Sheet Music
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# 31089
BELLINI, Vincenzo (1801-1835) (composer); GROCOTT, James Turner (publisher)
[SHEET MUSIC] Do not mingle : air as sung by Madame Malibran in the opera La Sonnambula / composed by Bellini.
Sydney : Published at Grocott’s Music Saloon, George Street, [probably 1847]. Folio (340 mm), disbound from a nineteenth-century music album, original stitching with remnants of old paper spine, 7 pp of engraved music notation with decorative title and publisher’s imprint at head of first page; original owner’s manuscript pagination at top corners; paper browned, otherwise …
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# 29593
VON TILZER, Albert (music); BROWN, Lew (words)
[SHEET MUSIC] Oh gee! Say gee! You ought to see my gee gee from the Fiji isle! : song fox-trot
/ written by Lew Brown ; composed by Albert Von Tilzer. Cover: Sung by Leyland Hodgson in Harry G. Musgrove’s Tivoli show, ‘All the winners’. Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [1920]. Folio (340 mm), disbound, illustrated wrappers with idealised depiction of an exotic dancer from the South Seas and vignette illustration of Leyland Hodgson; 5 pp, …
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# 28569
ALBERT, Charles d' (1809-1886) (composer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Little Bo-Peep quadrilles, founded on popular nursery rhymes.
At head of title: D’Albert’s celebrated. Sydney : Published by Woolcott and Clarke, Music Sellers, Print Sellers, etc., George Street, [between 1859 and 1865?]. Folio, publisher’s decorative wrappers lithographed by F. Cunninghame, 7 pp of music notation (arrangement for piano); lower wrapper with full-page advertisement for Woolcott & Clarke’s sheet music with hundreds of titles; …
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# 27508
LECOCQ, Charles (1832-1918); [THEATRE ROYAL, ADELAIDE]
Lecocq’s opera bouffe in 3 acts of “La Fille de Madame Angot”, as performed by The Soldene Opera Company, under the management of Mr. C. A. Chizzola.
At head of title: The opera libretto. Adelaide : Printed at The Advertiser Office, King Wm. Street, 1878. Small octavo (175 x 120 mm), original printed green wrappers, stitched, pp 40; contains the complete libretto for this work; a fine copy. Rare programme produced for the series of concerts given at Adelaide’s Theatre Royal in …
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# 26665
HORNE, H. E.; TREHARNE, Herbert F.; HELLEMANN, Christian
Ode for Australia’s 150th Anniversary. (Presentation copy for Francis Crosslé)
/ words by H.E. Horne ; music by Herbert F. Treharne and Christian Hellemann. Cover: “Schools’ concert, Town Hall, Sydney, 8th, 9th & 10th March, 1938”. Royal octavo (240 x 180 mm), original printed wrappers, staple bound, a presentation copy inscribed on the upper wrapper by the author H. E. Horne and composer Herbert F. …
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# 26140
GOERGS, Karl Wilhelm
[SHEET MUSIC; SOUDAN CONTINGENT] The Harp of the Southern Cross : Australia’s message.
/ by Karl Wilhelm Goergs. Author of Echoes of Australia &c. Cover: “For the Patriotic Fund”. Sydney : [K.W. Goergs?], 1885. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, decorative covers featuring a diagram of the Southern Cross with the date March 3rd, 1885 (closely trimmed at top and bottom edges), [2] pp music notation (arrangement for …
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# 25134
LITTLE, Marsh (composer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Mother Waratah
Cover: Sung by Queenie Paul / Composed by Marsh Little / Successfully introduced into Fullers’ brilliant Australian pantomime “The Bunyip”. Sydney : W. H. Paling & Co. Ltd.., [c.1916]. Folio, original illustrated covers featuring the striking red and green “Bunyip” from the stage production, and cartouche portraits of the play’s producer Nat Phillips, author Ella Airlie, …
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# 24262
LEE, E. Markham; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul
[SHEET MUSIC]. Robin Hood suite for piano
Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1941. Imperial Edition No. 489. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (spot of surface loss upper right), pp. 16, a clean copy. Scarce. Not in Muir.
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# 23599
STEVENS, Vernon T. (words & music); GORMAN, Frank W., Rev. (performer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Back to home sweet home
/ Words & music by Vernon T. Stevens. Cover: Sung by Rev. Frank W. Gorman (The Singing Parson) at Fuller’s Vaudeville Theatres. Melbourne : L.F. Collin Pty. Ltd., [c.1920]. Series: Collin’s popular sixpenny edition. Folio, front cover with photographic portrait of Frank Gorman and original owner’s name ‘Vera Bangs’ (light foxing and edge tears), 3 …
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# 24260
RENTOUL, Annie R. / PETERSON, Georgette / Ida Rentoul OUTHWAITE (illustrator)
[SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old
George Robertson & Co., [1907]. First edition. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers (printed in brown and green), spine with archival tape repair (lacking the original string ties), edges chipped, pp. 32, old tape removed from gutters, closed tear to margin of pp. 29-30, scattered foxing. With frontispiece and eight full page illustrations by Outhwaite. Published to …
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# 24259
RENTOUL, Annie R. / PETERSON, Georgette / Ida Rentoul OUTHWAITE (illustrator)
[SHEET MUSIC] Australian songs for young and old
Melbourne: Allan & Co., [1924]. “Imperial edition, no. 335”. Oblong quarto, pictorial wrappers (printed in brown, orange and blue), price 3/- (wrappers lightly creased), original ties, title page with previous owner’s name and light stain at edge, extending to the following page, 28 pp, illustrated, scattered foxing, the final leaf with a long tear. Muir …
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# 22638
BILHORN, P.P.
The Gideon lamp and pitcher songs
/ composed and compiled by P.P. Bilhorn under the auspices of the National Organization for the Christian Commercial Traveling Men and all Christian workers. Melbourne; Ballarat; Bendigo; Geelong : Sutton’s, [circa 1910]. Octavo, original cloth backed illustrated wrappers, stapled, 95 pp, music notation throughout (arrangements for voice and piano); a good copy. Two copies are recorded …
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# 22278
ST. ROQUE, Lorelei
[SHEET MUSIC] Valse Australis
Cover: Dedicated to Young Australians. Melbourne, Sydney : Australian Music Publishing Company, [c.1901]. Folio, illustrated front cover, the design featuring gum leaves, a map of Australia and the Southern Cross, printed in blue and gold by Reporter Print of Box Hill, Melbourne (light marks and small loss at upper right corner), 4 pp of music notation …
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# 22285
RENTOUL, Annie R.; PETERSON, Georgette; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul
More Australian songs for young and old
More Australian songs for young and old. Melbourne: George Robertson & Company, [1913]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (white-out to upper wrapper, repeated verso), original string ties, bookplate, 36 pp., illustrated. Muir 6349.
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# 22284
RENTOUL, Annie R.; PETERSON, Georgette; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul
Bush songs of Australia for young and old.
Words by Annie R. Rentoul. Music by Georgette Peterson. Illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., n.d. [c. 1910]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (signed in the image I.S.R.O.), upper wrapper with previous owner’s name erased with white-out, repeated verso, original string ties, bookplate, presentation inscription dated 1919, pp. 36, numerous full …
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# 21431
HARBACH, Otto (lyrics); HIRSCH, Louis A. (music)
[SHEET MUSIC] Selection from Going Up
Cover: J.C. Williamson Ltd. present the musical play Going up / book by Otto Harbach and James Montgomery ; lyrics by Otto Harbach ; music by Louis A. Hirsch … New York : M. Witmark & Sons ; Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [1919]. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers with splendid illustration of an aviatrix flying …