Australian Music Education resource guide

Music resources at your fingertips Quickly and easily find music teaching resources and materials relating to Australian contemporary classical music, improvised jazz, experimental music and sound art. Our website and collection provides access to:

INSIDE • Biographical information on over 600 artists Fast-track your library searching 2 • Resource materials to support curriculum content Using the digital library 2 • Customised education kits New releases: education resources 3 • Repertoire listings of works suitable for high school performance Popular education resources 4 • Over 34,000 scores, recordings and information resources – including online audio Books on Australian music and score excerpts for a majority of works and composers 7 • Monthly eNews with the latest information on the Australian music landscape Books on jazz, Indigenous music, • Online magazine Resonate, featuring in-depth articles and discussion, blog articles, composition and performance 8 news and commentary; interviews with composers, sound artists and performers.

Recordings of Australian music 9 Much of the content on the AMC website is freely available for online visitors, with some Post-secondary music institutions 10 services, such as digital and physical library loans, available only to members. Music for youth ensembles 11 Youth music programs in Australia 11 NEW resources for performance, Resonate magazine: composition and musicology in-depth features, news and blogs 12 In 2012 the Australian Music Centre released three new education Resources on demand: resources for classroom teaching. (See website for more recent kits.) become a member With a focus on analysing composition techniques and how composers turn inspiration into a work of music, The music of Become a School Member for $150 Liza Lim is centred around the work of the UK-based Australian composer, Liza Lim. The kit also examines the use of Indigenous and School members enjoy full access to the Aboriginal music influencing Lim’s composition process. Australian Music Centre physical and digital collection for all school staff. The music of Liza Lim includes score reading and listening exercises, composition exercises, and discussion of advanced Members receive: performance practice issues and draws on a number of multi-media • Loan access to borrow scores, CDs and resources to engage student interest. books for study & perusal. Items in the physical collection can be posted In another release, experienced classroom educator, Philip Cooney, directly to you has arranged 11 popular Australian compositions for performance • Digital loans available for over 8,000 use in the classroom. scores – download PDF scores for perusal from your desk Classroom arrangements include works by Matthew Hindson, Elena Kats-Chernin, Graeme Koehne, James Ledger, Peter • 10% discount on purchases including Sculthorpe, Paul Stanhope and Carl Vine. education kits and resource books • Access to our members-only Written for high school ensembles and small jazz bands, composer/ Opportunities listing, including performer Gai Bryant’s Jazz for school ensembles features competitions, prizes and awards, and 5 original arrangements that can be performed in a number of workshops different instrumentation combinations and provide freedom for students at different levels of skill to be involved. The kit contains Student memberships for $25 scores, performance materials, background notes and teaching For just $25 secondary students can access activities. the digital and physical library collection www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/shop/education of scores, books and recordings for composition and musicology research and Australian Music Centre | www.australianmusiccentre.com.au finding performance repertoire. Phone (02) 9935 7805 | Toll Free 1300 651 834 | Fax (02) 9935 7702 Find out more about membership online. Email [email protected] Fast track your search for music and resources

Using the Australian Music Centre Website and Library Our library catalogue is publicly available online. You can search for repertoire and resources without even leaving your desk. If you are a member, you can borrow a large portion of the collection for perusal and study, either as a digital loan (over 8,000 scores available), or as a physical loan (published scores and CD recordings). Physical loans can be posted out to you at cost.

Searching for instrument repertoire Search hints: • If the work has an audio or score 1. Go to www.australianmusiccentre.com.au sample, you can see this in the search Type the name of your instrument in the search box and hit enter (‘Browse all results 2. works’ if your instrument has an overview page) Audio samples – click the button To the left of your results, use the options under ‘Refine your search’ to narrow to play 3. down results – just click the headings for options to refine by a number of Score samples – click the icon to criteria such as duration, year of composition or level of difficulty. You can also open a PDF excerpt from the sheet refine by whether you can purchase sheet music or recordings, or if you can music borrow the score from the digital library. • No idea where to start? Try the Clicking on a title in the search results will take you to a page with more detail Introductions to Australian music (in 4. on the work, including any score and audio samples that may be available the ‘Find music’ menu) • We have dedicated HSC repertoire Researching lists on our HSC page Composers, improvisers and sound artists: • From www.australianmusiccentre.com.au type the artist’s name into the search box, Borrowing or browse our list of represented artists at australianmusiccentre.com.au/default/artists • All represented artists have a biography page, including details about their work, The Digital Library and additional links through to browse their work, articles by or about them, events Members can borrow up to 30 digital featuring their music, and CDs featuring their work available for purchase. score loans per month. • If you’re able to visit our library, we hold biography files on many composers, including Login to your online account program notes, reviews, and news articles. Materials can also be photocopied and 1.(or create an account from our posted for a service fee. homepage) Articles Find the music you want to borrow • Browse articles from the Resonate homepage – just click Resonate in the menu bar 2.and go to the page for the Sheet Music of the work. • You can also do a keyword search from our search box – type a word or phrase into the search box and click ‘Go’ (or just hit enter). At the top of the search results select the Click on the link to ‘Download a ‘Articles’ tab to find articles relating to your search. 3.three-week perusal copy of this score’. • Visit www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/resonate For more details, see our online ‘Guide to using the digital library‘ Start searching here australianmusiccentre.com.au/guides/teachers

Physical Loans Members can place loan requests by Refine search here emailing library@australianmusiccentre. com.au or by contacting us by phone, fax or visiting the library. • You can borrow up to 10 physical items at one time • Include composer, work name and shelf numbers in your loan request (e.g. 'Q 788.32/EDW 1', 'CD 248') • We can post loan items out to you at the cost of postage • You can visit the library Monday to Thursday, 10am - 5pm or on Fridays by prior appointment. page 2 Australian music education resource guide 2013 New releases: Education resources > See website for more recent kits.

