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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 22 December 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

1847

1848

1849

1850

1846

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)

ANDERSON, James Henri

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")

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 . . .

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)

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[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)

MEGSON, Joseph

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

MOORE, Andrew

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

HUENERBEIN, August Christian

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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A chronological checklist of Australian colonial musical works 1846-1850

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