Peter Platt - papers, n.d.-2000

ACCESSION RECORD

fonds

n.d.-2000

412146

44 boxes

Peter Platt, Professor of Music, was born in 1924 at Sheffield England, son of Baron and Lady Platt. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, in 1941 and after war service studied at Oxford University from 1946. Between 1952 and 1957 Peter Platt was senior lecturer in Music at the University of Sydney. In 1957 he was appointed to the Chair of Music University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and remained in that position until his appointment in 1975 to the Chair of Music at the University of Sydney. Peter Platt died in 2000.

BOXES 1-7
Books selected from Platt's personal academic library (see also Box 44)

BOXES 8-11
Richard Dering research papers and materials, listed in detail below:

BOX 8 (large)
Thesis for degree of B. Litt. Richard Dering: His life and music by Peter Platt, Vols 1 (225 pp.) & 2 (ms. transcriptions , 157 pp.).
Green folder concerning note by Peter Platt for King’s College recording of motets by Philips and Dering, 1990 (EMI Records).
Green folder concerning Dering talk for Early Music Association of NSW 1991.
Various photocopies/microfilm printouts of original Dering music manuscripts.
Large quantity of ms. transcriptions of Dering’s music by Peter Platt.
Correspondence with Philip Brett.
Ms. transcription of Dering’s 2 & 3 part motets ed. by Richard Charteris (photocopy of ms. score, 182 pp.). Also Novello publication of Two Motets by Dering, ed. Richard Charteris, 1990.
Bound photocopies of part-books for Dering’s Cantiones Sacrae (stamped Uni of Otago Library Music Dept).

Printed items:


Musica Britannica Vol. XXV Richard Dering Secular Vocal Music transcribed & edited by Peter Platt, 1969 (2 copies, with ms. annotations by Peter Platt).
Richard Dering Cantica Sacra 1618, Early English Church Music Vol.15 transcribed & edited by Peter Platt (with ms. annotations by Peter Platt).
The Cries of London by Richard Dering ed. Denis Stevens.

BOX 9 (large)
File concerning Musica Britannica XXV: lead-up, background, transcripts of texts, not music.
File concerning Richard Dering miscellaneous transcriptions.
File concerning Peter Philips research.
Typescript of radio script about Richard Dering by Platt for BBC 1952.
Ms. speech about Dering given in Sydney, 1952.
Review of The Cries of London by Richard Dering ed. Denis Stevens for the Musical Times.
Article on Richard Dering by Platt submitted to Dictionnaire de la Musique, Paris.
Photocopy of Chap 7 of thesis by Richard Charteris.
Folder of notes concerning tonality research.
Folder of unsorted thesis research.
Pink folder of Dering correspondence and bibliographies.
Purple folder concerning ‘Aspects of Dering’s Tonality’ [For the book Liber amicorum John Steele: a musicological tribute ed. Warren Drake].
Orange folder of Dering research enquiries received.
Research file, including article by Platt Ozeanien in the German Encyclopaedia of Music Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Also article by Platt on Peter Philips for The Listener, 1951.
Numerous facsimiles and ms. transcriptions of music by Dering.
Several notebooks of research notes.

Printed items:
Two In Nomines for six viols attributed to Richard Dering, ed. Virginia Brookes (PRB Productions).
Six fantasias for six viols by Richard Dering, ed. Virginia Brookes (PRB Productions).
Eight fantasias for five viols by Richard Dering, ed. Virginia Brookes (PRB Productions).
Two fantasias a 6 by anonymous (Richard Dering), ed. Richard Charteris (Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain Supplementary Publication).
Studies in Music No.1 1967 (reprint) ‘Perspectives of Richard Dering’s vocal music’ by Peter Platt, University of Western Australia Press.
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ed. Friedrich Blume [Encyclopedia articles in German on John Bull by Thurston Dart and Richard Dering by Peter Platt].
O vos omnes: motet for 6 voices by Richard Dering, ed. Sir Frederick Bridge, 1908.
Quem vidistis postores: motet for 6 voices by Richard Dering, ed. Sir Frederick Bridge, 1908.
Tell me, fair but unkind: for female voices by Richard Dering, ed. W. Gillies Whittaker, O.U.P., 1937.
Ave verum corpus: motet by Richard Deering, ed. Bruno Turner, Schott, 1960.
The cryes of London by Richard Deering, ed. Sir Frederick Bridge, Novello, 1935.
Almaine: for string orchestra by Richard Dering, ed. Sir Richard Terry, Curwen, 1925.
Jubilate Deo Universa Terra by Richard Dering (photocopy), British Academy 1974.

BOX 10
Red folder: concerning Dering paper for Melbourne conference.
Manila folder containing writings and emails of Charles Platt.
Red folder concerning thesis on Richard Mico by Meredith Tyler (now Meredith Lawn), including Meredith’s transcription of Mico’s 4-part viol consort music. [Platt was the supervisor for this thesis].
Green folder concerning lecture for Winsome Evans on modality, April 1995
Pink folder concerning early versions of ‘Aspects of Dering’s Tonality’ [For the book Liber amicorum John Steele: a musicological tribute ed. Warren Drake]
Green folder concerning ‘Aspects of Dering’s Tonality’.

BOX 11
Folder containing Dering indexed research papers.
Folder of correspondence with libraries re. Dering source material, 1950-52.
Folder of early research & plans re. Dering, ca. 1950.
Folder of notes re. mss & printed copies of music.
Copies of documents obtained from PRO, London.
Folder: Ms. draft of thesis.
Folder: Carbon typescript of thesis, with ms. corrections & annotations.
Loose pages re. Richard Dering Cantica Sacra 1618, Early English Church Music Vol.15, transcribed & edited by Peter Platt.
Folder of correspondence re. Musica Britannica Vol. XXV revised ed., other publications and research enquiries received, 1959-77.

BOXES 12 (large)-13
Stravinsky papers

BOXES 14-17
Drone monograph papers/notes

BOX 18
Assorted materials for papers/notes, mostly Drone monograph

BOX 19
Debussy papers and assorted papers/notes

BOXES 20-23
Assorted papers/notes

BOXES 24-26
Correspondence (mostly editorial)

BOXES 27-30
Musicological correspondence, reviews, conference papers (mostly MSA)

BOX 31
Musicological notes, correspondence 1984 and conferences (mostly ANZAAS)

BOX 32
Australian Music Centre correspondence and reviews, Music Education Conference materials

BOXES 33-34
Lecture notes

BOXES 35-37
Departmental materials, ideas

BOX 38
Departmental materials and notebooks

BOX 39
Departmental materials including some lecture notes

BOX 40
Departmental papers, mostly Seymour and other performing groups

BOX 41
Departmental materials, especially postgraduate matters

BOXES 42-43
Departmental papers, student work, postgraduate work, references

BOX 44
Books selected from Platt's personal academic library (see also Boxes 1-7)

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