The Music of Liza Lim Price: $105; Members: $94.50

The music of Liza Lim is a new education resource from the Australian Music Centre, designed for senior secondary and early tertiary teaching. By looking at works written during a period when Lim was becoming increasingly engaged with Indigenous cultures, the resource discusses ways of exploring sound beyond traditional approaches to music writing, and shows how a composer integrates an understanding of something non-musical into a musical context. The material and resources are particularly suitable for: • Senior secondary and early tertiary study • HSC study - Australian Music of the last 25 years • VCE study - Music Investigation, Music Performance, and Music Style and Composition; particularly suitable for Music Style and Composition Unit 3, in examining contextual issues and Music Performance Units 3 and 4 Prepared by Kim Waldock, Head of Education for Symphony, The music of Liza Lim examines a range of Lim’s work, from the solo cello work Invisibility, through Songs found in dream for mixed chamber ensemble, to the full orchestral works The Compass, and Pearl, Ochre, Hair String - all works that exhibit strong influences from Indigenous and Aboriginal music making. The resource explores the compositional devices Lim uses to reflect these influences. Analyses of works includes elements of music and compositional devices such as instrumentation, tone colour, pitch, texture, structure, rhythm and dynamics. Exercises provided incorporate score reading and listening exercises to stimulate critical response and analysis from students, and includes a number of compositional exercises. Advanced performance practice issues are also discussed, such as extended performance techniques, notation, altered tuning and the use of microtones and multiphonics. Including sample scores and audio recordings, The music of Liza Lim also references a number of online resources, including video footage of performances where students will be able to see some of the extended performance techniques in practice.

classroom ARRANGEMENTS Prepared by experienced classroom educator, Philip Cooney, these eleven arrangements for the secondary school classroom of works by Australian composers are designed to complement the study of Australian music by allowing students to perform the musical examples that they explore through listening and composition activities. Each arrangement contains a musical theme, available for performance by most instruments, together with an accompaniment based on the original piece. To assist with differentiation according to student ability a simplified part is also included, which may be transposed for other instruments, if required. These arrangements are not intended as replacements for the original pieces or for concert performance, but are intended to enhance the learning of students and the quality of a school’s music program. Arrangements include: Matthew Hindson RPM From Kakadu Elena Kats-Chernin Our Bridge Overture Peter Sculthorpe Left Bank Waltz Graeme Koehne Powerhouse Peter Sculthorpe Music for Bali James Ledger Indian Pacific Peter Sculthorpe Port Arthur: in Memoriam Paul Stanhope Helter Skelter Peter Sculthorpe Small Town Carl Vine V Price: $195; Members: $175.50

Jazz for School Ensembles Jazz for school ensembles provides a resource for the secondary study and performance of jazz, utilising five original arrangements by Gai Bryant, suitable for high school ensembles or small jazz bands. The kit contains scores, performance materials, background notes and teaching activities. The works can be performed in a number of different instrumentation combinations and provide freedom for students at different levels of skill to be involved. The notes for teachers include easy-to-follow suggestions of building players’ skills from beginner through to more complex improvisation techniques. Material in the kit can be used for one-off lessons and for performance purposes. The works studied in the kit are original arrangements, covering the jazz standard formats of Calypso, Minor Blues, Jazz Waltz, Jazz funk and Swing. Price: $105.00; Members: $94.50 page 3 Australian music education resource guide 2013 Popular education resources

Music in a Frame Dedicated to the work of Ann Carr-Boyd, this kit by Frank O’Brien will introduce secondary and tertiary music students to the way in which a composer germinates the initial seed of composition, develops these ideas using the concepts of music, appropriates and transforms existing musical ideas and styles, and arranges original themes from one form to another. Four works by Carr-Boyd have been selected for close analysis. The kit has links to the syllabus for Years 7 through 12. Music in a frame includes articles on musical genres that have influenced Carr-Boyd’s compositional style, and musicology/aural tasks for senior secondary school students. The accompanying CD includes works performed by pianist John Martin. Price: $105.00; Members: $94.50

DANCE WITH NATURE: The chamber music of This resource, by Philip Cooney, has been especially designed for secondary and tertiary level study of chamber music by Ross Edwards, covering seven short works; Binyang (clarinet and percussion), Marimba Dances, More Marimba Dances, Ecstatic Dance II (flute duet), Water Spirit Song (cello), Etymalong (piano) and Piano Trio. The kit contains easy-to-use question and activity sections, musical examples, classroom arrangements of music, an interview with the composer, and is accompanied by a CD from the performance at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. Dance with nature includes outlines of NSW music syllabus links and an overview of links to Victorian Learning Standards (VELS) and VCE Music. Price: $55.00; Members: $49.50

SCULTHORPE: an Icon of Australian Music This education kit is designed to enhance the information base and skills of music students at secondary level, focusing on aural and musicological comprehension. It introduces the composer with a general discussion of his life, career and works, followed by six units with background, analyses and discussions of seven works on the included CD. Kit prepared by Graeme Skinner. Works included are Irkanda IV (1991) for string quartet, Left Bank Waltz (1971) for piano solo, Djilile (arr. 2009) for piano solo, Night Song (1993) for clarinet, violin and piano, The Stars Turn (1972) for voice and piano, Sun in Me (2009) for voice and piano, Dream Tracks (1992) for clarinet, violin and piano.

