Before and after Corroboree : the music of John Antill / David Symons.
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TextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2016Description: 217 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472435361 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Antill, John -- Criticism and interpretation | Music -- Australia -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Music | MusicDDC classification: 780.9'2 Summary: John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's 'post-colonial period'. Although a relatively prolific and much esteemed composer in Australia, Antill's wider reputation is sustained chiefly by his famous ballet Corroboree - a work which was perceived to bring an authentic Australian musical style before both a national and international audience for the first time. David Symons traces Antill's development as a composer from his early, pre-Corroboree works, which display a late Romantic to post-impressionist style, through an analysis of the virile, dissonant, 'primitivist' idiom of his magnum opus, to an examination of his later output of theatrical, orchestral and vocal/choral works.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
John Antill (1904-1986) was one of the foremost composers of Australia's 'post-colonial period'. Although a relatively prolific and much esteemed composer in Australia, Antill's wider reputation is sustained chiefly by his famous ballet Corroboree - a work which was perceived to bring an authentic Australian musical style before both a national and international audience for the first time. David Symons traces Antill's development as a composer from his early, pre-Corroboree works, which display a late Romantic to post-impressionist style, through an analysis of the virile, dissonant, 'primitivist' idiom of his magnum opus, to an examination of his later output of theatrical, orchestral and vocal/choral works.
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