Roy Agnew original music manuscripts

A 3962
*D 82

fonds

approximately 1920-1940

Textual Records, Manuscript Notated Music

395236

Microfilm : CY 816 (A 3962; *D 82)

0.52 metres of textual material (2 volumes)

Roy Ewing Agnew (b. Sydney, 1891: d. Sydney, 1944), composer and pianist, studied piano with Daisy Miller, piano/theory with Emanuel de Beaupuis and composition with Alfred Hill. In 1923, he went to England on a bursary to study composition and orchestration with Gerrard Williams. He returned to Australia in 1928 and married Kathleen Olive O'Connor in 1930. He hosted an ABC radio programme of contemporary music from 1938 to 1943 and joined the piano teaching staff of the NSW Conservatorium of Music in 1944.

A 3962
PIANO MUSIC:
1. Sea surge
2. Prelude
3. The village fair : duet
4. Album leaf
5. Nocturne
6. Will o' the wisp. 2 compositions. 2 copies of one.
7. Toccata
8. Poem : La belle dame sans merci (Keats)
9. Sonata
10. Capricornia : Sonata legend (no.4)

SONGS:
1. To a sleeping child. Poem by Blake. 2 copies.
2. Cradle song. Poem by Sarojini Naidu. Prize winning work in the sesquicentenary competition for Australian composition, held by the Musical Association of N.S.W. 2 copies.
3. Cradle song. Poem by Louis Essen.
4. The world's wanderers. Poem by Shelley. Fair copy and fragment of a draft.
5. I don't like beetles. Poem by Rose Fyleman. 2 copies.
6. Tears. Poem by Wang Sung-Ju. 2 copies.
7. To morrow. Poem by Shelley.
8. Hie away, hie away. Poem by Sir Walter Scott.
9. She comes not when noon is on the roses. Poem by Herbert Trench. 2 copies.
10. A widow bird sate [sic] mourning. Poem by Shelley. 3 copies.
11. Two songs without words for voice and clarinet. 4 copies of each.
12. Disconnected fragments

*D 82
MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA
The breaking of the drought : poem for orchestra and voice. Poem by Harley Matthews. 2 versions. Original MS. and photocopy of original MS.

8-3A in Series A Catalogue of Manuscripts.