Price: $55.00; Members: $49.50

INVENTING ELENA: The Music of Elena Kats-Chernin This resource is designed to enhance the aural and musicological skills of both secondary and tertiary music students and includes background information, score excerpts and activities for students, as well as a CD of Kats-Chernin’s compositions, performed by Kats-Chernin and Sydney Omega Ensemble. Improvisation activities and classroom-styled arrangements are also provided to enable a practical exposure to the compositions. Works included are Re-invention No. 1, 2 and 3, Blue Silence, Eliza Aria – string quartet version, and Pink Breasted Robin in Silvery Light. Resource prepared by Mark Grandison.

Price: $80.00; Members: $72.00

Out of the Blue/Antarctica: film music by nigel westlake This resource has been designed to provide information for teachers and students about film music and the techniques of film music composition. Resource prepared by Kim Waldock. Out of the Blue is focused on Antarctica, the suite for solo guitar and orchestra, an arrangement of music from the film of the same name. The kit includes a CD recording by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by , and features background information on the composer, the genre and the guitar, as well as an analysis of the suite and a variety of classroom activities designed for elective music students in years 9-12. Price: $100.00; Members: $90.00 page 4 Australian music education resource guide 2013 Popular education resources

Wheatbelt: Choral work for Senior School Choir

Includes: Study guide, CD, full score and set of performance parts

Choral work for Senior School Choir commissioned by the Australian Society for Music Education, 2007. Iain Grandage’s choral work Wheatbelt, with text by Kevin Gillam, was commissioned by the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) for performance by youth and school choirs. The choral piece itself is quite challenging and so is most suitable for more mature school choirs as well as youth and community choirs. The intention of this study guide is to expose students to the creative process of musical composition by focusing on specific techniques used by a composer in setting a poem to music for a full SATB choir. In examining how Iain Grandage employs particular musical elements and ‘controls’, students can then be encouraged to apply them to their own compositions. Activities in the resource involve students in the three basic areas of musical activity – listening, composing, performing – as well as covering a range of musical elements and concepts: Text: adapting and setting a poem to music; use of repetition for musical purposes Texture/Timbre: addition of percussion and vocal effects to create atmosphere Rhythm: displacement of beat and use of cross-rhythms Melody: use of particular intervals and use of melodic ostinati Harmony/Tonality: use of particular modes; use of relative minor/major modes Form: arch form Price: $50.00; Members: $45.00

White Ghost Dancing: The orchestral music of ross edwards Designed by Philip Cooney for secondary and tertiary level study of orchestral music, activities have been prepared for White Ghost Dancing, Concerto for Guitar and Strings, Veni Creator Spiritus and Chorale and Ecstatic Dance (Enyato I). It contains easy-to-use question and activity sections, musical examples and classroom arrangements of music, and is accompanied by the ABC Classics recording of the same name. The resource contains introductory information about the composition of each work, a listening guide, and listening, score-reading and composition activities that will help students to explore and understand the compositional style and technique of Ross Edwards. There are also two classroom arrangements of music from the CD (complete with transposed parts). Price: $75.00; Members: $67.50

Clocks: the music of elena Kats-Chernin This resource explores the music of leading Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Based on the CD of the same name, author Stephen Lalor examines Russian Rag, Variations in a Serious Black Dress and the title work, Clocks. This music resource kit has been compiled for senior secondary schools and tertiary institutions, and fits syllabus requirements for the study of Australian music. It assumes a background in music literacy including an understanding of intervals, chords, keys, rhythm patterns, music notation and elementary knowledge of orchestral and other instruments. Price: $95.00; Members: $85.50

Our Home, Our Land: Contemporary Aboriginal Music This contemporary Aboriginal music resource kit is aimed at secondary schools, both junior and senior, and fits syllabus requirements for the study of contemporary popular and Australian music. The kit accompanies the CD Our Home, Our Land released by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, in Alice Springs.

