The Oxford Companion To Australian Music

Author : Warren Arthur Bebbington
Publisher : Melbourne : Oxford University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046478940

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The Oxford Companion to Australian Music by Warren Arthur Bebbington Pdf

The Oxford Companion to Australian Music is a reference work that will be of interest to music lovers as well as of use to musicians, scholars and students. To date no volume has combined an account of Australia's music with biographical information about its musicians, a critical guide totheir works, publishers and recordings, and a guide to the burgeoning literature in the field. With more than 2,000 entries, the Companion ranges across a wide spectrum, from ancient Aboriginal traditions and European-derived orchestral, operatic and concert music, to Australian folk jazz, country, popular, rock, electronic and experimental music. It covers the music not only of mainstreamaudiences but also of Australia's religious denominations and recent migrant communities. Special attention is given to the distinctive features of Australian musical life: its reliance on government support rather than private or ecclesiastical patronage, its unquenchable appetite for eisteddfods,choral societies and bands; the shadow cast by European traditions; the vicissitudes of its attitudes towards composers; the late development of music criticism and scholarship; and the role of regional cities and towns. There are numerous entries on Aboriginal subjects and on key musical organizations and considerable space is given to a series of longer entries covering musical works, institutions, genres, instruments, terms, and many of the historical contexts of Australian music. These key essays offer anauthoritative framework for a better understanding of the shape and originality of music-making in Australia.

Author : Bruce Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002905207

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The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz by Bruce Johnson Pdf

This first comprehensive overview of the history of Australian jazz combines over 300 entries that survey a wide range of musicians, bands, venues, and record labels, and includes a series of informative essays that provide a coherent historical context.

Author : Gwenda Davey,Graham Seal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:49015002859768

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The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Davey,Graham Seal Pdf

One of the best ways to ascertain a nation's character is to examine its informal or unofficial culture - its folklore. Australians' sense of nationality is defined not merely in relation to the places they inhabit and the careers they pursue, but also via the slang and languages they speak, the jokes and yarns they exchange, the objects they make, the way they behave towards one another, and the games they play. As Australia approaches the centenary of Federation, it is timely that questions should be asked about the nature of the Australian identity in a changing, urbanized, multicultural society. The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore addresses these questions and illustrates the range and importance of Australia's folkloric heritage. Some of Australia's best-known writers, folklorists and academics have contributed articles to the Companion. Entries range from the descriptive (Gumleaf playing) to the analytical (Popular culture and folklore); from country halls to graffiti to archival preservation of audio tapes; from the bunyip to rebetika (Greek blues); from chain letters to patchwork quilts and Wagga rugs. Also included are biographies of notables in the folklore field, and short entries on myths and heroes such as Ned Kelly, Henry Lawson, 'The Wild Colonial Boy' and 'The Dog on the Tucker Box'. Many entries contain references for those wishing to read further on a particular topic, and an appendix supplies bibliographic guidance for researchers. Until recently, Australia was one of the few countries in the world that tended to disregard the collection, preservation, study and recognition of its folk heritage and its contemporary folklore. As well as being an invaluablereference for students, families and cultural historians, The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore is a milestone in the scholarship of Australian folklore.

Author : Bill Kirchner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195183597

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The Oxford Companion to Jazz by Bill Kirchner Pdf

"Essays cover major historical trends and figures, discuss jazz in different countries, review the role of most instruments and consider the place of jazz in other arts, like dance, literature and film." N.Y. Times Book Rev. "This work is an effective single-volume device, leading current listeners to the music while including enough newer scholarship to retain the interest of connoisseurs." Libr J.

Author : Robert Gordon,Olaf Jubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199988747

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The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical by Robert Gordon,Olaf Jubin Pdf

The first comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre from its origins, The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical offers both a historical account of musical theatre from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of key works and productions that illustrate its aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings.

Author : Norman Abjorensen,James C. Docherty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442245020

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Historical Dictionary of Australia by Norman Abjorensen,James C. Docherty Pdf

Australia’s development, from the most unpromising of beginnings as a British prison in 1788 to the prosperous liberal democracy of the present is as remarkable as is its success as a country of large-scale immigration. Since 1942 it has been a loyal ally of the United States and has demonstrated this loyalty by contributing troops to the war in Vietnam and by being part of the “coalition of the willing” in the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and in operations in Afghanistan. In recent years, it has also been more willing to promote peace and democracy in its Pacific and Asian neighbors. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Australia covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Australia.

