Browsing Sydney Conservatorium of Music by subject "1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing"
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Alexander Lee (1802-1851), Thomas Haynes Bayly (words): Come where the aspens quiver]; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-12This theatre song, with its chivalric evocations of troubadors and guitars, was first popularised by a star theatrical singer in 1820s London, Mrs (Harriet) Waylett. A decade later, in Sydney, the song was still being sung ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Concert, From the Sydney Amateur Concerts 1826, SCM Early Music Ensemble, Neal Peres Da Costa (director), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 27 May 2021
Published 2022-06-09This is a live audio-visual recording of a public concert that recreated a unique colonial concert experience. The featured musical works are drawn from the programs of the first ever series of public concerts held in ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Concert, ‘On the Plains of Emu’ - Settler Art Music in Early NSW, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022; presented by Sydney Living Museums and the Hearing the Music of Early NSW 1788-1860 project; Koen van Stade (tenor); Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello) – on historically appropriate instruments
Published 2022This selection recreates a typical household entertainment of songs, dances, and piano music, as might have been ‘got up’ by musical members and guests of wealthier ‘gentry’ and merchant families in 1830s NSW. All of the ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Disciplining music: Too many Peter Sculthorpes?
Published 2020Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (c.1796-1880), words: The Aboriginal mother [Oh! hush thee - hush my baby] (Tune: ’Twas when the seas were roaring, G. F. Handel) (Sydney, 1838); first modern performance; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-12The Irish poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop arrived in NSW with her family in January 1838, and over the next two years her series of eight ‘Songs of exile’ were successively published in Sydney newspapers. The most famous of ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (c.1796-1880), words: Your Eyes Have the Twin-Star's Light (Tune: The Foggy Dew) (Sydney, 1839); first modern performance; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-12The Irish poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop arrived in NSW with her family in January 1838, and over the next two years her series of eight ‘Songs of exile’ were successively published in Sydney newspapers. The most famous of ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Henri Herz (1803-1838): Variations brillantes sur un thème favori de l'opéra de Zampa [by Hérold]; Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-12The French virtuoso pianist and composer Henri Herz was not only a star in Dublin and London, but was also well-known in 1830s Sydney, where pianos he had specially selected in London and Paris were exported to NSW and ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1856): Overture to Guy Mannering (arr. for pianoforte trio); Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-12Following quickly on its first publication, Walter Scott’s 1815 novel ‘Guy Mannering’ was adapted for the lyric stage as an opera produced in London the following year, with a score ‘composed, selected, and arranged’ by ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Indigenising Australian music: authenticity and representation in touring 1950s art songs
Published 2020Aboriginal-influenced compositions have been central to Australian art music practice since the 1960s, and key to conceptions of an Australian style. While in other creative arts practices (for example, dance and visual ...Open AccessArticle -
Informing Practice through Collaboration: Listening to Colonising Histories and Aboriginal Music
Published 2020This chapter describes an interdisciplinary and intercultural method for writing about historical performances of music and dance by Aboriginal people, and to inform collaborative performances with Aboriginal musicians. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
John Barnett (1802-1890), Harry Stoe van Dyk (words): The light guitar [Oh! leave the gay and festive scenes]; Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-12This theatre song, with its chivalric evocations of troubadors and guitars, was first popularised by a star theatrical singer in 1820s London, Madame (Lucia) Vestris. A decade later, in Sydney, the song was still being ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Localizing Aboriginal and Pacific Performance on Internationalized Stages, 1967-73
Published 2020In 1967, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people successfully campaigned for a referendum for constitutional change, releasing them from policies restricting movement outside of their home states and territories of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
M, of Anambaba [John McGarvie] (1829): The exile of Erin on the Plains of Emu [O! Farewell my country - my kindred - my lover] (Tune: The exile of Erin); Koen van Stade (tenor), Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-12This lovely song, published in the ‘Sydney Gazette’ in 1829, is a parody of the Irish nationalist song, ‘Erin go Bragh’ (‘The exile of erin’), to be sung to its tune. It ventriloquises the laments of a colonial exile - a ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Mozart Piano Concerto K. 488 Project
Published 2022-12-15The 20th-century heralded unprecedented change in ‘classical’ music performance aesthetics as documented in sound recordings. By 1950, many unnotated expressive techniques (belonging to a long-established continuum of ...Open AccessRecording, musical -
Primitivism and Settler Primitivism in Music: The Case of John Antill’s Corroboree
Published 2022John Antill’s Corroboree (1944) was the most prominent Australian musical work of the first half of the twentieth century yet it has received little musical analysis, especially in terms of how it constructs a representation ...Article -
Representations of Indigenous cultural property in collaborative publishing projects: the Warlpiri women’s yawulyu songbooks
Published 2018This paper explores issues around the representation of Indigenous cultural property, voices and images in two books of Warlpiri women's yawulyu song traditions that form part of a series published by Batchelor Press ...Open AccessArticle -
Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831): Overture to Lodoiska (arr. for pianoforte trio); Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte), Annie Gard (violin), Daniel Yeadon (violoncello); Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022
Published 2022-08-10The English comic opera Lodoiska, a pasticcio (or compilation) from several continental operas of the same name, was first performed in London in 1794, and its overture, drawn from Kreuzter’s 1791 Paris Lodoiska, remained ...Open AccessAudiovisual -
Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities
Published 2021This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development ...Open AccessPreprint -
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Published 2020As an ethnography of Central Australian singing traditions and ceremonial contexts, this book asks questions about the vitality of the cultural knowledge and practices highly valued by Warlpiri people and fundamental to ...Book -
Transcription as deflowering: collection practices in Italy, pre-1939
Published 1988-1989This paper focuses on the interaction between transcribers and performers of traditional songs before the ready availability of sound recording. What acts did the collectors perform to produce the written documents that ...Open AccessArticle