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'Australia offers tremendous scope for understanding the relationship between music, spirituality and landscape. This illustrated 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.' Source: The Soundscapes of Australia-Summary (Sighted: 31/03/2009)
Contents
* Contents derived from the Ashgate
, 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Acknowledgements, selected work extract (p. xi-xii)
- Introduction : Spirit of Place,Spiritual Journeys, selected work extract (p. 1-10)
- Landscape, Spirit, and Music : An Australian Story, selected work criticism (p. 11-33)
- Colin Bright and Psyche of Place, selected work criticism (p. 35-50)
- Women, Spirituality, Landscape : The Music of Anne Boyd, Sarah Hopkins and Moya Henderson, selected work criticism (p. 51-74)
- Singing the Land Singing the Country, selected work criticism (p. 75-91)
- Words and Music : Clive Douglas and the Jindyworobak Manifesto, selected work criticism (p. 93-115)
- A Case of Discontiguity : Musical and Cultural Irony in the Situation of the Lubavitch Community of Shepparton, Victoria, selected work criticism (p. 117-146)
- Visions of the Great South Land in Peter Scullthorp's Opera Quiros, selected work poetry (p. 147-164)
- Sing a Country of the Mind : The Articulation of Place in Dhalwangu Song, selected work criticism (p. 166-184)
- European Sounds, Australian Echoes : The Music of Marshall-Hall, Hill and Hart, selected work criticism (p. 185-197)
- An Expatriate Englishman : Fritz Hart in Australia, selected work criticism (p. 199-211)
- Journeys Across Australia : Ealing Film Scores of the 1940's and 50's, selected work criticism (p. 213-228)
- From Port Essington to the Himalayas : Music, Place and Spirituality in Two Contemporary Australian Compositions, selected work criticism (p. 229-245)
- To Be Alone : The Theme of Isolation in the Music of Barry Conyngham, selected work criticism (p. 247-263)
- Sonic Inscriptions : Sound Instillation and Acoustic Art in Australia, selected work criticism (p. 265-279)
- Spirit, Place and Power in Arnhem Land : Traditional and Christian Music, selected work criticism (p. 281-296)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 10 2008;
— Review of The Soundscapes of Australia : Music, Place and Spirituality 2007 anthology lyric/song
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Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 3 no. 10 2008;
— Review of The Soundscapes of Australia : Music, Place and Spirituality 2007 anthology lyric/song
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