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Delight in the variety of songs about flowers and the beautiful sheet music covers that illustrate them in our Flora theme. Discover odes to Australia's national emblem, the golden wattle and other na...

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Waltzing Matilda is Australia's best known and much loved national song. It is recognised by every Australian, and has attained international status as the nation's unofficial national anthem. This so...

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The ARIA Awards recognise excellence and innovation across all genres of Australian music. The ARIA Hall of Fame and Lifetime Achievement Awards have been an important part of the Australian Recording...

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The appearance of the first rail transport in Australia in the 1850s was so significant that many composers celebrated it with music. Rail transport directly influenced the course of Australian music ...

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Many Australian composers have written music for the education and delight of children. Isaac Nathan, Edith Harrhy and Cecil Sharp, to name a few, based their music for children on popular childhood t...

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Most religious music held in Australian collections is Christian in origin, with some notable exceptions. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of our most influential musicians held p...

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Australian composers have marked many special occasions in the life of the nation with songs, dances, and marches, such as the the arrival of dignitaries or the arrival of a steamship. On a more domes...

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Choirs have consistently occupied a prominent place in Australian music-making since European settlement. Large choral societies flourished throughout the nineteenth century, giving concerts of popula...

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Music for Christmas in Australia is unique. Kangaroos, birds, drovers, dust and blazing summer heat have replaced the mistletoe, snow and reindeer found in traditional European carols. Distinctive exa...

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Contemporary popular singers have taken hold of the internet to promote and distribute their music and communicate with their audiences. Websites of many Australian artists have been archived by Music...

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Folk music is a broad genre encompassing many styles and origins. In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music. Fol...

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From the mid-nineteenth century international exhibitions held in Europe, North America and Australia were an immensely popular way of promoting new commercial products. Described variously as colonia...

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Flutes, piccoloes, oboes, cors anglais, saxophones, clarinets, bassoons, recorders and more: meet woodwind players and their music in this theme.

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There was a percussion tradition in Australia long before European colonisation. The drummers of the British military introduced a grim counterpoint to the indigenous tradition. In the last 50 years, ...

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Explore a sample of the many performance spaces where Australians have played, sung and enjoyed music. These range from one of the most recognisable buildings in the modern world, the Sydney Opera Hou...

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Pantomime was a popular Christmas holiday tradition in Australia well into the twentieth century. Audiences cheered the heroes, loved the beautiful heroine, gasped at villains and fearful beasts, and ...

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For a rich musical experience, follow the music in our theme while listening to an ABC Classic FM broadcast.The Song Company and pianist Ian Munro perform a musical view of Australia's cultural h...

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The Adelaide City Council, the oldest municipality in Australia, has existed since 1840. Composers have been writing music about the city of Adelaide for nearly as long.Here you can check ou...

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By the year of Federation in 1901, more than 500 organs existed in Australia, most of fine quality and some of world renown. The organ has been used to accompany worship in all major Christian traditi...

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Many places in the Northern Territory have been the focus of music. Indigenous musicians celebrate their deep spiritual connections with the land through song, dance and ceremony in traditional and co...

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