The iconic song for Gough Whitlam and the Australian Labour Party’s victorious 1972 election campaign. A campaign that brought Australia free education and health care, an end to conscription, and equal pay for women, to name just a few reforms. Perhaps its’ time again! My arrangement is an SATB version for the Illawarra Union Singers. It’s clearly slightly different… Continue reading It’s Time: A Choral Arrangement
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Bandiera Rossa
“Bandiera Rossa (Italian for “Red Flag”), often also called Avanti’o Popolo after its opening words, is one of the most famous songs of the Italian labour movement. It glorifies the red flag, a symbol of the socialist and communist movement. The text was written by Carlo Tuzzi in 1908; the melody is taken from two… Continue reading Bandiera Rossa
Bolujem Ja / My Love is True
This is another great gypsy tune I’m arranging, at the moment for guitar and three voices. It’s part of the repertoire of Zlatkos’ Balkan Cabaret Practice Track: Alto, Tenor, Baritone Practice Track: Alto, Tenor Sheet Music: Alto, Tenor, Baritone Sheet Music: Alto, Tenor -And a practice performance, (some of which is in Serbian), from Zlatko’s Balkan… Continue reading Bolujem Ja / My Love is True
Jelem Jelem: Arrangement for Two Voices and Guitar
My arrangement of Jelem Jelem: Click here to download or view the sheet music. Click here to stream or download a practice track: melody, harmony, and chords. We recommend using the Music Player for Google Drive app for streaming. Jelem Jelem, (or Gelem Gelem, or Djelem Djelem) is a song composed by Žarko Jovanović, often… Continue reading Jelem Jelem: Arrangement for Two Voices and Guitar
We Shall Overcome: Choral Arrangement
-An arrangement of the traditional protest song often attributed, wrongly, to Pete Seeger. Download Words and Notation, (SATB) Here! Practice Tracks to Download: Soprano/Melody, -With Chords Soprano Sung Alto Alto Sung Tenor Tenor 1: Sung, (Final note resolves upward) Tenor 2: Sung, (Final note resolves down) Bass Bass: Sung Full SATB Arrangement,… Continue reading We Shall Overcome: Choral Arrangement
Nonsense Song
Here are links to sheet music lyrics, with chords, and practice tracks for my Nonsense Song. Click here for the latest version of the sheet music. Click here for lyrics for the Seat of Whitlam event. Practice Suggestion: Practice your part, singing all the choruses of the song, with the practice track for your part.… Continue reading Nonsense Song
16 Tons
A song by Merle Travis, arranged for 4 voices and guitar by Doug McPherson. Scroll down to the link below, for the sheet music, in PDF format, or the images below that. The melody, on the top line could be sung by sopranos or tenors. The top line, the alto line and the bass line,… Continue reading 16 Tons
Ode To Joy: Choral Arrangement
“Ode to Joy” was a poem written by German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller, best know for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final movement of his Ninth Symphony. The words in the version available below, arranged by Lachlan McGowan in 2005, with some adaptations by Douglas McPherson, uses very different words, origin unknown, from the original. These words,… Continue reading Ode To Joy: Choral Arrangement
Never Trust a Man in a Black Hat: 16 Tons With the Union Singers
Agitate in April; “Nonsense Song”; Verse of the day:
Australia is getting much hotter, (It’s hot!) But the government reckons it’s not, (It is!) There’ll be no carbon tax, so our future’s been axed, And it sounds like a whole lot of rot! Well, it’s nonsense, nonsense, it sounds like A WHOLE LOT OF ROT to me, Nonsense, nonsense, it sounds like A WHOLE… Continue reading Agitate in April; “Nonsense Song”; Verse of the day: