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	Advance Australia Fair
		Peter Dodds McCormick, a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church and composer of "Advance, Australia Fair." The late Mr.
		McCormick was official precentor of the General Presbyterian Assembly of New South Wales and of the Commonwealth assembly.
		McCormick in 1896 was one of the principal workers in originating the mission work which was begun in a private house at Dover Heights, an outlying part of the Waverley parish.
	www.hamilton.net.au /advance/author.html (854 words)

	Advance Australia Fair — The NSW Connection
		Peter Dodds McCormick was born in Glasgow in 1834 or 1835 (date uncertain) and came to Australia in 1855.
		McCormick's main interests were choral music, Scottish heritage and the Presbyterian Church, and he retired from teaching in 1885 to concentrate on these interests.
		McCormick died nine years later in 1916 and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery, where his grave can still be visited today.
	www.premiers.nsw.gov.au /ThePremierAndGovernment/StateProtocol/AdvanceAustraliaFairNSWConnection.htm (401 words)

	Peter Dodds McCormick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10,000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
		In 1907, the Australian Government awarded McCormick £100 for having composed it.
		This website has an image of Peter Dodds McCormick and a variety of versions of Advance Australia Fair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Dodds_McCormick (223 words)

	Advance Australia Fair resources on the Web - Advance Australia Fair Original Lyrics Homepage - at Lachlan Cranswick's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peter Dodds McCormick was born in 1834 and died in 1916.
		Peter Dodds McCormick died in 1916 and Advance Australia Fair became free of copyright in 1966.
		Composed by Peter Dodds McCormick sometime around 1878 and in 1983 a new version of the song was adopted by the Australian government as the national anthem.
	lachlan.bluehaze.com.au /aaf/aafweb.html (6394 words)

	Traditional Scottish Songs - Advance, Australia, Fair
		But, of course, it was written by a Scot - Peter Dodds McCormick, who was born in Glasgow around 1835.
		McCormick produced a number of versions of the song, sometimes with only minor corrections.
		An amended version was sung by a choir of 10,000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
	www.rampantscotland.com /songs/blsongs_australia.htm (189 words)

	Advance Australia Fair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on St Andrew's Day, (30 November 1878).
		The opening of the Sydney Olympic Games highlighted the fact that most of the large audience was unfamiliar with the second verse of the anthem.
		The third, explicitly Christian verse was written by an unknown author late in the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Advance_Australia_Fair (1007 words)

	Australia Now - The Australian National Anthem
		A revised version of a late nineteenth century patriotic song, it was officially declared the national anthem on 19 April 1984.
		Peter Dodds McCormick, a Scot, composed ‘Advance Australia Fair' under the pen-name ‘Amicus' (amicus is the Latin word for friend).
		Peter McCormick died in 1916 and ‘Advance Australia Fair' became free of copyright in 1966.
	www.dfat.gov.au /facts/nat_anthem.html (733 words)

	Awakening - Lost verse puts Christ into the National Anthem
		Certain Australian governments seemed to disapprove of the sentiment of some of these verses, and were inclined to discourage their rememberance.
		The song was written and composed by Peter Dodds McCormick and first performed in 1878.
		It was proclaimed as the national anthem for the second time in 1984, (after it was chosen by the Whitlam government in 1974, and later rejected by the Fraser government).
	www.awakening.org.au /media/2k0606lost.htm (527 words)

	AUSTRALIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It took four years of talking, thinking and voting to decide on this song, written by Peter McCormick in 1878.
		It was chosen in a referendum receiving 2.9 million votes, other options 'Waltzing Matilda' (song about a sheep thief) got 1.9 million and the Queen's song got even less votes than the sheep thief with 1.3 million.
		Advance Australia Fair was composed by Glasgow-born Peter Dodds McCormick (1834?-1916), who used the pen-name "Amicus", a Latin word meaning "friend".
	www.heathheathens.com /Australia.htm (2287 words)

