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A chronological checklist of Australian colonial musical works 1846-1850
Dr GRAEME SKINNER (University of Sydney)
THIS PAGE IS ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
To cite this:
Graeme Skinner (University of Sydney),
"A chronological checklist of Australian colonial musical works 1846-1850",
Australharmony (an online resource toward the early history of music in colonial Australia):
https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/checklist1841-1850.php; accessed 5 November 2024
Summary
This chronological checklist page, covering the years 1846-50, is intended to include all original Australia colonial musical works, significant arrangements, and musical editions specifically aimed at colonial audiences, documented or extant from the five years in question.
It tables musical works by Australian resident composers, in print and manuscript, lost and still existing, as well as new songs written by colonial songwriter/lyricists to existing imported tunes, and targetted colonial editions such as, for instance, popular songsters, musical albums, and hymnbooks. Also tabled are a small number of musical works composed specifically for Australian sale and use, by composers who never visited the colonies.
Not included in this page, however, are colonial manuscript copies or printed editions of the general run of imported musical works by composers or arrangers who never visited Australia, for example, local editions of internationally popular songs like Henry Bishop's Home, sweet home, or instrument music like George Osborne's waltz La plui de perles.
Where a digitised copy or electronic bibliographic record of a piece of music exists, it is live-linked to the title.
Like everything in Australharmony, the page is a work-in-progress, made available now for the use and information of interested others, but always subject to updates, corrections, and improvements.
Please contact me if you have, or know of, other relevant information, and which you are willing to share.
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1846-01-17 (first advertised)
1846-01-26 (first published)
Sydney, NSW
NATHAN, Isaac (music composed; ? words)
The currency lasses
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=The+currency+lasses+(Nathan) (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
The currency lasses; a song; inscribed with the utmost devotion and respect to the fair sex of Australia; words by *****, esq., music composed by I. Nathan, esq. 1846, the 58th anniversary of the colony
(Sydney: Published by W. Ford, Lower George-street, 1846)
4 pages music (1-4), typeset by Nathan
Copy at the National Library of Australia
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16497029
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-174920912 (DIGITISED)
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (17 January 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12884742
FORD, William (publisher)
1846-02-14 (written by)
Melbourne, NSW (VIC)
HARRISON, John (words)
Separation
TUNE - "Betsy Baker" [? = Yankee Doodle]
"Select Poetry", The Argus (30 October 1850), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4771964
In Australasia there did dwell
A mother and a daughter;
The lass all others did excel,
And many lovers sought her.
She was fair and lovely to the eye,
The wonder of each nation!
For golden wings she'd surely,
Had she but separation.
Tol de rol, &c. &c.
. . . [3 more stanzas] . . .
"Original Poetry", Williamstown Chronicle (30 June 1860), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68569827
"SEPARATION", Bendigo Advertiser (7 July 1883), 1s
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88517885
"THE LANG-SEPARATION DINNER", The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (13 February 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226315597
"GRAND SEPARATION BANQUET", The Melbourne Courier (13 February 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226363604
"DINNER TO DR LANG", Geelong Advertiser (14 February 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94443554
The tune "Betsy Baker" was apparently sometimes taken to be that of "Yankee Doodle"; but see this US MS source (c.1830s; not c.1795 as per the catalogue record) which contains both:
http://www.themorgan.org/music/manuscript/285318 (DIGITISED)
1846-03-26 (performance)
Launceston, VDL (TAS)
Solos and choruses
("the greater part composed by Mr. Anderson"; opening of the Launceston Synagogue)
"CONSECRATION OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE", Launceston Examiner (26 March 1846), 6
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36244260
"CONSECRATION OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE, ST. JOHN STREET", The Cornwall Chronicle (28 March 1846), 241
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66269536
"THE JEWS. OPENING OF THE SYNAGOGUE AT LAUNCESTON", Launceston Advertiser (2 April 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84769007
Anderson is credited on the cover of the printed order of service: "THE MUSIC COMPOSED EXPRESSLY FOR THE OCCASION BY MR. ANDERSON", and later "I.H. Anderson" is also listed as "honorary secretary" of the Launceston congregation; see:
Order of service performed at the consecration of the new synagogue, St. John Street, Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, on 5606-1846
(Sydney: printed by E. &M. Wolfe, 1846)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/24067940
1846-03-27 (words first published)
1846-05-02 (Nathan's setting first advertised)
1846-05-25 (? lost anonymous setting first performed)
1846-05-27 (Nathan's setting publication first noticed)
1846-10-23 (Nathan's setting first advertised performance)
Sydney, NSW
SILVESTER, Edward Kennedy (words)
NATHAN, Isaac (music composed)
ANONYMOUS ("gentleman amateur") (music composed)
Words:
"STANZAS", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 March 1846), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12886171
There are two extant musical settings of E. K. Silvester's celebratory stanza's on Leichhardt's return.Stephen Hale Marsh's slightly later setting is listed separately below. With Isaac Nathan's setting here is listed a possible third setting, now lost, by an anonymous "amateur", advertised for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre on 25 May 1846, the Queen's Birthday. Notably, this otherwise unreported work is described as being scored for SATB soloists and full chorus, whereas Nathan's and Marsh's published settings are both for solo voice.
Verses upon Leichhardt's return
("set to music, by a gentleman amateur, expressly for this theatre")
LOST MS
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (25 May 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12887427
QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY . . .THIS EVENING . . .The management has much pleasure in announcing that the beautiful verses of E. K. S., upon Leichhardt's return, set to music, (by a gentleman amateur) expressly for this theatre, will be sung upon the occasion, the solo parts by Mesdames Stirling and Wallace, and Messrs. F. and J. Howson, assisted by a full chorus.
Leichhardt's return
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Leichhardt's+return+(Nathan) (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
Thy greeting home again; a paean on Leichhardt's return from Port Essington; poet: A. K. Silvester, Esq.; composer: I. Nathan, esq.
(Sydney: Published by Wm. Ford, George Street, n.d. [1846])
8 pages music (1-8), typeset by Nathan; in errors gives author's initials as "A. K.", correctly "E. K."
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16497347
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-181790689 (DIGITISED)
Copies at the State Library of New South Wales
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:EEA:SLNSW_ALMA21112059180002626
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:EEA:SLNSW_ALMA21102514880002626
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 May 1846), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12886935
LEICHHARDTS RETURN. ARRANGEMENTS having been entered into for the immediate publication of the Music set by Mr. Nathan to those beautiful Stanzas which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on Dr. Leichhardt's return from Port Essington, Mr. Ford has the honour to make known to the public that the Song is preparing for the press, and may shortly be obtained. 554, George-street.
[Advertisement], The Australian (26 May 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37157338
"NEW MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 June 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12888122
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 June 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12888158
"DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE: DR. LEICHHARDT'S LECTURES", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 August 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12898405
[Advertisement], The Australian (27 October 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37132894
See also reviews reproduced in Nathan, Lectures (1846)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165990583/view?partId=nla.obj-165996533#page/n55/mode/1up
FORD, William (publisher)
LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (dedicatee)
[Later facsimile edition of original 1846 print]: "THY GREETING HOME AGAIN", Australian Town and Country Journal (21 January 1888), 33
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71093560
"THE LATE MR. E. K. SILVESTER", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 December 1863), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13086183
1846-05-27 (written before)
Port Macquarie, NSW
GRAY, Maria and Bessie (words written)
The stockman's last bed
("a parody on the popular song, Last Whistle written by the two daughters of Colonel Grey [sic], 1846")
See also:
"The Stockman's Last Bed, arranged by Stephen Marsh", The Illustrated Melbourne Post (25 August 1865), 128
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179658234 (DIGITISED)
For full details see main page:
gray-maria-and-bessie-and-the-stockmans-last-bed.php
1846-06-11 (performance)
Singleton, NSW
ANONYMOUS ("laureat"; ? = Thomas WILLIAMS (words, ? music)
Sydney avertising [sic] [Sydney advertising] (song)
(A new song, composed by the laureat)
WORDS AND MUSIC LOST
"SINGLETON", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (17 June 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article682226
. . .A new song, composed by the laureat, called "Sydney Avertising," excited considerable merriment . . .
"SINGLETON", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (9 May 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article681039
. . .The poet laureat of Patrick's Plains will sing an original song on this happy occasion, setting forth the beauty and strength of action in unity, and the benefits of knowledge and literature.
1846-06-15 (first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
DUDEMAINE, Florentine (music composed)
Le pittoresque quadrille
Le pittoresque quadrille pour le piano forte par Madame Dudemaine, respectfully dedicated to Mrs. Bland
(Sydney: Published by F. Ellard Music Seller & Musical Instrument Maker, George Street, n.d. [1846])
Titlepage (0), 5 pages music (1-5)
Copy at the State Library of New South Wales
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/36730731
http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3539165 (DIGITISED)
Photocopy (of the above) at the National Library of Australia
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/171071599
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179499015 (DIGITISED)
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (15 June 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12887816
JUST PUBLISHED, THE PITTORESQUE QUADRILLES. Composed and arranged for the Pianoforte by Madame Dudemaine, To be had at her residence, 24, Park-street; or at Mr. Ellard's, George-street.
ELLARD, Francis (publisher, engraver)
SMEATHMAN, Eliza = Mrs. William BLAND (dedicatee)
1846-07-24 (first advertised)
1846-07-27 (first performed)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
DULY, George Frederick (music composed)
Conrad the corsair; or, The pacha's bridal
("the celebrated Opera . . .the whole of the Music composed by Mr. G. F. Duly")
LOST MS
"THE THEATRE", Colonial Times (24 July 1846), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8758987
[Advertisement], Colonial Times (24 July 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8758992
For full documentation, see entry in Duly family main page:
1846-07-27 (first advertised)
1846-07-29 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
GAUTROT, Joseph (music composed)
Solo for violin
("dedicated to his friend Mr. S. W. Wallace, by Gautrot")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (27 July 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12888714
WALLACE, Spencer Wellington (dedicatee)
1846-08-12 (first performed, ode)
Sydney, NSW
MARSH, Stephen (music composed)
SILVESTER, Edward Kennedy (words)
The traveller's return (Ode to Leichhardt)
The traveller's return, song with an accompaniment for the harp or piano-forte, composed on the occasion of Dr. Leichhardt's return to Sydney
(London: T. Boosey and Co., n.d. [1847/48])
Titlepage (0), 9 pages music (1-9); titlepage has a quotation from J. D. Lang's Cooksland, dating the print to after that book's appearance in London during 1847l on (1): "written by A. K. Sylvester" [recte "E. K. Silvester.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19990692
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166240164 (DIGITISED)
Words (as also set by Isaac Nathan):
"STANZAS", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 March 1846), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12886171
Dr. Leichhardt's march (2 versions)
Dr. Leichhardt's march, for the harp, composed on the successful termination of his expedition, after having traversed a distance of nearly 3000 miles through a portion of Australia hitherto untrodden by civilized man, by his Friend, S. H. Marsh
(London: T. Boosey & Co., n.d. [1847/48])
Titlepage (0), 4 pages of music (1-4)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19990705
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166241284 (DIGITISED)
Dr. Leichhardt's march. for the piano, composed on the successful termination of his expedition, after having traversed a distance of nearly 3000 miles through a portion of Australia hitherto untrodden by civilized man, by his Friend, S. H. Marsh
(London: T. Boosey & Co., n.d. [1847/48])
Titlepage (0), 4 pages of music (1-4); titlepage same as that for above, with printed strip "for the piano" pasted on above "for the harp"; the music of the piano version is newly set, and differs in many small details from the harp version above
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/23164617
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-181624445
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (10 August 1846), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12889028
. . . 4. Ode to Leichhardt, the poetry by Mr. E. K. Silvester, composed by Mr. Marsh . . .
Ludwig Leichhardt, letter to C. Shlmalfuss (19 August 1846), in M. Aurousseau (ed.), The letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), vol. 3, 895-96 (translation 899)
Two more pieces have been composed [for me], and one of them, for the harp, by Mr. Marsh, is very good . . .
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (31 August 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12895665
. . . 3. March and Ode to Dr. Leichhardt (by particular desire), for the Harp, composed by Mr. Marsh . . .
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (15 March 1854), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30939842
Marsh left Sydney for India in 1846, and was in London during 1847 and 1848, returning to Sydney with his brother Henry in 1849. While there he arranged for Boosey to publish the two versions of the march, and its companion ode; as well his Australian waltzes (1843-05-24), and a second edition of his 1845 Australian anthem (1845-05-03); they were in print in London by November 1848; see:
"MUSIC", John Bull (4 November 1848), 12
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001945/18481106/076/0012 (PAYWALL)
Hail to Victoria Queen of the Ocean. The Australian National Anthem; Composed by S. H. Marsh, Esq. The words by John Rae, Esq., Town Clerk of Sydney.
The Australian Waltz. Composed for the opening of Government House, Sidney; by. S. H. Marsh.
