1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Edited by Robert Dimery. Sydney: Quintet Publishing Limited (2005)

Reviewed by Dean Biron

45 South in Concert .By Neil McKelvie.Southland Musicians Club, Invercargill, New Zealand, 2006.

Reviewed by Tony Mitchell

All the way with the USA. Australia, the US and Free Trade by

Ann Capling. Series entitled Briefings, from Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005

Reviewed by Richard Letts

Australia’s Operatic Phoenix: From World War II to War and Peace by Alison Gyger. Sydney, 2005: Pelinor, 360pp. ISBN 0949697419

Reviewed by Rowena Cowley

Australian Arts. Where the Bloody Hell Are You? Australian Arts in an International Context by John Clark, Peter McCallum, Ian Maxwell, editors. Sydney: Sydney University Press 2007. ISBN 978-1-920898-14-4

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Catalogue de la collection Musicale Hanson-Dyer by Denis Herlin. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne 2007.  ISBN 0734036469 170pp

Reviewed by Helen Rusak

Character of a Genius: Beethoven in Perspective (The) by Peter J. Davies. Greenwood Press. 2002. 319 pp.

Reviewed by Peter McCallum

Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development (The). Edited by Gary McPherson.Oxford, England, 2006: Oxford University Press, 501pp. ISBN 0-19853032-3

Reviewed by Peter Dunbar-Hall

Company We Keep: an intimate celebration of Opera Australia (The). Text by Annarosa Berman and photographs by Bridget Elliott. Published by Opera Australia and Currency Press $49.95. ISBN 0 86819 786 6

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Computers in Music Education: amplifying musicality.  By Andrew R. Brown. Queensland:  Routledge, 2007.

ISBN 9780415978514  338 pp.

Reviewed by Iain Giblin

Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia. Edited by John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell. Currency House Inc., in association with Currency Press, Sydney, 2003; 735pp.

Reviewed by Graham Strahle

Dancing with DeBeauvoir: Jazz and the French by Colin Nettelbeck. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2004. 240 pages. ISBN 0 522 85113 4.

Reviewed by Bruce Johnson

Deadly sounds, deadly places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia by Peter Dunbar-Hall and Chris Gibson. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004.

Reviewed by Hans Hoegh-Guldberg

Five Dimensions of Community (The) by Sandra Krempl. Perth: Community Arts Network WA (2002)

Reviewed by Huib Schippers

Foundations of Contemporary Composing (The) Edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2004.

Reviewed by Thomas Reiner

Geoffrey Parsons Among Friends. By Richard Davis. Sydney: ABC Books, December 2006. ISBN 9780733319877, 287 pages.

Reviewed by Jeanell Carrigan

Growing Up Making Music: Youth Orchestras in Australia and the World by Margaret Kartomi and Kay Dreyfus. Melbourne: Lyrebird Press 2007. ISBN 978734037688 ISSN 13255266 186pp.

Reviewed by Iain Giblin

Hip Hop Music in Aotearoa by Gareth Shute. Auckland: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd., 2004.

Reviewed by Tony Mitchell

In Defence of Classical Music by Andrew Ford. Sydney: ABC Books, 2005
Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation .Edited by Sally Macarthur, Bruce Crossman and Ronaldo Morelo. Australian Music Centre 2006.ISBN 9780909168605

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

 
An Introduction to the Cor Anglais and Oboe by Rachel Tolmie.Wollongong: Wirripang 2006. ISBN 9781876829124 100pp with CD. 

Reviewed by Eve Newsome

Listen to your Hands! by William Coyle. Tasmania: William Coyle Piano Teaching 2007. ISBN 9780646478500 40 pp. www.listentoyourhands.com.au

Reviewed by Rachel Hocking

Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness: The Secret Life and Shameful Death of the Classical Recording Industry. By Norman Lebrecht. Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London 2007.  ISBN 0713999578, 324 pages.

