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Music in Australia

This guide will point you to resources in Australian music at the University of Melbourne Library and beyond.

Manuscript Scores

Southbank Library holds manuscript scores, many by Australian composers including Margaret Sutherland, Richard Mills and Dorian le Gallienne.

A catalogue call number search entering MS with the first four letters of the composer's surname will find manuscript works held in the library.

For example, MS SUTH retrieves all the manuscript scores by Margaret Sutherland

Collections at the University of Melbourne

Concert Programs

Press Clippings

There are eight volumes of press clippings relating to music performance in Melbourne 1928-1947. Clippings cover music and concert life in Melbourne, with particularly detailed coverage of Conservatorium of Music activities. To access, search the library catalogue for "Scrapbook of press clippings on music in Melbourne".

Barry Tuckwell Collection

The Collection held at the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Collection includes some items pertaining to Australian music. Among the Collection's contents are:

  • printed and manuscript scores, including works written for Tuckwell
  • sound recordings
  • correspondence with composers, conductors and other performers
  • diaries
  • concert programmes
  • posters, press clippings and photographs.

Iconography

The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Collection has a small collection of photographs. Ask Southbank staff for assistance.