Musical works dedicated to Sculthorpe, 1976-2002

 
Containers:
Box 94 and Folio Box 113
Component identifier:
Series 24
Content Summary:

This series contains musical works dedicated to Sculthorpe. There are pieces celebrating his 50th, 60th and 70th birthdays, including a program and some of the music for a performance by the Seymour Group of 'A garland for Peter Sculthorpe on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday'.

There are five packets of scores in this series, with the location of each score in brackets after the title in the list below.

Banks, Val and Don. 'A happy series of birthday to Peter', 1978 (packet 1)

Boyd, Anne. 'At the rising of the sun', 2001 (packet 3)

Boyd, Anne. 'PS', 1979 (folio packet)

Bright, Colin. 'Music for contrabass octet and didjeridoo' 1986 (packet 3)

Bright, Colin. 'String quartet', 1977 (folio packet)

Broadstock, Brenton. In the silence of night, 1989 (packet 3)

Cohen, Alice. 'PS for PS', 1991 (packet 3)

Connell, Adrian. 'String quartet No. 2', 1990 (packet 3)

Conyngham, Barry. Five windows, 1976 (packet 3)

Conyngham, Barry. Three, 1977 (packet 3)

Cooman, Carson. Songlines, Sun Dreaming, 2001 (packet 1)

Cugley, Ian. Little adagio for strings (packet 2)

Edwards, Ross. 'Dance', c1989 (folio packet)

Edwards, Ross. 'Duet for two flutes', c1979 (packet 1)

Edwards, Ross. Symphony No. 3 'Mater Magna', 2000 (folio packet)

Ford, Andew. 'Blue poles', c1999 (folio packet)

Ford, Andrew. Parabola, nd (packet 3)

Ford, Andrew. 'A scrub-fowl succumbs to Sculthorpe', nd (packet 1)

Gross, Eric. 'Song 424/50', 1979 (packet 2)

Hasse, Jean and Matthews, David. From Arlington, 1994 (packet 1)

Hannan, Michael. 'II Earth song', nd (packet 1)

Hannan, Michael. 'For Sculthorpe's garland', 1979 (packet 2)

Hirst, A.A. 'A small piece of music for Peter', 2002 (packet 1)

Keane, Robert. Backpacker blues (or down and out in Kakadu), 1994 (packet 1)

Matthews, David. 'Green', c1989 (folio packet)

Matthews, David. String quartet No. 2, 1988 (packet 4)

Matthews, David and Hasse, Jean. 'Caution on mud road', 1999 (packet 4)

Peterson, John. Five islands, 2001 (packet 4)

Plush, Vincent. Concord/Eendracht, 1990 (folio packet)

Skempton, Howard. 'From scratch', 1989 (packet 1)

Smalley, Roger. 'The Southland', 1986-1998 (folio packet)

Szeto, Caroline. 'Energy', 1990 (packet 4)

Trench, Kelly. Musical gems for piano, nd (packet 1)

Vines, Nicholas. Firestick, 1999 (packet 4)

Wesley-Smith, Martin. 'PS (variations on a theme by Peter Sculthorpe)', 1989 (packet 1)

Westlake, N. 'H. Birthday PS', nd (packet 1)

Whitehead, Gillian. 'Oue - from a white Northumbria', 1979 (packet 2)

Immediate source of acquisition:
The original consignment comprises material purchased by the Library from Peter Sculthorpe in 2002, and a small addition relating to Sculthorpe's nomination for the Don Banks Award which was donated to the Library from Mary Jo Capps of Musica Viva Australia in 2006. Further papers were received in 2007 (Class 2) and 2015 (Class 3).

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn109182).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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