The Traveller's Return. A Song, composed on the occasion of Dr. Leichhardt's return to Sidney, and dedicated to Members of the Royal Geographical Society. By the same.
T. Boosey, and Co.
Here is music from the Antipodes! The above compositions are interesting in more than a musical point of view: they are proofs of the cultivation, in one of the remotest settlements of the British Empire, of the arts which indicate advanced civilization and refinement of manners. They are, moreover, possessed of great intrinsic merit, and evidently proceed from the pen of a skilful and accomplished musician. The "Australian National Anthem" has been received as such in the colony, and is habitually performed on great public solemnities. It is well worthy of the honour: the poetry is loyal, patriotic, and vigorous; and the melody is (as it ought to be) plain and simple, yet bold and full of character. Each verse is repeated in chorus, richly harmonized in six vocal parts. - The "Australian Waltz" is a pleasing piece for the pianoforte; brilliant and effective without being too difficult. "The Traveller's Return" is in celebration of the return of Dr. Leichhardt from his journey of discovery in the interior of Australia; one of the most wonderful and important achievements of modern times; an achievement which, in the words of a recent writer on Australia, "has virtually added a vast and valuable province to the British empire, and has greatly extended the domain of civilized man." The song before us is an elegant poetical and musical tribute to the merits of this accomplished traveller.
1846-08-31 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
MARSH, Stephen Hale (music composed, arranged)
Souvenir de Sydney
(Fantasia for harp)
LOST MS; ? IMPROVISATION
[Advertisement], The Australian (29 August 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37154208
"MR. MARSH'S FAREWELL CONCERT", The Australian (3 September 1846), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37159283
. . . Mr. Marsh has left us a delightful souvenir in his exquisite treatment of the "Last Rose of Summer," interwoven with a series of well conceived variations. The peculiar delicacy of this gentleman's touch, and the purity of tone which he evokes from his instrumont, combined with the musical feeling with which the player is evidently embued, leave us reason to apprehend that it will be very long before the chasm in the professional orbit, created by Mr. Marsh's departure, can be satisfactorily filled up. To particularize would be superfluous. Otherwise, we should but be gratifying our own inclination, and doing justice to Mr. Marsh himself, to dwell upon the various airs which in his Souvenirs of Sydney he so happily introduced, and in such enumeration, our ancient friend "Billy Barlow" would not hold a subordinate position! In our desire to be brief, however, we must not appear indifferent to the excellence of Mr. Marsh's "Australian National Song," nor to the manner in which it was performed. If this gentleman have his Souvenirs of Sydney, he has in this choice morceau also bequeathed to us a lasting souvenir of himself.
"MR. MARSH'S CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (2 September 1846), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12899675
For Marsh's farewell concert; he had previously devised and performed fantasia variations on both The last rose of summer and Billy Barlow, and this farewell "souvenir" plausibly combined some or all of these previous "works".
After his return to Sydney, Marsh also later labeled his Ferrolana polka, Op. 63 (1851), as a "Souvenir de Sydney"; see:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22562348
1846-12-09 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
ELLARD, Frederick (music composed, araranged)
WALLACE, Spencer Wellington (music arranged)
I think of thee
("Ballad from the German of Goethe's Ich gedenke deiner")
I think of thee, composed by Frederic Ellard, from the German of Göthe
([Sydney: F. Ellard, ? 1846, early 1847])
Undocumented and previously unreported printed edition; copy at Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 4 page (1-4), lacks titlepage and final page (5)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/246898833
Reminiscences of Maritana
("by S. W. Wallace and F. Ellard")
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 December 1846), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12894821
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 December 1846), 1s
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12897282
1847 |
1847-01-25 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
GIBBS, John (music arranged)
An entirely new set of polka quadrilles
("arranged for this orchestra by Mr. Gibbs")
UNIDENTIFIED ORIGINALS; LOST MS ARRANGEMENT, ORCHESTRATION
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (25 January 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12891941
1847-02-23 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
WITTON, Henry James (music composed)
My gallant bark
("Song . . . H. J. Witton")
LOST MS
Heki's address to his country the evening before he was attacked by the British Forces
("Song . . . Written and composed by H. J. Witton")
LOST MS
The New Zealand chieftains' battle song (Heki and Kawita)
("Duett . . . H. J. Witton")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (17 February 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48543003
[Advertisement], South Australian (12 March 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71607535
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (13 March 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48543447
"MR. HORNCASTLE'S CONCERT", South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (20 March 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195934721
. . . With regard to Mr. Witton's Battle Songs, we think that artist is guilty of the greatest injustice to his own productions when he attempts to sing them himself, being unfortunately destitute of the physical requisites for embodying conceptions of no trifling merit. In the duet particularly, his own voice was scarcely heard, while that of Mr. Horncastle and the spirited accompaniment of Mrs. Murray, sufficiently manifested the musical talent of the composer . . .
See also, as a possible text:
"HEKI'S WAR SONG", Launceston Examiner (16 July 1845), 7
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36240555
HEKI'S WAR SONG", The Melbourne Courier (5 September 1845), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226364220
1847-03-09 (first published)
Melbourne, Port Phillip District, NSW (VIC)
"Little Benjamin" (words)
Song of the notable twenty-one
("What glorious prospects now appear . . .")
WORDS ONLY; NO TUNE INDICATED
"To the Editor", The Melbourne Argus (9 March 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4761107
SIR -I do not know whether you are aware that after the dispatch of business, the hole und corner petition having been first sent afloat for signatures, the twenty-one ordered Cowell to bring in two bottles of "Page's" best, and drank "Welcome to Pollution." One of their number, "Little Benjamin," gave the following song - but as it was given with closed doors, the precise plan of the performance could not be ascertained, it was distinctly heard, however, from the outside, that Mr. Edward Curr took the base part:
SONG OF THE NOTABLE TWENTY-ONE.
What glorious prospects now appear,
To all the squatter band;
With stations at ten pounds a year,
And convicts at command.
. . . [10 more stanzas] . . .
On the issue in question:
"To the Editor", The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (3 March 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226352421
1847-03-12 (first performed)
Melbourne, Port Phillip District, NSW (VIC)
ANONYMOUS (music composed)
The Melbourne quickstep
LOST MS
"The Teetotal Band", The Melbourne Argus (23 March 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4761212
The band which has recently been formed in connexion with the Australia Felix Total Abstinence Society, and which appears to have attracted some notice, played for the first time before the public on Friday evening, March 12 . . . The following are some of the tunes played on the occasion, viz. - Calcutta, Rosseau's Dream, Melbourne Quickstep, Green grow the Rashes, Birks of Invermay, Roy's Wife, Temperance Quickstep, and the National Anthem . . . in a manner that reflects the highest credit both upon the members and upon the leader, Mr. Thompson.
1847-04-30 (first noticed)
Sydney, NSW
NATHAN, Isaac (music composed)
MONTEFIORE, Jacob Levi (libretto)
Don John of Austria
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Don+John+of+Austria+(Nathan) (TROVE public tag)
Don John of Austria, opera; composer's autograph, MS vocal score; State Library of New South Wales
http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110312560 (DIGITISED)
http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1057814 (PAGE IMAGES)
Photocopy of the above; National Library of Australia
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179327400 (DIGITISED)
Don John of Austria, opera; photocopy of author's autograph, MS libretto; National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-178658277 (DIGITISED)
This was Nathan's second colonial opera, though, as he advertised "the first ever written and produced in the colony of New South Wales", it was first performed at Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, 3 May 1847; other performances, 4, 5, 8, 11, and 17 (Nathan's benefit, which also included The illustrious stranger with Nathan's music for several songs
1847-05-03, Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney (first performance)
1847-05-04 (second performance)
1847-05-05 (third performance)
1847-05-08 (fourth performance)
1847-05-11 (fifth performance)
1847-05-17 (sixth and final performance)
"NEW OPERA", The Sydney Morning Herald (30 April 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12897337
"THEATRICALS", Sydney Chronicle (1 May 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31751772
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 May 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12900105
"THE THEATRE", The Australian (4 May 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37129418
"DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA", The Sydney Morning Herald (8 May 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12897423
Published excerpts:
At the end of the overture in The southern Euphrosyne (page 21), see below, Nathan advertised "In the Press, the whole of the Music from DON JOHN"; however, including the overture, only 5 items from it were printed. They all appeared in The southern Euphrosyne (1849), and as separate offprints individually paginated, probably first appearing in 1848-49; however, only the overture was advertised separately:
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 November 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12892185
THE OVERTURE TO NATHAN'S NEW OPERA DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. THE SOUTHERN EUPHROSYNE, AND LADY'S MAGAZINE, will be ready for circulation the 1st of January, 1848 . . . the publishers, Messrs. W. and F. Ford . . ."
Overture
"Overture to Don John of Austria, Nathan", in The southern Euphrosyne
(Sydney: W. and F. Ford for I. Nathan, [1849]), 15-21
7 pages music (15-21), piano score
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166026016#page/n24/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
[Offprint]
([Sydney: W. and F. Ford, 1848-49])
7 pages music (1-7), from same type as above, offprint, repaginated
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19363725
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166021500 (DIGITISED)
The visions of youth (Don John)
The visions of youth, in which is introduced, as an obligato accompaniment, the celebrated air from "Sweethearts and wives", "Why are you wandering here, I pray", sung by Mr. F. Howson, at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, in the opera of Don John of Austria (the first opera ever written and produced in the Colony of New South Wales), composed by I. Nathan
In The southern Euphrosyne, 65-71
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166031519#page/n74/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
[Offprint]
(Sydney: Published by W. and F. Ford, n.d. [1848-49])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19363664
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166018565 (DIGITISED)
I dare not say how much I love (Philip II)
I dare not say how much I love, sung by Mr. J. Howson, at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, in the opera of Don John of Austria . . . composed by I. Nathan
In The southern Euphrosyne, 73-79
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166032397#page/n82/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
[Offprint]
(Sydney: Published by W. and F. Ford, n.d. [1848-49])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15065616
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166019352 (DIGITISED)
Canst thou bid the hand its cunning forget (Agnes)
Canst thou bid the hand its cunning forget, sung by Mrs. Guerin, at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, in the opera of Don John of Austria . . .composed by I. Nathan
In The southern Euphrosyne, 81-87
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166033271#page/n90/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
[Offprint]
(Sydney: Published by W. and F. Ford, n.d. [1848-49])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19363710
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166020717 (DIGITISED)
I'll go to sleep (Don Quixado)
I'll go to sleep, sung by Mr. W. Griffiths, at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, in the opera of Don John of Austria . . .composed by I. Nathan
In The southern Euphrosyne, 89-93
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166034154#page/n98/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
[Offprint]
(Sydney: Published by W. and F. Ford, n.d. [1848-49])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19363693
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166020148 (DIGITISED)
1847-05-01 (first published)
Sydney, NSW
ANONYMOUS (words)
The king of the cannibal islands
([new local version; TUNE - The king of the cannibal islands])
"GALLERY OF COMICALITIES", Bell's Life in Sydney (1 May 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59766329
Oh! have you heard the news of late
About a mighty King so great,
If you have not 'tis in my pate,
The King of the Cannibal Islands.
He was so tall near six feet nil,
His Palace built upon CHURCH-HILL,
Contained a bank with empty till
And his name was Bengewingeweet
Flibeedee, flobeedee, buskeeneet
Whom a lot of savages swore they'd eat
The King of the Cannibal Islands.
Hokee pokee wongee fum
Puttee po Hebrides Kirsop cum,
Tongaree, wongaree ching ring wum
The King of the Cannibal Islands.
. . . [4 more stanzas] . . .
BOYD, Benjamin (subject)
On the immediate issue in question:
"IMMIGRATION FROM POLYNESIA", Sydney Chronicle (28 April 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31751728
See also, another satirical song:
"A NEW HEBRIDEAN SONG", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (6 November 1847), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59766797
Other early colonial mentions and treatments of the source song:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?l-publictag=King+of+the+cannibal+islands (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
On the source song and tune, The king of the cannibal islands, see:
Anthony Bennet, "Rivals unravelled: a broadside song and dance", Folk music journal 6/4 (1993), 420-45
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4522436 (PAYWALL)
1847-05-05 (first performed)
Glen Osmond, SA
ANONYMOUS (words, ? tune)
German song for the Governor
("the German miners who were present struck up a song in that language, composed expressly for the occasion, and in praise of his Excellency")
LOST MS
"THE PEOPLES' MEETING AT GLEN OSMOND, TO OPPOSE THE MASTERS' AND SERVANTS' ACT", South Australian Register (8 May 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48543168
1847-05-22 (first published)
Sydney, NSW
ANONYMOUS (words)
A new song by Ben Rough
("neatly arranged to an old tune by J. Gresham, Esq., of Todies Hall, Warrigal's Flats")
WORDS ONLY; NO TUNE INDICATED [ = Kelvin Grove ]
"A NEW SONG", Bell's Life in Sydney (22 May 1847), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59768053
Again to Murrumbidgee, my dearest Bobby O,
For my heart is full of woe, my dearest Bobby O.
