National Library of Australia
Collection Summary
Creator Professor Allan Marett; Title Papers of Allan Marett; Date Range 1674-2013; Collection Number MS 10473; Extent 1.35 metres (9 ms boxes); Language of Materials English; Repository Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Scope and Contents
This collection includes papers relating to the personal and academic life of Emeritus Professor of Musicology Allan Marett and include: correspondence; reviews; interviews; journalism; lecture notes; concert programs involving Marett as consultant, author, performer and scholar; newspaper and magazine cuttings; records relating to radio programs and interviews including four programs on Aboriginal music for 2MBS and six programs on Japanese music for the ABC; drafts, reviews, correspondence and texts of the plays Eliza and Oppenheimer; correspondence regarding prizes and appointments; invitations and personal family documents including those relating to the musical life of Marett's parents. Also included are records resulting from two ARC projects on the 13th Century Japanese flute score Chū Ōga Ryūteki Yōroku Fu in the Gagaku tradition (Japanese Imperial Court Music and Dance), comprising a copy of the original tablature score, transcriptions of all pieces and an analysis of the structure of these pieces.
Series. Chū Ōga Ryūteki Yōroku Fu (CORYF )
Photocopy of source for Chū Ōga Ryūteki Yōroku Fu, Rakusaidō-bon (Rakusaidō copy), held in Research Archives for Japanese Music, Ueno Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan., Original (lost) early 14th century; this copy 1674 (File 1) - Box 1
Photocopy of source for Chū Ōga Ryūteki Yōroku Fu, held in the Library of Tenri University, Tenri, Japan., Original (lost) early 14th century; this copy is from the Muromachi period (14-16th century) (File 2) - Box 1
Photocopy of source for Chû Chū Ōga Ryūteki Yōroku Fu, Ryūteki Yōroku Fu, held in Research Archives for Japanese Music, Ueno Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan., Original (lost) early 14th century; this copy possibly 1782. (File 3) - Box 1
Photocopy of Ryūgin-shō, held in Research Archives for Japanese Music, Ueno Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan., Original (lost) early 14th century; this copy 1660 (File 4) - Box 1
Photocopy of a fragment of CORYF (Picken 165), Cambridge University Library, Original early 14th century; this copy possibly early Edo period. (File 5) - Box 1
Handwritten index (Marett) of CORYF copies), 1988 (File 6) - Box 1
Transcriptions of Ichikotsu-chō pieces from CORYF. Two volumes: vol 1 original and photocopy (rearranged); vol 2 original and photocopy (rearranged). Four sources (Sonkeikaku-bunko, Tenri, Ryūteki Yōroku Fu, Ryūgin-shō, see Marett 1988)., 1983 (File 7) - Box 2
Photocopy of item 1 with further annotation., 1983 (File 8) - Box 2
Transcriptions of Sōjō (2 vols) and Taishiki-chō pieces (2 vols) from CORYF. Same sources as Item 1. (File 9) - Box 2
Transcriptions of Ōshiki-chō pieces (2 vols) and Banshiki-chō pieces (2 vols) from CORYF. Same sources as for Item 1, 1983 (File 10) - Box 2
Transcriptions of Hyōjō pieces (1 vol) from CORYF and index of formulae (1 vol). Same sources as for Item 1, 1983 (File 11) - Box 2
Miscellaneous transcriptions and notes- 1. Etenraku (Jinchi yōroku); 2. Sōgō no ha (CORYF); 3. CORYF transcription notes, Cambridge 1984; 4. Miscellaneous notes and transcription from CORYF; 5. Kyōkunshō translations; 6. Analysis of Banshiki-chō formulae (Hugh de Ferranti); 7. Notes on nobebyōshi; 8. Transmission materials; 9. Draft table of CORYF sources, 1980-1990 (File 12) - Box 2
Transcriptions from Shinsen shōteki-fu (File 13) - Box 2
Transcriptions comparing sources plus some analysis of Ichikotsu-chō Hayabyōshi, ca. 1990 (File 14) - Box 3
Analysis of Ichikotsu-chō nobebyoshi, ca. 1990 (File 15) - Box 3
restrictions apply (File)
Analytical notes, ca. 1990 (File 16) - Box 3
Transcriptions of Ichikotsu-chō pieces, 1992 (File 17) - Box 3
Transcriptions of Banshiki-chō pieces, 1992 (File 18) - Box 3
Analysis of hayabyōshi and nobebyōshi formulae, 1992 (File 19) - Box 3
Field notebooks Japan, 1992 (File 20) - Box 3
Field notebooks Japan, 1976-1977 (File 21) - Box 3
Miscellaneous notes, ca. 1982 (File 22) - Box 3