Reviewed by Ken Nielsen

Manual for Music Workshops (A) by Graham Leak. Currency Press, Sydney, 2003

ISBN 0 86819673 8

Reviewed by Lindy Morrison

More than a Musician. A Life of E. Harold Davies by Doreen Bridges

North Melbourne, 2006: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 199pp. ISBN 1-74097-120-5

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Music Explorer (The) by Guy Noble. ABC Books, Sydney, 2003. ISBN 07333 1061 3

Reviewed by Fiona Loader

Music, Meaning and Transformation. Steve Dillon.Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007.ISBN 1-84718-213-5 

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Musical Morphology. Edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2004.

Reviewed by Thomas Reiner

Musicianship in the 21st Century: Issues, Trends and Possibilities. Edited by Sam Leong. Australian Music Centre, 2003, 333pp. ISBN 0-909168-50-4

Reviewed by Peter Dunbar-Hall

NZ Rock 1987-2007 . By Gareth Shute. Random House New Zealand, 2008, ISBN 978-1-86979-000-4

Reviewed by Tony Mitchell

Promoters (The) by Stuart Coupe. Hodder, Sydney 2003. ISBN 0 7336 1503 1
Reviewed by Lucky Oceans

Reel Tracks: Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities. Edited by Rebecca Coyle. Eastleigh, UK: John Libbey Publishing, 2005, ISBN: 0 86196 658 9

Reviewed by Anthony Linden Jones

Regional State of Mind (A). Making Arts outside Metropolitan Australia by Lyndon Terracini. Platform Papers No.l1. Sydney: Currency House, January 2007. ISBN 978 0 97573 019 5

Reviewed by Helen Lancaster

The Rite of Spring. 75 Years of ABC Music-Making by Martin Buzacott. Sydney: ABC Books 2007.  ISBN 9780733318849 487pp

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger. Edited by Malcolm Gillies, David Pear and Mark Carroll. Oxford University Press 2006. ISBN13 978-0-19-530537-1

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Songs from Australia by David Miller, Wendy Dixon, Cathy Aggett and Linda Foulsham. Wollongong, 2006: Wirripang, 246pp, CD  ISBN 1876829 09 5 

www.australiancomposers.com.au

Reviewed by Carol-Ann Bentley

Sounds from the Corner: Australian Contemporary Jazz on CD by Roger Dean. Sydney: Australian Music Centre, July 2005

Reviewed by Jenny Game-Lopata

The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality. Edited by Fiona Richards. Ashgate Publishing Ltd ISBN 978-0-7546-4072-1 

Reviewed by Tony Mitchell

Stranded in Paradise: New Zealand Rock and Roll 1955 to the Modern Era by John Dix. Auckland: Penguin Books 2005 ISBN 0 14 301953 8

Reviewed by Tony Mitchell

Time of Our Singing (The) by Richard Powers. London: Vintage, 2004

Reviewed briefly by Richard Letts

Timing is Everything by Moffatt Oxenbould. ABC Books ISBN 073331713 8

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Voice of Australia by David Miller, Wendy Dixon, Linda Foulsham.  Wollongong: Wirripang Publications 2007.  ISBN 978176829117 114pp with CD

Reviewed by Stephen Grant

When Austral Sang by Michael Elphinstone and Wayne Hancock. Hyde Park Press 2005 ISBN 0 646 44033 0

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

When the Writ HITS THE FAN! by Phil Dwyer with Phil Tripp.  Sydney: 40Watt Marketing Pty Ltd July 2004, distributed by Immedia.

Reviewed by Lindy Morrison

William James and the Beginnings of Modern Music in Australia by David Tunley.  Sydney: Australian Music Centre 2007. ISBN 9780909168629 129pp

Reviewed by Elizabeth Silsbury

Willie's Bar and Grill by Rob Hirst. Picador, Sydney, 2003.

Reviewed by Julian Porter