Before and After Corroboree: The Music of John Antill

By Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe and David Symons

Although a prolific and much esteemed composer in Australia, John Antill's wider reputation is sustained chiefly by his ballet Corroboree - a work which was perceived to bring an authentic Australian musical style before both a national and international audience for the first time. David Symons traces Antill's development as a composer from his early, pre-Corroboree works through an analysis of the virile, dissonant, primitivist idiom of his magnum opus, to an examination of his later output. The book not only presents a developmental picture of Antill's works, but also demonstrates why they have made him one of Australia's most prominent musical creators of the post-colonial period.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472435362
• ISBN13: 9781472435361
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"