The Oxford history of New Zealand music
The Maori world of music - The frontier: explorers, sealers, whalers and missionaries - Music in the first settlements: On the voyage - Wellington, 1840-1870 - Auckland, 1840-1865 - Dunedin, 1848-1865 - Canterbury, 1851-1900 - The regions and the West Coast goldfields; Themes and variations: The colonial ball - Military and brass bands - Folk-music - Opera - Colonial choral societies and their successors - Orchestral patterns from the 19th century to the NZSO - Michael Balling at the Nelson Conservatorium; The world beyond: Visiting artists - The Sheffield Choir, 1911 - Henri Verbrugghen and the New South Wales State Orchestra, 1920 and 1922; Musical media: Silent film music - The rise of the gramophone and player piano - The growth of broadcasting - Music journals; The NZ performer: Introduction - Singers - Instrumentalists - Conductors; Meeting of 2 cultures: Waiata a ringa - Maori concert groups and solo artists - Recording Maori music - The two cultures today; Growth of a composing tradition: Early colonial composers and their publications - Alfred Hill - Douglas Lilburn - Composers since Lilburn (Carr, Pruden, Tremain and others) - New influences; Music in education; Instrument making in New Zealand
Biographies
xii, 315 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 25 cm.
9780195581768, 0195581768
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The Māori world of music
Pt. 1. Growth of a performing tradition. The frontier: explorers, sealers, whalers and missionaries
Music in the first settlement
Themes and variations
The world beyond
Musical media
The New Zealand performer
Meeting of the two cultures: Māori and European music
Pt. 2. Growth of a composing tradition. Forerunners
Douglas Lilburn
The expanding tradition: composers since Lilburn
App. 1. Music in education
App. 2. Instrument making in New Zealand
Corrigenda slip inserted