CORYF compared to Shinsen shōteki-fu (Originals A) CORYF pp.8-58, 1990s (File 23) - Box 4
CORYF compared to Shinsen shōteki-fu (Originals B) CORYF pp.190-225, 1990s (File 24) - Box 4
CORYF compared to Shinsen shōteki-fu. Photocopies of pages not contained in Items 1 and 2, ie pages for which the original transcriptions have been lost., 1990s (File 25) - Box 4
Index of transcriptions comparing CORYF to Shinsen shōteki-fu, 1990s (File 26) - Box 4
Miscellaneous transcriptions of CORYF (File 27) - Box 4
Edited CORYF comparing melody to modern shō, SSSTF and Hakuga no fue-fu. Kishunraku, Yōguraku, Sekihaku Tōrika, 1990s (File 28) - Box 4
CORYF project. ARC small grant applications, 1992-1993 (File 29) - Box 4
Series. Miscellaneous
Personal/family documents including of parents' musical life, 1951-1998 (File 30 a-e) - Box 5
Published reviews, interviews, journalism by Marett or in response to Marett., 1973-2004 (File 31) - Box 5
Text and associated correspondence regarding four programs on Aboriginal music for 2MBS, 1988 (File 32) - Box 5
Concert programs involving Marett as consultant, author, performer, scholar, 1974-2009 (File 33) - Box 5
Newspaper and magazine cuttings, radio programs and interviews about Marett's work: Reviews of Music and Tradition (1981); Musica Asiatica 1 & 2 (1979); Review of Rak Badjalarr CD (Deborah Rose); HKU Review: Australian Aboriginal Music: Making it available to the world, 1996; Koori Mail 30 July 1991 Rare recordings returned; Australian 1 August 2004 Survival in song and dance; Australian Review 25-26 October 2008 Rhythm Stick, Nicolas Rothwell; Canberra Times 15 September 2001 Sung Poetry Waiting for an Audience, Allan Marett; SOAs Alumini Newsletter Autumn 1994 - A note of Distinction; SU News 30 June 1981 New Findings on Ancient Music cause a sitr in Japan; The Music Show RN 12 October 2002 (Andrew Ford interview); Koori Mail 25 August 2004; 2SER 8 April 2005 [CD]; ABC News Online - Music Project launched at Garma, 1981-2005 (File 34) - Box 5
Six programs on Japanese music for the ABC. Scripts and supplementary materials, 1985 (File 35) - Box 5
Miscellaneous correspondence re prizes, appointments, invitations; lecture notices, 1988-2006 (File 36) - Box 5
Reviews of Bunggridj-Bunggridj CD (File 43) - Box 7
Songs, Dreamings and Ghosts reviews etc (File 44) - Box 7
Zen Buddhist transmission; Review of Mattiessen, Nine Headed Dragon River; Dôgen, Maralung and the Flowers of Emptiness (Marett), 1980-2018 (File 45) - Box 7
Miscellaneous correspondence about the merging of the Sydney University Music Department and the SCM; Peter Platt Obituary (SMH 15 August 2000 (by Marett); Ray Keogh Memorial Concert 18 October 1996; Malcolm Gillies Callaway Lecture (on collegiality post-Facing the Music; press clipping about the merger of the Music Department and the SCM, 2000-2005 (File 46) - Box 7
Hong Kong Music Department. Review of department; notice of Marett's appointment (in Chinese), 1993-1997 (File 47) - Box 7
Programs for conferences at which Marett gave papers. (File 48) - Box 8
Series. Unpublished papers
Unpublished papers 1, 1985-2000 (File 37) - Box 6
Unpublished papers 2, 1980-2014 (File 38) - Box 6
Unpublished papers 3, 2002-2011 (File 39) - Box 6
Unpublished papers 4, 1991-2002 (File 40) - Box 6
Unpublished papers 5, 1990-2008 (File 41) - Box 6
Unpublished papers 6, 1967-1972 (File 42) - Box 7
Series. Correspondence
Picken-Marett correspondence, 1975-1995 (File 49) - Box 8
Markham 1978-85, Mitani 1977-78, McAlpine 1986-89, Barwick, 1987-88, Fallows 1995; Condit 1984; Greg Anderson 1986-89, 1977-1995 (File 50) - Box 8
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1975-1990 (File 51) - Box 8
Ray Keogh, 1983-1985 (File 52) - Box 8
Correspondence about publishing projects, 1987-2006 (File 53) - Box 9
Confidential correspondence (File 54) - Box 9
Series. Noh plays
Documents relating to performances of Kiyotsune and At the Hawk's Well at SU, 1984 (File 55) - Box 9
Eliza: reviews, articles and correspondence, 1987-1991 (File 56) - Box 9
Eliza: early drafts, 1984-1991 (File 57) - Box 9
Oppenheimer: Correspondence and sundry documents, 2014-1915 (File 58) - Box 9
Oppenheimer: Reviews and articles, texts of Oppenheimer, 2014-1915 (File 59) - Box 9