Hooper Josse Brewster-Jones (1887-1949)
Musical Compositions
MSS 0162
Series 8: Other Music
8.1 Australian Aboriginal Music and Dances
Includes MS and typed notes on Aboriginal music, corroborees and instruments
Scores and music sketches including
- ‘Narrinyeri Corroberie’ seen about 1860, from South Australian Folklore by G. Taplin. MS ink 1 p.
- “alleged Australian Aboriginal melody”
- Untitled score “copied from phonograph record of Percy Grainger,” “copied from Spence Across Australia”
- Australian Aboriginal Tunes collected by ??? from the Murray Tribe. Noted down … by Edith Piper 1922 (MS ink 4 p.)
- notation for Song of the women of the Meuero Tribe, with a note from Brewster Jones to Edith Piper re lesson time 12/5/1922
Scores transcribed from records made by Spencer and Gillen
- Record no. 1: Stevenson Creek, Adelaide
- Record no. 6: Song sung by old men at initiatory rites of young men, Stevenson River March 22nd 1901
- Record no. 8: Song of Chitchingalla Corroboree, sung on Stevenson River, March 22nd 1901
- Record no.11: Song of Erikta Corroboree, Arunta Tribe, sung on Stevenson River, March 22nd 1901, also song of Ilyarnpa Corroboree
- Record no. 12: Special exclamation used at sacred ceremonies by men dancing around performer
- Record no. 13” A song of the Kurnmara Corroboree, Arunta Tribe, sung at Charlotte Waters March 28nd 1901
- Record no. 15: Inc. corroboree songs sung by women of the Arunta Tribe of Charlotte Waters March 29th 1901
- Record no. 17: Women quarrelling
- Record no. 18?: Two initiatory songs of the Arunta Tribe at Charlotte Waters April 3rd 1901
- Record no. 19: Men quarrelling
- Record no. 21: Sacred song Rain Totem. Charlotte waters March 30th 1901
- Record no. 23: Sacred song relating to the tradition of the great snake of Okitchia, Charlotte Waters March 30th 1901
Issue of The Children’s Hour, June 1921, with article “How the Australian Blackfellows Hunted”
Correspondence
- ms letter from Mrs A.B. Abbott of the York Gate Library re articles on Aboriginal music
- typed copy of letter from Brewster Jones to Daisy Bates re sources of information on Aboriginal music and musical instruments 17/4/1903
8.2 Miscellaneous Sketches and Incomplete Pieces
[Book of Notated Sounds including Bird Calls] 1 volume
- Horse and Vehicles, Sea, Motor, Trains, Bells, Fountains, Wind whistling, Rain, water dripping,
- Bird calls including willy wagtail, shrike thrush, magpie, crow, delicate owl, parrot, curlew, rosella parrot
- inside front cover annotated “Book Bird Calls etc no. 1
[MS music book of Bird Calls (some notated)]
- MS pencil book numbered p. 1A-40A.
[Folders of Bird Calls (some notated)]
- c150 p. numbered from p. 118 to 304 (recycled print copies of Song of the 10th Battalion used as folders) Includes horse rhythms and notes on when and where bird calls were recorded.
Piano / vocal drafts / sketches / incomplete works
- mostly unidentified
- 2 folders
‘Symphony’ folder
- MS pencil and ink drafts, sketches, incomplete and identified pieces, including p. 1 of ‘The Sea: impression for full orchestra, commenced 28/4/1922’, ‘Scherzo’, ‘Peace Overture’ and ‘The Dawn’
[MS music book] ‘Overture for Orchestra’
Commenced October 1917 (incomplete)
Dance for Piano, Viola, Cornet and drum
- MS pencil sketch 2 p. plus cover
‘Sketches for violin and piano’
- sketches and incomplete MS pieces, mostly pencil, for violin/cello and piano
[Miscellaneous unidentified MS sketches of music for violin/cello and piano]
- unidentified sketches / drafts MS ink and pencil
Unfinished ballets and ballet preludes
- Ms pencil 10 leaves
8.3 Manuscript Scores by Other Composers
Concerto Rameau
- La Livri – Rondeau Gracieux. 2nd movement. MS pencil 7 p.
- Le Vezinet. 3rd movement. MS pencil and ink 22 p. Signed J? E.M. Armitage.
Ailsa Low(?) Garotte (Piano)
- Dec 1908? 8 bars only
U? John Close. Aboriginal Lullaby
- MS pencil 5 p., plus lyrics 1 p.
Triolet by Sruhan Kennedy (song)
- MS pen 2 p.
- WITH Women / James Stephens, Spruhan Kennedy (song) MS ink 3 p.
Requiescat. R.G. Cross.
- Composed January 1940.
- words by Oscar Wilde. MS ink 3 p.
Symphonie in H moll / Franz Schubert
- 1st violin and viola parts only
- MS ink 8 p.
Con Delicatezza / Cyril Scott
- for flute
- MS ink 2 p.
