Historical information

This book was part of the Frank Wright Collection. His early tutor, Percy Code, is mentioned in the book.

Percy Code was senior conductor of the ABC, and commenced his musical career as a violinist but transferred his musical talent to the trumpet.

Physical description

Red hard covered book of 197 pages, and a number of black and white images. The book contains the following chapters: -
1. A Century and a Half of Music
2. Music of the Australian Aborigine
3. Personally Speaking
4. Biographical sketches (Amy Sherwin, Ada Crossley, Nellie Stewart, Melba, W.A. Laver, Alberto Zelman, Amy Castles, Peter Dawson, Percy Grainger, Hohn Lemmone, John Amadio, Horace Stevens, Evelyn Scotney (born Ballarat), Una Bourne, Browning Mummery, Daisy Kennedy, Essie Ackland, Dorothy Helmrich, Florence Austral, Bernard heinze, Harold Williams, Arnold Matters, Lauri kennedy, Gladys Moncrief, John Brownlee, John Dudley (born Ballarat), Marjorie Lawrence, Alan Eddy, Eileen Joyce, Joan Hammond, Nancy Weir, Noel Mewton-Wood, Raymond O'connell)
5. Australian Composers (May Brahe, Margaret Sutherland, Roy Agnew, Horace Gleeson, William G. James, Alfred Hill, Frank Hutchins, Lindley Evans, Horace Keats)
6. The Men with the Baton (G. Marhsall-Hall, Henri Verbruggen, Slapoffski, Fritz Hart, , Arundel Orchard, Edgar Bainton, Alberto Zelman, Bernard Heinze, Percy Code (Ballarat), William Cade, Joseph Post, John Farnsworth Hall)
7. Broadcasting in Australia
8. Violin Makers in Australia
9. Life in a Symphony Orchestra
Appendices
a. Choral Societies of Australia
b. Doctors of Music
c. A Selection of Records of Australian Composition.