Norma Tyer

Norma Phyllis Tyer (born 23 April 1928)[1] was an Australian composer[2] who wrote orchestral, choral, electronic and chamber music.[3]

Education and career

Tyer was born in Sydney. In 1960,[4] she was one of two students (the other was Ann Carr-Boyd) to graduate from the University of Sydney[5] with a Bachelor of Music Degree.[6] She worked as the managing editor of Music Now for four years, and taught music in public schools and at the University of Sydney.[3]

Tyer received the Frank Albert Post Graduate Traveling Scholarship in 1971 as well as a German scholarship for a course in new music at Darmstadt. This enabled her to spend 15 months studying in Europe, where her teachers included Vinko Globokar, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, and Iannis Xenakis. She attended the Dartington International Summer School to study with Harrison Birtwistle and Morton Feldman, and work in the electronics studio.[3]

Tyer then earned an M.A. in the analysis of contemporary music from University College in Cardiff, Wales, under Dr. Arnold Whittall. While there, she worked in the electronics studio and studied psycho-acoustics in the physics department.[3] Her thesis was about The Church Parables of Benjamin Britten.[7] In 1974, she became a lecturer in Academic Studies at Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, a branch of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, where she remained through at least 1985.[3]

Compositions

Tyer's music was published by Chappell & Co.[8] Her compositions include:

Chamber
  • String Quartet[8]

Orchestra
  • Fantasia on a Theme of Bach[8]
  • Franz Josef: Impressions of a Glacier[8]

Vocal
  • Canticle of the Rose (chorus and piano)[8]
  • Fragments from the Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants (a cappella chorus)[9]
  • Kyrie Eleison (chorus and orchestra)[8]
  • Missa Brevis (a cappella chorus)[8]
  • New Sunrise (chorus and piano)[8]
  • Spring (a cappella chorus)[8]

References
  1. Pleskun, Stephen (17 January 2012). A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS: (VOLUME 1: 1901–1954). Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4653-8226-9.
  2. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. Newcastle Conservatorium Handbook (PDF). New South Wales: Ministry of Education. 1985. p. 9.
  4. Sydney, University of (1964). Calendar. Angus and Robertson.
  5. Parliament, New South Wales (1962). Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly.
  6. Macarthur, Sally (1994). "Conducting the Past to the Present: The Music of Ann Carr-Boyd". Contemporary Music Review. II parts 1 & 2: 61–64.
  7. Association, Royal Musical (1986). Research Chronicle. Royal Musical Association.
  8. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. "Reviews". The Musical Times. 104 #1449: 815. November 1963 – via JSTOR.
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