Australian Music Studies

Three books have been produced on Australian composers of the twentieth century:

• Associate Professor David Symons - The Music of Margaret Sutherland (Currency Press, 1997)
• Emeritus Professor David Tunley - William James and the Beginnings of Modern Musical Australia (AMC, 2007)
• Associate Professor Victoria Rogers - The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Ashgate, forthcoming)

In addition to these projects, collections at the Callaway Centre Archive have provided significant historical resourses for investigation. These comprise the Sir Frank Callaway Collection, the Eileen Joyce Collection, the Hugh McMahon Collection, and the Handa Collection.

Some important digitisation and state-of-the-art archival storage and cataloguing of these materials has been achieved supported by the following significant grants:

• Preserving Australia’s Sound Heritage: Creating a web-based research infrastructure of major music archives - 2004 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Infrastructure Grant
• Sound Footings: Creating a web-based research infrastructure of major music archives - 2006 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Infrastructure Grant

These grants have clearly facilitated national links, placing the Callaway Centre Archive on a national grid in terms of academic archival research facilities. The existence of the archive has enabled the promotion of the University’s music scholarship in a special framework and provides a crucial bridge between public service provision, similar to the function of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, and academic research such as producing books, articles and conference presentations. Holding important national treasures keeps the School of Music in contact with peak bodies.