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APRA Music Awards of 2000

Annual Australian music awards

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ28428139 ↗
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The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2000 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards held in May 2000. The APRA Music Awards were presented by APRA and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). Only one classical music award was available in 2000: Most Performed Contemporary Classical Composition. APRA provided awards for "Best Television Theme", and "Best Film Score" in 2000. APRA and AMCOS also sponsored the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), which provided their own awards ceremony, from 1996 to 2000, with categories for film and TV composers.

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The public source identifies “APRA Music Awards of 2000” as annual Australian music awards. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around APRA, Music and Awards.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with APRA, Music and Awards providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “APRA Music Awards of 2000” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.