Introducing AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS ONLINE & other University Library accessible resources for Australian compositions Paul Stanhope, and by several notable staff and student alumni of the Conservatorium and the University Music Department. Nigel Butterley - Senior Composer Laureate Leading this contemporary cohort is our Senior Composer Laureate, Nigel Butterley, who has allowed us to include scores of 28 works, a massive conspectus of his long and distinguished career, including some dozen now out-of-print works originally published by J. Albert & Son in the 1960s and 1970s. Historical Australian Composers Archive In addition, our inaugural Historical Australian Composers Archive centres on out-of-copyright printed Australian Composers Online is a new TIES editions and manuscripts by two Sydney-born Grant funded teaching resource initiative of the composers of the early 20th century, Roy Agnew and University Library, making available to all students and Frederick Septimus Kelly. Made available with the kind staff through the Library Online Catalogue permission of his executors, is a selection of 15 works http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/ a database of more from the Conservatorium Library’s archive of than 200 e-scores of musical works by leading manuscript scores by Raymond Hanson who taught Australian composers, contemporary and historical, in composition at The Con in the middle of last century downloadable PDF format. This resource will encourage (Nigel Butterley among his students). We also included the study and performance of Australian music within one composition by Hanson’s teacher at The Con, Alex the University, and complement 4 online services Burnard, composed for the University of Sydney’s already accessible through the Library Catalogue, carillon and first published by the University in the early Australian Music Presented, Classical Scores 1930s. From the same University imprint comes Library, Naxos Music Library and Music Australia, another carillon composition, specially written for the plus those to be found externally via the new Sydney instrument by the English composer and Australian Music Centre website. conductor Hamilton Harty, then on tour for the ABC. Also from a recent publication of the University’s 20 Contemporary Australian Composers “Archive of Australian Judaica” comes a selection of For Australian Composers Online, we works by Boaz Bischofswerder, a Berlin synagogue asked 20 Contemporary Australian Composers not cantor, who with his composer son Felix Werder was currently represented exclusively by commercial music transported to Australia and interned at Tatura during publishers, to license us to publish electronically, the Second World War. internally within the University for a period of 2 years (2009-2010), a selection of their scores, in a variety of Why are some composers not represented? “modern classical” genres, orchestral, vocal, chamber Copyright restrictions prevented the inclusion and instrumental. Included are works by University staff among Australian Composers Online of composers, Michael Smetanin (Chair of Composition), several composers who are currently under exclusive Trevor Pearce, Mary Finsterer, Damien Ricketson, and license to commercial music publishers. For that reason Page | 1 the resource does do not include some current and former University staff members, notably Anne Boyd, Matthew Hindson and Peter Sculthorpe, as well as such major figures as Carl Vine and Brett Dean. But works by all of these and many others do appear in the 4 Complementary Online Resources listed below, as do works by many deceased Australian composers also still in copyright, including several with close University and Conservatorium connections: David Ahern, Edgar Bainton, John Antill, Tristram Cary, Clive Douglas, Lindley Evans, Fritz Hart, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Frank From Michael Smetanin’s Shatter Hutchens, Eugene Goossens, Marjorie Hesse, Alfred Hill, Mirrie Hill, Dulcie Holland, Robert Hughes, Miriam COMPOSERS SCORES INDEX Hyde, Horace Keats, George Marshall-Hall, James Penberthy, Esther Rofe, and Margaret Sutherland. Australian Composers Online Historical Archive AGNEW Roy (1891-1944) Australian Composers Online HANSON Raymond (1913-1976) is therefore complemented by 4 other key online music KELLY Frederick Septimus (1881-1916) archives already accessible through the Library BISCHOFS-WERDER Boaz (d.1949) electronic catalogue http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/ . BURNARD Alex (1900-1971) In the catalogue menu, simply select databases CAIROS-REGO George de (c.1858-1946) and electronic resources, under databases Senior Composer Laureate by subject select Music, and you will find the BUTTERLEY Nigel databases below listed in alphabetical