The Oxford Companion to Australian Music

The Oxford Companion to Australian Music
Author :
Publisher : Melbourne : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 696
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015046478940
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Australian Music by : Warren Arthur Bebbington

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Australian Music written by Warren Arthur Bebbington and published by Melbourne : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Oxford Companion to Australian Music Related Books

The Oxford Companion to Australian Music
Language: en
Pages: 696
Authors: Warren Arthur Bebbington
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Melbourne : Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
The A to Z of Australia
Language: en
Pages: 554
Authors: James C. Docherty
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-01 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 cultur
The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Gwenda Davey
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 def
Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: David Symons
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers examines the music of a historically and artistically significant group of Australian composers active during the later pos
Historical Dictionary of Australia
Language: en
Pages: 608
Authors: Norman Abjorensen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-05 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 remarkab