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Title

John Mansfield Thomson : notes towards a biography / edited by Margaret Clark ; with Jim Collinge & Martin Lodge.

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Steele Roberts, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Clark, Margaret, 1941-
• Collinge, Jim.
• Lodge, Martin.
• Collinge, James, 1936-

Description

227 p. : ill., music; 25 cm.

Summary

When John Mansfield Thomson died [in 1991] it was decided that something should be done to capture the essence of this eminent musicologist and aesthete while memories were still fresh. In time a biography may be written, but in the meantime we have this ... collection of memories and tributes. They deal with [Thomson's] early life, his student years, the London period, and his return to New Zealand. ..."--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Notes towards a biography

Subject

• Thomson, John Mansfield
• Musicologists > New Zealand > Biography
• Musicologists > New Zealand > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Biographies

Note

• "Collection of memories and tributes ... arranged in roughly chronological order"--P. 7.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• "Selected writings": pages 213-216.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Margaret Clark -- Janet Wemyss Hill -- The Oriflamme: 'Asclepius' -- Harry Orsman -- Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (i) -- Bryan Reid -- John Drawbridge -- Peter Campbell -- Edwin Carr -- Peter Crowe -- Fleur Adcock -- Roger Hollinrake -- Craig McLeod -- Donald Mitchell -- Patrick Carnegy -- Martin Bond -- Lyell Cresswell -- Peter Phillips -- Gillian Whitehead -- Geraldine Mucha -- Denis Waugh -- Jim Collinge -- Nicholas Kenyon -- Meg Campbell -- Robin Maconie -- David Farquhar -- Lois Daish -- Emma Neale -- Helen Young -- Jill Palmer -- Gillian Deane -- Shelagh Duckham Cox -- Greer Garden -- Jennifer Shennan -- Ann Balcombe -- David Maskill -- Dougls Lilburn -- Vincent O'Sullivan -- Martin Lodge -- Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (ii) -- Appendices (1. Citation for the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa ; 2. Citation for services to New Zealand music ; 3. Early Music: first editorial ; 4. Diary of Joshua Creep of the Mausoleum Press, London ; 5. Autobiographical notes ; 6. 'Suspensions and Resolutions: words about music' ; 7. Selected writings / compiled by Martin Lodge.

ISBN

1877228923 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 61889868
• SCSB-12683116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library