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The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 70s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminism that seemed harbingers of the symphony's demise.
List of contents
Introduction and acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Modernism and Postmodernism: the Survival and Resurgence of the Symphony.
Chapter 2. Established symphonists and the 'Older Generation' - 1960-1980.
Chapter 3. The generation of the 1920s and 30s; serialists and proto-postmoderns - 1960-1980
Chapter 4. The symphony in Australia post 1980: post-modernism, style wars and the Australian Bicentennial 1988.
Chapter 5. The symphonies of Carl Vine
Chapter 6. The symphonies of Ross Edwards and Brenton Broadstock
Chapter 7. Other symphonists of the 1940s/50s generation - Polglase, Bracanin, Conyngham, Issacs, Ford
Chapter 8 The 21st century Symphony - composers of the 1960s and 70s generation: Hindson, Schultz, Greenbaum, Kerry and Abbott
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Appendix: A comprehensive annotated catalogue of symphonies by Australians.
About the author
Professor Rhoderick McNeill is an Honorary Professor in the School of Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Summary
The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 70s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminism that seemed harbingers of the symphony’s demise.
