Sheet Music
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# 44595
PRINGLE, George R. G.
[SHEET MUSIC; ST. KILDA, MELBOURNE] Sea Grove : polka brilliante. Dedicated to his pupils, the Misses M. F. and M. E. Symonds, Sea Grove Villas, St. Kilda, by the composer, George R. G. Pringle.
At head of title: Second Edition. Melbourne : Published by Wilkie, Webster, & Co., Collins Street East, and may be had of Mr George R. G. Pringle, 161 Collins Street East, [between 1865 and 1870]. Folio (340 x 240 mm), upper wrapper lettered in decorative fonts (original owner’s name ‘M. Macvean’ to upper margin); [4] pp. …
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# 41287
BURNE, Hewetson
[SHEET MUSIC; QUEENSLAND] The Pioneer Schottische, or, The Alligator Hop
[Cover title: The Pioneer or The Alligator Hop. Dedicated to the pioneers of Australia. Performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards at the Colonial & Indian Exhibition]. London : Keith, Prowse & Co., [1886]. Quarto, original wrappers with charming and vibrant front cover design, 4 pp. music notation; split along spine, moderate foxing, edge …
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# 43738
OSBORNE, G. A. (George Alexander)
[SHEET MUSIC] La pluie de perles : valse brillante
Sydney : Published by H. Marsh & Co., 490/2 & 484 George Street, 1853. Folio (340 x 260 mm), front wrapper with lithographed lettering in decorative fonts, with the ownership inscription of J. B. Steel (1853) struck out and inscribed below by the music’s second owner ‘E. J. M. Stewart, Bathurst, 1854’; fully contemporary linen …
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# 44370
ALLEN, Walter (words); MACKENZIE, Harry (music)
[SHEET MUSIC; GLEBE, SYDNEY] Such is life
Words by Walter Allen. Music by Harry Mackenzie. Cover: Written by Walter Allen Esqr., composed by Harry Mackenzie. Sydney : J. Reading & Co., Music-sellers & Publishers, 356 George Street, [ ]. Folio (335 x 250 mm), upper wrapper lettered in decorative fonts (faint early music seller’s stamp to upper margin); [6] pp. of music …
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# 44264
LETHBRIDGE, H. O.
[SHEET MUSIC] Australian Aboriginal songs : melodies, rhythm and words truly and authentically Aboriginal.
/ Collected and translated by H.O. Lethbridge, accompaniments arranged by Arthur S. Loam. Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1937. “Imperial edition, no. 420”. Large quarto, illustrated wrappers (rubbed and abrasion along spine and across lower panel), 15 pp of music notation (arrangements for voice and piano); a good copy. Song titles: Maranoa lullaby; Bingo corroborees; …
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# 44286
COLLINS, Clyde (words and music)
The Sunshine State : official theme song of the Queensland Centenary Celebrations.
Words and music by Clyde Collins. Cover: ‘Recorded by Horrie Dargie Quintet on Columbia / Northern Command Band on Festival.’ Brisbane : Clyde Collins Music Co., 1958. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers, [3] pp. music notation; a good copy.
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# 43673
THORNTON, Jas. (words & music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Don’t send the organ man away
/ words and music by Jas. Thornton … Copyright 1901 by M. Witmark & Sons. Cover: “Descriptive song by the writer of ‘When you were sweet sixteen’” / “Sung by Robert McLeish”. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co, [c.1907]. Allan’s popular sixpenny edition ; no. 207. Folio (350 x 250 mm), original illustrated wrappers with …
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# 43674
FORD, Percy (words); MOORE, J. Chas. (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Won’t you come down and open dat door? (“achew”).
Written by Percy Ford. Composed by J. Chas. Moore. Cover: “The great sneezing song” / “Sung with immense success by J. M. Campbell in J. C. Williamson’s pantomime ‘Jack & Jill’” / “Copyright in all countries 1907”. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co, [c.1907]. Allan’s popular sixpenny edition ; no. 241. Folio (350 x 250 …
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# 42724
NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)
[SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)
New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, owner’s name to upper panel, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing …
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# 14498
GORDON, Gladys
[SHEET MUSIC] Light & shade patrol : for pianoforte
Sydney : Nicholson & Co., 1913. “Op. 56” (caption). Folio, illustrated wrappers (mild foxing, split along spine), 6 pp of music notation; internally clean. One of the most striking Australian-themed sheet music covers from the Federation period we have seen. The illustration is signed at lower right 'W. George'. The composer, Gladys Gordon, also performed …
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# 42521
WESLEY COLLEGE
Wesley College songs (Fourteenth edition)
Fourteenth edition, 2009. Melbourne : Wesley College, 2009. Fourteenth edition. Small quarto, gilt-decorated purple cloth, light edge wear, pp. 117, sheet music and songs, photographic illustrations. A scarce Wesley College song book. Includes favourites such as ‘Grey Towers’, ‘The Wesley chorus’, and ‘The best school of all’. Loosely enclosed : the eight page printed program …
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# 41143
DRISLANE, Jack (words); MEYER, George W. (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] You taught me how to love you (now teach me to forget.)
Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1910]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 403. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with portrait of Australian vaudeville singer Miss Maud Bletsoe by Punchinello Co., Manly, inscribed by original owner ‘R. Thomas 1912’; [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano); a fine …
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# 41146
MILLS, A. J. (words); SCOTT, Bennett (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] She was a girl in white.
Cover: Artistically sung by England’s dainty song artist Miss Florence Cromer Challis. Also now being sung with great success by Miss Ida Berridge. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 160. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Miss Florence Cromer Challis by Talma (taken during her Australian tour in 1911), …
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# 41147
ARMSTRONG, Tom (words & music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.
Cover: Tome Armstrong’s very latest bewitching rag song. Also sung with great success by Les Warton at Rickards’ Tivoli Theatres. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 169. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian vaudeville star Tom Armstrong, [3] pp of music notation; a fine copy. Trove locates only the NLA …
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# 41144
LAWRENCE, Alf. J. and GODFREY, Fred (words & music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Have you got another girl at home like Mary.
Cover: The latest song craze. / Miss Cissie Curlette’s great success. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 269. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with inset portrait of English vaudeville singer Cissie Curette by Talma (taken during her 1909 Australian tour), inscribed by original …
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# 40032
PLOCK, A. (composer); TROEDEL, Charles (lithographer); NICHOLSON, J. C. W. (publisher)
[SHEET MUSIC] Plock’s Little Footsteps galop
Melbourne : J. C. W. Nicholson, [1874]. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, pictorial wrappers with a striking front cover design lithographed by Charles Troedel; 5 pp music notation (arrangement for piano); scattered foxing, else a fine copy. Published in Melbourne in July 1874 by Nicholson, Plock’s Little Footsteps galop was described by one newspaper …