SKU: A0.1121346

Christmas in Australia is the theme song from the animated, made-for-TV movie Blinky Bill’s White Christmas, a spin-off from the Blinky Bill children’s books (by Australian writer Dorothy Wall) and the Adventures of Blinky Bill TV series. The telemovie first aired on Australia’s Seven Network on Christmas Eve of 2005. In the movie the song was sung by Christine Anu, who also reprised it at Sydney’s 2007 Carols in the Domain. Weather-wise, Christmastime in Australia is very different from that in the Northern Hemisphere. Instead of cold, snow and spending time indoors, there’s lots of sunshine, lots of colour everywhere and lots to do in the great outdoors. This delightful song – Christmas in Australia – highlights the fact that, whilst these differences do exist, the true meaning of Christmas, the reasons for rejoicing, the coming together of friends and family, the excitement of children, the decorating, and the caring and sharing are the same the world over. For on this little world of ours, we’re all one family. So, come and join us as we sing, around the Christmas tree. Christmas in Australia deserves a place in the best of Australian Christmas songs. Unfortunately, it is not as widely known and performed as it should be; perhaps because the music has not been readily available. Hopefully these new arrangements for choirs and soloists may go some way towards redressing that situation. This arrangement is available in six versions – SATB, SSA and 2-Part for choirs; Low, medium and high voice for soloists/unison choirs. An instrumental accompaniment for Glockenspiel and string ensemble is also available separately.

SKU: A0.1344236

White Christmas by Irving Berlin is arranged for a melody instrument in C, B-flat, F, or E-flat with organ or piano accompaniment.

SKU: A0.1167701

This is the thirtieth-fourth volume of an extensive collection of folk songs arranged for the classical guitar mostly in two-part counterpoint. The arrangements are of moderate difficulty and the aims of this publication are to familiarise, entertain and educate guitarists (and other musicians) with a melodic repertoire of lasting aesthetic value, under the light of contrapuntal treatment. The thirty five volumes of this collection can certainly be printed on paper if so desired and there are a few pages in each volume, either blank or with photographs of various musicians, which can be inserted at will in any place for the correct ordering of left and right hand pages so that page turns can be avoided. The principle of avoiding page turns has been maintained in all  volumes, but this edition is also designed with mobile electronic devices in mind such as tablets etc, using the environment and facilities of a score reading application, towards a paperless world, at least in music. Therefore the size of the staves is bigger than usual for ease of reading on a small screen but not big enough to exceed the limit of a two-page view.
Active internal links for navigating from thematic indexes to particular songs and back to indexes have been added, and also external internet links to sites that give further information for the 945 songs of this first collection for classical guitar.

Volume 34 (Songs 892-918)

Villikins and his Dinah
Waltzing Matilda
Wark o’ the Weavers (the)
Water of Tyne (the)
Watercress Girl (the)
Watts’s Cradle Song 1
Watts’s Cradle Song 2
Watts’s Cradle Song 3
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
We’ve been a while a-wandering
Wealthy Young Farmer (the)
Weaver (the)
Westering Home
What is the life of a man
What You Gonna Call Yo’ Pretty Little Baby
When Adam was First Created
When Jones’s Ale was New
While Shepherds Watched (Liverpool)
Whilst The Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping
White Cockade
White Hare (the)
Who will you give me to sail away
Who’ll be King but Charlie
Who’s the fool now
Widdecombe Fair
Wild Moor (the)
Wild White Rose (the).