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Military music - Australia's Culture PortalMilitary 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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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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. ...
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/>...
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...
[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...
Smithy [music] : for military band / Marion Wilson. Air pilots -- Australia -- Songs and music. Aeronautics -- Australia -- Songs and music. ...
Smithy [music] : for military band / Marion Wilson. Air pilots -- Australia -- Songs and music. Aeronautics -- Australia -- Songs and music. ...
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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