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Find all of our education resources online Selected books - music in Australia Music in Australia Intercultural music: Australian Composers Creation & interpretation New classical music : Edited by Sally Macarthur, Bruce Between Two Worlds: Composing Australia Crossman and Ronaldo Morelos. The music of By Gordon Kerry Price: $29.95 David Lumsdaine Price $34.95 A collection of refereed papers By Michael Hall This book offers an approachable selected from the conference component of the Price: $45.00 2006 Aurora New Music Festival and evocative introduction to This book about David classical music composed in Australia in recent Music of the spirit Lumsdaine is both illuminating and thorough, decades. With a balance of historical background and is an excellent starting point for the study and detailed description, composer and music Edited by Michael Atherton & of the music of one of the most intriguing journalist Gordon Kerry explores a number of Bruce Crossman composers of our time. themes – landscape and spirituality, the influence Price: $25.00 of Europe and Asia – that bring together the From Me To You exciting variety of new works and voices working Music of the Spirit - Asian-Pacific in Australian music now. Musical Identity consists of 18 By Donald Westlake individual essays ranging from Price: $27.50 Australia: the use of Asian-Pacific musics in composition in The life and times of Clive Amadio. In this Exploring the musical landscape the primary school classroom, to reinterpreting timely biography, Donald Westlake gives due shakuhachi traditions in a contemporary recognition to an extraordinary Australian Edited by Caitlin Rowley music context. There are also many analytical musician. This is the story of a complex man: Price: $33.00 articles focusing on specific works by Australian charming, egotistical, highly talented and composers, including Ross Edwards, Clare Australia: Exploring the Musical Landscape is an relentlessly perfectionist. Maclean and Andrián Pertout, as well as texts attempt to provide, if not answers, then at least written from a performer’s perspective. some pathways into the diverse and vibrant Peggy Glanville-Hicks: musics of a country whose cultural identity is A Transposed Life continuously evolving. This book is an excellent Sound scripts (2011) : starting point for anyone wishing to find proceedings of the 2009 Totally by James Murdoch their way across Australia’s complex musical Huge New Music Festival Price: $105.00 landscape. The journey starts with concepts Conference, vol. 3 A biography of Peggy Glanville- behind traditional Aboriginal music, popular, Hicks, 1912-1990. jazz, classical and folk musics, and the music of Edited by Cat Hope. ‘new traditions’, where traditional immigrant Price: $25.00 Percy Grainger cultures meet and meld to create something This collection of papers from the third Totally new. Huge New Music Festival conference covers a By John Bird wide range of topics. Featuring writings about Price: $33.00 SOUNDING SOUNDING POSTMODERNISM place, philosophy, practice and criticism, Sound Sampling Australian Composers, Sound Artists and Music Critics SOUNDING POSTMODERNISM:David Bennett POSTMODERNISM Scripts vol. 3 reflects the eclecticism of the This is the definitive biography of Australia’s ‘What is postmodernism, and what does it have to do with music? In this book, David Bennett offers an unusually lucid, jargon-free exposition of the theories and debates surrounding this concept, arguing persuasively for its continuing relevance to contemporary music and Sampling Australian Composers, culture. And because the postmodern is nothing if not local, he includes interviews with Sound Artists and Music Critics three dozen Australian composers and sound-artists, who explain their music and careers in most extraordinary and innovative pianist, their own words. A deft combination of cultural analysis and ethnographic documentation, Sampling AustralianSounding Postmodernism invites us to rethink the stakes of our moment in music history.’ festival itself. — Susan McClary Professor of Musicology, UCLA

‘This book is a very timely and welcome addition to the literature on Australian music. DAVID BENNETT composer and instrument maker.

Timely because it articulates a powerful case for why reports of the death of “postmodernism” composers, soundmay indeed be premature, andartists welcome, because it displays what the very best kind of postmodern scholarship can do: take a people, a culture, a repertoire (here Australian “art” music), one otherwise considered to be on the periphery of the Great Tradition, and place it smack bang in the centre of a powerful history of ideas. The book would be praiseworthy for Bennett’s masterly survey and analysis of the theoretical field alone; but its unique value comes from its showing how the theory of postmodernism relates here to its practitioners. For those on either side of the academy who might underestimate the significance of either and music criticstheory or practice, this is a book that invites us to think again.’ — Dr. Peter Tregear, musicologist Sound scripts (2009)

David Bennett is Reader and Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies at the and a Fellow of the London Consortium and Birkbeck, University of London. Peter Sculthorpe: The Making of Cover image: Meredith Rogers, created for ‘John Cage’s MusiCircus’ at the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Edited by David BennettAustralian Music Centre, Grosvenor Place, NSW 1220, Australia www.amcoz.com.au David Bennett SOUNDING POSTMODERNISM Edited by Cat Hope and an Australian Composer Price: $42.00 Jonathan Marshall David Bennett offers an unusually lucid, jargon- Price: $25.00 By Graeme Skinner free exposition of the theories and debates Available from UNSW Press Proceedings of the 2007 Totally surrounding Postmodernism, arguing for its Huge New Music Festival Peter Sculthorpe is Australia’s best-known living continuing relevance to contemporary music Conference, vol. 2 (2009) composer and is widely held to be the most and culture. Includes interviews with three important creative musical spirit the country has dozen Australian composers and sound-artists, produced. Beautifully written and fastidiously who explain their music and careers in their World new music magazine, 2010 No. 20 researched, this authorised biography provides own words. an insight into Sculthorpe’s formative years: Price: $15.00 his quest for a personal voice, and his arrival Women of note: - through many creative friendships and The rise of Australian Produced by the Australian Music Centre, in collaborations - at a place in the collective women composers connection with ISCM’s annual festival World heart of the nation. It charts the realisation of New Music Days, held in Sydney in May 2010. a youthful vocation to become not merely a By Rosalind Appleby Presents aspects, both general and specific, composer, but an Australian composer. Price: $35.00 of the creative work explored by artists in Australia and the surrounding region, including In the early twentieth century A Poet’s Composer perspectives on performance practice. being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed as mentally By Brennan Keats insane by her psychiatrist husband, several Price: $45.00 achieved success only after their divorces, and The biography of Horace Keats 1895 – 1945 often the only way to get their music published and the connection with some of his associate was to lie about their gender. artists. page 7 Australian music education resource guide 2013 Books - jazz, Indigenous and other

WILLIAM JAMES and WILLIAM JAMES Other references Composition and

WILLIAM JAMES the beginnings of AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN MUSICAL AUSTRALIA performer composer conductor music broadcaster

