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

Nicholas Brown, Peter Campbell, robyn Holmes, Peter Read & Larry Sitsky (eds)

This book comprises papers given at a conference, 'Music and Musicians in Australian Cultural History, 1930-1960', held at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 25-29 September 1993.

Contents

1: Alfred Hill: Leipzig Backgrounds and Models and their Significance for the Later Instrumental Music (1920-1960)

2. Percy Grainger and Australian Identity: The 1930s

3. Capturing the Ear of the Populace: May Brahe and the Domestic Song Market, 1912-1953

4. The songs of Fritz Bennicke Hart: An Introduction

5. The Piano Sonatas of Roy Agnew: Some Personal Musings

6. Esther Rofe: Theatre Musician

7. Seeking The Prize: Some Background to the Film Music of Dorian Le Gallienne

8. Recalling a Lost Voice: Margaret Sutherland's Sonata for Violin and Piano

9. The Context of Chiaroscuro I by Margaret Sutherland

10. The Pub with no Peer, or Collits' Inn: The First Australian Musical Romance

11. Australia, Happy Isle: Australian Choral Music in the National Library of Australia

12. 'Stirring Burden of Our Song'

13. The Transposed Heads: Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Thomas Mann

14. Music and Cultural Hierarchy 1918-1939

15. The Role of Women in the Australian Music Examinations Board from 1930 to 1950

16. The Australian National Theatre Movement as the Catalyst for The Australian Opera: Tug-Boat to Flagship

17. From Balletic Binge to Cultural Cringe: Choreographic Music in Australia, 1936-1956

18. Clive Douglas and the ABC: Not a Favourite Aunt

19. Towards a New Cartography: Rethinking Australia's Musical History