Hooper Josse Brewster-Jones (1887-1949)
Musical Compositions
MSS 0162
Series 5: Songs
Note: Individual songs may be duplicated or combined with other bird call scores
[Songs] When we were very young – A.A. Milne
The Four Friends
Composed 30/8/1926-22/9/1926
- MS ink 6 p. plus cover
- MS pencil and ink 4 p.
The Donkey
Composed 10/9/1927-13/9/1927
- MS ink 3 p. with cover/title page
- MS ink 3 p.
- MS pencil and ink 3 p.
Halfway Down
Composed 22/2/1926
- MS ink 2 p. ‘P. 81 When we were very young …’
- MS ink and pencil 2 p. numbered p. 81
- MS ink and pencil 3 p.
In the Fashion
Composed 28/9/1926
- Marked G. Homburg’s copy
- MS ink 3 p.
Puppy and I
Composed 3/9/1926
- MS ink 7 p. plus cover, from Mavis Roberts
- MS ink 7 p.
Bessie and the Bunyip
Composed 26/11/1922
- MS pencil 2 p. numbered ‘p. 92’
The King’s Breakfast
Composed 23/9/1926
- MS ink book 6 p. WITH Halfway Down MS ink 2 p.
- MS ink 7 p. plus title page, Mavis Roberts copy
- MS ink and pencil 7 p. numbered ‘p. 55’
The Minor
Composed 26/9/1926
- MS pencil 1 page numbered ‘p. 79’
Daffodowndilly
Composed 22/9/1926
- MS ink plus cover 2 p.
- MS ink 2 p. plus cover, G Homburg’s copy
- MS pencil 2 p.
Songs from A Book for Kidz – C.J. Dennis
Our Cow
No composition date
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover
The Triantiwontigongolope
Composed 13/7/1928
- Verse 1 only set
- MS ink and pencil 2 p. numbered ‘p. 50’
Bird Song [I Detest the Carrion Crow]
Composed 3-6/12/1922
- Verse 1 only set
- MS ink and pencil 4 p. numbered ‘p. 108’
The Ant Explorer
Finished 1942
- MS ink and pencil 6 p. plus cover
- MS ink and pencil 6 p., composed 19/4/1927
Going to School
Composed 3/10/1925?
- MS ink 3 p. incomplete
- MS pencil 4 p.
The Swagman
Composed 3/12/1928?
- MS pencil and ink 7 p.
- vocal part for clarinet in B flat MS ink 2 p. plus cover
The Funny Hatter
No composition date
- MS pencil 2 p.
The Porter
Composed 16/2/1926
- MS ink 2 p.
- MS pencil 2 p.
The Spotted Heifers
Composed 15/9/1922
- MS book ink 8 p.
- MS pencil draft 2 p. – incomplete, words not included
Cuppacumalonga
Composed 16/9/1922 24/11/1922
- MS ink 3 p. plus title page
- MS ink and pencil 3 p. (numbered p. 18-19), WITH The Famine and the Feast (not part of A Book for Kids) Composed 26/11/1922, Ms pencil 1 p. and 1 system AND Old Black Jacko, Composed 26/11/1922, MS pencil and ink 2 p.
Woolloomoloo
Composed 2/1/1926
- MS pencil draft 1 p.
WITH Polly Dibbs, Composed 2/1/1926, MS ink 2 p.
Growing up
Composed 14/9/1922
- MS ink 2 p. plus cover, Mavis Roberts’ copy
- MS ink 1 p. numbered p. 94
- MS ink 1 p. and cover - vocal line only WITH The Unsociable Wallaby, Composed 14/9/1922, MS ink 1 p. - vocal line only
‘2 Songs from A Book for Kids …’ MS book
M.L. Roberts copy
The Spotted Heifers
Composed 15/9/1922
- MS ink 6 p.
The Ant Explorer
Composed 19/4/1927
- MS ink 5 p.