In his younger years William James was recognised in Australia and overseas as a well-known pianist, with regular appearances at the Proms under Sir Henry Wood and as a touring artist in the famous 1920s’ series of International Celebrity Performance Concerts in the UK. At the same time he was admired as a gifted songwriter for modern musihiscal works such as The Sun-God and Six Australian Bush Songs. However, his real and lasting legacy came about after his return to Australia and stepping into the unknown waters of broadcasting. Little did he realise that, with the establishment Deadly sounds, of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, he (together with the General Manager Charles Moses and the Music Advisor Bernard Heinze) would be at the helm of an organisation which would transform Australian musical life. This biography is intended as a study of James’s contribution to the development of Australian Australia musical life following his remarkable triumphs overseas. DAVID TUNLEY is well-known internationally for his scholarly writings on a range deadly places: of musical subjects. An Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Western Australia, he is a Chevalier in the Napoleonic Order Palmes Académiques, a Member of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. DAVID TUNLEY Contemporary Music Composition Written by David Tunley bar code WILLIAM JAMES Toolbox AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN MUSICAL AUSTRALIA Price: $20.00 DAVID TUNLEY Aboriginal music in Australia By Matthew Hindson, Damain In his younger years William James was Barbeler, Diana Blom recognised in Australia and overseas as a well- By Peter Dunbar-Hall & Available from Science Press known pianist, however, his real and lasting Chris Gibson legacy came about after his return to Australia Price: $40.00 Music Composition Toolbox and setting out on the unknown waters of Many Aboriginal musicians are featured in this features 21 easy-to-navigate modules; over 120 broadcasting. This biography is intended first comprehensive book on contemporary practical exercises; great tips for generating as a study of James’s contribution to the Aboriginal music in Australia. Deadly sounds, musical ideas; extensive musical examples with development of Australian musical life following deadly places covers a wide variety of musical an Australian music focus; audio CD and tips for his remarkable triumphs overseas. styles, artists and contemporary issues – score presentation. ranging from the globalisation of ‘world music’, Jazz, improvised and to land rights, identity and independence, to the Musical Environments: tourism industry of the Northern Territory. experimental music A manual for listening, improvising and composing In Defence of Experimental music: Classical Music By Richard Vella Audio explorations in Australia Price: $55.00 By Edited by Gail Priest Price: $20.00 This book and CD offers a fresh and exciting Price: $34.95 approach to encourage the development of In this stimulating, provocative musical thinking. It is especially useful for all Experimental music has been mostly book, composer and teachers of music. There are many listening unrecognised in Australia, but it is in this broadcaster Andrew Ford argues that it is examples and enjoyable improvisation exercises. ‘underground’ area that the major innovations because we live in such discordant times that and creative developments in music occur. classical music is more valuable than it has ever Australian Solo Piano Works: Through testing perceived boundaries, breaking been. rules and creating new forms, the artists in Covering 1981 - 2006 this field force us to question what, in fact, Musicianship in the 21st Century: Compiled by Dr Jeanell Carrigan music is. Written by artists who have been Issues, Trends & Possibilities Price: $60.00 actively engaged in the areas they are covering, Experimental Music explores the development Edited by Sam Leong Jeanell Carrigan’s annotated guide to Australian of forms, ideas and scenes from the 1970s to Price $60.00 piano music has been hailed as an indispensable the present. resource for performers, teachers, broadcasters, The world at the beginning of the 21st century students and all lovers of piano music. Includes Playing Ad Lib has witnessed enormous transformations in details such as duration, style, level of difficulty, so many areas of the community, including and techniques required to play the music. By John Whiteoak the trends towards a global knowledge–based economy, outcome–based education, massive Price: $43.95 Freeing the song: cultural shifts and technological development. An approach to directing This book is a fascinating With perspectives ranging from music theatre, vocal groups account of the history of jazz, popular and classical music, this unique improvised performances in book features an international panel of 25 Written by Tony Backhouse the concert hall, circus, theatre, authors from 12 countries, each examining Price: $22.00 dance hall, cinema and church. pertinent aspects of the latest trends, issues and possibilities concerning musicianship in the 21st This book is for anyone who Jazz: century. runs a community choir, chorus, The Australian accent vocal ensemble or quartet, for music teachers Musics and Feminisms or for anyone who finds themselves teaching a song or running a workshop. It’s also for anyone By John Shand who sings in a group or chorus or choir. Price: $34.95 Edited by Sally Macarthur and Cate Poynton Price: $43.95 Jazz: The Australian accent Musics and Feminisms is drawn from explores the unique two conferences, Word-Voice-Sound, an developments in Australian jazz over the last interdisciplinary event integrating performance twenty years. Through interviews, anecdotes, and academic papers, and Resonances, held in analysis, and a companion CD, leading music conjunction with the 1997 Australian Women’s More books online journalist John Shand provides a fascinating Music Festival. It draws together a plurality of Books in the AMC library insight into the innovative, cutting-edge scene voices—of musics and of feminisms—from that is Australian jazz. He argues that jazz sixteen leading academics in Australia and Recent releases has become a defining force in our cultural beyond. landscape and that it is as lively and innovative Buy books online as any overseas. page 8 Australian music education resource guide 2013 Recordings of Australian music

