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MS 3501 Alice Moyle Collection FINDING MOYLE MS 3501 Alice Moyle Collection FINDING AID Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Prepared September 2004, updated April 2005 and December 2019 CONTENTS Page ACCESS ................................................................................................................................................ 4 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE .......................................................................................................... 4 ONLINE EXHIBITION ........................................................................................................................ 6 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ...................................................................................................................... 6 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS ..................................................................................................................... 8 Series 1 Correspondence, 1927-94.......................................................................................... 8 Series 2 Talks and papers, 1964-91 ........................................................................................ 9 Series 3 Gudarrgu Project ..................................................................................................... 12 Series 4 Ethnomusicology courses taught, 1960-72.............................................................. 13 Series 5 Melograms produced at UCLA, 1970-72 ................................................................ 14 Series 6 Materials on non-Australian oceanic music............................................................ 17 Series 8 Musical transcriptions and analyses ....................................................................... 19 Series 9 Films for combined dance/music notation projects, 1968-72 ................................. 21 Series 10 Computer database projects .................................................................................. 21 Series 11 International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Colloquium, Townsville 1988 ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 Series 12 Tasmanian material ............................................................................................... 23 Series 13 Research notes on ethnomusicology ...................................................................... 24 Series 14 Educational kit, 1980-91 ....................................................................................... 25 Series 15 Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) material, 1963-88 ................... 26 Series 16 Companion booklets to AIAS disc recordings, 1967-77........................................ 28 Series 17 Notes and manuscripts ........................................................................................... 30 Series 18 Diary notes, field notebooks and personal papers, 1956-95................................. 31 Series 19 Maps ....................................................................................................................... 33 ADDITION, FEBRUARY 2003 ............................................................................................................. 35 Series 20 Source Lists ............................................................................................................ 35 Series 21 Diary and field notebooks, 1962-64 ...................................................................... 36 Series 22 Groote Eylandt – Field notebooks, 1962-86 ......................................................... 37 Series 23 Groote Eylandt – Research material, 1963-88...................................................... 38 Series 24 Groote Eylandt – Unpublished book material, 1979-2003 ................................... 39 Series 25 Computer database projects continued, 1975-81.................................................. 41 Series 26 Miscellaneous tape documentation, 1959-94 ........................................................ 43 Series 27 IASA (Australia), 1978-87 ..................................................................................... 44 Series 28 MSA (ACT Chapter), 1978-93 ............................................................................... 45 Series 29 Miscellaneous conference material, 1977-84........................................................ 46 Series 30 Miscellaneous correspondence and related material, 1968-95 ............................ 47 Series 31 Undergraduate studies and research notes, 1945-54 ........................................... 49 Series 32 Post-graduate teaching and research, 1956-78 .................................................... 51 Series 33 Talks, papers etc., 1958-75 .................................................................................... 52 Series 34 Published material on ethnomusicology by Alice Moyle, 1950-85 ....................... 55 Series 35 Research and writings on orchestras, composers etc., 1944-57 ........................... 56 Series 36 Diary notes and personal material, 1886-2005 .................................................... 57 Series 37 Other papers .......................................................................................................... 59 BOX LIST............................................................................................................................................ 60 Page 3 of 63 ACCESS The bulk of the material is available to be read, and a reasonable portion may be copied for private study and research and/or published with acknowledgement. [Access code R1 C1b]. The exception is Series 37 which is available to be read, copied and quoted. [Access code A1 B5] SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Date range: 1886-2005 (bulk 1962-95) Extent: 11.3 metres (60 boxes + 3 folio boxes + 2 folio folder boxes or binders) plus boxed ephemera and map folder. Alice Moyle, a pioneer in ethnomusicology and Aboriginal Studies in Australia, and founding member of AIATSIS, deposited the bulk of her personal papers, correspondence, manuscripts, audio-visual materials and publications with AIATSIS in 1996. At that time a special AIATSIS Council grant was made available for the creation of a detailed and systematic listing of these materials, and their relocation to the appropriate collections within the Institute. This project was initially undertaken by Grace Koch and Stephen Wild who sorted the material in Moyle’s office at the Institute. Koch then sorted a further 35 boxes from Moyle’s Sydney home. Kathleen Oien completed the sorting, arranging and listing Moyle’s personal papers and publications and the physical rehousing of this material within the various collections within AIATSIS. She then prepared a ‘Sheaf catalogue’ to the manuscript part of the collection that has since been updated to become Series 1-19 of this finding aid. All slides, photographs, audio tapes, disc recordings that formed part of this collection can be accessed through the Audiovisual Archives. See Series 37 Item 1 for further details. In 2002 Alice Moyle’s family added to this collection by depositing with the Library an additional 21 cartons and a large number of books and journals that were collected by Moyle. In March 2003 the Audiovisual Archives transferred to the Library further material including Moyle’s original ‘source lists’ related to audio tapes Moyle collected from various researchers before 1970 [primarily of tapes already in the Audiovisual Archives], and field notebooks. In this finding aid the 2002 and 2003 acquisitions have been described as Addition 2003. In 2019, several large flat items were found in the AIATSIS library and were added to this collection by Angela Schilling (they had been sighted and identified by Grace Koch in 2006 but were not added to any collection). These items have been added to Series 5 and Series 19, and described in the Series Description below. All items added in 2019 are held in the Manuscript Plan Cabinet due to their large size. Square brackets have been used in this finding aid to indicate additional information derived from the collection and sources other than that supplied by the author. Page 4 of 63 AIATSIS Library wishes to thank Carolyn Lowry (Moyle’s daughter), Grace Koch, Jill Stubington and Julie Waddy for their assistance in the preparation of this finding aid. Page 5 of 63 ONLINE EXHIBITION Musical Connections – the Life and Work of Alice Marshall Moyle, an online exhibition, can be found on the AIATSIS web site at http://aiatsis.gov.au/lbry/ dig_prgm/alice_moyle/moyle_hm.htm. Over a hundred of the letters from Series 1, Correspondence, 1927–94 are included in this exhibition as well as other exhibits offering insights into Moyle and her work. There are also links to other web sites which may be of interest. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Alice Marshall Moyle (nee Brown) was born at Bloemfontein, South Africa on 25 December 1908 and migrated to Australia with her parents Margaretta and Ellison Brown about 1912. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Music in piano and cello in 1930 and spent a number of years as a private piano teacher (1930-33) and a journalist. She married John Murray Moyle in 1933 and they had two daughters. While her husband served in the RAAF during World War II Moyle was music critic for Wireless Weekly in Sydney (1939-43) commenting on orchestral and broadcasting developments. In the late 1940s Moyle returned to formal academic studies at the
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