	Overview of Peter Dodds McCormick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born the son of a seaman in Port Glasgow, McCormick apprenticed as a joiner and emigrated to Australia in 1855.
		He spent his career working as a teacher for the New South Wales Education Department, but was also choir-master for the Presbyterian Church in Sydney.
		McCormick was awarded £100 for his patriotic song, but it was not until 1984, and following much controversy, that it was officially adopted as Australia's National Anthem.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst3068.html (153 words)

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		Peter Dodds McCormick, a Scot, composed ‘Advance Australia Fair' under the pen-name ‘Amicus' (amicus is the Latin word for friend).
		Peter McCormick died in 1916 and ‘Advance Australia Fair' became free of copyright in 1966.
		W. Paling and Company, the publishers of the song, described it as ‘one of the three greatest songs of the British Empire'.
	www.allembassies.com /australia.html (1484 words)

	Alibris: Peter McCormick
		The two CDs included with this product will contain over a gigabyte of commercial software demos, clip-art samples, stock photos, fonts, shareware and freeware utility programs, music and sound clips, and movie and...
		Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku (literally, the principles that allow us to live in friendly community) has been regarded as the definitive study of Japanese ethics for half a century.
		The author provides step-by-step instructions, and a multitude of illustrations to teach basic drawing techniques as well as more complex skills and special effects.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/McCormick,Peter (704 words)

	In joyful Strine, let us refrine - Opinion - smh.com.au
		Advance Australia Fair has undergone heavy editing since Peter Dodds McCormick wrote the original in the 1870s.
		Some celebrated diversity: "Australians all, let us rejoice, For we are Wong and Lee".
		Some thought the anthem could be used as a public health warning.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2005/12/11/1134235946743.html (502 words)

	The Australian National Anthem
		Over the decades, public opinion has been constantly canvassed and numerous competitions held to find a suitable song.
		Peter Dodds McCormick's Advance Australia Fair was officially declared Australia's national anthem by the Governor-General on 19 April 1984, close to 160 years after the first alternative anthems were put forward.
		The song was first performed in Sydney in 1878 and, interestingly, was sung at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia by a choir of 10,000 people.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/nationalanthem (779 words)

	Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Find more scores by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner
		Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Cornelius, Friedrich von Flotow, Fromental Halevy, Franz Joseph Haydn, Carl Loewe, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber
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	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=lindpaintner (730 words)

	Jimmy's weblog » Blog Archive » Australia’s unofficial national anthem
		Australia also has an unofficial national anthem which is often played at sporting events (as it was a the rugby) and sung by Australian supporters: “Waltzing Matilda”.
		“Advance Australia Fair”; was written by Peter Dodds McCormick (1834 - 1916) and contains five verses in total.
		Many Australians are hard pressed to remember one of the two official verses, and most of them are completely unaware that the original song has five.
	jimmysweblog.net /2003/08/australias-unofficial-national-anthem.html (705 words)

	Australian National Anthem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was first proposed to replace "God Save the Queen".
		A Scottish-born Australian, Peter Dodds McCormick, composed the original words and music, and it was performed for the first time in Sydney in 1878.
		Some of the original words were altered for the official version- the first line was changed from "Australia's sons, let us rejoice" to "Australians all, let us rejoice".
	www.virtualclassroom.org /99/vc_81/GroupNine/anthem.htm (391 words)

	Bulletin - Our fair dinkum anthem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Indeed, it inspired some 140 composers, including Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms, in their compositions.
		The composer was Peter Dodds McCormick, a Scot, and was first performed in Sydney on St Andrew’s Day, 1878.
		Political correctness has dictated that some of the original words be changed.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/site/articleIDs/2467CD41F7CD1AC3CA256F970012B06B (729 words)

