Australian Consulate Composers Collection
Scope and Contents
The Australian Consulate Composers Collection is comprised of more than 110 scores, 80 recordings, and supporting materials providing an overview of classical music production in Australia over a period of some 25 years. The work of approximately 50 composers is represented in some form. Peter Sculthorpe and Barry Conyngham are the names most frequently encountered.
Box Inventory
Box 1: Miscellanous scores and phonograph records (LPs)
Box 2: Ian Shanahan - Margaret Sutherland
Box 3: Don Banks-Nigel Butterfly
Box 4: Scores (names are illegible)
Box 5: Trevor Pierce - Peter Soulthorpe
Box 6: Jennifer Fowler - Douglas Knehans
Box 7: Janikin - Alice Mogle
Box 8: Composers Bios
Box 9: Miscellaneous Literature
Box 10: Barry Conyngham-Rocardo Formosa
Dates
- Creation: circa 1962-1988
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers are solely responsible for determining the copyright status of the materials being used, establishing who the copyright owner is, locating the copyright owner, and obtaining permission for intended use.
Extent
5.6 Cubic Feet (11 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Embassy of Australia, date unknown (probably around 1988).
- Title
- Australian Consulate Composers Collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- John Zarrillo
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu
