Sheet Music
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# 17777
HILL, Alfred, 1869-1960 (arranger)
[SHEET MUSIC] Waiata Maori : (Maori songs) collected and arranged by Alfred Hill
Dunedin, N.Z. : John McIndoe, [copyright 1917]. “Ninth Edition”. Folio, colour illustrated front cover (original Australian owner’s inscription, small loss at top corner); [8] pp of music notation (arrangements for voice and piano); a good copy. The composer Alfred Hill was Melbourne-born, New Zealand-raised and Leipzig-trained. Although his professional career as composer and teacher was …
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# 17778
LITTLE, Jack A. (composer and lyricist); BUTLAND, Will. H. (arranger)
[SHEET MUSIC] The Wreck : a bass or baritone song
Cover: ‘Mr. Peter Dawson’s great English success, as featured by him on the Zonophone Record’. Sydney : W.J. Deane & Son, [1910]. Folio, colour illustrated front cover (original owner’s silk spine and wet stamp ‘Marshall S. Campbell’); [3] pp of music notation (arrangements for voice and piano); all leaves with edge tears, first leaf of …
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# 17899
CATLOW, Edward J. (composer); CATLOW, Augusta M. (lyricist)
[SHEET MUSIC] The tender moonlight : original colonial song with pianoforte accompaniment.
/ words by Augusta M. Catlow ; music by Edward J. Catlow. Adelaide : printed and published by Walter C. Sims and Joseph Elliott, 1869. Series: Musical supplement to the Adelaide miscellany ; no. 10. Cover: “April 22, 1869”. Folio, letter press printed, [2] pp music notation, rear cover with advertisements for Adelaide businesses; scattered pale foxing, …
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# 16756
DOORLY, Gerald S.
The songs of the “Morning” : compiled and composed by Captain Gerald S. Doorly, one time Third Executive Officer, S.Y. Morning.
Melbourne : Bread and Cheese Club, 1943. Quarto, original grey printed wrappers, staple bound, photographic frontispiece of the ship ‘Morning’ in McMurdo Sound (National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904), pp. 18, [14] pages of music notation, 1 full-page comic illustration, ‘Dissecting the piano’; introduction by R.H. Croll providing historical background; later ex libris to inside front cover, …
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# 16801
RAILTON, Bruce (composer); NEIVEL, Esme (lyrics)
[SHEET MUSIC] Home
Melbourne : Allan & Co., c1923.. Folio, non-illustrated front cover, rear cover with advertisement for Peter Dawson’s ballad ‘Little Mother’; [3] pp of musical notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a very good copy. A sentimental song of the Great War, about Australian “diggers” in the trenches, longing for home. Copies are recorded in two …
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# 16803
O'HAGAN, Jack; DUNLOP, Pat; NELSON, Leonard; HAYES, Henry T; EDWARDS, Billy; GREEN, Wallace; HALL, Fred; WOOD, Ethel
[SHEET MUSIC] Popular songs of Australia
Melbourne : Allan & Co, c1940. Folio, illustrated front cover with chromolithographed design showing a couple clasping hands (some notes written in pen to front cover, covers a trifle marked), staple bound, 32 pages of musical notation; a number of annotations in pen and pencil, otherwise a good copy. Contains numerous well-known songs by Australian …
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# 16804
STEELE, J.A. (composer); CASSIDY, R.J. (lyrics)
[SHEET MUSIC] The road to Jugiong
Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1940. Folio, non-illustrated covers, pp 6 (lyrics page 2; music notation pages 3-6); a fine copy. The township of Jugiong is situated on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in southern New South Wales, midway between Yass and Gundagai. In publishing this tune, Cassidy and Steele no doubt felt that they …
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# 16805
DENNIS, C.J. (lyrics); JAMES, William G. (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Australia! O thou favoured isle
Melbourne : Allan & Co., c1927. Folio, original paper wraps (covers a little marked), 4 pages of music notation, internally clean; a good copy. Copies are recorded in four Australian Institutions (National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Western Australia, The University of Melbourne Library).
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# 16799
CRESER, William
[SHEET MUSIC] The breaking of the drought
London : Vincent Music Company for the Massey-Harris Co., c1904. Folio, illustrated front cover with chromolithographed design showing a wheat-harvesting scene, rear cover with advertisement for Massey-Harris Machinery, 6 pp of musical notation, internally clean and sound. Copies are recorded in two Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales).
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# 16492
PROUTIERE, Réné
[CRIMEAN WAR] Manuscript compiled by a French cotton merchant and soldier, 1852-54.
Unbound manuscript in ink on laid paper, large octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stitching, first page with owner’s inscription ‘Cahier de coton de 1852 et 1853. Monsieur Proutière Réné, soldat au 35eme de ligne 1er Bataillon 4ème Compagnie, à Inkermann (Crimée) armée D’orient Inkermann’; [9] pages of accounts relating to the purchase and sale of …
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# 16396
HAVEZ, Jean
[SHEET MUSIC] Everybody works but father
Melbourne and Sydney : Stanley Mullen, [1905]. Folio, pictorial front cover inscribed ‘Mr. Roland Thomas’; [5] pp of music notion, including advertisements for compositions on verso of front and rear covers; rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a good copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.
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# 16400
KAUFMAN, Leo (lyrics); PORCELAIN, Maurice (score)
[SHEET MUSIC] Won’t you be my little butterfly?
Melbourne : Allan & Co, [circa 1910s]. Folio, pictorial front cover, [3] pp of music notation; rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a fine copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.
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# 16404
LAMB, Arthur J (lyrics); PETRIE, H. W. (score)
[SHEET MUSIC] Victor and vanquished : song for bass or baritone
Sydney and Brisbane : D. Davois & Co, [circa 1901]. Folio, front cover inscribed ‘R. Thomas’, [4] pp of music notation, including an advertisement for a composition to verso of front cover; rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a fine copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.
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# 16394
CASTLING, Harry; MURPHY, C. W.
[SHEET MUSIC] The girl in the clogs and shawl
Melbourne and Sydney : Stanley Mullen, pp. 5; pictorial front cover, rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a good copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.
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# 16401
MURPHY, C. W; LIPTON, Dan
[SHEET MUSIC] Jones!
Melbourne : Allan’s, [1910]. Folio, pictorial front cover, [6] pp of music notation, including an advertisement for a composition to verso of front cover; rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a fine copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.
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# 16399
WESTON, R. P; BARNES, F. J; SCOTT, Maurice
[SHEET MUSIC] Miss O’Hara in her emerald tiara
Melbourne and Sydney : Stanley Mullen, [1910]. Folio, purple front cover inscribed ‘Roland Thomas’; pp. 7; 5 pages of music notation, rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a good copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.