Yes, I'll e'en take your advice,
And be off in a trice,
Here "I'm black-balled," so nice, my dearest lassie O.
. . . [12 more stanzas] . . .
1847-06-03 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
GIBBS, John (music composed, arranged)
TORNING, Andrew (scenario, choreography)
Le pont neuf; or, Mad as a March hare
("Comic Ballet Of Action . . .The music by Mr. Gibbs. The ballet by Mr. Torning")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 June 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12897449
To conclude with the Comic Ballet of Action,
LE PONT NEUF; or, MAD AS A MARCH HARE. The music by Mr Gibbs. The ballet by Mr. Torning.
Bertrand (the lover), Signor Carandini.
Pierrot, Mr Torning.
Beau (the dandy lover), Mr J. Howson, who has kindly consented to play the part on this occasion.
Drummer Boy, Mr. Maxwell.
Villagers, &c.
Jeanette, Madame Torning.
Dame Gerule, Mr. Riley.
A Pas de Deux, Madame Torning and Signor Carandini
Pas Comique, Mr. Torning.
Mock Minuet, Mr. J. Howson.
May-pole Dance, by the whole of the characters.
A slightly earlier (? source) ballet of the same title in Hobart:
[Advertisement], The Courier (14 April 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2972148
1847-06-18 (first published)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
"M. B." (words)
Saturday night (a sea-song)
("Composed at Sea, on board the Royal Saxon, during her voyage to Sydney")
WORDS ONLY; NO TUNE INDICATED
"Saturday Night", Colonial Times (18 June 1847), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8760798
'Tis Saturday night, the sailor's delight,
They drink to their sweethearts and wives;
When each calls to mind the loves left behind,
More dear to the tars than their lives!
. . . [7 more stanzas] . . .
Sandy Bay, June 14, 1847
On the arrival of the Royal Saxon, see:
"ARRIVALS", Sydney Chronicle (27 January 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31750882
1847-06-28 (first performed)
1847-07-14 (date of ball)
Sydney, NSW
ANONYMOUS (words)
The mayor's fancy ball
("Comic Song . . . Written expressly for this occasion, by a Gentleman of known literary attainments, [sung] by Mrs. Gibbs")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Australian (26 June 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37130017
GIBBS, Eliza (singer)
A possible copy of the words:
"SELECT POETRY", The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (4 August 1847), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226513900
For more on the ball, see next entry:
1847-07-10 (date of publication)
1847-07-14 (date of ball)
Sydney, NSW
ANONYMOUS (words)
HINCKESMAN, Maria (music composed, ? arranged)
A dream of the mayor's fancy ball
"A dream of the mayor's fancy ball, composed by M. T. Hinckesmann [sic], W. Baker, lithographer"
In Heads of the people: an illustrated journal of literature, whims, and oddities (10 July 1847) (Sydney: William Baker), plate facing page 106
Single page, lithograph; with cartoon above music, inscribed "W. Baker, Lithographer"
Copy at the National Library of Australia
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/24095762
On the ball, see:
"THE MAYOR'S FANCY BALL", The Australian (17 July 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37132110
"THE MAYOR'S FANCY BALL", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (17 July 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59766314
BAKER, William (lithographer, publisher)
1847-09-29 (first noticed)
Sydney, NSW
HOWSON, John (music composed)
The bride's farewell to her mother
The bride's farewell to her mother, ballad sung by Madame Carandini with great applause at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, composed by Mr. John Howson
(Sydney: Published for the Composer by J. T. Grocott, n.d. [1848])
Titlepage, "J. Carmichael, Sc." (0), 5 pages music (1-5)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/7503328
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166655407 (DIGITISED)
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (29 September 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12898597
"MR. DEANE'S CONCERT", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (2 October 1847), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59764543
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (14 October 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12896689
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 December 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12889363
IN THE PRESS, AND WILL BE PUBLISHED ON THE 1ST JANUARY, 1848 . . .
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 November 1848), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12911150
CARANDINI, Marie (dedicatee)
GROCOTT, James Turner (publisher)
CARMICHAEL, John (engraver, titlepage)
1847-10-04 (? first performed)
Sydney, NSW
ANONYMOUS (? words, music)
BRANAGAN, Mr. (? words, music)
The cries of Sydney
("Original Comic Song The Sydney Cries")
LOST
"TEETOTAL FESTIVAL", Sydney Chronicle (5 October 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31753658
A musical festival was held at St. Patrick's Hall yesterday evening . . .Of the songs, "umbrella courtship" and the "cries of Sydney" were decidedly the favourites, and drew forth rounds of applause.
"GRAND MUSIC FESTIVAL", Sydney Chronicle (6 January 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31755025
"TEETOTAL FESTIVAL", Sydney Chronicle (11 January 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31755087
"ST. PATRICK'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY", Sydney Chronicle (25 April 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31756407
[Advertisement], Sydney Chronicle (12 August 1848), 11
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31757236
1847-11-01 (advertised)
Sydney, NSW
HORNCASTLE, Frederick William (music composed)
Manuscripts and printed music manuscripts, chiefly of his own composition
("Mr. Horncastle wishes to dispose of . . .")
LOST MSS, PRINTS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 November 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12892185
1847-11-16 (first advertised)
Melbourne, Port Philip District, NSW (VIC)
WALLACE, William Vincent (music composed)
Introduction, et finale a'la fuga
("Dédie à Monsieur Frederick Ellard, par son cousin W. V. Wallace")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Melbourne Argus (16 November 1847), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4762618
ELLARD, Frederick (dedicatee, performer)
1847-12-06 (first performed)
Brisbane, Moreton Bay district, NSW (QLD)
WILKES, William Charles (words)
The merry boys of Brisbane
(TUNE - Loudon's Bonny Woods and Braes)
Nehemiah Bartley, Opals and agates; or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans (Brisbane: Gordon and Gotch, 1892), 158-59
https://archive.org/stream/opalsandagateso00bartgoog#page/n186/mode/2up
Cares we have, many
But we care not for any
While our pockets bear a penny,
We're the merry boys of Brisbane.
Who, of all this happy party
Looks, with coldness, on our joy,
Let him rise and hence depart, he
Will not do for Brisbane.
Chorus: Hence melancholy
Let us drink and be jolly
Dull care were a folly
In us, merry boys of Brisbane.
. . . [3 more stanzas] . . .
First sung by Thomas Dowse on 6 December 1847 at the opening of
the Loyal Brisbane Lodge of Odd Fellows, and written for the occasion by William Wilkes
"MORETON BAY. ODD FELLOWSHIP", The Sydney Morning Herald (27 December 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12908124
"OLD TIMES. THE SETTLEMENT", The Queenslander (21 August 1869), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20325390
"EARLY SOCIAL LIFE. MUSIC, DRAMA, AND SOCIETY", The Brisbane Courier (28 July 1924), 39 (Queensland's Centenary)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20749458
1847-12-27 (manuscript dated)
1849-03-09 (first performed)
Melbourne, Port Phillip district, NSW (VIC)
McLAUGHLIN, James Ruthven (words)
Songs in Arabin; or, Adventures of a colonist
Arabin; or, Adventures of a colonist; a drama in three acts freely dramatized from Mr. McCombie's recent popular work
MS, State Library of New South Wales (manuscript inscribed by "read EDT [Edward Deas Thomson] 27 Decr. 1847"; performed as ". . .Adventures of a settler"; see Fortheringham 2006, 96-190:
Song, TEDDY O'HARA (act 1 scene 1): [no tune indicated, but see below]; They may talk ov their cities . . .[sic "ov"]
Fotheringham 119; an earlier version, Port Phillip Gazette (8 June 1844), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224809745
Sung by Larry Donahoo in McLaughlin's play Reichstadt; or, The broken heart
Song, TEDDY (act 1 scene 1): AIR - Billy O'Rourke; Ere I began this thravellin' plan . . .
Fotheringham 124-25; tune, Billy O'Rourke ma bouchal; see
http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=91342248
TEDDY's Song [reprise] (act 1 scene 4): AIR - "Dear creatures, &c"; They may talk ov their cities . . .
Fotheringham 136-37
Song, MISS WALLER (act 2 scene 4): AIR - "The harp that once through Tara's halls"; Can I forget the hours of bliss . . .
Fotheringham 149
Song, ARABIN (act 2 scene 4): The Australian maid, AIR - "Now hope, now fear my bosom swelling"; Strike to the fair Australian flower . . .
Fotheringham 153-54; tune, recte "With hope and fear my bosom swelling" (act 1 scene 1), from John Barnett's opera The mountain sylph (vocal score, London, 1834)
WARREN WARREN's Song, and CHORUS (act 2 scene 5): [no tune indicated]; Merri jig, me sing . . .
Fotheringham 155-56; previously published as:
"ABORIGINAL SONG", Port Philip Gazette (23 March 1844), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224809937
And see also, "ABORIGINAL SONGS. No. 2", Port Philip Gazette (18 May 1844), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224811252
CAPTAIN THOMSON's Song (act 3 scene 1) [no tune indicated]; Hey for the happy Settler's life . . .
Fotheringham 165-66; see also "SONG (From a forthcoming new Australian Drama)", Port Phillip Herald (10 August 1847)
Song/duet, A VOICE, MARIAN (act 3 scene 3) [flute plays, no tune indicated] Light as the zephyr flies . . .[ ". . .from the Italian of Metastastio"]
Fotheringham 172-73
Song, MARIAN (act 3 scene 4): [no tune indicated] The harp of the wilderness; Harp of the wilderness! . . .
Fotheringham 176-177); first appeared as "Rosalie's Song . . .by A Port Phillip Bushman", Port Phillip Herald (26 March 1843), 4; also Port Phillip Gazette (22 June 1844), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224811680
"THE QUEEN'S THEATRE", Port Philip Gazette and Settler's Journal (7 March 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223157129
On Friday evening [9 March] . . .the performance will be "Arabin," a melodrama, founded upon the well-known work of Arabin, and dramatized by J. R. M., which was licensed by E. Deas Thomson, Esq., when in Melbourne and has been reserved for the visit of the Governor, who is expected to patronize the Theatre. Several songs have been contributed by the author of Arabin, and will be sung by Mrs. Chester and others . . .
"THE THEATRE", The Argus (9 March 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4768319
We hear that this establishment closes this evening, with a perfectly novel and original entertainment, for the Benefit of Mr Smith. The performance consists principally of a Dramatised version of the exciting tale of Arabin by the talented Mr. McCombie. It is to be interspersed with Songs written by that gentleman, to music no doubt composed by the same universal Genius. The author is also to deliver a Prologue of his own composition. In short, it is a perfect McCombie triumph, and we strongly recommend an attendance to such of our readers as relish a bit of fun.
McCROMBIE, Thomas (author of the novel on which the play was based)
1848 |
1848-01-01 (published)
Sydney, NSW
HILL, Arthur Silvester (music composed)
The Australian grand waltzes
The Australian grand waltzes, composed and arranged for the piano forte, and by permission most humbly and respectfully dedicated to the right honorable Lady Mary Fitz Roy, by Arthur S. Hill, 99th Regiment
(Sydney: Published by G. Hudson, n.d. [1848])
Titlepage(0) with vignette of Government House, Sydney; "Drawn on stone by J. Allan, Lithogr., 2 Hunter Street, Sydney"; 8 pages of music (1-8)
Copy at State Library of New South Wales, not digitised
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:EEA:SLNSW_ALMA2193598330002626
Photocopy (of the above) at National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179564999 (DIGITISED)
[Advertisement], Sydney Chronicle (1 January 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31754931
"NEW MUSIC", The Sydney Morning Herald (5 January 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12892339
1848-02-22 (performed)
Singleton, NSW
GOODALL, Richard Wright (singer)
When you are out in the bush
(Song - Mr. Goodall)
LOST MS
"SINGLETON. MR. DONALDSON'S VISIT", The Maitland Mercury (26 February 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article713172
"BUSH YARNS", Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (22 August 1908), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149868260
But see also further Goodall songs (1848-07-29) below
1848-03-10 (publication first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
DANIELL, John Alfred (alias of Alfred HEARNE) (music composed)
La militaire quadrilles
La militaire quadrilles, selected from the airs of various nations Harmonized and arranged for the piano forte and most respectfully dedicated by permission to the lady of his excellency major general Wynyard, C.B., commander of her majesty's forces in New South Wales by J. Daniell
(Rushcutter's Bay: Author, n.d. [1848])
Titlepage (0), "Wilson, York St.", 5 pages music (1-5)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/171071590
Copy at State Library of New South Wales (Q786.4/Mu4)
Photocopy (of the above) at National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179494672 (DIGITISED)
"MUSICAL", The Australian (10 March 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37132531
[Advertisement], The Australian (10 March 1848), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37132527
1848-04-01 (dated)
Boston Bay, SA
"BOSTONIAN"
Edward John Eyre, be it known to all, is my illustrious name
("A new song . . .Shields, Boston Bay, April 1")
WORDS ONLY; NO TUNE INDICATED
"A NEW SONG", South Australian (4 April 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71610923
The unidentified "Bostonian" contibuted poems and letters to the press on several occasions during the 1840s; see, for instance, this principled refutation of an attack on the missionary C. W. Schürmann:
"THE PORT LINCOLN BLACKS. [To the editors]", South Australian Register (22 August 1846), 4:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27453551
1848-05-12 (1 first published)
1848-08-16 (2 first published)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
"PHAX" (words)
The queen's birthday
(By "PHAX", Intended to be sung throughout the Colony on the 24th May in each succeeding year)
WORDS ONLY; NO TUNE INDICATED
[Advertisement], Colonial Times (12 May 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8762824
Hail! four-and-twentieth of May, Queen Victoria's Birth-day; Long life to her, shout great and small, For guns will be fired. And lamps be admired, And at Government Cottage a ball. Bacchus, banners, and bands, Tacks, tarpauling, and tar; So Britons hold up your hands, The Queen for ever, hurrah! Singing - Cannon-ball, bomb-shell, and gunpowder.
