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Military music - Australia's Culture Portal

Military bands have accompanied Australian ceremonies, parades, church services, mess dinners and performed at concerts on innumerable occasions since then. Band musicians and band music owe a great deal to Australia's Salvation Army. Other Australian p...

The Battle of Long Tan - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: P01404.028. One of the most well-known Australian engagements of the Vietnam War was the Battle of Long Tan, 17-20 August 1966. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: COL/67/0140/VN. ...

Bush songs and music - Australia's Culture Portal

The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...

Australian composers - Australia's Culture Portal

A number of organisations promote Australian music and assist Australian musicians and composers. This Fellowship acts on behalf of Australian composers in matters of copyright, composers' fees and the amount of Australian music broadcast on radio and te...

Australian folk music - Australia's Culture Portal

In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music and its first original compositions. Bush songs, ballads and music influenced and defined the folk music of the 1950s. Indi...

Australian indie music - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian independent (indie) music fills a space left by rock and pop music. With the punk movement came a formation of a new style of music, new bands, and independent music labels generally ran from backyard operations. One of the pioneering bands fo...

Opera in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Don McMurdo, Fireworks over the Sydney Opera House, Japan Week, 1988, slide. William Lyster set up his own opera company in 1861, giving audiences their first full scale productions of European opera. Opera Australia was created through the merger of Th...

Australian rock music - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian rock music has its roots in the 1950s and '60s when the style of music was growing in popularity around the world. In the 1970s Australian rock bands became well known for classic hard rock. First appearing in the United States of America, ro...

Australian music - Australia's Culture Portal

Indigenous music in Australia uses the environment itself to generate unique sounds and rhythms. Australian musicians performing across a range of genres, or styles, have achieved international recognition with a unique Australian approach. The opera sin...

Songs of war and peace: From the call to the trenches - Australia's Culture Portal

Patriotic music written in wartime has been used to express national pride, spread propaganda, encourage enlistment and motivate troops serving in Australia and on overseas duty. Until the First World War, patriotic music written for wars tended to dwell...

Songs of war and peace: From heroes to loss and protest - Australia's Culture Portal

Songs in wartime reflect attitudes about Australia's participation in conflict and war—from the Sudan War in 1885 to the First Gulf War (1990–1991). Some of the most well-known and colourful examples of wartime songs lauding heroes come from ...

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Military music - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Military bands have accompanied Australian ceremonies, parades, church services, mess dinners and performed at concerts on innumerable occasions since then. ceremonial band, concert band, marching band, ceremonial fanfare team, ten-piece stage band, bras...

Military Music Partners - RMC Band - Training Command - Army   (website Australian Government Department of Defence )

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Music Australia - Get a copy   (website MusicAustralia )

Military waltz [music] / by Frederic Knight Logan. The National Library of Australia holds this item. <br/> (Note: Copyright restrictions may apply) <br/><br/>Or<br/><br/>Use an online service to locate a publisher or supplier. ...

Music Australia - Military waltz   (website MusicAustralia )

Military waltz [music] / by Frederic Knight Logan. Logan, Frederic Knight, 1871-1928. Assembly<br/>Red, white and blue<br/>Tenting tonight on the old camp ground<br/>When Johnny comes marching home<br/>John Brown's body<br/>Marching through Georgia<br/>...

Screen Australia - News Archive - Media Releases 2008   (website Australian Film Commission (AFC) )

The Tears of Timor focuses on the music and politics of the Australian composer, humanitarian and activist Martin Wesley-Smith. <br/><br/>Martin Wesley-Smith is part of a remarkable family of three brothers whose lives and art have proclaimed the cause o...

AUSTRALIAN FOLKLORE UNIT - Warren Fahey   (website Warren Fahey: Australian Folklore Unit )

[page 2] 'Tipperary' was a popular song that grew up in the music halls and Melboume-born star of the British music hall, Florrie Forde, was the best known singer of the song. The First World War, that war which we foolishly believed was to be the 'war t...

Music Australia - Smithy   (website MusicAustralia )

Smithy [music] : for military band / Marion Wilson. Air pilots -- Australia -- Songs and music. Aeronautics -- Australia -- Songs and music. ...

Music Australia - Smithy   (website MusicAustralia )

Smithy [music] : for military band / Marion Wilson. Air pilots -- Australia -- Songs and music. Aeronautics -- Australia -- Songs and music. ...

Siede, Julius (1825 - 1903) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

SIEDE, JULIUS (1825-1903), conductor and flautist, was born in Dresden, Saxony, son of August Siede, magistrate, and his wife Amalia. thesis, University of Melbourne, 1969); Minute books 1878-95, scrap-book 1887, 1890 (Melbourne Liedertafel Society). Pri...

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