NEW RELEASE All listed CDs $26 Narratives and detours Jeanell Carrigan, piano Buy CDs online Narratives and detours is an album of Australian solo piano music written by 10 different composers living in Sydney. In her twelfth CDs in the library album of Australian music, pianist Jeanell Carrigan demonstrates the depth and diversity of artists creating music in Sydney, ranging from the programmatic to the more conceptual abstract. Carrigan is heavily involved in both performance and teaching, currently Jazz lecturing at the Sydney Conservatorium, alongside a busy concert Beyond El Rocco schedule that includes recitals and chamber performances for and broadcasts for the ABC. Soundtrack from the film of the same name about Features music by Butterley, Collins, Grandison, Hush, Peterson, Rojas, Sabin, Wilcher, Williams and Yates. the iconic Sydney Jazz venue. Features music by The Necks, Bernie McGann, Paul Grabowsky, Mark Simmonds and many more. Solo instrumental Chamber ensembles Vocal, choral & Opera Laura Chislett: The flute ascendant Australia Ensemble: Samsara The Seymour Group Australian compositions for solo flute including The Australia Ensemble perform the work of Larry Sitsky, Formosa, Dench, Glynn, Fowler, Brophy and Whiticker. Gordon Kerry, , Bozidar Kos and Carl Vine. The Seymour Group perform Lumsdaine’s Aria for Edward John Eyre and Butterley’s The owl. Jeanell Carrigan: Australian made, Australian played But I want the harmonica Michael Atherton and friends play Australian The Song Company: handcrafted musical instruments. Australian solo piano works presenting a kaleidoscope The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior of music styles. Features music of Sabin, Hiscocks, Elision Ensemble: After the fire An opera by Colin Bright and Amanda Stewart. Conyngham, Broadstock, Kats-Chernin, Greenbaum Australia’s Elision ensemble perform a collection of Marilyn Richardson: and Spiers. Australian works that test the limits of performers Deep in my hidden country Jeanell Carrigan: Hammered - not only technically, but physical, intellectual and Australian soprano, Marilyn Richardson, performs emotional resources. This album explores Australian solo piano works that vocal music of Sculthorpe, Broadstock and Sitsky. explore the unusual sonorities possible in writing Synergy percussion Alan Lamb & Sarah Hopkins: Sky song for the piano and the juxtaposition of energy and Synergy Percussion present the work of Michael Askill, atmosphere, using techniques such as prepared piano. Unique soundscapes reflecting the vast Australian Bozidar Kos, Martin Wesley-Smith and Nigel Westlake. landscape. Music composed by Sarah Hopkins and Alan Jeanell Carrigan: Piano games Nova Ensemble: Mizu to kori Lamb for cello, voices, harmonic whirlies and recorded Carrigan presents a recording of Australian piano The Nova Ensemble performs Australian compositions telegraph wires. music with a primarily pedagogical purpose - for including work by Benfall, Buddle, Fowler, Hille, Roger The Song Company: students still developing the necessary skills for piano Smalley and Travers. The laughter of mermaids performance. The Song Company perform Australian work for vocal Jeanell Carrigan: Spin sextets including works by Schultz, Whitehead, Ford, Australian solo piano works spanning 1992 to 2003, Orchestral & concertos Whiticker and Cronin. presenting different compositional approaches to Concerto for piano and orchestra ; writing for the piano. Harvest: the music of John Tallis, Symphony / Roger Smalley. Esther Rofe and Dorian Le Gallienne Tim O’Dwyer: Solo sax show Roger Smalley performs his Piano Concerto. Solo piano, solo violin and vocal works by Dorian Le Tim O’Dwyer performs his own music for saxophone. Forbidden colours Gallienne, Esther Rofe and John Tallis Orchestral music by Roger Smalley, Gerard Brophy and Non-western Bozidar Kos. influences Sydney symphony: Nexus, Nocturnes Satsuki odamura: Burning house Banks’s Nexus for orchestra & jazz quintet, Humble’s Download MP3s An album of Australian compositions for the koto Arcade V, Stairs by Kats-Chernin & Meale’s Nocturnes for orchestra with solo celeste, vibraphone and harp. Sangam: Anamika Tasmanian symphony orchestra: • 1,700 tracks from $1.95 Anamika represents a confluence of ideas from Noth Glanville-Hicks & Meale Indian classical music, traditional and contemporary • High quality Japanese music and many western forms, including TSO perform Meale’s Tasmania Symphony: the legend Unencrypted jazz and classical. of Moinee and Glanville-Hicks’s Sinfonia da Pacifica. • • Easily add to your iTunes library Browse our popular cds online: • MP3s from Australian labels

