Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society (2nd ed.)
| Author | : Roger Covell |
| Publisher | : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2016-12-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780734037831 |
| ISBN-13 | : 073403783X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (83X Downloads) |
Download or read book Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society (2nd ed.) written by Roger Covell and published by Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described on its first publication in 1967 as “a scholarly account of Australian music that is also entertaining social history”, Roger Covell’s Austrlaia’s Music: Themes of a New Society has become a classic of Australian music history for its beautifully written explorations of almost two hundred years of music-making across classical, Indigenous and Anglo-Celtic traditions. This revised edition, including more than sixty musical examples, is supplemented by a new postscript written by the author.