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		Peter Dodds McCormick, Francisco Silva y Valdes, Friedrich Kuhlau, Calixa Lavallee, Anonymous, Nie Erh, Francois Van...
		Dodds McCormick, Francisco Silva y Valdes, Friedrich Kuhlau, Calixa Lavallee, Anonymous, Nie Erh, Francois Van...
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	Toxic Custard Guide To Australia - Music
		Like any national anthem, it can also sound bloody awful if massacred by some twerp of a singer at a public event.
		It was written by Scotsman Peter Dodds McCormick, and was first performed in 1878, although it didn't actually become the national anthem until 1984.
		Though when I think about it, I seem to remember singing it a long time before this in primary school.
	www.toxiccustard.com /australia/music.html (1100 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Find of the Month - January 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yes, our national anthem could have been written by a Welshman living in London.
		As it is, Advance Australia Fair, proclaimed Australia’s national anthem in 1984, was written by a Scot – Glasgow-born Peter Dodds McCormick.
		Found by one of our researchers, Jack Morgan’s song was apparently inspired by a cruise trip down under 16 years earlier.
	www.naa.gov.au /About_Us/find-of-month/Find_Jan2006.html (226 words)

	Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Australia's national anthem is "Advance Australia Fair", written by "Amicus" (Peter Dodds McCormick) in 1878.
		Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and free; We've golden soil and wealth for toil; Our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in nature's gifts Of beauty rich and rare; In history's page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair.
		If you find an error or omission on these pages, I would appreciate an update or correction.
	www.dementia.org /~strong/tomstrong/countries/au.html (140 words)

	HINCH.net - The Official Derryn Hinch Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I think we have since got it back.
		Advance Australia Fair was written by a Scotsman named Peter Dodds McCormick in the 1880s.
		He wrote it under the pseudonym Amicus which is the Latin word for “friend”.
	www.hinch.net /says_archive05/Jan05/21-1-05.htm (434 words)

	Famous Presbyterians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Goodlet and 2 wives (business, lay leaders and benefactors) Ross family (farmers, lay leaders and benefactors, Riverina) Neil Livingston (business and founder of PFA) John and Eliza Pottie (vet and social reformer) James Mathers (City missionary) Rev.
		Dill Macky (Minister and Orangeman) George McCredie (engineer and elder) P.D. McCormick (teacher, choir-leader and composer of Advance Aust Fair) Sir James Burns (business and benefactor) Sutherland Sinclair (Museum worker and youth leader) Gen.
		Stephen Grover (1758-1836) Robert C. Grundy, D.D. Rev. Peter Johnson Gulick (1797-1877) Rev.
	www.adherents.com /largecom/fam_pres.html (3261 words)

	M&A talking about Australian songs: the National Anthem "Advance Australia Fair" and Waltzing Matilda
		Words and music composed by Peter Dodds McCormick
		To celebrate the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)'s 75th anniversary in May 2001, and to honour the songwriters who have provided the soundtrack for generations of Australians, the APRA compiled the ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years.
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	www.beluba.com.au /ww3/anthem.htm (1406 words)

	Workers Online : Issue No. 150, 30 August 2002
		On the anniversary of the Tampa, and with the help of Dorothea Mackellar and Peter Dodds McCormick, Worker's Online travels back a year to contemplate those moments when eyes were closed to the nature of the Taliban regime.
		They’re right funny critters those Yanks who get their hands on the levers of power and we’re not talking, funny ha ha, here, Jim Marr writes
		Treasurer Peter Costello's two faces were on display this week - ducking and weaving from enforcing corporate accounting standards while upping the push to cut corporate tax
	workers.labor.net.au /150 (786 words)

	Australia Sheet Music! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Performers, artists: Peter Allen, The Boy From Oz.
	www.laurasmidiheaven.com /Sheet-Music/Australia.html (781 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Our National Song ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR Words and Music by PETER DODDS McCORMICK ('AMICUS')(1834 - 1916) Australia's sons, let us rejoice,For we are young and free; We've golden soil and wealth for toil,Our home is girt by sea.
		Our land abounds in Nature's gifts Of beauty rich and rare; In hist'ry's page let ev'ry stage Advance Australia fair.
		There is a land where, floating free,From mountain top to gurgling sea, A proud flag waves exultingly, exultingly, And Freedom's sons the banner bear; No shackled slave can breathe the air, Fairest of Britain's daughters fair- Australia!
	www.trainweb.org /mystation/Anthum.txt (465 words)

	Voice, Piano and Guitar sheet music - Title Index
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