. . . [4 more stanzas]. . .
The government ball
("BY PHAX; AIR - The legacy)
"ORIGINAL POETRY", The Courier (16 August 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2968366
THE time's fust approaching for fun and frivolity,
The bright smiling eye and the young dimpled face;
The music and dancing, the supper and jollity,
Which at the Government Ball is sure to take place.
The Ninety-ninthe band will be there in attendance,
And music divine that evening will play,
So that all the blue devils they quickly will send hence,
If they show their ill looks at this party so gay.
Fol de dol lol, &c.
. . . [3 more stanzas] . . .
GILBERT, Edward Thornton (? alias, subject)
"Legacy", Edinburgh repository of music . . .volume 1 (Edinburgh: Printed & sold by J. Sutherland, [1818]), 36
http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87776649
1848-05-29 (first advertised)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
PACKER, Charles Sandys (music composed)
May day
("Pastoral Ballad")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Courier (29 April 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2969239
MUSIC HALL. PROGRAMME OF CHARLES S. PACKER'S May Day Concert . . .
,May day
([Sydney: W. J. Johnson, 1854])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (24 January 1854), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12951589
NEW MUSIC. Charles S. Packer's beautiful Ballad, May Day, published this day",
1848-07-15 (first advertised)
Launceston, VDL (TAS)
STIER, Charles William Ferdinand (music composed)
Overture
("By W. Stier")
("Composed by Mr. STEER, Band-master of H. M. 11th Regiment")
LOST MS or MSS
Rondeau militaire
(By W. Stier)
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Cornwall Chronicle (15 July 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65978707
"GRAND CONCERT", The Cornwall Chronicle (28 June 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65980937
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 November 1848), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12911150
1848-07-29 (performed)
Maitland, NSW
GOODALL, Richard Wright (words)
Life in the bush (song)
LOST MS
Humorous song on the election
(to the tune of "Scots wha hae wi'Wallace bled")
LOST M, words
"THE ELECTIONS. ELECTION FOR THE BOROUGHS. THE POLLING DAY", The Maitland Mercury (2 August 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article710458
The Chairman proposed the toast of "Prosperity to Australia." Drunk with long and continued cheering . . . Mr. Goodall gave a song, " Life in the Bush" . . .
The Chairman said he had now to propose the toast of the evening . . .Mr. Goodall said he had met the other day in a newspaper a line of an old Scotch song, and on the spur of the moment he had thrown together a few lines relative to the election, which he would sing with their permission. Mr. G. then sung, with capital effect, a humourous song, celebrating the return of Mr. Nichols, to the tune of "Scots wha hae wi'Wallace bled," and was loudly cheered throughout.
"THE DINNER", The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (18 May 1861), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18681932
NICHOLS, George Robert (subject, election song)
See also another Goodall song, Out in the bush (1848-02-22) above
1848-08-05 (first published)
Bathurst, NSW
"TIMOTHY TICKLER" (words)
A new song
(TUNE - Aiken drum)
"A NEW SONG", Bathurst Advocate (5 August 1848), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62045433
As once I sauntered by the beach,
I heard an oyster make a speech,
Which charmed all within its reach,-
Three calves and one old cow.
And all the dogs in our town,
In our town, in our town,
And all the dogs in our town,
Cry bow, wow, wow.
. . . [3 more stanzas] . . .
"Aiken drum", in Edinburgh repository of music . . .vol. 1 (Edinburgh: J. Sutherland, n.d. [1818]), 98
https://archive.org/stream/edinburghreposit00rugg#page/n109/mode/2up
1848-10-07 (first published)
Goulburn, NSW
"M. E." (words)
Squatter's song
NO TUNE INDICATED
"SQUATTERS' SONG", The Goulburn Herald (7 October 1848), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101730633
To the verdant plains of Fleecemeree,
Our joys are bounded, but our souls are free,
Far as the limits are, our cattle roam,
Survey our flocks, and then behold our home.
. . . [4 more stanzas] . . .
1848-10-25 (first published)
Adelaide, SA
"W. B." (words)
A new song to an old tune
[ TUNE - A fine old English gentleman ]
"A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE", South Australian Register (25 October 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48726153
I'll sing you a new sonsg made by a youthful pate,
Of the Burra Burra Shareholders who had a fine estate,
Which to them came by luck, not aim, most wondrous to relate;
And little men unknown till then right suddenly grew great
As Burra Burra shareholders, lords of the Monster Mine.
. . . [6 more stanzas] . . .
1848-11-01 (first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
GAUTROT, Joseph (music composed)
Fantasia
(for violin; "composed by Monsieur Gautrot")
LOST MS
Aria and variations
("composed by Monsieur Gautrot [sung by] Madame Gautrot")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 November 1848), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12911150
1848-11-06 (first advertised, performed)
Sydney, NSW
HYDES, John Proctor (words, ? tune)
Changes of Sydney; or, Billy Hogg's lament for his old haunts
LOST MS
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 November 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12906061
First night of a new local comic song, "Changes of Sydney; or, Billy Hogg's Lament for his old Haunts," by Mr. Hydes; being a review of the Heads - the Sow and Pigs - Pinchgut - the Circular Wharf - the Custom House - Dawes' Battery - the Flag-staff - Goat Island - Old Government House - the Commissariat Stores - the old Gaol - the Supreme Court - Fort Macquarie - Benny Long's Point - Billy Blue Done Brown - the Market - the Treasury - the Light Horse Barracks - the Provost Marshall's - the Sydney Post Office-Bells - Life in Sydney Printing Office - Russell's Iron Foundry, George-street - concluding with Billy's Wish for another and more important change.
1848-11-11 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
HAMBLETON, John (words, ? music)
Advance Australia; or, Sydney as it was, and is
("An entire new Song, written by himself"; "an entirely new Local Comic Song")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney (11 November 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59767796
To be followed by an entirely new Local Comic Song, "Advance Australia, or Sydney as it was, and is," Mr. Hambleton.
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (11 November 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12910851
An entire new Song (written by himself,) Mr. Hambleton
1848-12-04 (advertised first performnace postponed)
1848-12-18 (first performance)
1849-01-04 (second performance)
Sydney, NSW
HOWSON, John (music composed)
The Corsair; or Conrad and Medora
("New Grand Opera"; "the whole of the music composed by Mr. J. Howson"; libretto: Edward Fitzball)
LOST MS; original libretto and song lyrics survive
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=The+corsair+(Howson) (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
[Advertisement]: "Royal Victoria Theatre", Bell's Life in Sydney (2 December 1848), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59765645
"THE DRAMA", Bell's Life in Sydney (2 December 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59765662
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 December 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12908287
"THE DRAMA", Bell's Life in Sydney (16 December 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59767379
"THE DRAMA", Bell's Life in Sydney (23 December 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59766029
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 January 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12903334
1848-12-09 (first published)
Bathurst, NSW
ANONYMOUS
A new song
("Written in the heat of the Dog Days, and dedicated to all who choose to sing it, by the Author")
WORDS ONLY; NO TUNE INDICATED
"A NEW SONG", Bathurst Advocate (9 December 1848), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62045148
Let us sing the song of freedom,
Which our fathers, fearless sung
And brave friends wheneer we need 'em,
Will appear, a dauntless throng!
When the song of freedom pours,
How impotent and vain,
In the most despotic powers,
To arrest the glowing strain.
. . . [2 more stanzas] . . .
1849 |
1849 (year of publication)
Melbourne, Port Phillip District, NSW (VIC)
NEWHAM, Daniel (edited)
A selection of psalms and hymns for public worship
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5743751
A selection of psalms and hymns for public worship
([Melbourne: s.n, 1849])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22454729
A selection of psalms and hymns for public worship
(Melbourne: Lucas Brothers, printers, n.d. [? 1851])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/6677318
But compare the dating of the first edition to 1849, see:
"THE LATE ROBBERY AT MACK'S HOTEL", Geelong Advertiser (11 April 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91457910
"EPISCOPAL", The Melbourne Argus (30 June 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4764147
The Rev. Mr. Wilson [James Yelverton Wilson], the English Episcopal clergyman at Portland has refused to use in the Church service the collection of Psalms brought out by the Bishop of Melbourne, and now generally used throughout the Diocese, unless ordered to do so by his Diocesan which his Lordship has declined doing.
c.1849 (estimated)
Sydney, NSW
DAVIS, Charles Henry (music composed)
Simple masses
Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem and Miserere (in the Tenebrae service)
Juravit dominus (motet)
LOST MSS
These musical works by Curtis are mentioned in an article by his former Sydney Benedictine colleague, Henry (J. H. B.) Curtis, in the Catholic magazine Austral light (February 1902) and in the Downwside review (july 1902) [UK], reproduced in Henry Norbert Birt's Benedictine pioneers in Australia, volume 2 (London: Herbert & Daniel, 1911), and O'Farrell, Documents; the section on Davis's musical activity, Birt, 207-14
https://archive.org/stream/BenedictinePioneersInAustraliaV2#page/n201/mode/2up
See also:
"FUNERAL OF BISHOP DAVIS", The Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 1854), 5
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12957587
By 1849 (date)
INDIGENOUS
SALVADO, Rosendo (transcribed, arranged)
Maquielo: cancion de caile de los Australianos occidentales
(Maquielo - Dance Song of the West Australians; arranged for pianoforte)
In Rosendo Salvado, Memorias historicas sobre la Australia: y particularmente acerca la mision Benedictina de Nueva Nursia y los usos y costumbres de los salvajes (Barcelona: Impr. de los Herederos de la V. Pla, 1853), unnumbered page after 314
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=z_YaZIk1YLQC&pg=PA314 (DIGITISED)
Go to main entry on this item:
https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/checklist-indigenous-music-1.php#014
Salvado's first period in Australia, which began in 1846, ended on 9 January 1849, when he sailed for Europe to raise money for his missionary endeavours; the music does not appear in the original Italian edition (1851, 1852) of his memoirs.
1849-01-08 (first performed)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
PACKER, Charles S. (music composed, arranged, extemporised)
National recollections
("Extemporaneous Performance on the Eolophon")
Souvenirs de l'opera Français
("Extemporaneous Performance on the Eolophon")
IMPROVISED; LOST
[Advertisement], The Britannia and Trades' Advocate (4 January 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226531600
[Advertisement], Colonial Times (5 January 1849), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8764194
"PACKER'S CONCERT", The Courier (10 January 1848), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2967082
PACKER'S CONCERT was well attended last Monday evening. The songs of" King Frederick's Camp" and the "Forbidden Door" were sung with exquisite taste and feeling by Mr. Packer, and met an encore. Mr. Packer's extemporaneous performances on the Eolophon were listened to with marked attention.
1849-01-07 (first performed)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
ANONYMOUS (music composed)
Tasmanian polka
("Military band . . .the excellent band of H.M. 96th Regiment")
[Advertisement], The Britannia and Trades' Advocate (4 January 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226531600
[Advertisement], Colonial Times (7 January 1848), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8762068
IMBERG, Julius Samuel (concert organiser)
Band of the 96th Regiment (performers)
1849-01-10 (first performed)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
IMBERG, Julius Samuel (? music composed, arranged)
Tableaux vivants
("With Music expressly composed for the occasion")
LOST MS
National song of Van Diemen's Land
("Grand Chorus . . .By all the performers"; ? composed Imberg)
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Courier (10 January 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2967098
"HERR IMBERG'S CONCERT", Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (13 January 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163503687
1849-02-03 (date of publication)
Sydney, NSW
DEANE, John Philip (? music composed)
Who is that knocking at the door?
(. . . one I heard of late, which was composed by Mr. Deen, of Sydney, entitled "Who is that knocking at the door" . . .)
