Professor Edward Harold Davies
Papers 1887-1947
MSS 0059
Series 3.3 Title list
1. Nature of music
Should Music and Drama Be Subsidised? The Advertiser, 23/3/1926
The Dignity of Music [1924 lecture by Davies at the NSW Conservatorium, given at a reception in his honour by the Beale brothers of Beales Pianos]
The Nature of Music 1930 (missing? 2/04)
What is Music? What is its Value? [notes for talk at St Peters College 21/8/1936]
The Influence of Music 1936
The Fear of Beauty c1936
Music – a public need?
Art as a Vital Need [mss, post 1922]
2. History of music
The Rise and Development of Opera 1903
The Structure and Growth of Music - Development of Harmony
Early Irish Music
Early Music in South Australia [mss]
3. Music education
Nervousness [early? mss]
On Musical Education [address at AMEB Conference Melbourne 1924]
Some Aspects of Musical Education 1925(6?)
The True Object of Education [includes a plea for inclusion of music] 1925
Ear Training - The Basis of Musical Education [address to teachers?]
Music as a Subject in the Arts Course [University Conference] 1937
The School of Music [for discussion of its future by the Faculty] 1938
Foreword to Heather Gell’s Music, Movement and the Young Child 1944
For All Students of the Voice [paper completed on Monday evening June 1947; Davies died from a heart attack the following day]
4. Music (General)
The What and Why of Music – notes for an informal address to the Dual Club, 21/08/1940 [mss]
The Meaning of Music - notes for an address to the Musical Association, 20 November 19??
[Role of music and musical salons] Address at opening night of the Salon Society, March 1935 [mss]
Music Week
The Present and Future of Music (for Music Week) 1933
A National Song for Australia [mss, post 1939]
The Place of Music in Worship
Songs Good and Bad [mss]
5. Broadcasting and reproduction
National Broadcasting - a Challenge
The True Function of National Broadcasting
Reproduced Music
Gramophone Music
The Present Day Musical Problem [address as part of Music Week]
2 talks (untitled) on gramophone music, given at University Conversazione 28/08/1936
Evidence given to Parliamentary Committee on Broadcasting 30 October 1945 [proof of Hansard record]
6. Sounds and words
The Music of Words (2 versions)
Hearing - or Listening Sydney Home, April 1935
Our Mother Tongue
The spoken word – a precious heritage
7. Life matters, philosophy & education
What Ails the World? - The Reign of Fear, Science and Human Responsibility, Real Christianity - published in The Advertiser December 1932
“Anything for a Quiet Life” [ms and typescript, after 1938]
The Problems of Leisure - address to Rotary Club 28/08/1939
The One and the Many - address to Rotary Club [during war years]
Rights and Duties [undated newspaper article]
Education - lecture to New Education Fellowship 24 April 1944
Preparing for the Post-War World
8. Miscellaneous
Was Tennyson also Among the Prophets?
The working classes
‘Fugitive notes’ [mss]
