University of Wollongong Research Online University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 1999 A guide to dating music published in Sydney and Melbourne, 1800-1899 Prue Neidorf University of Wollongong Recommended Citation Neidorf, Prue, A guide to dating music published in Sydney and Melbourne, 1800-1899, Master of Arts (Hons) thesis, School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 1999. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2926 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact Manager Repository Services: [email protected]. 115 Prue Neidorf, Mus Bac, Dip Lib A Guide to Dating Music Published in Sydney and Melbourne, 1800-1899 Volume Two Part Three Sydney and Melbourne Directories, Chronology and General Bibliography A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree Master of Arts (Hons) from the University of Wollongong 1999 116 PART THREE SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE DIRECTORIES, CHRONOLOGY AND GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Table of Contents 116 Guide to using the Sydney and Melbourne Directories for dating music 117 Sydney Directory of Music Publishers and Printers 1800-1899 122 Abbreviations used in the Sydney Directory 122 Sydney Directory of Music Publishers and Printers 1800-1899 124 Melbourne Directory of Music Publishers and Printers 1800-1899 252 Abbreviations used in the Melbourne Directory 252 Melbourne Directory of Music Publishers and Printers 1800-1899 254 Chronology 323 General Bibliography 334 117 GUIDE TO USING THE SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE DIRECTORIES FOR DATING MUSIC The primary source for dating music is the music itself. It needs to be checked thoroughly for every possible clue. Any printed, annotated or inscribed information could be useful. When this process is finished, secondary sources like this guide may help. All of the entries in the Sydney and Melbourne Directories have the following elements: Name, designation, dates, addresses, and sources. Up to three items may be listed under Music at the foot of each entry, particularly if there is no biographical note. If there are more than three items, or there is a biographical note, the music will be found embedded in the biographical note at the top of each entry. A Bibliography may also be at the foot of each entry, giving basic resources for compiling the biography, and whether the publisher has published items that are listed in PICA. Examples of directory entries KERN & MADER (Kern, Charles; Mader, Frederic) (from Sydney Directory) Name of Firm Music sellers, stationers and bookbinders General designation Kern & Mader superseded Kern & Co (qv) at 7 Hunter st and were listed in directories and newspapers from 1846 to 1853 at this address that appears on all their publications. They are described as music sellers, stationers and bookbinders on the back of Isaac Nathan's work Lungi dal Caro Bene which they published in 1853. They published two further works of Isaac Nathan (qv), his arrangement of Handel's Angels Ever Bright and Fair and Long Live our Gracious Queen. There are also reviews of the last named on the back cover of Sir Wilfred by Nathan that was published by William Baker (qv). There is one work published by Kern & Mader in PICA, The Australian Souvenir for 1851. The partnership was terminated on 30 June 1853 and fromJuly 1853 both were operating independently. Charles Kern (qv) continued at 7 Hunter st from July 1853 to November 1854. Mader(qv) was a bookseller and stationer in George st until 1865. Biographical note KERN & MADER (Kern, Charles; Mader, Frederic) Name of firm heading directory component Stationers Designation in source 1846 7 Hunter st MCNS11.46 Pate, address, source Stationers and bookbinders 1847—48 7 Hunter st LDCDS47, PICA 1851 Hunter st east SCDY51 Stationers 1851 Hunterst SMH11.1.51- 19.7 51 1852 6 Hunterst SMH2.10.52 Dissolution of partnership 1853 7Hunterst SMH 22.1.53, 7.5.53 1853, June 30 7 Hunterst SMH15.6.53 supersedes Kern & Co 1844—45 References to related firms superseded by Kern, Charles 1853—57 superseded by Mader, Frederic 1853—65 Bibliography: Bibliography PICA 1 item CAMPBELL & FERGUSSON (Campbell, J S; Fergusson, James) (from Melbourne Directory) Name of firm Engravers and lithographers Designation in source 1854 30 Collins st west PICA Date, address, source 1855 30 Collins st west (ad ilius by S T Gill) MCDJB55 1856 30 Collins st west MSPLD56 supersedes Campbell, J S & Co 1853—54 References to related firms supersedes and superseded by Fergusson, James 1851—59 superseded by Fergusson & Mitchell 1857 — 1895 see Fergusson & Mitchell for biography Bibliography: Bibliography PICA 3 items Music: Music citation Campbell & Fergusson, [publisher] The Corporation Polka by Miss B D Lewis VSL 118 There are extensive entries for prolific publishers and printers. These include J R Clarke, Francis Cunninghame, John Degotardi, Francis Ellard, W J