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ACT QLD University of Ballarat Wesley Institute (Drummoyne) Web: www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/ Web: www.wesleyinstitute.edu.au Australian National University Central Queensland artsacademy Email: [email protected] Web: www.anu.edu.au Conservatorium Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 9819 8888 Email: [email protected] Location: Mackay Phone: (03) 5327 8600 Phone: (02) 6125 5700 Web: www.cqu.edu.au/cqcm Cooloola Sunshine Institute of Email: [email protected] University of Melbourne TAFE (QLD) University of Canberra Phone: (07) 4940 7800 Web: www.music.unimelb.edu.au Web: www.csitWeb.tafe.net Web: www.canberra.edu.au Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] James Cook University Phone: (03) 8344 5256 Phone: (07) 5459 3555 Phone: (02) 6201 2110 Location: Townsville Web: www.jcu.edu.au Victoria University Moreton Institute of TAFE (QLD) Email: [email protected] Web: www.vu.edu.au Web: www.moreton.tafe.net NSW Phone: (07) 4781 3166 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Australian Film Television and Phone: (03) 9919 3204 Phone: 1300 657 613 Queensland Conservatorium Radio School Web: www.griffith.edu.au/ Victorian College of the Arts Southbank Institute of TAFE (QLD) Web: www.aftrs.edu.au queenslandconservatorium Web: www.vca.unimelb.edu.au Web: www.southbank.tafe.net Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: (07) 3244 5741 Phone: (02) 9805 6611 Phone: (07) 3875 6287 Phone: (03) 9685 9411 Tropical North Queensland Macquarie University Queensland University of WA Institute of TAFE (QLD) Web: www.ccms.mq.edu.au Technology Location: Cairns Phone: (02) 9850 8739 University of Western Australia Web: www.creativeindustries.qut.com Web: www.tnqit.tafe.net Web: www.music.uwa.edu.au Southern Cross University Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Location: Lismore Phone: (07) 3864 5998 Phone: (07) 4042 2422 Phone: (08) 6488 2051 Web: www.scu.edu.au/arts University of Queensland, School Wide Bay Institute of TAFE (QLD) Email: [email protected] Western Australian Academy of of Music Web: www.widebay.tafe.net Phone: (02) 6620 3894 Performing Arts Web: www.music.uq.edu.au Email: [email protected] Web: www.waapa.ecu.edu.au Sydney Conservatorium of Music Email: [email protected] Phone: 1300 656 188 Email: [email protected] Web: www.usyd.edu.au/su/conmusic/ Phone: (07) 3365 4949 Phone: (08) 9370 6845 Onkaparinga Institute of TAFE Email: [email protected] University of Southern (SA) Phone: (02) 9351 1222 TAFE & PRIVATE COLLEGES Queensland Web: www.tafe.sa.edu.au/institutes/ University of New England Locations: Toowoomba Actors College of Theatre and onkaparinga Location: Armidale Web: www.usq.edu.au/music Television (NSW) Email: [email protected] Web: www.une.edu.au/music Email: [email protected] Web: www.actt.edu.au Phone: (08) 8207 3900 m_home.htm Phone: (07) 4631 1134 Email: [email protected] Regency Institute of TAFE (SA) Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 9212 6000 SA Web: www.regency.tafe.sa.edu.au/ Phone: (02) 6773 6446 Australian Institute of Music (NSW) salisbury_campus Elder School of Music, University University of NSW Web: www.aimusic.com.au Email: [email protected]. of Adelaide Web: music.arts.unsw.edu.au Email: [email protected] sa.edu.au Web: www.music.adelaide.edu.au Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 9219 5444 Phone: (08) 8207 9960 Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 9385 4871 Phone: (08) 8303 5995 Australian International Tabor Adelaide Performing University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music (NSW) Arts Department (SA) TAS Web: www.newcastle.edu.au/ Web: www.aicm.edu.au Web: [email protected] school/conservatorium Email: Conservatorium of Music, Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]. [email protected] Phone: (02) 9637 0777 edu.au Phone: (02) 4921 8906 Web: http://music.utas.edu.au Phone: (08) 8373 8777 Eora College, TAFE (NSW) Email: conservatorium.admin@utas. , Department Web: www.tafensw.edu.au/campuses/ Box Hill Institute TAFE (VIC) edu.au of Music institutes/locations/ai_106.htm Web: www.bhtafe.edu.au Phone: (03) 6226 7314 Web: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/arts/ Phone: (02) 9217 4898 Email: [email protected] departs/music/default.htm VIC Phone: (03) 9286 9695 Illawarra Institute TAFE (NSW) Email:[email protected] Australian Catholic University Web: www.illawarra.tafensw.edu.au Central Gippsland Institute of Phone: (02) 9351 2923 Web: http://www.acu.edu.au Email: [email protected] TAFE (VIC) University of Western Sydney Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 6125 5700 Web: www.gippstafe.vic.edu.au/ Web: www.uws.edu.au Phone: (03) 9953 3000 department/music.html Nirimba College (NSW) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Melba Conservatorium of Music Web: www.tafensw.edu.au Phone: (02) 6125 5700 Phone: (03) 5120 4500 Web: home.vicnet.net.au/~melba/ Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 131 601 Gordon Institute of TAFE (VIC) Web: www.uow.edu.au Phone: (03) 9429 6151 Web: www.gordontafe.edu.au Northern Rivers Conservatorium Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Conservatorium, Monash Arts Centre (NSW) Phone: (02) 4221 4621 Phone: (03) 5225 0500 University Web: www.lis.net.au/~nrcac/ NT Web: www.arts.monash.edu.au/music Email: [email protected] North Melbourne Institute of Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 6621 2266 TAFE (VIC) Charles Darwin University Phone: (03) 9905 3231 Web: www.nmit.vic.edu.au Web: www.cdu.edu.au/ School of Audio Engineering Email: [email protected] creativeartshumanities/ RMIT University (Byron Bay) Phone: (03) 9269 8933 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rmit.edu.au/music Web: www.sae.edu Phone: (08) 8946 6419 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: (03) 9925 7634 Phone: 1300 855 551 page 10 Australian music education resource guide 2013 Find music for youth ensembles

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The AMC holds over 140 works for youth orchestra, and over 50 works for concert or wind band, varying in difficulty from easy to advanced. Our library team have prepared easy to use lists of suitable works online. See the links below or find them on our teacher’s page at www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/guides/teachers.