LOST MS; OR, MORE LIKELY, NEVER EXISTED
"Kitty Cucumber's Tour through, the Colonies", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (3 February 1849), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59768455
1848-01-01 (advertised date of first publication)
1849-02 (early to mid February 1849, estimated date of completion)
Sydney, NSW
NATHAN, Isaac (music composed, arranged)
The southern Euphrosyne (literary and musical anthology) [1848-49]
The southern Euphrosyne and Australian miscellany, containing oriental moral tales, original anecdote, poetry and music, an historical sketch, with examples of the native Aboriginal melodies, put inot modern rhythm, and harmonized as solos, quartettes, &c, together with several other original vocal pieces, arranged to a piano-forte accompaniment by the editor and sole proprietor, I. Nathan
(Sydney: [W. and F. Ford for] I. Nathan, n.d. [1849])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6685469
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361 (DIGITISED)
Copy at Bodeleian Library, Oxford
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ziwieom4lBQC (DIGITISED)
Also 2 copies at British Library; and ? 14 in Australian public collections (NLA x 2; SLNSW x 6; 1 each at SLVIC, SLQLD, and Monash, Newcastle, NSW, and Sydney universities)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=The+southern+Euphrosyne+(Nathan) (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 November 1847), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12892185
W. AND F. FORD. GEORGE-STREET.
PRICE THREE SHILLINGS,
THE OVERTURE TO NATHAN'S NEW OPERA DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA.
THE SOUTHERN EUPHROSYNE, AND LADY'S MAGAZINE, will be ready for circulation the 1st of January, 1848,
to contain interesting oriental moral tales, chiefly from the Hebrew, Persian, Chaldee, and Arabic;
with notes, anecdotes, illustrations, original poetry, music for voice and pianoforte, &c.
AS a limited number only of this annual will be printed for this colony, those who desire to
possess copies are solicited to make early application to the publishers, Messrs. W. and F. Ford,
where names will be received until the 20th of December; the subscription list must then close.
Form, royal quarto. Subscribers, £1; and to non-subscribers, £1 5s.
A note on the dating (April 2018)
No publication year is given in the original print, and the advertisement above is the only independent documentation of its projected issue. Nevertheless, though historical bibliographic records usually gave 1847, and more recent ones 1848, as the year of publication, Percy Searle (DAB, 1949) and, following him, Catherine Mackerras (The Hebrew melodist, 108) were clearly correct in observing that it could not in fact have been finally released before early 1849.
As Nathan originally advertised it above, for projected publication on 1 January 1848, he appears to have begun by imagining it as a periodical (or "annual"), entitled, as on page 1 of the surviving complete exemplars, The southern Euphrosyne, and ladies' magazine. Since the earlier pages of the completed volume do consist mainly of "oriental moral tales . . . notes, anecdotes, illustrations, original poetry, music for voice and pianoforte", much as listed in the advertisement of November 1847, it seems likely that most of these sections were already typeset by late 1847. But having missed the 1 January 1848 publication date (perhaps partly due to insufficient interest from would-be subscribers), Nathan evidently continued adding new and more varied contents during 1848, probably largely in the sequence in which they finally appear, the most notable being in the extensive section of Australian Indigenous musical and ethnographic items in the middle of the volume (94-135). Thereafter, the final 30 or so pages includes items dateable to both early and late in the project. The latest date printed in the text, "December 30, 1847", appears in "PHENOMENA" (page 137), an account of the mass sighting in Sydney that evening of a shooting star. Just 3 pages later, however, in "RENCOUNTER" (page 140), Nathan reports "witnessing for the fifth or sixth time" a performance of the Coyne's musical drama This house to be sold, the property of the late William Shakspeare at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, that play having opened there on 15 May 1848 (with Frank Howson as Chatterton Chopkins), for a season extending into June, July, and August. Finally, as Mackerass pointed out, the clearest indication of the project's completion date is the simple black-edged "card" printed, at the last possible moment, on the previously empty final page of the advertisements added at the end of the book (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ziwieom4lBQC&pg=PA174). In it, Nathan was able to record, in the nick of time, the death of his old enemy Melbourne (on 24 November 1848), noting that the volume had been "printed nearly two months" when the news was received in Sydney (on 5 April 1849). A date of early to mid March 1849 is, therefore, most likely for the completion of the printing of the volume proper, with copies probably not being disptached until mid to late April 1849 at the earliest. However, the earliest identified advertisement for the finished publication over a year later still, in September 1850.
Nathan also wrote, on the first page of his Preface (iii):
Although we have not yet arrived within twelve years of that honorable age allotted to man, the metallic vapour or electric fluid arising from the music-type at which we have ourself been compelled to work for this publication, frequently eighteen and nineteen hours out of every four-and-twenty, has made such sad havoc on our optic nerves, that we have been forced to decorate onr countenance with spectacles - yet even with such magnifying aid, we did not discover the few typographical errors which have crept into our Euphrosyne, until too late for correction . . .
The Bodleian Library copy (digitised, above) bears the bookplate ("E. M. Lott") of the Jersey-born organist Edwin Matthew Lott (1836-1902)
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 September 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12920762
KERN AND MADER, HUNTER-STREET.
COMPLETE IN ONE QUARTO VOLUME, PRICE ONE POUND.
THE SOUTHERN EUPHROSYNE,
containing original Moral Tales, chiefly from the Hebrew, Persian, Chaldee, and Arabic,
with illustrations, anecdote, poetry, and music: an historical sketch, with examples, of the
ABORIGINAL MELODIES, put into modern rhythm, and harmonised (together with other original vocal pieces) as solos, quartettos, &c.,
to a pianoforte accompaniment; by the Editor and Sole Proprietor, I. NATHAN.
Musical contents (only those items not listed separately above):
An anthem, psalm 117, arranged with accompaniment, from a work printed above 200 years ago (pages 8-14)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166025242#page/n17/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
The kooee; the various kooees set for the voice, with piano-forte accompaniment (102-04)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166035583#page/n111/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
Ah! Wy-a booka - the turtle song (115-18)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166036357#page/n124/mode/1up (DIGITISEDI
Dital dital baloonai - a native battle song (119-26)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166037453#page/n128/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
Ah! Warin-ee, Ah Warin-e, - a native lament ("song of lamentation")
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-166023361/view?partId=nla.obj-166036795#page/n122/mode/1up (DIGITISED)
WORDS AND MUSIC NOT GIVEN; described only ("our limited fount of music type, will not at present allow us to lay [it] before the public")
See main entry on Ah! wy-a booka and Dital dital baloonai:
https://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/checklist-indigenous-music-1.php#013
1849-03-20 (probably first performed)
1850-09-21 (pubication first noticed)
Melbourne, NSW (VIC)
ANDERSON, James Henri (music composed)
The Fitzroy quadrilles
The Fitzroy quadrilles for the piano forte, composed and dedicated by permission to his excellency Sir Charles A. Fitzroy, K.C.B., in honor of his visit to Melbourne, by J. H. Anderson, of the Royal Academy, professor of music
(Sydney: Published by J. T. Grocott, 486, George Street, n.d. [? 1850])
Titlepage (0), 6 pages music (1-6)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/21819818
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165198879 (DIGITISED)
"MUSICAL WORLD", The Melbourne Daily News (31 March 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226471685
During his Excellency's visit to Melbourne, Mr. Anderson composed and dedicated by permission, to His Excellency a set of quadrilles called the Fitzroy Quadrilles, in honour of His Excellency's visit to Port Phillip. The above are in course of publication in Sydney.
[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (21 September 1850), 11
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36267035
Just published . . .
"Fitzroy quadrilles, composed by J. H. Anderson", The Cornwall Chronicle (21 September 1850), 621
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65975316
"FITZ ROY QUADRILLES", Launceston Examiner (25 September 1850), 6
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36267077
We have to acknowledge the receipt of a set of quadrilles with the above title; composed by Mr. J. H. Anderson, and dedicated by permission to his Excellency Sir Charles A. Fitz Roy. The melodies are pleasing, and the harmonies, though both simple and easy of performance, are yet full and complete. We hope the composer may be rewarded by a ready sale.
"THE FITZROY QUADRILLES", The Courier (21 December 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2961634
[Advertisement], The Courier (21 December 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2961628
FITZROY, Charles (dedicatee)
GROCOTT, James Turner (publisher)
Anderson, who was based in Melbourne at the time of the 1849 governor's visit, probably composed the quadrilles for the ball held in Fitzroy's honour, at the Royal Hotel, on 20 March 1849. Though said at the time to be "in course of publication in Sydney", the edition appears to have been delayed well into 1850, by which time Anderson had returned to Launceston. There is no record of their publication in the Sydney or Melbourne press, but Anderson presumably advertised the quadrilles in Launceston as soon as he received them from Grocott in Sydney, thus a printing date in Sydney in August or early September 1850 is likely.
1849-04-27 (1 first published)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
"PHAX" (words)
Sir Charles Fitzroy's visit to Tasmania
("A new song by PHAX . . .AIR - The king of the cannibal islands)
"A NEW SONG", Colonial Times (27 April 1849), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8764845
When Governor Fitzroy did come to enjoy
Society which is so charming here,
To see different places and likewise the races,
He felt strongly inclined for touring it's clear.
So thinking just so, away he did go
To visit the Launceston people,
But quickly came back and was here in a crack,
Like Doctor who raced for the steeple.
No flags to admire and no guns to fire,
All his splendor in a nasty fog was hid;
No rows no riot, no cheering all quiet,
For Sir Charles came to Hobart incog, he did.
. . . [3 more stanzas] . . .
And see also this "letter" from "Emma Krankie":
"To the Editor", Colonial Times (3 July 1849), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8765222
By the bye, a young gentleman wrote some lines in my album about California, which are as follows; the air is "The King of the Cannibal Islands:"
Four friends with me one day did dine,
Who talked much about the golden mine,
Till at last we all five did incline
For a trip to California.
So with picks, and spades, and bags to hold
All we could find of the beautiful gold,
Which was to be ought to Hobart and sold,
We started for California . . .
Other early colonial mentions and treatments of the source song:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?l-publictag=King+of+the+cannibal+islands (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
On the source song and tune, The king of the cannibal islands, see:
Anthony Bennet, "Rivals unravelled: a broadside song and dance", Folk music journal 6/4 (1993), 420-45
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4522436 (PAYWALL)
1849-05-09 (published)
Adelaide, SA
"FOGGY DEW" (words)
When my old hat was new
(A new song to an old air [When my old hat was new]; "Last time I was in Adelaide"
"WHEN MY OLD HAT WAS NEW", South Australian Register (9 May 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50245025
1849-06-14 (performed)
Launceston, VDL (TAS)
MOSSMAN, Samuel Felix (words and music)
Come let us round the bushfire form
REPORT ONLY; LOST MS, words and music
"MECHANICS' INSTITUTE", Launceston Examiner (16 June 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36257662
The lecturer gave a specimen of his own composition, both of words and music, which was loudly applauded. The song commenced: "Come let us round the bushfire form".)
1849-06-18 (performed)
Sydney, NSW
GIBBS, John (music composed)
We two are wandering Savoyards
("The Wandering Savoyards"; "comic duet composed by Mr. Gibbs, Mrs. Guerin and Mr. F. Howson")
LOST MS
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (18 June 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12903597
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 May 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12917774
GUERIN, Theodosia (vocalist)
HOWSON, Frank (vocalist)
1849-06-19 (1 published)
1849-06-22 (2 published)
Melbourne, NSW (VIC)
ANONYMOUS (words)
Address to the Californian adventurers
("A new song, written in the spirit of prophecy, and sung to the tune of "There will ne'er be peace, until Jemmy comes hame")
("Reflect, ere you venture, adventurers bold . . ."
"Select Poetry", The Argus (19 June 1849), 1s
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4773868
"B. R." (words)
Answer to a new song
("Written in the spirit of prophecy, and sung to the tune of There will never be peace till Jemmy comes hame)
("Thou ill-omened prophet, thou shortsighted seer . . .")
