The Symphony in Australia 1960-2020
Authored book
Book Title | The Symphony in Australia 1960-2020 |
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Book Category | Authored book |
ERA Publisher ID | 3137 |
Authors | McNeill, Rhoderick |
Page Range | 1-267 |
Number of Pages | 276 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9780367622923 |
9780367622947 | |
9781003108740 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003108740 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003108740/symphony-australia-1960-2020-rhoderick-mcneill |
Abstract | The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 1970s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminish that seemed harbingers of the symphony's demise. From the late 1970s onwards, many Australian composers chose to work in styles that admitted modal and tonal melodic and harmonic elements with regular pulse. Major cycles of symphonies by Carl Vine, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards began to appear in the late 1980s. Other prolific symphonists like Paul Paviour (10 symphonies), David Morgan (15 symphonies), Philip Bracanin (11), Peter Tahourdin (5), John Polglase (7) and many others demonstrated a revised interest in the form.This trend continued into the first two decades of the present century with symphonies by Matthew Hindson, Katy Abbott, Stuart Greenbaum, Andrew Schultz, Mark Isaacs and Gordon Kerry. This renewed interest in the symphony reflects similar trends in Britain and the United States. Rhoderick McNeill provides a comprehensive introduction to the large body of music with the aim of making the music and its composers known to concert-goiers, music educators and students, conductors and music entrepreneurs. |
Keywords | Symphonies orchestral music composition |
Article Publishing Charge (APC) Funding | Project Funding |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 360306. Musicology and ethnomusicology |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Creative Arts |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/yyvz1/the-symphony-in-australia-1960-2020
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