Australian
music publications
Periodicals
Australian
Music Industry Directory.
Lists 5000 companies and individuals
from Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Available from immedia.
Australian
Yearbook of Music and Music Education 2001/2002. Third edition compiled
and edited by Graham A.R. Bartle. Callaway International Resource Centre for
Music and Music Education.
Opera
Opera. Australia's independent monthly newspaper of opera in
Australia. Opera-Opera (Pallinor Pty Ltd, PO Box R361, Royal Exchange, NSW
1225
Books
& articles
Buttrose,
Charles. Playing
for Australia: a story about ABC orchestras and music in Australia. Melbourne:
MacMillan, 1982.
Cahill,
Anne. The
community music handbook.: a practical guide to developing music projects and
organisations. Strawberry
Hills, NSW: Currency Press in association with the Music Council of Australia,
1998.
Cargher, John. Opera
and ballet in Australia. Sydney: Cassell, 1977. 352p, illus
Covell,
Roger. Australia's
music: themes of a new society. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1967.
Currency
companion to music and dance in Australia / edited by John Whiteoak and
Aline Scott-Maxwell. Sydney: Currency Press, 2003
Davis,
Richard. Anna Bishop: the adventures of an intrepid prima donna.
Sydney: Currency Press in association with the National Library of Australia,
1996.
Doust, Russell. That other opera house
in National Library of Australia News, vol 17 no 2, Nov 2006 (pages
15-18). Reflects on the history of opera in Australia and the theatres in
which they were presented.
Downes,
Peter. The Pollards: a family and its child and adult opera companies
in New Zealand and Australia, 1880-1910. Wellington, NZ: Steel
Roberts,2002. 224 p.
Elms,
Lauris. The singing Elms: the autobiography of Lauris Elms.
Bowerbird Press, 2001.
Elphinstone, Michael and Hancock, Wayne. When
Austral sang: the biography of Florence Austral. Magill, SA: Wayne Hancock
& Michael Elphinstone, 2005. 655 p. Ill., ports.
Goossens,
Renée. Belonging: a memoir. Sydney: ABC Books, 2003.
Gyger,
Alison. Civilising the colonies: pioneering opera in Australia,
Sydney: Opera-Opera (Pallinor), 1999.
Gyger,
Alison. Opera in the Antipodes: opera in Australia 1881-1939. Sydney:
Currency Press and Pellinor, 1990.
Harrison,
Kenneth. Dark man, white world : [biography of Harold Blair].
Cheltenham, Vic: Novalit Australia, 1975.
Jordan, Robert. Music and civil society in New South Wales,
1788-1809 in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical
Society vol 98, part 2, December 2012: 193-2010.
Love,
H.H.R.
The golden age of Australian opera: WS Lyster and his companies, 1861-1880.
Sydney: Currency Press, 1981
MacKenzie, B
and MacKenzie, F. Singers of Australia: from Melba to Sutherland. Melbourne:
Lansdowne, 1967.
Moffat,
James. Florence Austral: a biography. Sydney:
Currency Press in association with the National Library of Australia,
1995.
Murdoch,
James. Australia's
contemporary Composers: Melbourne: MacMillan, 1972.
Murdoch,
James. A handbook
of Australian music. Melbourne: Sun Books, 198
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Murdoch,
James. Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a transformed life. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon
Press, 2002.
Orchard,
W.A.
Music in Australia: more than 150 years of development. Melbourne: Georgian
House, 1950.
The Oxford companion to Australian music /
edited by Warren Bebbington, Mebourne: OUP, 1997.
Oxenbould, Moffat. Timing is everything: a
life backstage at the Opera. Sydney: ABC Books, 2005.
Skinner, Graeme. Peter Sculthorpe: the
making of an Australian composer. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007.
Titner, Tanya Buchdahl. Out of time: the vexed life of Georg
Titner. Crawley, WA: UWA Press, 2011.
Van Straten, Frank. National treasure: the story of Gertrude
Johnson and the National Theatre. South Melbourne, Victoria Press,
1994. With 1 sound recording of selections by Gertrude Johnson and other
singers of the National Theatre.
Westlake,
Donald. Dearest John: the Story of John Lemmon, flute virtuoso and
Nellie Melba. Terrey Hills, NSW: Bowerbird Press, 1997.
Westlake,
Donald. From me to you: the life and times of Clive Amadio. Terrey
Hills, NSW: Bowerbird Press, 1999.
