Accompanying audio compact disc (45 min.) contains 11 varied musical examples of recent Australian compositions: Georges Lentz: Lumen de lumine: Rho Ophiuchi, Part 2b of Caeli enarrant ... III, Ensemble 24, Matthew Coorey, Naxos 8.557019 -- David Lumsdaine: After sunrise from Cambewarra mountain, TP 083 -- Paul Stanhope: Dawn wail for the dead from Songs for the shadowland, Margaret Schindler, soprano, Southern Cross Soloists, 4MBS10 -- Ann Ghandar: Rain, Renate Turrini, piano, 003 -- Nigel Butterley: Canzona from Goldengrove excerpt, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Isaiah Jackson, ABC Classics 446 478-2 -- Elena Kats-Chernin: Tast-en excerpt, Lisa Moore, piano, TP 040 -- Andrew Ford: A reel, a fling and ghostly galliard excerpt, Grainger Quartet, ABC Classic FM recording -- Don Banks: Horn trio final movement, John Harding, violin; Hector McDonald, horn; Ian Munro, piano, TP 114 -- Barry Conyngham: Velocity from Southern cross, Robert Davidovici, violin; Tamás Ungár, piano; Geoffrey Simon, conductor, CACD 1008 -- Michael Smetanin: Micrographia, Schoenberg Ensemble, Ger de Zeeuw, Joey Marijs, percussionists; Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor, Radio, VPRO http://www.vpro.nl recording -- Carl Vine: Symphony no. 3 excerpt, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender, ABC Classics 426 995-2.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.