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Peter Sculthorpe A Bio-Bibliography

By Deborah Hayes

ISBN: 0-313-27742-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27742-9

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328 pages, photographs

Greenwood Press

Publication: 10/30/1993

List Price: $86.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

Subjects:

The Arts » Classical Music
The Arts » Opera

Series Title: Bio-Bibliographies in Music

Series Number: 50

Reviews:

...the bio-bibliography provides an excellent background and list of source materials about Sculthorpe for performers, scholars and students.
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Notes.
Hayes provides a lucid and concise biographical sketch. Not only does she skilfully navigate through Sculthorpe's life but importantly charts his compositional career.
—The Newsletter Center for Studies in Australian Music

Description: Sculthorpe is one of Australia's most prominent composers and is among the most important composers on the international scene. Although he is a distinguished academic and popular lecturer, Sculthorpe does not fit any ready-made category of composer or teacher. In a body of work that so far includes orchestral and chamber music in many genres and mediums, opera and other theater music, songs and choral music, and music for documentary and commercial films, radio, and television, he has established a personal musical style and public presence that have shaped the history of 20th-century music in Australia and the world. Owing to circumstances of place and time--Australia in the 20th century--he has been defining, or redefining, the role of composer for himself and his audiences. This book is a record of Sculthorpe's work and of its reception by composer colleagues, performers, critics, and audiences.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Abbreviations
Biography
Works
Discography
Performances
Bibliography
Appendix I: Classified List of Works
Appendix II: Awards, Degrees, Positions
Appendix III: Works Dedicated to Sculthorpe
Title Index
Subject Index

LC Card Number: 93-56774

LCC Class: ML134

Dewey Class: 780


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