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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Fiona Richards is Head of the Music Department at The Open University, UK.
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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; Discography and website references; Bibliography; Index.
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; Discography and website references; Bibliography; Index.
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