Title: The Oxford history of New Zealand music /
Authors: Thomson, John Mansfield.
Date: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Part One : Growth of a performing tradition -- I. The frontier; explorers, sealers, whalers and missionaries -- II. Music in the first settlements -- III. Themes and variations -- IV. The world beyond -- V. Musical media -- VI. The New Zealand performer -- VII. Meeting of the two cultures: Māori and European music -- Part Two : Growth of a composing tradition -- VIII. Forerunners -- IX. Douglas Lilburn -- X. The expanding tradition : composers since Lilburn.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--New Zealand--History and criticism.