© Robin S Stevens 2017
Dr Samuel McBurney (1847-1909) - Music Educator, Composer
and Tonic Sol-fa Advocate
The life and work of Samuel McBurney have been documented by Robin Stevens in two main
articles and in a PhD thesis, details of which are below.
Stevens, R. S. (1986), “Samuel McBurney - Australian Tonic Sol-fa Advocate”, Journal of Research
in Music Education, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer 1986), pp. 77-87.
Stevens, R. S. (2006), “’Forward Gaily Together’ - The School Music Compositions of Samuel
McBurney” in Proceedings of the XXIIIth Aunnual Conferences of the Australian Association for
Research in Music Education, ed. by J. Southcott and P. de Vries, AARME, Melbourne, pp. 116-
125.
Stevens, R. S. (2006), Music in State-Supported Education in New South Wales and Victoria, 1948-
1920 (PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 1978).