Johnson, Henry Marsh, Isaac Nathan, Nicholson & Co, W H Paling, Charles Troedel & Co and Woolcott & Clarke in the Sydney Directory; and Allan & Co, W H Glen, Nicholson & Ascherberg, Nicholson & Co, Charles Troedel and Wilkie's companies in the Melbourne Directory. These have extensive lists of publications after the biographical notes, to demonstrate the scope of publishing or printing activity, but they are not comprehensive. In some of these entries, examples are listed in address ie date order. Again these listings are not comprehensive, but indicative of the comparative output of a printer or publisher at various addresses. In the cataloguing of a piece of music, there is a hierarchy of bibliographical elements that are addressed in turn in order to describe it sufficiently to identify it, and to establish the uniqueness of the work in hand. Each step of this process may provide indicators that help in dating the work. Authorship is the element most eagerly sought after. For this repertoire, the primary authors are the composers, lyricists, arrangers and librettists. There are very few authors with their own entries in the directories, and so verification or dating is not greatly helped, apart from those composers who were actively involved with printing or publishing, or whose families were. In the Sydney directory, those composers with their own entries are V Abrahams, Alfred Anderson, James Henry Anderson, Thomas Banks, W H Binstead, Frederick Ellard, William Ellard, John Gibbs, Charles Huenerbein, James Johnson, William J Johnson, Kavanagh, John Lhotsky, Henry Marsh, Stephen Hale Marsh, Lewis Moss, Isaac Nathan, W H Paling, James Pearson, George Peck, Francis R Peel, L A Pogonowski, Joseph Reichenberg, J A Reid, George Sippe and Thomas Stubbs. In the Melbourne directory, composers with their own entries are T E Bulch, George Chapman, W R Furlong, Adela Hammond, Robert Mackie, Stephen Hale Marsh and Joseph Wilkie. Additional sources of information for names are ABN (particularly the authority files), ADB and similar biographical dictionaries, various editions of The Australian Encyclopaedia and OCAM. 119 Information from titles that may assist in dating like names, places, ships, events etc. is unlikely to be looked for in the Directories or Chronology, but may be found in other secondary sources for example gazetteers, encyclopaedias, shipping records, historical and literary resources. The titles listed in the publisher and printer entries in the directories are not comprehensive, and they may refer to a different edition to that in hand. There are seldom consistent ways of describing reprints or editions in this repertoire. In the absence of an edition statement, one marker of a later or earlier printing, that is a change of address, will seldom be found on the bibliographic records, but only on the items themselves. In the directories, this accounts for the same item sometimes being listed at two different addresses for the same publisher or printer. The core of the directories are the publisher and printer entries. There are 450 entries in the Sydney Directory and 134 in the Melbourne Directory. For this study, there are no entries for printers or publishers that may have published music, but have not yet been found to do so. Companies that have a listing, but no music in them are later or earlier associated companies of those that have printed or published music. They are included to provide a fuller representation of the lifespan of the person or company. References at the foot of the directory component of the entries provide cross references to related companies. There are 2,000 entries listed in PICA, 115 of which published music as well as Ferguson items. There are always references to PICA when applicable in both printer and publisher entries in the directories. In many cases, PICA has earlier addresses than those found in city directories, and the source for these addresses is designated as PICA. In the Melbourne and Sydney directories, the amount of information relating to each entry varies considerably, but it is often more extensive than that in PICA, as the directories in this study were compiled from the music, city directories, periodicals and newspapers, and not just from the time span of the publication of the Ferguson items, as in PICA. One of the difficulties in identifying items is the lack of accurate publisher citations in bibliographic records, ie Allans is often used when this is not what is on the item (eg Allan & Co, Allan & Co Ltd) The lack of printer information on bibliographic records is standard practice, but if it were present it would enable dating to be more precise. In some cases on ABN, this has enabled the scope dates to be narrower than they would be if only the publisher scope dates are used. In these cases the printer is usually present in a note field, and so adds useful information not only for the item 120 concerned, but perhaps for another similar one.