Richard M Moyle (18 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have edge rubbing, light shelf wear. Contents: Mitchell, "World Music and the Popular Music Industry: An Australian View"; Malm, "Music on the Move: Traditions and Mass Media"; Lam, "Analyses and Interpretations of Chinese Seven-string Zither Music: The Case of the Lament of Empress Chen"; Moyle, "Drone, Melody, and Decoration - Paradigm Lost"; current bibliography, discography, recording and film/videography; book reviews; recording reviews; notes on authors; index to volume 37. 9.0" tall; 170 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket has some wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. 271 pages. The disc with sing recordings is not included Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size H: 11"-12" Tall (279-304mm). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Jacket has heavy wear, tears and some marks. Minor pencil marks to top corner of first page, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. Includes vinyl record to front pocket. 271pp Size: 220mm x 285mm. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 271pp, index, bibliography, glossary, music, bw ills, maps, 7 inch 45rpm record in front sleeve. Black cloth in jacket. Tear at bottom of front flap fold, several small silverfish holes to jacket and minor rubbing to folds. Record appears unplayed. Study of songs and music from Alyawarra Territory and Agharringa Country in the Northern Terrtory much of which lies on Ammaroo Station. The record has 9 songs- the 5 on Side 1 are from the apulha initiation complex and sung by a mixed group of men form several Alyawarra countires. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce title. With the 45rpm single record in its sleeve, not scratched. A few stains to dustjacket two minor 5mm tears to head of d\/j. 29cm x 22cm. 272pp.

Hardback. Printed pages: 271. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lacking jacket. Black cloth binding. Foxing to page edges. Very clean text throughout. Complete with the 45 RPM disc which is in mint condition. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 9 x 11.5 inches (22.5 x 29 cm).

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, b&w frontis portrait, 302 pages. Clean, bright copy. Record # 378292.

imperal octavo, illus light card covers, 54pp, illus, (VG+) light brusing to front cover and fep.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 147 pp., illustrations, bibliography, maps. Includes 2 audio CDs. This modest anthology of fables represents the first publication in the language of Taku, a Polynesian outlier situated off the east coast of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The island's small size and remoteness have left it largely untouched by Western influences, and a forty-year-old ban on Christian missionaries and churches has allowed the population of 450 to continue unhindered a variety of traditional practices long disconintued on neighbouring atolls, and indeed within Polynesia itself. Taku's language is Samoic and, in common with Samoa itself and other island groups within West Polynesia, Taku's oral tradition includes a category of fables told princibipally for domestic entertainment in a family setting. These stories incorporate one or more short songs which the narrator sings at crucial moments in the plots. The plots of several stories and the names of their principal characters are common to several Polynesian groups, but on Taku the fables are given an extra sense of realism by being localised on the island itself. The numbers of these stories, which are called kkai, are quite low and this anthology represents the contemporary repertoire. Includes 2 music CDs.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Auckland, Auckland Institute and Museum, 1989. Quarto, [viii], 54 pages with 7 maps and numerous illustrations (from photographs). Colour pictorial card covers; head of the spine very slightly torn; an excellent copy. An illustrated catalogue of the sound-producing instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute Museum.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce title. With slightly rubbed dust jacket. Hartdcover. One 5mm tear to top edge of d/jacket else near fine condition. Canberra Times stamp to free front endpaper. Overall a very good to near fine copy. 29cm x 22cm. 184pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 302 p., bibliography, index. 0.0.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 428 p., bibliography. Includes DVD. Takuu is a Polynesian outlier in Papua New Guinea whose community chose to ban Christian churches and missionaries in the 1960s, and which is arguably the last location where traditional Polynesian religion is still openly and extensively practised, as is the associated language. The island's smallness, remoteness and lack of exploitable natural wealth have distanced it from PNG's national economy, and the indigenous language is used by virtually the entire population of around 500. Lack of paid employment opportunities has resulted in the ongoing growth of a large expatriate population scattered throughout the country. A sinking land mass, salination of the gardens and recent devastating tidal surges are combining to jeopardise the long-term viability of residence, and plans are underway to relocate the entire population to Bougainville Island. This dictionary is the third in an ongoing series of monographs about Takuu, following a bilingual anthology of fables (Naa kkai Takuu, 2003) and a musical ethnography (Songs fro the Second Float, 2007). Within the electronic version on the DVD bound into the book are several hundred photographs and video clips illustrating local flora and fauna, topography, material culture, and song and dance performances. 0.0.…

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. F-. First Edition. F-/F-. 8vo. original brown textured paper boards gilt in dustwrapper (trifling edge rubbing & spine fade); pp. x, 302, with frontispiece. A near fine copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 28cm x 21.5cm. vii, 183 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Musical score throughout. Minor tanning and foxing. Small amount of insect damage to front flyleaf. Previous owner's name. Category: Aboriginal Australia; Performing Arts::Music; Australia|Western Australia|Northern Territory; 20th Century: 1970s; Performing Arts. ISBN: 0855750871. ISBN/EAN: 9780855750879. Inventory No: 0037345.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979 (first edition, 'soft cover' version). Quarto, viii, 183 pages with 12 illustrations (from photographs), 19 figures and 64 music scores plus a taped-in errata slip (now loose). Decorated card covers lightly bumped and sunned; small offset tape stain to the first three leaves; an excellent copy.…

First edition. 4to. 271 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. 7" vinyl recording present. Music of the Alyawarra, living to north-east of Alice Springs. Nearly 200 songs transcribed. Illustrated with photographs, musical examples, and notations.

Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1984. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 302pp.). With frontisp. portrait and map. 1st ed. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Light foxing on endpapers, otherwise fine.