Skip to main content
  1. The Dictionary of Sydney
  2. Roles
  3. Type
  4. Musical composition

Musical composition

Type - Musical composition
Australian Bird Waltz
Berceuse
Collits' Inn
Como Waltz
Cooey! An Australian Song
Crimea: Alma, Inkermann, Balaklava
Don John of Austria
Gumbery jah (Harry's song)
Koorinada Braia
Leichhardt's grave
National Country Dances
Paean on Leichhardt's return
Plantation Songs
Six Songs from the South
Sydney Railway Waltz
The Australian Ladies
The Australian Quadrilles
The Cornstalk Polka
The Damask Rose
The Southern Euphrosyne
The Sydney Corporation Quadrilles

Browse

  • Browse
    • Artefacts
    • Buildings
    • Events
    • Natural Features
    • Organisations
    • People
    • Places
    • Structures
    • Entries
    • Multimedia
    • Subjects
    • Roles
    • Contributors

Footer

  • Home
  • About
  • Copyright
  • Contact

Footer Secondary

  • Contribute
  • Donate

Musical composition

Australian Bird Waltz

full record »

Composition by Frederick Ellard that is possibly the first published piece of music based on an Australian bird call.

Berceuse

Modernist piano composition by George Clutsam.

full record »

Collits' Inn

Operetta composed by Varney Monk in 1931 with libretto by Thomas Stuart Gurr.

full record »

Como Waltz

Waltz composed by Thomas Paul Bockelmann in 1900-1909.

full record »

Cooey! An Australian Song

Crimea: Alma, Inkermann, Balaklava

Musical composition by Frederick Ellard.

full record »

Don John of Austria

full record »

Opera composed in Sydney and first performed in 1847.

Gumbery jah (Harry's song)

full record »

Aboriginal chant or song performed by Corrangie (Harry) between 1820 and 1823 and transcribed by Judge Barron Field. It was first published in 1823 when The London Magazine published Field's article ‘Journal of an excursion across the Blue Mountains of New South Wales’ and again in 1825 in Fields' Geographic Memoirs of New South Wales. The work was performed by Matthew Doyle and Clarence Slockee and recorded by Kevin Hunt Conservatorium of Music in 2010.

Koorinada Braia

Song written by Isaac Nathan with words by IW Robinson.

full record »

Leichhardt's grave

Song by Isaac Nathan from the poem by Robert Lynd.

 

 

full record »

National Country Dances

Two scores for piano.

full record »

Paean on Leichhardt's return

Song by Isaac Nathan with words by AK Silvester.

full record »

Plantation Songs

Music composed by Australian-born George Clutsam for the 1924-25 British Empire Exhibition.

full record »

Six Songs from the South

full record »

Music for voice and piano by George Clutsam with lyrics by Mary Gilmore.

Sydney Railway Waltz

full record »

Waltz music composed by WH Paling to mark the opening of the first railway from Sydney to Parramatta in 1855.

The Australian Ladies

Sixteen piano solos named for leading ladies of colonial Sydney.

full record »

The Australian Quadrilles

Five quadrilles for orchestra.

full record »

The Cornstalk Polka

full record »

Music for piano written by George Thornton.

The Damask Rose

Composition based on the music of Chopin.

full record »

The Southern Euphrosyne

An historical sketch with examples of the native aboriginal melodies put into modern rhythm and harmonized with several other original vocal pieces, arranged for piano.

full record »

The Sydney Corporation Quadrilles

full record »

Dance music composed by Frederick Ellard to celebrate the incorporation of the City of Sydney.