Composing Australia Nostalgia And National Identity In The Music Of Malcolm Williamson

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0734037880

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Composing Australia by Anonim Pdf

This book examines a selection of works Malcolm Williamson composed in connection with Australia to reveal how he represented aspects of his homeland in music and to trace the various stages of his engagement with the country over the course of his career. It begins with an overview of Williamson's life and relationship with Australia, followed by nine chapters that focus on individual musical works he composed in connection with his homeland, including musical analysis of and historical background on each one. This book aims to further the conversation about Williamson's music and to permit a reassessment of his creative life.

Author : Carolyn Philpott
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037893

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Composing Australia: Nostalgia and National Identity in the Music of Malcolm Williamson by Carolyn Philpott Pdf

Brilliant, provocative, compassionate—the composer Malcolm Williamson was one of Australia’s most famous expatriates. As Carolyn Philpott explains, his nostalgia for his homeland lasted fifty years, from his emigration in 1953 until his death in 2003. In works such as the ballet The Display, Symphony no. 6 and The Dawn Is at Hand, he explored inventive ways of expressing his Australian identity, collaborating with Australian artists, paying homage to Australian musicians and exposing his sorrow for the treatment of Indigenous peoples. As the first book-length examination of Williamson’s music, Composing Australia is a portrait of an intriguing and always imaginative Australian.

Author : Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000578621

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The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020 by Rhoderick McNeill Pdf

The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 1970s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminism that seemed harbingers of the symphony’s demise. From the late 1970s onwards, many Australian composers chose to work in styles that admitted modal and tonal melodic and harmonic elements with regular pulse. Major cycles of symphonies by Carl Vine, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards began to appear in the late 1980s. Other prolific symphonists like Paul Paviour (10 symphonies), David Morgan (15 symphonies), Philip Bracanin (11), Peter Tahourdin (5), John Polglase (5) and many others demonstrated a revived interest in the form. This trend continued into the first two decades of the present century with symphonies by Matthew Hindson, Katy Abbott, Stuart Greenbaum, Andrew Schultz, Mark Isaacs and Gordon Kerry. This renewed interest in the symphony reflects similar trends in Britain and the United States. Rhoderick McNeill provides a comprehensive introduction to this large body of music with the aim of making the music and its composers known to concert- goers, music educators and students, conductors and music entrepreneurs.

Author : Roger Covell
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037831

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Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society (2nd ed.) by Roger Covell Pdf

Described on its first publication in 1967 as “a scholarly account of Australian music that is also entertaining social history”, Roger Covell’s Austrlaia’s Music: Themes of a New Society has become a classic of Australian music history for its beautifully written explorations of almost two hundred years of music-making across classical, Indigenous and Anglo-Celtic traditions. This revised edition, including more than sixty musical examples, is supplemented by a new postscript written by the author.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : NWU:35556028028280

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Quadrant by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laurajane Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134368037

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Uses of Heritage by Laurajane Smith Pdf

Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.

Author : Christopher Chowrimootoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520298651

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Middlebrow Modernism by Christopher Chowrimootoo Pdf

"At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This provocative study is situated at the intersection of the history, historiography, and aesthetics of twentieth-century music. It uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving midcentury discussions of the 'middlebrow,' Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it too: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on key moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, Middlebrow Modernism offers a powerful model for recovering shades of gray in the previously black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music"--Provided by publishe

Author : David Morley,Kevin Robins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134865307

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Spaces of Identity by David Morley,Kevin Robins Pdf

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628722109

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Music of a Life by Andreï Makine Pdf

A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem for a Lost Empire, Music of a Life is set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II. Alexeï Berg’s father is a well-known dramatist, his mother a famous opera singer. But during Stalin’s reign of terror in the 1930s they, like millions of other Russians, come under attack for their presumed lack of political purity. Harassed and proscribed, they have nonetheless, on the eve of Hitler’s war, not yet been arrested. And young Alexeï himself, a budding classical pianist, has been allowed to continue his musical studies. His first solo concert is scheduled for May 24, 1941. Two days before the concert, on his way home from his final rehearsal, he sees his parents being arrested, taken from their Moscow apartment. Knowing his own arrest will not be far behind, Alexeï flees to the country house of his fiancée, where again betrayal awaits him. He flees, one step ahead of the dreaded secret police until, taking on the identity of a dead soldier, he enlists in the Soviet army. Thus begins his seemingly endless journey, through war and peace, until he lands, two decades later, in a snowbound train station in the Urals, where he relates his harrowing saga to the novel’s narrator. An international bestseller, Music of a Life is, in the words of Le Monde, “extremely powerful . . . a gem.”

Author : Thomas A. Dubois,B. Marcus Cederström
Publisher : Languages and Folklore of Uppe
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0299327140

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Songs of the Finnish Migration by Thomas A. Dubois,B. Marcus Cederström Pdf

Songs of the Finnish Migration presents music and lyrics for more than eighty Finnish-language immigrant songs, alongside singable English translations and detailed notes on migration history and music in the New World. These songs provide a vivid and imaginative portrayal of momentous migration that forever changed Finnish and Finnish American society.

Author : Sarah Thornton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745668802

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Club Cultures by Sarah Thornton Pdf

This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves.

Author : Larry Sitsky
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781921862410

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Australian Chamber Music with Piano by Larry Sitsky Pdf

This book represents the first critical survey of a section of a rich Australian corpus of chamber music. The author has included various instrumental combinations with piano as well as vocal music with piano. The survey is chronological, as well as by composer. An appendix to the work provides source material for future research into this area. The research has concentrated on progressive modernist music by Australian composers. The commentary utilizes the author's rich experience as composer, pianist and educator.

Author : J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108416368

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Ideology in Britten's Operas by J. P. E. Harper-Scott Pdf

This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable - for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.

Author : Athena Leoussi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748629350

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Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism by Athena Leoussi Pdf

Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. It focuses on the role of ethnic myths, historical memories, symbols and traditions in the creation and maintenance of the collective identity of modern nations. This book explores the different aspects of the ethnosymbolic approach to the study of ethnicity, nationality and nationalism.Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism first introduces the main theoretical considerations that have arisen in nationalism studies in the past two decades. It then presents a collection of case studies covering music and poetry, ethnosymbolism in antiquity, and a wide variety of nations and regions. Areas discussed include Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East, the Far East and India, Africa, and the Americas.Overall the book offers a defence of the methodology of ethnosymbolism and a demonstration of its explanatory power.

Author : Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317040866

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The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 by Rhoderick McNeill Pdf

The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States. Likewise, Australian composers produced a steady stream of symphonies throughout the period from Federation (1901) through to the end of the 1950s. Stylistically, these works ranged from essays in late nineteenth-century romanticism, twentieth-century nationalism, neo-classicism and near-atonality. Australian symphonies were most prolific during the 1950s, with 36 local entries in the 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Symphony competition. This extensive repertoire was overshadowed by the emergence of a new generation of composers and critics during the 1960s who tended to regard older Australian music as old-fashioned and derivative. The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 is the first study of this neglected genre and has four aims: firstly, to show the development of symphonic composition in Australia from Federation to 1960; secondly, to highlight the achievement of the main composers who wrote symphonies; thirdly, to advocate the restoration and revival of this repertory; and, lastly, to take a step towards a recasting of the narrative of Australian concert music from Federation to the present. In particular, symphonies by Marshall-Hall, Hart, Bainton, Hughes, Le Gallienne and Morgan emerge as works of particular note.