 studios 2 June 1967
Sonny Clay's Plantation Band arriving in Sydney, January 1928
Square piano by Collard & Collard made for Francis Ellard, Sydney c1835-37
Sydney Conservatorium of Music 2007
Sydney Railway Waltz, dedicated to Wm Randle Esq, composed by WH Paling 1855
Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1965
Tenzin Choegyal playing a Tibetan flute 2007
The Anniversary Polka 1853
The Australian Bird Waltz 1850-59
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964
The City of Sydney Polka 1854
The Cornstalk Polka 1857
The Cornstalk Polka c1863
The Currency Lasses by Isaac Nathan 1846
The Echoes band entertaining dancers at Surf City, Sydney 1963
The Glebe District Silver Band 1936-1937
The Johnny O'Keefe show 'Sing, Sing, Sing' being filmed at ATN 7, January 1965
The Marian Waltzes 1853
The Māori Troubadours sideshow act, Royal Easter Show 1964
The Regatta Waltzes, cover of Australian presentation album for 1855
The Romaine of the Trocadero 1941
The Sydney Corporation Quadrilles 1842
The Sydney Flour Song 1945
The Wearing of the Green: new version, as sung with immense effect at Messrs Punch and McGrath's, February 1868
The catodon polka c1850
The rotunda, or bandstand, in Prince Alfred Park, Parramatta 2015
The soprano Florence Austral as Brunnhilde in London c1925
The wonder boy Charlton
Title page of 'The Darling Point Polka' 1863
Tivoli music album No 29, Xmas number, 1906-7
Varney Monk c1933
Wattle Day: march song and two-step 1920s
When Manly's on the spree 1928
William Vincent Wallace c1860
Frank Gardiner Is Caught At Last
Gumbery Jah (Harry’s Song) and Cooee (Guwi), sung by Matthew Doyle and Clarence Slockee, recorded by Kevin Hunt at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney 2010
Mr Peter Granville-Smith talks about the Hoxton Park Union Church and his family singing there c1920s, interviewed in 1986
Sydney Flour Song radio advertisement 1955