"Original Poetry", The Argus (22 June 1849), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4770237
[Robert Burns], "There'll never be peace till Jamie come hame", The Scot's musical museum . . .vol. 4 (Edinburgh: James Johnson &. Co., n.d. [c.1800]), 326
http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87798328 (DIGITISED)
1849-06-20 (publication of no. 1 first noticed)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
HENSLOWE, Francis Hartwell (music composed)
Songs of Zion nos. 1-4
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9855226
Songs of Zion no. 1, Psalm XIX, Thy glory, Lord, the heavens declare, dedicated to Mrs. Edward Prentis Henslowe, the words by James Montgomery, the music by Francis Hartwell Henslowe
(Hobart Town, V.D.L.: Printed by Thos. Browne, 31 Macquarie Street, n.d. [1849])
2 pages music (1-2)
Copy at State Library of Tasmania
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11444041 (DIGITISED)
Songs of Zion no. 2, Psalm 39, Lord, let me know mine end, dedicated to Mrs. Eden, the words by James Montgomery, the music by Francis Hartwell Henslowe
(Hobart Town, V.D.L.: Printed by Thos. Browne, 31 Macquarie Street, n.d. [1849])
4 pages music (un-numbered)
Copy at State Library of Tasmania
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11444064 (DIGITISED)
Songs of Zion no. 3, Psalm 43, Judge me Lord in righteousness, dedicated to Miss Mary Louisa Boyle, the words by James Montgomery, the music by Francis Hartwell Henslowe
(Hobart Town, V.D.L.: Printed by Thos. Browne, 31 Macquarie Street, n.d. [1850])
4 pages music (1-4)
Copy at State Library of Tasmania
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11444073 (DIGITISED)
Songs of Zion no. 4, Psalm 130, Out of the depths of woe, dedicated to Mrs Francis Hartwell Henslowe, the words by James Montgomery, the music by Francis Hartwell Henslowe
(Hobart Town, V.D.L.: Printed by Thos. Browne, 31 Macquarie Street, n.d. [1850]
4 pages music (1-4)
Copy at State Library of Tasmania
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11444082 (DIGITISED)
"NEW MUSIC", Launceston Examiner (20 June 1849), 6
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36257711
"NEW MUSIC - SONGS OF ZION, No 1", The Courier (23 June 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2965672
"MUSIC", Launceston Examiner (8 August 1849), 6
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36258095
"NEW MUSIC", The Courier (8 August 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2965319
[Advertisement]:, The Courier (1 September 1849), 1s
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2965112
Just published, NEW MUSIC by F. H. HENSLOWE, Esq., WHERE IS THY HOME?, and Nos. 1 and 2 of THE SONGS OF ZION"
"NEW MUSIC", Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (9 November 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173058378
"Sacred Music", The Cornwall Chronicle (21 November 1850), 824
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65574518
"MUSIC", The Courier (3 July 1852), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2958805
In a small paragraph the Illustrated London News classes the Clerk of the Van Diemen's Land Council's productions, "The Songs of Zion," among some of the best compositions of the day. The following is the notice: - "Songs of Zion; by F. H. Henslowe, Hobart Town. God is gone up with a merry voice; by Dr. Croft, Lonsdale. The Songs of the Soul; by Dr. Gauntlett, D'Almaine. Francis Hartwell Henslowe, of Hobart Town, is the composer of the Songs of Zion, the words taken from the Scripture, by James Montgomery. There is a truly devotional feeling pervading these sacred melodies. Dr. Gauntlett's new accompaniment to Dr. Croft's well known anthem . . ." (etc.)
"TASMANIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARIS [EXHIBITION], 1855", The Courier (27 September 1855), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2491196
The Music by Mr. F. H. Henslowe . . .Campbelltown Waltz, Where is Thy Home? Songs of Sion, No 1, 2, 3, 4. Northdown. Bridal Polka.
For the source of texts, see:
Songs of Zion; being imitations of psalms by James Montgomery (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822)
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yF4VAAAAQAAJ
1849-07-14 (first noticed)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
HENSLOWE, Francis Hartwell (music composed)
Where is thy home?
Where is thy home? words from The rectory of Valehead, by the Revd. Robert Wilson Evans, M. A., composed and dedicated to the Hon. Mrs. Sping Rice by Francis Hartwell Henslow, Esqre.
(Hobart Town, V.D.L: Printed by T. Browne, 31 Macquarie St., n.d. [1849])
4 pages music (un-numbered)
Copy at the State Library of Tasmania
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11443080 (DIGITISED)
"COLONIAL MUSIC", Launceston Examiner (14 July 1849), 6
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36257893
"MUSIC", The Courier (4 August 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2965362
"MUSIC", Colonial Times (7 August 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8765440
[Advertisement], The Courier (1 September 1849), 1s
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page638680
"TASMANIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PARIS EXHIBITION. NO. III", The Courier (25 November 1854), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2241803
"TASMANIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARIS [EXHIBITION], 1855", The Courier (27 September 1855), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2491196
For the source of text, see:
Robert Wilson Evans, The rectory of Valehead (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1831), 93-94
https://archive.org/stream/rectoryofvalehe00evan#page/93/mode/2up (DIGITISED)
1849-10-04 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
SKINNER, George (words)
A new song to an old tune
(Sung by Mr. Skinner at the Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, on Thursday, October 4th)
("There's a good time coming, boys . . .")
"FIRST ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS SOCIETY", The Sydney Morning Herald (6 October 1849), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12913272
"A New Song to an old Tune", Bell's Life in Sydney (6 October 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59769604
Words based on an original song, "There's a good time coming", by Charles Mackay, to music by Henry Russell
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/204452846
1849-11-16 (published)
Perth, WA
ANONYMOUS (words)
The convicts are coming
("A New Song . . .Tune: The Campbells are Coming")
"A New Song", The Perth Gazette (16 November 1849), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3171090
"The Campbells are coming, the song, the Syms. & Accomps. all new in 1828 . . .", The select melodies of Scotland, interspersed with those of Ireland and Wales united to the songs of Robt. Burns, Sir Walter Scott Bart. and other distinguished poets; with symphonies & accompaniments for the piano forte by Pleyel, Kozeluch, Haydn & Beethoven, the whole composed for & collected by George Thomson, F. A. S. E . . .vol. 2 (London: Printed and sold by Preston, n.d. [? 1829]), 18
http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=94648892 (DIGITISED)
1849-12-03 (dated)
1849-12-15 (published)
Brisbane, Moreton Bay, NSW (QLD)
"NEMO" (songwriter)
The song of the transportationist
(AIR - The Jolly Young Waterman)
Documentation:
"THE SONG OF THE TRANSPORTATIONIST", The Moreton Bay Courier (15 December 1849), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3711354
You may talk as you please of the joys of Jamaica . . .
1849 (? December 1849)
1850-01-05 (publication first noticed)
Hobart Town, VDL (TAS)
HENSLOWE, Francis Hartwell (music composed)
The Campbell-Town waltzes
The Campbell-Town waltzes, dedicated to the ladies of the district
([Hobart Town] Tasmania: Thomas Browne, Lithographic Printer, Hobart Town, 1849)
Titlepage (0) and 7 pages music (1-7); music unattributed except for composers's monogram initials "FHH" printed on 0
(1 Green-hill; 2 Rockford; 3 Egleston; 4 Streans Hall; [5] Polka Rockford; [6] Polka Syndal)
Copy at the State Library of Tasmania; inscribed (0): "To Eliza Richards, from the composer, Nov. 1851"
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/11443622 (DIGITISED)
Copy at the State Library of New South Wales
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:EEA:SLNSW_ALMA21113798350002626
http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3735395 (DIGITISED)
"NEW MUSIC", The Courier (5 January 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2963942
THE CAMPBELL-TOWN WALTZES", Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania (5 January 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173056702
"LOCAL", The Cornwall Chronicle (5 January 1850), 17
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6597693
"NEW MUSIC", Colonial Times (8 January 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8766377
"TASMANIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PARIS EXHIBITION. NO. III", The Courier (25 November 1854), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2241803
1850 |
1850-01-28 (first advertisement)
1850-01-30 (first performance)
Sydney, NSW
SIGMONT, William Abercrombie (music composed)
Fantasia on an Hungarian air
German air with brilliant variations for the pianoforte
Overture to The red cross banner
Song The red cross banner
Brilliant waltzes
LOST MSS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (28 January 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12915296
Overture to The red cross banner
German air with brilliant variations for the pianoforte
Zigueuner waltzes
LOST MSS
[Advertisement], ENTERTAINMENT", The Sydney Morning Herald (19 March 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12916534
Oh! stay sweet warbling woodlard stay (song)
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (30 March 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12916803
The red cross banner
("a patriotic Ode, the music by Mr. Sigmont, consisting of an Overture, a triumphal march, a double chorus, and four other chorusses; three solos and a duet")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (20 April 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12917293
1850-01-30
Melbourne, Port Phillip District, NSW (VIC)
I knew him in his childhood (song; words: Mr. Reynolds)
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Argus (30 January 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4765351
1850-03-26 (first advertised)
1850-04-01 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
ANONYMOUS (music composed)
My adopted land
("Ballad . . . Manuscript")
REPORT ONLY; MUSIC LOST, WORDS LOST (but see below)
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (26 March 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38444228
"THE CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT", Adelaide Times (3 April 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207115309
. . . A manuscript ballad, entitled, "My Adopted Land," was given by Mrs. Murray, but both music and words, the latter especially, were rubbish.
MURRAY, Georgiana (? vocalist, pianist)
? words: "MY ADOPTED LAND", Adelaide Observer (12 August 1843), 8
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158917324
1850-05-04 (first advertised)
1850-05-06 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
GAUTROT, Joseph (music composed)
A new grand overture
("by a Double Orchestra, composed expressly for this occasion by MONSIEUR GAUTROT")
REPORT ONLY; LOST MS
[Advertisement]: "Royal Victoria Theatre", The Sydney Morning Herald (4 May 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12917664
1850-05-22 (first published)
Adelaide, SA
BRAY, Tom Cox (words)
The cheapest in South Australia
(A song; Air - The king of the cannibal islands)
WORDS ONLY; TUNE INDICATED
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (22 May 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38451182
Tom Cox Bray was father of the politician and SA premier John Cox Bray
Other early colonial mentions and treatments of the source song:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?l-publictag=King+of+the+cannibal+islands (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
On the source song and tune, The king of the cannibal islands, see:
Anthony Bennet, "Rivals unravelled: a broadside song and dance", Folk music journal 6/4 (1993), 420-45
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4522436 (PAYWALL)
1850-05-24 (Birthnight Ball)
1850-05-30 (first noticed)
Melbourne, NSW (VIC)
REED, Thomas (music composed)
Port Phillip galop
Yarra Yarra polka
LOST MSS
"MELBOURNE: HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY", Geelong Advertiser (30 May 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93139206
[At the ball] . . .The best music of the best composers Musard, Bishop, Strauss, Jullien, Labetzey, Koenig, selected and played under the able superintendance of Mr. Reed, who composed two exquisite pieces for the occasion, the "Port Phillip Galop", and the "Yarra Yarra Polka".
Fantasia [on] operatic airs (Italian)
(selected and arranged expressly for this concert by T. Reed; solos - Cornopean, Mr. Greenwood; Flute, Mr. Smith; Violencello, Mr. Lord; Violin, Mr. Reed)
Pasticcio, introducing the Yarra Yarra schottische and Port Phillip aerial galop
(written for and performed at the recent Royal Birthnight Ball) by T. Reed
LOST MSS
[Advertisement], The Argus (30 May 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4765371
The program also included the Plantagenet polka by Reed's London-based composer son, T. German Reed.
See also Yarra Yarra schottische [Anonymous]
[Advertisement], The Argus (7 September 1857), 8
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7138292
1850-06-03 (first performed)
HOWSON, Henry (music orchestrated and arranged)
The two Figaros
(opera; "the Music selected from the Operas of The barber of Seville, and The marriage of Figaro, arranged for the Orchestra by Mr. Henry Howson")
LOST MS
Further performances:
1850-06-04
1850-06-08
1850-06-18
[Advertisement], Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (1 June 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59770726
"ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE", The Sydney Morning Herald (3 June 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12918392
See the play script:
The two Figaros, a musical comedy, in two acts, by J. R. Planche . . .as performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre (London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [?1837])
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EVMLAAAAYAAJ (DIGITISED)
1850-06-07 (first performed, also 21 June)
1850-06-28 (publication first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
STANLEY, William (music composed)
Tell him I love him yet
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (4 June 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12918412
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (21 June 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12918940
Tell him I love him yet, ballad, the music by William Stanley, sung by Miss Sara Flower with much applause at the Sydney concerts
(Sydney: Printed and published for Mr. Stanley by J. T. Grocott . . .486, George Street, n.d. [1850])
Titlepage (0), 6 pages music (1-6)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22562389
Copy at the National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-181784586 (DIGITISED)
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (28 June 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12919100
Also performed as Tell her I love her yet, see:
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (11 December 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12923231
Second edition:
([Sydney: Woolcott & Clarke, 1853])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED; but almost certainly from the same plates as Grocott above
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 November 1853), 6
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12950119
JUST PUBLISHED . . .A new edition of Mr. Stanley's favourite song, "Tell him I love him yet," price 2s. 6d. . . .WOOLCOTT AND CLARKE . . .
FLOWER, Sara (? dedicatee, vocalist)
1850-06-17 (first advertised)
Adelaide, SA
ELLARD, Frederick (music composed)
Südaustralischer Galop
("compose et dedié à M. François Dutton, par F. Ellard")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (17 June 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38443834
"CONCERT", Adelaide Times (21 June 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207116713
. . . The servilely dedicated "Sudaustralischer Galop," was executed well by Mr. Ellard, but the composition itself is void of any attraction, being only a mass of ill-arranged and badly blended scraps from other pieces, without any original part of its own; and the "Dedie a M. F. D." were enough in itself to render it not only unpopular but insignificant. . .