order. Contemporary Composers ABC Radio Classic FM’s ATHERTON Michael Australian Music Presented (AMP) BROPHY Gerard (scores & sound recordings) is a growing online CONYNGHAM Barry collection of Australian classical and experimental music FINSTERER Mary drawn from the ABC's vast archive of music recordings. FORD Andrew HENDERSON Moya Scores with a matching recording are marked ABC ISAACS Mark KERRY Gordon Alexander Street’s PEARCE Trevor Classical Scores Library (CSL) PETERSON John (scores) includes major and many lesser known PLUSH Vincent composers and works, with a growing selection of RICKETSON Damien contemporary Australian composers included. SCHULTZ Andrew Content includes in-copyright material from Boosey & SITSKY Larry SMALLEY Roger Hawkes, Faber Music, and Universal Edition. SMETANIN Michael STANHOPE Paul National Library of Australia’s VINES Nicholas Music Australia WESLEY-SMITH Martin (including scores & sound recordings) WESTLAKE Nigel is the largest online repository of Australian out-of- copyright heritage music scores and sound recordings, Classical Scores Library (CSL) as well as a bibliographic guide to the music holdings of BENJAMIN Arthur (Boosey & Hawkes) most major Australian libraries and cultural institutions. BOYD Anne (Faber Music) DEAN Brett (Boosey & Hawkes) FRIEDMAN Ignaz (University Music Editions) Naxos Music Library HINDSON Matthew (Faber Music) (sound recordings) now includes much of the back MACKERRAS Charles (Boosey & Hawkes) catalogue of the ABC CLASSICS CD label, the single MEALE Richard (Boosey & Hawkes) largest source of recordings of music by SCULTHORPE Peter (Faber Music) Australian composers. Scores with a matching recording VINE Carl (Faber Music) are marked Naxos WILLIAMSON Malcolm (Boosey & Hawkes) Page | 2 Three Lyrics (1927) for piano (Augener, c1927) Australian Composers Online Three Preludes (1927) for piano (Augener, c1927) HISTORICAL ARCHIVE Toccata Tragica (1921) for piano (Allan & Co, c1922) Trains for piano (Paxton & Co, c1935) Two Pieces for piano (OUP, c1927) Two Songs (Dusk; Infant Joy) for voice and piano (Elkin & Co, c1926) Youthful Fancies for piano (Paling & Co, c1936) More Agnew online Another large selection of Agnew scores can be accessed online at the Music Australia website, either through the Library Catalogue, or direct: http://www.musicaustralia.org/ Roy Agnew’s The Breaking of the Drought, for contralto and orchestra, was part of the program at Roy AGNEW (1891-1944) an all-Australian concert presented in 1938 by the Sydney Conservatorium Orchestra, under its director, A pupil of Alfred Hill at the Conservatorium, Roy Agnew Edgar Bainton. You can listen to a 1993 ABC recording came to public notice after Benno Moiseiwitsch of the work (Elizabeth Campbell, mezzo-soprano; performed two of his piano pieces, Deirdre's Lament Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Roland Peelman, and Dance of the Wild Men at the Sydney Town Hall in conductor) online at ABC Classic FM’s Australian Music 1920. In London in the mid 1920s and again in the early Presented, either through the Library Catalogue, or 1930s, Agnew studied with Cyril Scott. In 1938, Agnew direct: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s2346651.htm presented a weekly ABC radio’s “Modern and Contemporary Composers” session, featuring Webern, Roy Agnew recorded a comprehensive selection Berg, Busoni, Szymanowski, Debussy and Stravinsky. of his own piano music for the ABC in 1943, including Agnew was appointed to the staff of Sydney many of the works in the Australian Composers Conservatorium at the beginning of 1944, but died in Online archive. These recordings have now been November of that year. streamed from the National Film and Sound Archive Collection and may also be listened to online through Scores in Australian Composers Online the National Library of Australia’s Music Australia site; A May Day for piano (OUP, c1927) Sonata Ballade Album Leaf for piano (Augener, c1949) as a sample, listen to Agnew’s at http://malcolm.screensound.gov.au/olcmedia/audio/00039612.mp3 Australian Forest Pieces for piano (Nicholson & Co, c1913) Deirdre’s Lament for piano (Allan & Co, c1922) Drifting Mists for piano (Augener, c1931) Fantasie Sonata (Sonata No 1) for piano (Augener, c1927) Green Valley (Two Duets No 1) for piano duet (Augener, c1932) Holiday Suite: Five Modern Piano Solos (Paling & Co, c1937) Invocation & Tears [2 songs] for voice and piano (composer’s autograph MS) June Twilight for voice and piano (Arthur P. Schmidt, c1927) Poem No 2 for piano (Allan & Co, c1922) Prelude No 2 for piano (OUP, c1925) Prelude No 3 (The Wind) for piano (OUP, c1925) Prelude No 4 for piano (OUP, c1927) Frederick Septimus KELLY (1881-1916) Rabbit Hill for piano (OUP, c1928) Rural Sketches (1927) for piano (Augener, c1927) Kelly was born in Sydney and began