Old Farmer Jack
No composition date
- MS ink 2 p. plus cover
[Untitled MS music book] numbered ‘15’
Barbara Moncrieff copy
The Spotted Heifers
Composed 15/9/1922
- MS book ink 8 p.
WITH Bird Song ‘I am friendly with the sparrow’
Composed 14/9/1922
- MS ink 4 p.
WITH The Triantiwontigongolope
Composed 13/7/1925
- MS ink 2 p. - 2nd and 3rd verses included
WITH Market Square [not part of A Book for Kids]
Words: AA Milne. Music: H Fraser-Simson
-MS ink 3 p.
WITH Riding School [not part of A Book for Kids]
Composed 14/10/1925
Words: CJ Dennis
- MS ink 2 p.
WITH The King’s Breakfast [not part of A Book for Kids]
Composed 23/9/1926
Words: AA Milne.
- MS ink 7 p.
[Untitled MS music book] numbered ‘16’
3 Bird Songs ‘I detest the Carrion Crow’
Composed 6/12/1927
- MS book ink 5 p.
The Unsociable Wallaby
Mavis Roberts copy. Composed 14/9/1922
- MS ink 2 p.
[Songs to Words by R.L. Stevenson]
Shadow March
Composed 28/2/1925-2/3/1925
- MS ink 4 p., Mavis Roberts copy
WITH My Bed is a Boat
Composed 14/2/1925
- MS ink 3 p.
WITH Marching Song
Composed 13/2/1925
- MS ink 4 p.
WITH From a Railway Carriage
Composed 13/2/1925
- MS ink 4 p.
No. 6 Marching Song
Composed 13/2/1925
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover
No. 5 The Wind
Composed 13/2/1925
- MS ink 7 p. plus cover
Shadow March
Composed 28/2/1925-2/3/1925
- MS ink 4 p. plus cover - low key
- MS ink 4 p.
No. 3 Looking Forward
Composed 12/2/1925
- Signed K.M. Fisher
- MS ink 2 p.
WITH No. 4. The Happy Thought
Composed 12/12/1925
- Ms ink 1 p.
Windy Nights
Composed 5/12/1924
- Signed K.M. Fisher
- MS ink 5 p.
WITH No. 3.Where Go the Boats?
Composed 4/12/1924
- MS ink 3 p.
Book 2 of Songs
(A3 photocopies sent to Special Collections by Gordon Abbott 1/2/1995, with index)
The Wind’s Will
Words: Gabriel Rossetti
- MS 5 p.
The Snow is Falling
Composed 22/4/1913
Words: Harold Simpson
- MS 2 p.
Serenade
Composed 11/2/1914
Words: Longfellow
- MS 2 p.
Autumn
Composed 27/12/1913
Words: The Marchioness of Townshend
- MS 4 p.
Estampes no 1
Composed 1909
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS 3 p.
Estampes no 2
Composed 1909
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS 2 p.
Estampes no 3– Night the Healer
Composed 1909
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS 3 p.
The Piper of Peace
Composed 30/3/1916
Words: Robert Quinn
- To Hilda Britten-Jones
- MS 7 p.
Sing in the Soft Sweet Night
Composed 6-8/12/1918
Words: Mrs. Paschke
- To Kathleen Fisher
- MS 4 p.
The Joy of Spring
Composed 15-16/12/1917
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS 4 p.
Over!
Composed 6/6/1921
Words: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- MS 2 p.
A Picture
Words: Rennell Rodd
- MS 3 p.
Love
Composed 7/11/1918
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS 3.p.
Song
Composed 18/11/1918
Words: WB Yeats
- MS 3 p.
Absence
Composed 17/11/1918
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS 2 p.
I Arise from Dreams of Thee
Words: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- MS 7 p.
Lost Cares
Words: Elizabeth Browning
- MS 4 p.
Sleep, My Child
Composed 21/11/1921
Words: from Cusheen Loo translated J.J. Callanan
- MS 3 p.
Cradle Song
Composed 10/11/1921
Words: Yone Noguchi
- MS 4 p.