DUTTON, Francis (dedicatee)
1850-06-25 (first advertised)
1850-06-27 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
HOWSON, John (music composed)
Angry words
(ballad, "composed expressly for Miss Sara Flower")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (25 June 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12919016
FLOWER, Sara (dedicatee, vocalist)
1850-06-25 (first performed)
Port Adelaide, SA
CRANZ, August Friedrich (music composed)
The Barnett galop
("composed and played by Herr Cranz")
LOST MS
"LOCAL INETTLIGENCE", South Australian Register (27 June 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38446018
On Tuesday last, Mr. Wallace gave what he advertised as a concert, in the large room built by Mr. Barnett for the Jerusalem Coffee-house at the Port. There were about a hundred ladies and gentlemen present, including Capt. Young, Mr. Paxton, and several other gentlemen from town. Mr. Waliace had evidently taken no trouble whatever to please the Portonians; indeed, he seems to have held them in very low estimation; as the only instrument he provided was his violin, on which he played one scientific piece, and five German gentlemen sang a few songs beautifully, and performed a few brilliant pieces on the piano (a magnificent instrument lent by Mr. Laurie for the occasion), one of which was particularly applauded and encored, namely, the Barnett Galop, composed and played by Herr Cranz; and this was all the entertainment . . .
BARNETT, Joe (patron, dedicatee)
1850-06-27 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
LANCELOTT, Francis (words and music composed)
We've sever'd ourselves from our friends and home
MUSIC LOST; or unidentified tune
"ANTI-DRAY TAX LEAGUE", South Australian Register (28 June 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38441107
The adjourned meeting of delegates was held yesterday (Thursday) at the "White Horse," Currie street . . . in the interim, a gentleman named Lancelott entered and presented the worthy Chairman, Alexander Anderson, Esq., with a song set to music, and dedicated to him. It met with a warm reception from the Leaguers present - so cordial indeed as to induce the author to announce his intention of having it published. The words are as follow :-
We've sever'd ourselves from our friends and home,
And far over the ocean we've come, my boys!
To reap from our toil, on this sunny soil,
A better reward than at home my boys!
But sorrow clouds Hope's sunny face;
Our autocratic rulers base
Have tax«d our roads, and taxed our drays,
And coward slave is he who pays.
Then down with the road and the dray-tax, too,
And show to the minions of tyranny,
Bold Britons are we, who dare to be free,
And die for our rights and liberty . . . [2 more stanzas] . . .
Printed edition (words and ? music)
([Adelaide: Charles Platts, 1850])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
[Advertisement], South Australian (2 July 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71626600
ANTI-ROAD, AND DRAY TAX SONG. JUST published, at Platts's, price one shilling, the patriotic Song, "We've severed ourselves from our friends and home." The words and music by F. Lancelott. PLATTS'S Book and Music Warehouses.
ANDERSON, Alexander (dedicatee)
1850-06-29 (first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
READING, James W. (editor)
WATERLAND, Blythe (alias of Henry BURTON) (editor)
Songs of the serenaders
Songs of the serenaders, sung nightly by them, with great applause, before his excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, the hon. Mrs. Keith Stewart, and the elite of the aristocracy of New South Wales, part 1
(Sydney: Printed at Trood's Printing Office, n.d. [1850])
Words only; 12 pages
Copy at State Library of New South Wales
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/168255424
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:BJM:SLNSW_ALMA21109700720002626
[Advertisement], The Goulburn Herald (29 June 1850), 5
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101730833
NOTICE -No. 1, of SONGS of the SERENADERS just published by Messrs. Waterland and Reading, may be had at the door, price 1s. each.
[Advertisement], The Courier (14 August 1850), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2962286
No. 1 of "Songs of the Serenaders," containing 12 Ethiopian Melodies, just published by Messrs. Waterland and Reading, and may be had at the door.
1850-07-08 (first performed)
Melbourne, NSW (VIC)
MEGSON, Joseph (music composed)
BELFIELD, Francis (words)
New song
("Written by Mr. Belfield, and the music composed by Mr. Megson, [sung by] Mr. Young")
Comic song
("Written and to be sung by Mr. Belfield")
LOST MSS
[Advertisement], "QUEEN'S THEATRE", The Argus (4 July 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4774626
YOUNG, Charles (vocalist)
1850-08-05 (first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
STANLEY, William (music composed)
The bride's farewell
(ballad . . . composed by Wm. Stanley [sung by] Madame Carandini)
March
"Pianoforte, (composed by Wm. Stanley when only twelve years of age)"
LOST MSS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (5 August 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12920019
MR. STANLEY'S GRAND CONCERT OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, IN THE SALOON OF THE ROYAL HOTEL,
ON FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9th, 1850 . . . Ballad "Tell him I love him yet", Stanley . . . Miss S. Flower
March. Pianoforte, (composed by Wm. Stanley when only twelve years of age) . . .Mr. Stanley . . .
Ballad. "The Bride's Farewell," composed by Wm. Stanley . . . Madame Carandini . . .
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 May 1855), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12968835
1850-08-27 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
MOORE, Andrew (music composed)
COPPIN, Frederick (music composed)
South Australian polka
("composed and arranged by Mr. Moore for this occasion; cedicated to Osmond Gilles, Esq.")
The bushman's cooey schottische
("also composed and arranged by Mr. Moore for this occasion")
The Auction Mart Tavern quadrilles
("arranged for the occasion by Mr. F. Coppin, introducing the following celebrated airs: Free-and-Easy, Rogue's March, All round my Hat, Oh 'tis Love, The Young May Moon, Dere's some one in de House, Miss Dinah, Sich a Gittin up Stairs, Billy Barlow, and We won't go Home till Morning)
LOST MSS
[Advertisement], South Australian (19 August 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71626962
"ASSEMBLY BALL", Adelaide Times (28 August 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207118477
The third of Mr Coppin's Assembly Balls took place last evening at the Exchange. The room was crowded, and the principal attraction consisted in several pieces of music being produced under the direction of Mr. Moore. The first piece was the South Australian Polka, dedicated to O. Gilles, Esq. We cannot say more in its praise than it is worthy of that gentleman's musical taste . . .The Bushman's Scotish and the Auction Mart Tavern Quadrilles were loudly applauded. We must congratulate Mr. Coppin for securing the services of Mr Moore, whose musical talent established the evening's amusement, not only to those devoted to Terpsichore, but to those who have Julian [Jullien] fresh in their memory. The next Ball will be under the patronage of the Masons.
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (15 October 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38447962
. . . Schottische, "The Bushman's Cooey . . ."
[News], South Australian Register (16 October 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38451299
. . . We regret we cannot speak in terms equally eulogistic of Mr. Moore's original pieces, although the "Bushman's Cooey" was favourably received . . .
GILLES, Osmond (dedicatee)
1850-08-29 (first performed)
Launceston, VDL (TAS)
MEGSON, Joseph (music composed)
Quadrille The prince of Wales
("Vocal Finale composed by J. Megson")
[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (24 August 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36266851
"CONCERT", Launceston Examiner (31 August 1850), 6
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36266905
. . .The Ethioplian and Prince of Wales quadrilles were much admired: a vocal finale to the latter, composed by Mr. Megson, was rapturously received, and repeated at the general desire . . .
"Concert of the Amateur's Horticultural Society", The Cornwall Chronicle (31 August 1850), 572
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65975394
The Overtures from "Gazza Ladra" and "Fra Diavolo" were quite enchanting; the "Prince of Wales" Quadrille, with vocal finale composed by Mr. Megson was encored twice and deservedly so. It is but justice however to say that the vocal part of the performances was far inferior, indeed to the instrumental: the voices wanted compass to fill the room, even in the glees . . .
[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (11 September 1850), 7
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36267006
From the documented references, it seems clear that the original quadrille to which Megson added a newly-composed vocal finale was selected from one of the several different imported sets of "prince of Wales quadrilles" in colonial circulation around 1850; a London edition of one of these, without cover, is bound at the beginning of this album in the State Library of Tasmania
https://stors.tas.gov.au/AUTAS001131821845
1850-09-19 (first advertised)
Adelaide, SA
1852-01-01 (publication first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
Falling leaves (song, voice and piano)
Falling leaves, composed and dedicated to Mrs. Henry Marsh, by Andrew Moore
(Sydney: Published by Messrs. Marsh & Moore, 490 1/2 George-Street, [1851])
Cover (0), [1 blank] 4 pages music (2-5), bound in reverse, 2 is a recto
Copy at the National Library of Australia, digitised
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/24753225
[News], South Australian Register (19 September 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38443238
[Advertisement], "MR. HENRY MARSH'S GRAND ANNUAL CONCERT", The Sydney Morning Herald (16 December 1851), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12932864
[Advertisement]: "NEW MUSIC-Just Published", The Sydney Morning Herald (1 January 1852), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31734345
1850-09-09 (first advertised performance)
Bathurst, NSW
BROWN, James (music composed)
MARSDEN, William (music composed)
Polka
(Composed by J. Brown)
LOST MS
Waltz
(Composed by Mr. W. Marsden)
LOST MS
[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press (7 September 1850), 5
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62215232
FIRST MONTHLY CONCERT AT MR. MINEHAN'S LARGE ROOM, CROOKED BILLET, DURHAM-STREET. THE Musicians and Singers of the above Establishment beg to inform the gentry of Bathurst and its vicinity, that by the kind permission of Mr. Minehan, they intend giving a MONTHLY CONCERT, the first of which will take place on MONDAY NEXT, SEPTEMBER 9, 1850 . . .
It appears that the concert may not have gone ahead as advertised, due to licensing regulations. Once permission had been obtained, it was readvertised for 30 September, and indeed went ahead, though whether or not with the same program is unknown.
[Advertisement], Bathurst Free Press (28 September 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62214815
"BATHURST SERENADERS", Bathurst Free Press (12 October 1850), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62215100
A miscellaneous concert . . .took place at Mr. Minehan's music room, on Monday night week. Several of the sentimental songs were very creditably gone through, and the solos on the violin, by Mr. Brown, were exquisitely performed . . . The attendance was thin owing in part to the high rate of charges.
1850-09-20 (first performance)
1850-10-01 (publication first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
MARSH, Henry (music composed; publisher)
The Australian polka
(also The Australian national polka)
The Australian polka for the pianoforte, composed for the Citizens' Return Fancy Dress Ball, and dedicated to Mrs. George Hill; by Henry Marsh
(Sydney: {Henry Marsh], 1850)
Copy at State Library of New South Wales, digitised
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/16446074
http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3483870
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (1 October 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12921445
NEW POLKA. IN A FEW DAYS WILL BE PUBLISHED THE AUSTRALIAN POLKA . . .
Marsh also directed a performance, billed as Grand Australian Polka, for military band "with vocal accompaniments", at Sara Flower and Maria Carandini's November concert.
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (4 November 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12922280
For the Citizens' Return Fancy Dress Ball, on 20 September 1850
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 September 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12920733
HILL, Mary Ann = Mrs. George Hill (lady mayoress of Sydney, dedicatee)
Later editions:
[The Australian polka, 5th edition]
([Sydney: Henry Marsh, 1852])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (3 July 1852), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12938091
JUST PUBLISHED . . . the Fifth Edition of the AUSTRALIAN POLKA
[The Australian polka, 6th edition] ("The Australian National Polka (6th edn)")
([Sydney: Henry Marsh, 1853])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 March 1853), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12944052
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (2 April 1853), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12944815
The Australian national polka, composed for the pianoforte by Henry Marsh, seventh edition [title on first page of music: "The Australian polka", same plates as 1850])
(Sydney: H. Marsh and Co., [185-?])
Copy at the National Library of Australia, digitised
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/43128281
[The Australian national polka]
([Sydney: J. R. Clarke, after 1858, as no. 7 of Clarke's "Colonial polkas"])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
1850-10-07 (date publication first advertised)
Sydney, NSW
NATHAN, Isaac (music composed)
NAGEL, Charles (words adapted from)
Loyalty
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?l-publictag=Loyalty+(Nathan) (TROVE tagged by Australharmony)
Loyalty, a national paean, respectfully inscribed to his excellency, Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, K.C.H., Governor-in-chief of New South Wales and its dependencies by I. Nathan
([Sydney]: [? Kern and Mader], [1850])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16495348
Copy at the National Library of Australia
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19361006 (DIGITISED)
[Advertisement]: "LOYALTY", The Sydney Morning Herald (7 October 1850), 7
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12921579
"ABSURDITY, SERVILITY, AND INSOLENCE", Empire (3 July 1851), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60036095
The music, and words slightly reworked, are those of the chorus of cavaliers (act 2 scene 1) of Merry freaks in troublous times (1843)
1850-10-07 (earliest date of composition)
1850-11-11 (Separation publicly proclaimed in Melbourne)
Melbourne, VIC
KENTISH, Nathaniel Lipscomb (words)
Hem-migration
[Air - The coronation]
Words, in Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish, The question of questions . . .The land and water question in Victoria (Melbourne: J. J. Blundell, 1855), 50-52
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CnsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA50
This is a later Victorian "version" of Kentish's Tasmanian song The new country (1844-06-01)
Separation
(A thoroughly Colonial Anthem, with CHORUS to be sung by every man, woman and child in Victoria . . .Air: The Coronation) ("God bless Old England's much-loved Queen")
Words, in Kentish, The question of questions, 53-55
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CnsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA53
Commemoration national anthem: Victorian-Australian
(Air - "Rule Britannia" ("When Britain first at heaven's command"; "October 7, 1850")
Words in Kentish, The question of questions, 80-82
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CnsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA80
Commemoration Victorian-Australian anthem
("God save old England's Queen, Long Live Australia's Queen . . .")
