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The soundscapes of Australia: music, place and spirituality
Authors : Many contributors
Ros BANDT, Anne BOYD, John BRADLEY, Deborah HAYES, Gordon KERRY, Bronia KORNHAUSER, Linda KOUVARAS, Christine LOGAN, Sally MAC ARTHUR, Elizabeth MAC INLAY ATSIS, Fiona MAGOWAN, Fiona RICHARDS, David SYMONS, Peter TONER, Peter TREGEAR.
Edited by : Fiona RICHARDS
Published : Ashgate, April 2007
Language : English
Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 352 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4072-1
Australia offers tremendous scope for understanding the relationship between music, spirituality and landscape. This major, generously-illustrated new volume examines, in fifteen chapters, some of the ways in which composers and performers have attempted to convey a sense of the Australian landscape through musical means.
The book embraces the different approaches of ethnomusicology, gender studies, musical analysis, performance studies and cultural history. Ranging across the country, from remote parts of the Northern Territory to the bustling east coast cities, from Tasmanian wilderness to tropical Queensland, the book includes references to art and literature as well as music. Issues of national identity, belonging and aboriginalization are an integral part of the book, with indigenous responses to place examined alongside music from the western orchestral, chamber and choral repertories.
The book provides valuable insight into a wide range of music inspired by Australia, from the Yanyuwa people to Jewish communities in Victoria; from Peter Sculthorpe's opera Quiros to the work of European expats living in Australia before the Second World War; from historic Ealing film scores to contemporary sound installations.
The work of many significant composers is discussed in detail, among them : Ross Edwards, Barry Conyngham, David Lumsdaine, Anne Boyd and Fritz Hart. Throughout the book there is a sense of the vibrancy and diversity of the music inspired by the sights and sounds of the Australian landscape.
Fiona Richards is Senior Lecturer at the Open University (OU). She read music at Durham University, followed by a postgraduate year as a bassoonist at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. Freelance orchestral and teaching work was combined with study for an MMus at the University of London, Goldsmiths' College. She subsequently taught on the undergraduate music courses at Goldsmiths and at Kingston University.
Dr Christine Logan is currently Head of Music and Music Education and Senior Lecturer in the School of Music & Music Education at the University of NSW.
She completed AMusA and LMusA in piano and LTCL in recorder playing whilst a student of The Conservatorium High School. After graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Teaching and Performing Diplomas (DSCM) in 1974 and 1975, she completed a BMus (Hons) and MMus (Hons) at Sydney University, where her principal teacher was Elizabeth Kozma.
Christine was the recipient of The Sydney Moss Travelling Scholarship, awarded once every 5 years by Sydney University. This enabled her to undertake doctoral studies in the USA with the eminent Hungarian pianist Bela Siki at the University of Cincinnati. She graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree specialising in piano performance with a cognate in music theory. She was awarded a scholarship to participate in masterclasses with Menahem Pressler at the Banff Centre in Canada.
Contents :
Introduction : spirit of place, spiritual journeys / Fiona Richards
Landscape, spirit and music : an Australian Story / Anne Boyd
Colin Bright and the psyche of place / Christine Logan
Women, spirituality, landscape : the music of Anne Boyd, Sarah Hopkins and Moya Henderson / Sally Macarthur
Singing the land, singing the family : song, place and spirituality amongst the Yanyuwa / Elizabeth Mackinlay and John Bradley
Words and music : Clive Douglas and the Jindyworobak Manifesto / David Symons
A case of discontiguity : musical and cultural irony in the situation of the Lubavitch community of Shepparton, Victoria / Kay Dreyfus and Bronia Kornhauser
Visions of the great south land in Peter Sculthorpe's opera Quiros / Deborah Hayes
Sing a country of the mind : the articulation of place in Dhalwangu song / Peter Toner
European sounds, Australian echoes : the music of Marshall-Hall, Hill and Hart / Peter Tregea
An expatriate Englishman : Fritz Hart in Australia / Anne-Marie Forbes
Journeys across Australia : Ealing film scores of the 1940s and '50s / Fiona Richards
"From Port Essington to the Himalayas" : music, place and spirituality in two contemporary Australian compositions / Linda Kouvaras
To be alone : the theme of isolation in the music of Barry Conyngham / Gordon Kerry
Sonic inscriptions : sound installation and acoustic art in Australia / Ros Bandt
Spirit, place and power in Arnhem land traditional and Christian music / Fiona Magowan.
You can download the introduction there (PDF Format) :
http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Soundscapes_of_Australia_Intro.pdf
The full contents : http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Soundscapes_of_Australia_Cont.pdf
The Index : http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Soundscapes_of_Australia_Index.pdf
To read it :
http://books.google.com/books?id=QKdEMNzz-t4C&dq=Fiona Richards the sou…
Liens :
Frank Martin 1890 - 1974
Coffret 2 CD
Interprètes : Julie Adam, piano; Christine Logan, piano.
Genre musical : Classique - Musique de chambre
Date de sortie : 26/02/2009
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/music/frpubs.htm
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=362130
http://www.ameb.nsw.edu.au/support/adviser_keyboard.html
http://www.hindson.com.au/ross/prognotes 2/DawnNotes.html
http://www.usyd.edu.au/research/opportunities/supervisors/630
COMPOSERS :
Ross EDWARDS
http://www.rossedwards.com/
http://www.stellarsonoris.com/t697-Star-Chant-Ross-Edwards.htm#p2238
Barry CONYNGHAM
http://www.conyngham.net/
David LUMSDAINE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lumsdaine
Anne BOYD
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/boyd-anne
Fritz BENNICKE HART
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Bennicke_Hart |
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