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Composing Australia

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Composing Australia : nostalgia and national identity in the music of Malcolm Williamson / Carolyn Philpott.

  • xix, 228 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
  • Published by Lyrebird Press — November, 2018
  • Sales Availability: This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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  • Library Availability: 789.0994/WIL 1 — Reference (not for loan) copy only

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This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.

Australian Artists Analysed in this Book

  Artist
 Malcolm Williamson

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Brilliant, provocative, compassionate-the composer Malcolm Williamson was one of Australia's most famous expatriates. But as Carolyn Philpott explains, his nostalgia for his homeland lasted fifty years, from his emigration in 1953 until his death in 2003. In works such as the ballet The Display, Symphony no. 6 and The Dawn Is at Hand he explored inventive ways of expressing his Australian identity, collaborating with Australian artists, paying homage to Australian musicians and exposing his sorrow for the treatment of Indigenous peoples. As the first book-length examination of Williamson's music, Composing Australia is a portrait of an intriguing and always imaginative Australian.

"It is fifteen years since Malcolm Williamson left us. What he left behind though, is full of richness, colour, depth, originality and wit. The significance of his music for Australia and beyond awaits full recognition and informed analysis. Carolyn Philpott's new book is not only welcome: it is essential and will help to inspire the rediscovery of one of Australia's greatest composers."

ISBN: 9780734037886

Includes bibliographic references and index.


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