Words in Kentish, The question of questions, 82-84
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CnsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA82
Separation of the colony of Victoria from New South Wales was first legislated in July 1850, but public celebrations were delayed until news of royal assent was received in Melbourne, from Britain, on 11 November 1850. As Kentish noted, the ensuing public celebrations included the openind of Princes' Bridge.
1850-10-08 (first advertised)
A Jovial Song, or "Victorian Anthem" . . . Commemoration Ballad
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
[Advertisement], The Melbourne Daily News (8 October 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226521619
1850-10-15 (first performed)
1850-10-29 (first performed)
1850-11-26 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
Waltz The Victoria
LOST MS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (15 October 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38447962
[News], South Australian Register (16 October 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38451299
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (29 October 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38439165
March Adelaide ("Grand March")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (29 October 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38439165
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (12 March 1851), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38445644
Duet for 2 clarinets
Galop Sonnambula
LOST MSS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (26 November 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38435397
1850-10-15 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
MOORE, Andrew (music composed)
Sentimentality versus reality
(song; "sung by Miss Lazar" [future Mrs. Andrew Moore])
LOST MS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (15 October 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38447962
[News], South Australian Register (16 October 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38451299
1850-10-29 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
CHAPMAN, William (senior) (music composed, performed)
Theme with variations
(solo on cornet à piston)
LOST MS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (29 October 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38439165
1850-11-07 (first performed)
Launceston, VDL (TAS)
KNIGHT, Troy (music and/or words composed)
The fire fly
("Ballad . . . Written and sung by Troy Knight")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], Launceston Examiner (6 November 1850), 11
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36267413
1850-11-08 (first published)
Melbourne, VIC
"BENJAMIN FARRE" (words)
Fashionable intelligence
("A Separation Song; Air - Bow, wow, wow)
("Ye gentlemen and ladies fair, of famed Melbourne city . . .")
"Original Poetry", The Argus (8 November 1850), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4767089
For a recent edition of the tune, see:
Hamilton's universal tune-book, a collection of the melodies of all nations, adapted for the violin, flute, clarionett, etc., edited by James Manson . . .vol. 2 (Glasgow: W. Hamilton, 1846)
https://archive.org/stream/bub_man_0d3e53b425fd9604ed8120afba639d35#page/n81/mode/2up (DIGITISED)
For another homeland British parody on Bow, wow, wow, published the previous month in the Sydney press, and mentioning the forthcoming 1851 Great Exhibition, and hoping still for the return the of the ill-fated arctic expedition of former VDL lieutenant governor John Franklin, see:
"Song of Good Wishes", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (19 October 1850), 4
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59771366
1850-11-12 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
MOORE, Andrew (music composed, performed)
An Australian air varie (solo, violin)
[Advertisement], Adelaide Times (12 November 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206987632
"MR. MOORE'S CONCERT", South Australian Register (13 November 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38445076
. . . An Australian Air, by Mr. Moore, war well received, and certainly deserved applause . . .
1850-11-20 (first advertised)
Melbourne, VIC
REED, Thomas (music and words composed)
The song of Victoria
("Written and Composed with Original Music, by Thomas Reed")
([Melbourne: [? T. Reed], Harrison, 1850])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
[Advertisement], The Argus (20 November 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4767785
T. REED'S MUSICAL REPOSITORY . . . Just Published . . .
"A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD JOKE", Geelong Advertiser (5 December 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91916821
The Victoria Colonist has the following in its editorial columns: - "Song of Victoria. This reminds us of our neglect in not acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the 'Song of Victoria,' from the composer. We could not do it justice, for, alas we are not musical, and we entrusted the critique upon it to a gentleman of our establishmrent who is . . .". We are glad to learn that a gentleman amateur, to whom the Colonist lent the song, speaks highly of it.
"LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT", The Melbourne Daily News (10 January 1851), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226517556
. . .The entertainments concluded with Mr. Reed's "Song of Victoria," which realized our previous remarks in his favor. The chorus, a feature in the song, was not successfully performed - a principal cause being the want of strength. Altogether the concert was not equal to the last, nor was Mrs. Testar in as good voice as usual.
"HAM'S ILLUSTRATED AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE", The Courier (11 February 1851), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2961347
. . .The pieces of Poetry are not numerous. All are generally tolerable, some are of a higher exeellence. Music too, is recorded here, separation having brought out the Song of Victoria and the Separation Polka . . .
1850-11-25 (first published)
Geelong, VIC
ANONYMOUS (words)
Song in reference to Separation
(Air - When first I went to sea)
("Our freedom's won and let us all / Rejoice we've gained the day . . .")
"THEATRE ROYAL", Geelong Advertiser (25 November 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91916660
1850-11-26 (first performed)
Adelaide, SA
CRABBE [?] (music composed)
March Adelaide
LOST MS
[Advertisement], South Australian Register (26 November 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38435397
But see Huenerbein's Adelaide march (1850-10-29) above
1850-11-28 (first performed)
Melbourne, VIC
WILKIE, Joseph (music composed)
The Separation polka
([Melbourne: Joseph Wilkie, 1850])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
ANONYMOUS (? music composed)
Separation quick march
LOST MS
Polka reportedly first performed at the Separation Ball, Melbourne
"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", The Melbourne Daily News (26 November 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226520529
Musical Promenade, Western Hill, Tuesday, November 20th, 1850 . . . Hallelujah chorus . . . Handel; Separation Polka . . . J. Wilkie, Collins-street; . . . Separation Quick March . . .
[Advertisement], The Melbourne Daily News (3 December 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226517615
"LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT", The Melbourne Daily News (6 December 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226520315
. . . Mr. Wilkie's Separation Polka exhibited nothing very new, but has been put together in a marked and spirited manner . . .
[Advertisement], The Melbourne Daily News (9 December 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226518102
Just published . . .
"PORT PHILLIP", Colonial Times (24 December 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8768442
"HAM'S ILLUSTRATED AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE", The Courier (11 February 1851), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2961347
Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our antipodes, or, residence and rambles in the Australasian colonies, with a glimpse of the goldfields, volume 3 (2nd edn; London: Richard Bentley, 1852), 283
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=u3VCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA283
1850-12-09 (? first performed)
Sydney, NSW
HYDES, John Proctor (? words)
Sydney gals (song, "refrain")
LOST MS
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (9 December 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12923169
Refrain - Sydney Gals, J. P. Hydes
1850-12-11 (first performed)
Sydney, NSW
STANLEY, William (music composed)
Grand march (pianoforte)
LOST MS
WALLER, James (music composed)
Britain (song)
LOST MS
MARSH, Stephen Hale (music composed)
I drink to thee (song)
("Published in London and just received")
([London: ? T. Boosey ?, between 1847 and 1850])
NO COPY IDENTIFIED
[Advertisement], The Sydney Morning Herald (11 December 1850), 1
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12923231
LAST MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT. MESSRS. STANLEY AND WALLER'S Last Musical Entertainment, School of Arts, This Evening, Wednesday, 11th December. PROGRAMME. First Part. (Consisting entirely of productions by colonial Composers): Grand March - Pianoforte, Stanley; Song - I drink to thee (published in London and just received), S. H. A. Marsh; Tasmanian Waltzes - Pianoforte, J. Howson; Song - Love, thy timid whispering tongue, Nathan; Song - the Queen of merry England (published in London and just received), S. H. A. Marsh; Song - Tell her I love her yet, Stanley; Overture - Don John of Austria, Nathan; Song - Britain, Waller . . .
This was perhaps the first time ever that an advertised mixed concert program consisted of a whole half of compositions by colonial composers.
"LOCAL INTELLIGENCE", Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer (14 December 1850), 2
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59771689
. . . There were three deserved encores for Mr. Waller; and much applause given to Mr. Stanley . . . A song by S. H. A. Marsh (published in London, and just arrived) "I drink to thee," received no applause, and will never (by this arrival) rival our esteemed Professor's melodious contrast, "Love, thy timid whispering tongue," which is Nathan all over; and another exertion, (by S. Marsh, and imported under the same crotchet) "The Queen of Merry England," - must have left all its applause short-shipped, for it obtained none here . . .
Waller's lost song "Britain" was later joined by his other surviving patriotic song Australia (1863)
Stanley composed several other marches, including his Volunteer quick march (1861), and Sydney Exhibition grand march (1879)
For other extant works performed:
The queen of merry England (Marsh) [music as for The king of merry England]
Tasmanian waltzes (Howson)
Love, thy timid whispering tongue (Nathan)
Tell him I love him yet (Stanley), see main entry this page above
1850-12-00 (date of completion)
? At sea, en route to Australia
HENDERSON, John Macdonald (words)
When day brings its labour at last to a close (song)
WORDS ONLY SURVIVE
John Henderson, Excursions and adventures in New South Wales . . . vol. 1 (London: W. Shoberl 1851), 50-51
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZRJFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA50
https://archive.org/stream/excursionsandad03hendgoog#page/n68/mode/2up
c.1850 (dated to Separation)
Melbourne, NSW/VIC
HOOPER, Frank (music composed
ARNOLD, W. J. D. (words)
Hark to the strains that triumphant are swelling (song, voice and piano)
Hark to the strains that triumphant are swelling; a patriotic song on the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales; written by W. J. D. Arnold, respectfully dedicated to His Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe, esq., Governor of Victoria; the music composed by Frank Hooper
(Melbourne: Edward Arnold, [c.1850])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17734667
Copy at State Library of Victoria, digitised
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/151663
c.1850 (tentatively dated)
Sydney, NSW
NATHAN, Isaac (music)
MITCHELL, Thomas Livingstone (words)
The meeting of the east and west (song, voice and piano)
The meeting of the east and west, poetry by Sir T. Livingstone Mitchell, composer I. Nathan
([? Sydney]: [?], [? 1850-52])
Incomplete copy (pages 1 and 2 only, 3 missing) at State Library of New South Wales; Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, papers, A 295-2 (Photocopy: CYA 295-2); ML MSS 5937/2
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:EEA:ADLIB110050810 (catalogue record)
Modern edition and reconstructed completion, Richard Divall (ed.), Music Archive of Monash University (MAMU), Australian Music Series, MDA032
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/music-archive/nathan-the-meeting-of-the-east-and-the-west (DIGITISED)
Note, correctly, the original title has 2 not 3 "the"s
"STANZAS FOR MUSIC: THE MEETING OF THE EAST AND WEST; OR THE MARCH OF CHRISTIAN MAN", The Sydney Morning Herald (24 December 1850), 3
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12923576
See also note on Marsh's Mitchell setting immediately below.
c.1850 (tentatively dated)
Sydney, NSW
MARSH, Stephen Hale (music, ? arranged)
MITCHELL, Thomas Livingstone (words)
The spell that beams in woman's eye (song, voice and piano)
The spell that beams in woman's eye, words by Sir T. Livingston Mitchell, music arranged by S. H. Marsh
([? Sydney]: [?], [? 1850-52])
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/30019497
Copy at State Library of New South Wales; Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, papers, A 295-2, original digitised (also photocopy: CYA 295-2)
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:EEA:SLNSW_ALMA21129295330002626 (catalogue record)
http://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/SLNSW:EEA:ADLIB110332898 (DIGITISED)
http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3750218 (PAGE IMAGES)
Photocopy of the above at National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-179658368 (DIGITISED)
Modern edition, Richard Divall (ed.), Music Archive of Monash University (MAMU), Australian Music Series, MDA031
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/music-archive/marsh-the-spell-that-beams-in-womans-eye (DIGITISED)
Orchestral arrangement, Richard Divall (arr.), MS score, c.2000
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-176904010 (DIGITISED)
Tentatively dated c.1850 as for Nathan's song above; the song was lithographed freehand, probably by an amateur rather than a professional, and the similar format suggests it was issued, and perhaps commissioned, to form a pair with Nathan's Mitchell setting above; elsewhere, the song has been dated to early 1852 at the latest, the result of "an arrangement . . .whereby Mitchell was to supply the words for a melody composed by Marsh" (William C. Foster, Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his world 1792-1855: Surveyor General of New South Wales 1828-1855 (Sydney: The Institute of Surveyors, 1985), 447).
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