Songs of home
Songs of home
Contemporary First Peoples Composers
Australia holds one of the oldest living cultures in the world, and First Nations music making is the oldest continuing form of music making
From the collection: Catherine Hayes illustration
This sheet music cover is the only known copy of this illustration of the soprano Catherine Hayes (1818–1861), one of the world’s first international opera and concert stars
Songs of home
Jane Austen: at home with music
Jane Austen’s music albums provide a new understanding of the use of music in the author’s work and the importance of music making in the Regency home
Songs of home
Playing our song
Music offers a unique window into our past, and the stories and collections of our properties contain compelling clues about the music played by earlier generations
Songs of home
The Odyssey of an Early Australian Piano
Imagine for a moment if all the old pianos lying around Australia could speak. One can only guess at the stories they would tell
Songs of home
The surprising legacy of Miss Pye of Parramatta
Visitors to Richmond Villa, head office of the Society of Australian Genealogists in Kent Street, Sydney, may have met the steady gaze of a young woman dressed in the fashion of the early 1840s
Songs of home
‘I think of thee’: unlocking a colonial song
The reconstruction of a unique but incomplete copy of a colonial song has allowed us to hear it 170 years after it was composed