Searches for Tradition: Essays on New Zealand Music, Past and Present

Abstract

Searching for tradition in New Zealand music is itself now a tradition, one that began in earnest with Douglas Lilburn’s famous talk given at the Cambridge Summer School of Music in January 1946. At that time, the seminal talk had no title. It was only forty years later that Lilburn gave it the name A Search for a Tradition, when music historian John Mansfield Thomson edited it for publication.