Books

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The Point of the Baton LBP004

John Hopkins with Will Cottam

The personal and surprisingly candid memoir of conductor John Hopkins, his distinguished career in Britain, New Zealand and Australia, and his role as a champion of the young and the new.

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Catalogue of the Hanson-Dyer Music Collection
The University of Melbourne LBP001

Denis Herlin

Louise Hanson-Dyer’s library, now at the University of Melbourne, which includes some 250 prints and manuscripts dating from the 15th to the early 19th centuries, is particularly notable for French operatic works, early English prints, Italian renaissance music and early theoretical treatises.

Australasian Music Research (AMR)

A book series devoted to all aspects of Australasian music and musical life.

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Up Is Down: A Life of Violinist Jan Sedivka (AMR010)
Elinor Morrisby

Jan Sedivka, violinist and pedagogue, has been a towering figure in string playing in Australia for over forty-five years. This is Sedivka’s story: it encompasses the ups and downs of his extraordinary life.

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Growing Up Making Music: Youth Orchestras in Australia and the World (AMR009)
Edited by Margaret Kartomi and Kay Dreyfus with David Pear

This is the first detailed scholarly study of youth orchestras. Led by a team of researchers from Monash University in Australia, it focuses on the lives, aims, repertory, economics and educational outcomes that orchestras set out to develop.

Lyrebird Press books and music can be purchased online from the Melbourne University Bookshop.

Wholesale enquiries or requests for orchestral materials should be made direct to the publisher .