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| Brothers in arms: patriotic song with words and music by R. Molyneux Herbert is an example of a patriotic song, many of which were composed during World War One. More unusually, this song is highlighting the cause of the Boer War in southern Africa. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| Australian anthem with words by James Brunton Stephens and music by Richard Thomas Jefferies was composed in the 1890s. A clear expression of the colony’s national aspirations can be heard in this work. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| Loved and lost by Reginald Isbell is an early twentieth century art song. Rather than a song of romance its subject is infant mortality, an all too common event at that time. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| Calling Cooee: when I hear you calling cooee I shall know that you are back was composed by Harold Middleton, and is an excellent example of vaudeville music from the 1920s. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| Down on the sands at Emu Park by E.T. Shorley and Stanley Wood is a delightful 1920s song extolling the virtues of Emu Park, which was a popular seaside resort on the Capricorn Coast, just south of Yeppoon. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| Malboona Gavotte was composed by Edwina Marion Edkins (d. 1910), a pioneering woman who lived in the Longreach area and was a passionate musician and composer. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| The Absent Minded Beggar was composed by Esther M. Lewin in 1900 and is a setting of a well known poem by Rudyard Kipling (1862 – 1936), which highlights the plight of soldiers returning from war with physical or psychological injuries. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
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The Queensland Times March was written by Robert Henderson Johnstone, a well known music teacher, and for some years organist of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Ipswich. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library.
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Serenade, a choral work for mixed voices was written by Samuel George Benson (1857 – 1925) with lyrics by Reginald Spencer Browne (1856 – 1943). More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. |
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The Fisher Boy was composed by William Arthur Caflisch (1857-1938), a music teacher and composer who was also conductor of the Brisbane Liedertafel. Other works of this composer include “Goodnight”. “Irene Gavotte” and “The Delightful Gavotte”. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library.
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| Romance is one of the many piano works composed for domestic use during the 19th century. The composer August Henry Wilhelmy, was a music teacher and composer who maintained an international profile by publishing his works in both England and Germany in addition to Australia. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| Good Night was composed for the Brisbane Leidertafel in 1887 by William Arthur Caflisch, their conductor and well known composer and music teacher. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. | |
| Where the red gold oranges grow was written by Rita McIver with music by J.Shanoski. It is one of the many songs of the 1920s written about Queensland places and paints a lively picture of the township of Montville. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. |
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The setting of George Essex Evan’s poem, A Federal song by George Sampson brings together the artistic talents of two prominent early 20th century Queenslanders. This song presents an optimistic mood, with rising melodic phrases such as “Uplift the mighty chorus of Australian Unity!”. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. |
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Hear our soldiers' cry was written by Mrs. John Harrison with music by Lorna Maud Harrison. It is one of the many patriotic songs from World War I and was first performed at a conscription reinforcement campaign night attended by the Prime Minister in October, 1916. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library.
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Sandgate: charming waltz song was written by Thomas Shorley, with music by Stan Wood. It is one of the many nostalgic songs written about Queensland places in the 1920s and 1930s. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library. |
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Boys of Australia was written and composed by J.T. Caves in 1915. It is one of the many patriotic songs composed during World War I. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library.
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Coolangatta: that's the place for me was written and composed by Rita McIvor, Fred. Whaite and Ebeneezer Jackson in the early 1920s. It is one of many songs from that era that spell out the letters of the place name in the chorus. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library |
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Indooroopilly: the tongue twisting waltz song hit was written and composed by Billy Maloney in the early 1920s. Billy Maloney was a popular vaudeville star during this time. More information is available in the Queensland Digital Library.
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