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Creator: Nathan, Isaac, 1792-1864.
Contributor: Nathan, Isaac, 1792-1864. Australian miscellany.
Nathan, Isaac, 1792-1864. First, second and third of a series of lectures on the theory and practice of music.
Nathan, Isaac, 1792-1864.
Title: The southern euphrosyne and Australian miscellany : containing oriental moral tales, original anecdote, poetry and music ... / by the editor and sole proprietor I. Nathan.
Date: 1849
Published: London : Whittaker & Co. ; Sydney : The editor, [1849] (Sydney : Forster)
Subjects: Australian literature -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians -- Songs and music.
Music -- Australia.
Songs with piano.
Vocal music, Australian -- To 1899.
Choral music, Australian -- To 1899.
Material Type: Music
Physical Description: viii, 168 p. : music ; 31 cm.
Notes: " ... an historical sketch with examples of the native aboriginal melodies put into modern rhythm and harmonized as solos, quartettes, etc., together with several other original vocal pieces, arranged to a piano-forte, accompaniment by the editor and sole proprietor ...".

Contains extensive descriptions of Aboriginal ceremonies.

Includes: Index to Mr. Nathan's series of lectures on the theory and practice of music, delivered by him at the Sydney College, New South Wales. Sydney: Ford, [1846?]; Ferguson 5119a; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6427468; FRM F5119a :MUS: N, JAF.

Condition brittle paper at FRM F5119a (NL quarto); Library's F5119a copy has incomplete t.p. and lacks p. i-ii.
Amicus Number: 6427468
Contents: Anthem: Psalm 117
Don John of Austria: overture
Vision of youth
I dare not say how much I love
Canst thou bid the hand its cunning forget
I'll go to sleep
Koo-ee : [music notation]
War-goon-da min-ya-rah
Ah! wy-a-boo-ka : the turtle song
Dital dital baloonai
Koorinda braia
United here are heart and voice.
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6427468
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