Author : James C. Docherty
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461671756

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The A to Z of Australia by James C. Docherty Pdf

The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts. While British culture has had the largest influence on the country and its presence can be seen everywhere, the British were not Australia's original populace. The first inhabitants of Australia, the Aborigines, are believed to have migrated from Southeast Asia into northern Australia as early as 60,000 years ago. This distinctive blend of vastly different cultures contributed to the ease with which Australia has become one of the world's most successful immigrant nations. The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets, author James Docherty provides a much needed single volume reference on Australia, from its most unpromising of beginnings as a British jail to the liberal, tolerant, democracy it is today.

Author : David Symons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781134801039

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Before and After Corroboree: The Music of John Antill by David Symons Pdf

John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's post-colonial period. Although a relatively prolific and much esteemed composer in Australia, Antill's wider reputation is sustained chiefly by his famous ballet Corroboree - a work which was perceived to bring an authentic Australian musical style before both a national and international audience for the first time. Through Sir Eugene Goossens' championship, the work was heard by enthusiastic audiences in Australia, Britain, Europe and the USA, and was, for many years, the best-known work of any Australian-born and resident composer. Indeed it has remained, for both Australian and overseas audiences, an Australian musical icon. David Symons traces Antill's development as a composer from his early, pre-Corroboree works, which display a late Romantic to post-impressionist style, through an analysis of the virile, dissonant, primitivist idiom of his magnum opus, to an examination of his later output of theatrical, orchestral and vocal/choral works. The book provides comprehensive and valuable insight into Antill's musical output, at the same time focussing on more detailed analyses of his major works which have reached public performances and/or recordings. In this way the book not only presents a developmental picture of Antill's works, but also demonstrates why they have made him one of Australia's most prominent musical creators of the post-colonial period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 0193003163

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The New Oxford Companion to Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Symons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000206449

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Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers by David Symons Pdf

Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers examines the music of a historically and artistically significant group of Australian composers active during the later post-colonial period (1930s–c. 1960). These composers sought to establish a uniquely Australian identity through the evocation of the country’s landscape and environment, including notably the use of Aboriginal elements or imagery in their music, texts, dramatic scenarios or ‘programmes’. Nevertheless, it must be observed that this word was originally adopted as a manifesto for an Australian literary movement, and was, for the most part, only retrospectively applied by commentators (rather than the composers themselves) to art music that was seen to share similar aesthetic aims. Chapter One demonstrates to what extent a meaningful relationship may or may not be discernible between the artistic tenets of Jindyworobak writers and apparently likeminded composers. In doing so, it establishes the context for a full exploration of the music of Australian composers to whom ‘Jindyworobak’ has come to be popularly applied. The following chapters explore the music of composers writing within the Jindyworobak period itself and, finally, the later twentieth-century afterlife of Jindyworobakism. This will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers of Ethnomusicology, Australian Music and Music History.

Author : Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317040873

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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.

Author : David Pear,Belinda Nemec
Publisher : UoM Custom Book Centre
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781921775420

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Grainger Journal Vol. 1 by David Pear,Belinda Nemec Pdf

Author : Karin Pendle,Melinda Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135384562

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Women in Music by Karin Pendle,Melinda Boyd Pdf

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Gary E. McPherson,Graham F. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199730810

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The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 1 by Gary E. McPherson,Graham F. Welch Pdf

The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Music Education offer a comprehensive overview of the many facets of musical experience, behavior and development in relation to the diverse variety of educational contexts in which they occur. In these volumes, an international list of contributors update and redefine the discipline through fresh and innovative principles and approaches to music learning and teaching.

Author : Rhiannon Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429577154

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The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music by Rhiannon Mathias Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women’s contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology as well as in the music industries. The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole. Part II focuses on what might be termed the more traditional strand of feminist musicology – research which highlights the work of historical and/or neglected composers. Part III explores topics concerned with feminist aesthetics and music creation and Part IV focuses on questions addressing the performance and reception of music and musicians. The narrative of the handbook shifts in Part V to focus on opportunities and leadership in the music professions from a Western perspective. The final section of the handbook (Part VI) provides new frames of context for women’s positions as workers, educators, patrons, activists and promoters of music. This is a key reference work for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in music and gender.