AustLit

This website is the homepage and weblog of Graeme Skinner, musicologist, writer and researcher. The site includes Austral Harmony (a resource for music and musicians in early colonial Australia). Austral Harmony presents Graeme Skinner's 'ongoing research into the history of music and musicians in early colonial Australia ... [from the] first European colonisation of Australia in 1788 ... [to] the centenary of colonisation in 1888, and the run up to Federation in 1901. By providing links to a mass of online content, Austral Harmony also functions as a virtual anthology of colonial Australian music and documentation'.

Contents include articles on musical performance and musical appreciation in colonial Australia of Australian and non-Australian music and musicians; a biographical register of colonial Australian musicians; an organisational register of colonial Australian music and musicians; 'A chronoligical checklist of Australian colonial musical compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions 1788-1840' and 'A chronoligical checklist of Australian colonial musical compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions 1841-1850' presented as ongoing research based on Skinner's 2011 thesis 'Toward a General History of Australian Musical Composition: First National Music 1788-c.1860.'

Source: Graeme Skinner website, www.graemeskinner.id.au (sighted 09/01/2013)