SEE ALSO “Oriental Cradle Song”
SEE ALSO Chamber Orchestra Cradle Song for orchestral accompaniment
The Nightingale
Composed 5/1/1922
Words: Victor Daley
- MS 4 p.
[Songs] Book IV
Le Premier jour de mois de mai
Composed 9/4/1929
- MS ink 2.p., Mavis Roberts copy
- MS ink 2 p.
- MS ink 1 p. - vocal part only
If
Composed 30/8/1928
Words: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- MS ink 2 p.
The Green Trees Whispered Low and Mild
Composed 6-7/1/1924
Words: Longfellow
- MS ink 4 p.
O Sweet Lament
Composed 2/11/1925
Words: Thomas Chatterton
- MS ink 3 p.
Violets in the Grass
Composed 20-22/6/1928
Words: Anon.
- MS ink 4 p. and cover
Soft Grey Birds
Composed 30/6/1940
Words: from Violets in the Grass
- MS ink 6 p.
A Red, Red Rose
Composed 14/12/1927
Words: Robert Burns
- MS ink 2 p.
The Geurdon
Composed 30/11/1941
Words: Albert Farrell
- MS pencil 3 p. - incomplete
- Correspondence with poet and text of poem, typescript 4 p.
Thrushes
Composed 7/12/1926
Words: Humbert Wolfe
- MS pencil and ink draft 3 p.
- MS pencil text and of source of poem 1 p.
Thou wilt forget
Composed 19/3/1923
Words: K Moncrieff
- MS ink 3 p.
In the Forest
Composed 14/10/1915
Words: Oscar Wylde
- MS ink 4 p. plus cover
- MS ink 3 p.
Song of the 10th Battalion
Composed 1914
Words: CR Beresford
- print copy 3 p. plus cover (photocopy from the National Library of Australia 1997)
Oriental Cradle Song king
Composed 10/11/1921
Words: Yone Noguchi
- MS ink 8 p. plus cover
- MS ink 2 p.
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover
- MS ink 1 p. vocal line plus coloured cover
SEE ALSO Chamber Orchestra Cradle Song for orchestral accompaniment
Rondel
Composed: 11/8/1924
Words: A.M. Fay
- MS ink 2 p. plus cover
La Fuite de la Lune
Words: Oscar Wilde
- MS ink copy of item published by C.S. Newman, London - 6 p. plus cover
Thou wilt forget
Composed 19/3/1923
Words: K Moncrieff
- MS ink 3 p.
- WITH Sleep my Child
Composed 21/11/1921
Words: from Cushen Loo - Old Irish poem from Fairy Folk Tales of Peasantry
Dedicated to Barbara Moncrieff
- MS ink 3 p.
The Evening Cloud
Composed 14/6/1923
Words: John Wilson
- MS ink 3 p.
[Miscellaneous Songs 1]
Love
Composed 7/11/1918
Words: H. Brewster-Jones
- MS ink and pencil 3 p.
WITH Song
Composed 18/11/1918
Words: WB Yeats
- MS ink 3 p.
Night in the Desert
Composed 16/5/1917
Words: Robert Southey
- MS ink 3 p. plus title page plus cover
- MS ink 3 p.
I Arise from Dreams of Thee
No composition date
Words: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- MS ink 7 p and cover, Kathleen M Fisher’s copy
Ah! Me, When shall I Marry Me? (from She Stoops to conquer)
Composed 26/11/1922
Words: Oliver Goldsmith
- MS pencil and ink 4 p.
- MS ink 3 p.
- Unidentified excerpts from She stoops to conquer - MS pencil drafts with violin obbligato 3 p.
The Song of Wandering Aengus
F. Williamson copy, 25/10/1941
Words: WB Yeats
- MS ink 4 p. and cover (Photocopy from the National Library of Australia 1997)
Why Fadest Thou in Death
Composed 20/8/1921
Words: Richard Watson Dixon
- MS pencil draft 2 p.
Hymn to the Night
Composed 2-3/12/1916
Words: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- MS ink 3 p. and cover
Retaliation
Composed 1908?
Words: Arnold Simpson
- MS ink 4 p. (fragile)
- MS ink 4 p. (Photocopy from the National Library of Australia 1997)
The Cottager to Her Infant
No composition date
Words: Dorothy Wordsworth
Dedicated to Brewster-Jones’ wife
- MS ink 3 p. (fragile)
- MS ink 3 p. (photocopy from the National Library of Australia 1997)
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover, Mavis Roberts’ copy
- MS ink 2 p., Mavis L. Roberts’ copy
Lost Cares
No composition date
Words: Elizabeth Browning
- MS ink 4 p.
[Miscellaneous Songs 2]
(Donated by Mavis Roberts)
[Untitled Music MS book] Copied January, 1929, signed Mavis Roberts, Soprano, ABC Broadcasting
To Carnations
Words: Robert Herrick
- MS ink 2 p.
WITH The Brook
Words: William Canton
- MS ink 3 p.
WITH The Piper of Peace
Composed 30/3/1916
Words: Robert Quinn
- To Hilda Britten-Jones
- E major - MS ink 2 p., incomplete
WITH As it fell upon a Day
Words: Shakespeare
- MS ink 4 p. - piano part only
WITH In the Woodland
Words: Helen Elbourne
- MS ink 3 p.
The Snow is Falling
Composed 22/4/1913
Words: Harold Simpson
- Mavis Roberts Goodman
- MS ink 2 p.
Triolet: To an Autumn Leaf
Composed 22/4/1913
Words: CH Lüders
- In G major - MS ink 2 p. plus cover, inscribed Mavis Leonie Roberts, 1932
- 2 p. plus illustrated cover (lithographic printing), with MS text of ‘At Heaven’s Gate’, inscribed to Mavis Roberts Christmas 1932
- MS ink 2 p. plus title page plus lithographic illustrated cover, inscribed To Barbara Xmas 1932
Estampes no.3 – Night - the Healer
Composed 1909
Words: H Brewster-Jones
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover
To the Night
Composed 17-18/6/1925
Words: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- For Kath
- MS pencil draft 4 p.
Winter Lightning
Composed 25/4/1917
Words: James Montgomery
- MS ink over pencil 6 p. plus cover
Smoke in Winter
Com. 1910, fin. 1928?
Words: Henry Thoreau
- MS ink 7 p.
Saraband
No composition date
Words: Oliver Goldsmith
- MS pencil 1 p.
Why Fadest Thou in Death
Composed 20/8/1921
Words: Richard Dixon
- For tenor and soprano
- MS ink 2 p. plus cover
- MS ink 2 p.
Absent, yet Present
Composed 7/2/1924
Words: Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- MS ink and pencil 2 p.
The Nightingale
Composed 5/1/1922
Words: Victor Daley
- MS ink 4 p. plus cover
- MS ink 1 p. - voice part only
Night that I Love
No composition date
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover – incomplete
- MS ink 4 p. – duet version for soprano and tenor
- MS ink 1 p. – vocal line
The Light of the Star Disappears
Words: Ruth Hawker
- MS pencil sketch 2 p.
Love’s Reunion
Composed 13/2/1926
- MS pencil 3 p.
My Secret
No composition date
Words: Andrew Lang
- MS ink 1 p.
The Fisher’s Boy
Composed: 26/9/1922
Words: Henry David Thoreau
- MS ink and pencil 2 p.
Free Love
Composed 26/9/1922
Words: Henry David Thoreau
- MS ink and pencil 3 p.
The Two Spirits
Composed 12/8/1926
Words: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- MS ink and pencil 10 p.
- MS pencil 3 p. plus cover ‘Vocal duet’- incomplete
‘From Her Lover’s Tryst’
Words: Kristen Dolberg
- MS ink 1 p. - incomplete
[Miscellaneous Songs 3]
Canon Above Ground bass for soprano and bass (Ye lovely peaks)
Words: Alice Duer Miller?
