CSAM Books
Aflame with Music: 100 Years of Music at The University of Melbourne
50 essays from the 1995 Centennial Conference at the Faculty of Music
Edited by Brenton Broadstock, Naomi Cumming, Denise Grocke, Catherine Falk, Ros McMillan, Kerry Murphy, Suzanne Robinson and John Stinson.
A collection of fifty essays from a conference held to celebrate the centenary of the Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. There are sections on Australian music; Opera; Music therapy; Ethnomusicology; Music theory and analysis; Renaissance music; Music education; and Music and gender with the sections prefaced by articles arising from keynote addresses from leading scholars: Hugh Macdonald. Ralph Spingte, Marina Roseman, Peter Sculthorpe, Carl Schachter, Nancy B. Reich and Christopher Small.
ISBN 0-9598831-9-3 | Paperback, perfect bound: x, 580 p. | $30.00 AUD
The Conservatorium of Music University of Melbourne: An Historical Essay to Mark its Centenary 1895-1995
Peter Tregear
The oldest music school in Australia, the Conservatorium at the University of Melbourne has had a highly colourful history. From the dismissal of its first professor, the controversial G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, to its dominance of the nation’s orchestral life under the influential Sir Bernard Heinze, it has always been a focus of attention. In this book, Peter Tregear salutes 1995, the Conservatorium’s centennial year, in a fascinating essay illustrated with numerous historic photographs and the recollections of many former students and staff. From the events surrounding its foundation as a music school unique in the British Empire in setting practical studies in a university, Tregear focuses on the school’s leading personalities and charts its development to a modern music faculty.
ISBN 0 959 8831 77 | Paperback, perfect bound: xv, 176 p., plates, index | $25.00 AUD