1.Use the ‘Refine Your Search’ box in the lower left corner of your screen to limit your search results in a number of useful ways, for example by duration; year of composition; or level of difficulty. 2.Click on the title of a work to take you to further information about it. This will show you whether a score and/or CD are available for loan or purchase, and whether performance parts are available from AMC. A program note and score or audio samples are available for many items. 3.For works for which performance parts are not available through AMC, staff can usually give you contact details for obtaining the parts set.

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Australian Youth Orchestra Tasmanian Youth Orchestra music news Phone: 1300 668 500 Phone: (03) 6297 1542 Email: [email protected] | www.ayo.com.au Email: [email protected] | www.tyo.org.au The AMC captures the latest Adelaide Youth Orchestra WA Youth Music Assoc. Phone: (08) 8233 6256 Phone: (08) 9328 9859 news and reviews about Email: [email protected] | www.adyo.com.au Email: [email protected] | www.wayma. Australian music through asn.au Canberra Youth Music our online magazine and Phone: (02) 6247 4714 Gondwana Voices & Sydney Childrens social media. Get the latest Web: www.canberrayouthmusic.squarespace. Choir com Phone: (02) 9251 4226 online: Web: www.sydneyshildrenschoir.com.au Darwin Youth Orchestra Phone: (08) 8946 6013 Conservatorium Open Academy Email: [email protected] (Sydney Conservatorium) Find us on Phone: (02) 9351 1209 Facebook Melbourne Youth Music Email: [email protected] Phone: (03) 9690 8624 Web: www.openacademy.sydney.edu.au Email: [email protected] | www.mym.org.au AMEB Federal Office Follow us on Queensland Youth Orchestras Phone: (03) 9650 2833, Phone: (07) 3257 3029 Web: www.ameb.edu.au Twitter Email: [email protected] | www.qyoc.org.au Australian National Eisteddfod Society Sydney Youth Orchestra Phone: (02) 6249 7421 Sign up for our Phone: (02) 9251 2422 Web: www.nationaleisteddfod.org.au Email: [email protected] | www.syo.com.au monthly eNews page 11 Australian music education resource guide 2013 In-depth features, news and blogs

Mary Finsterer on the Screen composer Leah Curtis: difficulty of beginning be open and take risks Something composers rarely discuss Leah Curtis grew up in Australia’s capital city, in an open way is the fear of having no “ideas. There’s both an excitement and Canberra, listening to the lilting scales of piano horror attached to it - like waiting for a lessons conducted by her mother in the next light to shine while staring into an abyss. room. At sixteen, she entered and won the Young The only time I have had open discussions Shakespearean Artist of the Year in a national about this topic is when I am in the role competition run by Shakespeare’s Globe Centre of of a teacher, which of course allows Australia. After claiming her tremendous prize - a the student a safe environment to face two-week study tour through England, and a commission to compose for the Tasmanian the feeling of emptiness and of feeling Symphony Orchestra - Curtis turned her ear to film and television music composition. small in front of the massive task that Over the years, Curtis has worked in various music roles on everything from romantic unavoidably lies ahead... comedy (Something Borrowed), horror films (One Missed Call and The Cave) to So what’s the answer? How does one get dramas (Swimming Upstream and Sophie Scholl: The final days), as well as scored to that place that allows ”something to a number of short films. Now based on the West Coast of the United States, Curtis emerge from nothing while serving a brief composes and produces original music soundtracks and scores for film and television, that delivers a finished product on time? as well as for orchestras, choirs, choreographers, solo artists and game developers. Find out on Resonate Full interview on Curtis’ international career as a screen composer online Crossing the jazz/ Peter Knight’s exploration Blitz: Andrew Ford and classical divide: Mark with Dung Nguyen and an orchestral work that Isaacs – clock time and Vietnamese instruments grew out of voices imaginary time Residual grew out of my increasing I’ve come to realise that my different interest in live electronic processing of my activities in music - ostensibly revolving trumpet and out of Dung Nguyen’s wish to “around the intersecting dichotomies of “ explore preparations and alternate tunings classical/jazz and composer/pianist - lie on for his traditional Vietnamese instruments. a spectrum defined by their deployment Dung and I have worked together for around Composers have a great advantage of clock time versus imaginary time.. ten years in the sextet, Way Out West, over other creative artists in that we deal which creates a space for Dung’s traditional “regularly in the abstract. In music, content ” instruments in a contemporary jazz setting. and form are one. This is ‘the condition’, in We have developed a strong working Walter Pater’s famous phrase, to which all relationship built on the notion that we other art ‘constantly aspires’. But while it want to create new music that integrates may be true that novelists and sculptors different music traditions, as distinct from and filmmakers envy composers our ability the multicultural pastiche approach that to produce work that means not what it characterises so much music grouped under says, but what it is, sometimes composers the ‘world’ banner.” wish we could be more like the others...” Need HSC Repertoire? VCE resources online Dedicated HSC lists by instrument, of Australian • Recommended Australian music teaching works written in the last 25 years resources by VCE unit Bassoon | Cello | Clarinet | Double Bass | Flute • VCE classroom examples, prepared by Guitar | Oboe | Percussion | Piano | Saxophone Helen Champion (VCAA) Trombone | Trumpet | Viola | Violin | Voice * Please contact us if your instrument isn’t included here • Toolbox for teaching Australian music