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover
- tenor part - MS ink 1 p.
Australian Impressions no. 1 (A Dreamy Stretch of Mallee Scrub)
Composed 27/6/1927
Words: anon. (probably H. Brewster-Jones)
- MS ink 3 p. plus cover
- MS pencil draft 3 p.
Australian Impressions no. 2 (The Mid-Day Reverie)
Composed 5/7/1927
Words: H Brewster-Jones
- MS ink 1 p. plus cover
- MS pencil draft 1 p.
Impressions of the Mallee 2
Composed 2/8/1927
Words: H Brewster-Jones
- MS ink 3 p.
- MS pencil draft 3 p.
Australian Impressions (The City Labourer)
Composed 8/8/1927
Words: H Brewster-Jones
- MS pencil draft 4 p.
She Walks in Beauty
Composed: 22/4/1916
Words: Lord Byron
- Dedicated to Alice Moncrieff
- MS ink 4 p.
- MS ink 4 p. - shorthand pf part
The Grave of Love
Composed 1908?
Words: T.L. Peacock
- MS ink 5 p.
WITH In the Woodland
Composed 1910
Words: Helen Elbourne
- MS ink 3 p.
WITH Night That I Love
Words: anon.
- MS ink 5 p.
WITH Sing in the Soft Sweet Night
Composed 6-8/12/1918
Words: Mrs. Paschke
- To Kathleen Fisher
- MS ink 4 p.
WITH The Wind’s Will
Words: Gabriel Rossetti
- MS ink 5 p.
WITH The Joy of Spring
Composed 15-16/12/1917
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS ink 4 p.
WITH Lost Cares
Words: Elizabeth Browning
- MS ink 4 p.
The Music of Your Voice
Composed 2-5/12/1922
Words: C.J. Dennis
- MS ink 4 p.
- MS ink 4 p., plus cover, Mavis Roberts copy
[Music MS book ‘Songs music by H. Brewster Jones’]
Kathleen M. Fisher copy
Love’s Philosophy
Words: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Composed 1908-1915
- MS ink 10 p.
WITH What Shall a Man Remember
Composed 5/1/1922
Words: Victor Daley
- MS ink 3 p.
WITH Brunette
Composed 30/12/1921
Words: Victor Daley
- MS ink 4 p.
WITH The Little Waves of Breffny
Composed 17/11/1918
Words: Eva Gore-Booth
- MS ink 5 p.
WITH The Heart I Gave
Words: Hooper Brewster-Jones
- MS ink 3 p.
WITH Décor
Composed 5/3/1914
Words: Ronald Finlayson
-MS ink 1 p. – incomplete
WITH Song – ‘So We’ll Go No More A-Roving’
Composed 1/10/1928
Words: Lord Byron
- MS ink book 2 p.
At Heaven’s Gate – Am Himmelstor
Composed 1908
Words: Conrad Meyer
- In E flat major - MS ink 3 p. English text
- In D flat major - MS ink 4 p. English and German text
- vocal line - MS ink 1 p.
- cello obbligato- MS ink 1 p.
- MS ink 4 p. German text plus photocopy
[Untitled music MS book] Barbara Moncrieff copy
Purcell: Recit and Aria: Thy Hand, Belinda and When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)
- Keyboard and voice MS ink 3 p.
WITH The Swagman
Composed 3/12/1922
Words: CJ Dennis
- Dedicated to Barbara Moncrieff
- MS ink 10 p.
WITH Hoppity
Composed 28/9/1926
Words: AA Milne
- MS ink 2 p.
WITH The Traveller
Composed 30/11/1922-1/12/1922
Words: C.J. Dennis
- MS ink 8 p.
WITH Dagobert, the Jester
- MS ink 2 p.
WITH The Looking Glass
Composed 14/10/1925
Words: C.J. Dennis
- MS ink 1 p.
“I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night …”
- Cello solo [untitled] MS ink 2 p.
