On a New Formula: Reassessing Hooper Brewster Jones

Bowan, Kate

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On a New Formula: Reassessing Hooper Brewster Jones

Date

2008

Authors

Bowan, Kate

Publisher

University of Melbourne

Abstract

The review and analysis of Hooper Brewster-Jones's 'Prelude to a new formula', a set of 6 preludes is discussed. Other relevant pieces of the same period are also highlighted as a significant early Australian foray into a world beyond tonality and pursued as aesthetic agenda.