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One Hand on the Manuscript: Music in Australian Cultural History 1930-1960

Edited by Nicholas Brown, Peter Campbell, Robyn Holmes, Peter Read and Larry Sitsky. Humanities Research Centre Monograph Series No. 9, ANU, Canberra, 1995

This book arose from a conference, ‘Music and Musicians in Australian Cultural History, 1930-1960', held at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, September 1993. The book has an accompanying CD of music performed at the many concerts given during the conference. The 12 recorded compositions as well as the 19 chapters of the book represent a diverse range of Australian composers, their music and their times.

The breadth and depth of topics covered in this volume makes it a unique and valuable collection in the literature on mid-century Australian music and musical culture.

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Contents:

Introduction – Nicholas Brown

I. MUSICIANS

1. Alfred Hill: Leipzig Backgrounds and Models and teir Significance for the Later Instrumental Music (1920-1960) – Andrew MaCredie
2. Percy Grainger and Australian Identity: The 1930s – Malcolm Gillies
3. Capturing the Ear of the Populace:May Brahe and the Domestic Song Market, 1912-1953 – Kay Dreyfus
4. The Songs of Fritz Bennicke Hart: An Introduction – Peter Tregaer
5. The Piano Sonatas of Roy Agnew: Some Personal Musings – Larry Sitsky
6. Esther Rofe: Theatre Musician – Pauline Petrus
7. Seeking The Prize : Some Background tot he Film Music of Dorian Le Gallienne – Jeff Brownrigg

II. COMPOSITION IN CONTEXT

8. Recalling a Lost Voice: Margaret Sutherland's Sonata for Violin and Piano (1925) – Helen Gifford
9. The Context of Chiaroscuro I by Margaret Sutherland – Ann Ghandar
10. The Pub with no Peer, or Collits' Inn : The First Australian Musical Romance – Bronwen Arthur
11. Australia, Happy Isled: Australian Choral Music in the National Library of Australia – Peter Campbell
12. ‘Stirring Burden of Our Song' – Judith Pickering
13. The Transposed Heads : Peggy Glanvill-Hicks and Thomas Mann – Roger Hillman and Deborah Crisp

III. CROSS-CURRENTS, MOVEMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS

14. Music and Cultural Hierarchy 1918-1939 – John Rickard
15. The Role of Women in the Australian Music Examination Board from 1930 to 1950 – Monique Geitenbeek
16. The Australian National Theatre Movement as the Catalyst for The Australian Opera: Tug-Boat to Flagship – Thérèse Radic
17. From Balletic Binge to Cultural Cringe” Choreographic Music in Australia, 1936-1956 – Joel Crotty
18. Clive Douglas and the ABC: Not a Favourite Aunt – Jennifer Hill
19. Towards a New Cartography: Rethinking Australia's Musical History – Bruce Johnson

Accompanying CD:

    1. Fantasy Trio in B Minor – Miriam Hyde
    2. Prelude for Solo Clarinet – Dulcie Holland
    3. Ballade for Clarinet and Piano – Dulcie Holland
    4. Profiles of China – Peggy Glanville-Hicks
    5. Three studies for Cello and Piano – Don Banks
    6. E=MC2 – James Penberthy
    7. Sonata for Viola and Piano – Margaret Sutherland
    8. ‘Jabbin Jabbin' and ‘Maranoa Lullaby' – (arr.) Arthur Loam
    9. Chaconne – Handel transcribed by Winifred Burston
    10. ‘Australia' from Colitts' Inn – Varney Monk
    11. ‘Australia, Happy Isle' – Lindley Evans
    12. ‘Bless This House' – May Brahe arr. Palmquist

Performers: Perihelion Quartet, Jeanette Russell, Colleen Rae-Gerrard, Alistair Noble, Oriana Chorale, Bengt-Oloc Palquist, Peter Campbell