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Original manuscript of Carl Linger's music for the 'Song of Australia':00002
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Submitted to the Gawler Institute as the winning entry in a competition held in 1859 that offered a ten guinea prize for music to accompany the 'Song of Australia' by Mrs C. J. Carleton. The song was sung in South Australian schools and was one of four included in a national plebiscite to choose Australia's national song in 1977. The history of the volume is recorded inside the front cover. 1 volume.;;;;For further information regarding Carl Linger see 'South Australiana', Vol. 11, No. 1, March, 1963 in the Gepps Cross Research Centre or the State Library.
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