Research Centres

The Centre for Guitar Studies

The Centre for Guitar Studies aims to be the leading international centre for research on the guitar, its music, pedagogy, performers, composers and luthiers. It is a focus for research, performance, composition, historical editing of music scores, publishing, and matters relating to the classical guitar, lute and baroque/ early guitar.

The centre brings together the expertise of the only three guitarists teaching and researching at universities in New Zealand. Head of the Centre for Guitar Studies is Assoc Prof Matthew Marshall, New Zealand’s pre-eminent classical guitarist. William Bower and Gunter Herbig make up the trio of teachers at the centre. Their expertise ranges from New Zealand composition, baroque, 18th, 19th and early 20th century classical guitar, and community guitar education.

In September 2005 the centre celebrated its launch with The New Zealand International Guitar Festival. Featuring performances by Australian quartet Guitar trek and celebrated American composer and guitarist Benjamin Verdery the event was sponsored by the American Embassy and The New Zealand School of Music and was the biggest classical guitar event in New Zealand in 20 years.

Waiteata Music Press

Was established by the patriarch of NZ music, Douglas Lilburn, in 1967. Lilburn envisaged it as a non-profit "composer facility", producing inexpensive scores of New Zealand music for performance and study, and this continues to be its prime function. Since 1981, when composer Jack Body took over the editorship, Waiteata Music Press has become the principal publisher of New Zealand music, with over 160 scores in the catalogue, representing the work of over 50 different composers.

While many of the scores first published were facsimiles of the composers’ manuscript, in recent years most have been computer set. A further new development is the publication of compact discs. The linking of scores and recordings offer an ideal opportunity for study by performers, students and serious music lovers.

Waiteata Music Press also now offers sets of parts of selected New Zealand chamber works for hire. Recent publications include ‘Composer Portait’ CDs with associated scores of music by Gillian Whitehead, Ross Harris, Jenny McLeod and Jack Body, and a CD and set of scores by young NZ composers.

Editor: Jack Body
Assistant Editor: Alistair Gilkison

Click here to view the Waiteata Music Press Catalogue

Massey University Music Editions

Robert Hoskins, series editor: R.H.Hoskins@nzsm.ac.nz

The Massey University Music Edition is dedicated to publishing New Zealand’s best and most significant composers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Since 1994 over twenty scores have been published, including works by Jack Body, Edwin Carr, John Cousins, David Farquhar, Douglas Lilburn, Larry Pruden, Anthony Ritchie, and John Ritchie.

The Edition includes a Composer Address series of nine published talks given at Massey University (1995-2006) by Jack Body, Edwin Carr, John Cousins, Chris Cree Brown, Lyell Cresswell, David Farquhar, Margaret Nielsen (on Douglas Lilburn), John Rimmer, and John Ritchie. The Edition also includes scores by the English composers Robin Walker and Ralph Vaughan Williams (by permission of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust).

The Edition is published by Promethean Editions with the support of the NZSM. The Editorial Board includes publishers, editors and scholars.

Visit www.promethean-editions.com to subscribe and for details of individual volumes.

NEW RELEASES

STRING QUARTET No 3
David Farquhar
PMEO7 (score)
A three-movement work inspired by Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. Brilliant and capricious, the music is a model of the composer’s incisive style.

CONCERTINO for Clarinet and String Orchestra
John Ritchie
PMEO8 (score)
Regarded as John Ritchie’s “classic”, this three-movement work blends post-war English “pastoral” style with 1950s American neoclassicism.

STRING QUARTET
John Cousins
PMEO9 (score)
A single-movement piece with music that, tornado-like, suctions energy into a central void.

ICESCAPE
Chris Cree Brown
PME10 (score)
The first orchestral work by a New Zealander who has visited the Ice. The music celebrates a passionate engagement with the unforgiving world of the Antarctic.

The Douglas Lilburn Piano Music Edition

Robert Hoskins, series editor: R.H.Hoskins@nzsm.ac.nz

A three-volume collection, which reveals the singular imaginative power of New Zealand’s foremost composer Over the course of his astonishingly productive musical career, Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) composed a body of piano music as various as it is enduring.

This comprehensive three-volume collection is a companion to the Trust Records CD series of Lilburn’s complete piano music performed by Dan Poynton. Included in the edition are sonatas and sonatinas, preludes and bagatelles, the Chaconne of 1946 and “Three Sea Changes”.

The newly edited works are performance editions. The editorial committee includes publishers, editors, scholars and practitioners. The Collection is published by Promethean Editions with the support of NZSM.

Visit www.promethean-editions.com to subscribe and for details of individual volumes.

The Larry Pruden Collected Edition

Robert Hoskins, series editor: R.H.Hoskins@nzsm.ac.nz

The first collected edition of a New Zealand composer

Over the span of his composing career, Larry Pruden (1925-82) wrote some sixty works, including music for piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, stage and film. Here in ten authoritative volumes is every work the composer is known to have considered complete, and a very few incomplete works which were felt warranted inclusion.

The scores in the collected Edition are based on Pruden’s underlying autograph or holograph manuscripts, which have been consulted extensively throughout the editorial process. Comparison has been made to all extant forms of each title, published and unpublished. Each volume includes a short commentary and editorial notes on the source materials.

In consultation with the Estate of Larry Pruden, Promethean Editions appointed an Editorial Panel and an Advisory Board to oversee publication of the Collected Edition. Supportive grants have come from the Lilburn Trust and Creative New Zealand.

The Collected Edition is published by Promethean Editions with the support of the NZSM.

Visit www.promethean-editions.com to subscribe and for details of individual volumes.

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