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Other
Ensembles - click links for .mp3 audio or .pdf score samples
| • Turtle Time | piano, harp, harpsichord, organ and speaker(s) (6 min.) (1968) audio sample score sample |
An exotic setting of a surreal poem by Russell Haley.
Score: Waiteata Music Press
Recording:
KIWI SLD-30 o/p
| • Nocturne | cello and piano (both amplified) (10 min.) (1995) |
Commissioned by ConcertFM for Douglas Lilburn's 80th birthday, this work moves
from a restless first section into a state of transcendental calm.
Score: the composer
| • The Caves of Ellora | piano and brass ensemble (15 min.) (1979) |
A work inspired the awe-inspiring temples of Ellora, massive structures carved out of a naked rock face.
Score: the
composer
| • Aeolian Harp | solo violin, solo viola or solo cello (4 min.) (1979) audio sample score sample |
A work using only natural harmonics.
Score:
Waiteata Music Press
Recording: Waiteata WTA001 (violin) (o/p); Under the Southern
Cross CD Manu 1543/4 (cello)
| • Interior | ensemble (fl, cl, vln vla, clc, kyb, perc) and tape (13 min.) (1987) |
A 'recontextualisation' of Chinese field recordings.
Score: the composer
| • African Strings | two guitars (13 min.) (1990) audio sample score sample |
Transcriptions of Madagascan valiha (zither) and West African kora (harp).
Score: Waiteata Music
Press
Recording: CD Rattle D009
| • The Garden | ensemble (fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn, 2 perc, piano, harpsichord, 2 vln, 2 vla, 2 vlc, cb) (13 min.) (1996) |
Commissioned by the 3rd Hibiki
Hall Festival, Japan, this reflective work explores
the moods of a garden
- At dawn, In
rain and At night.
Score: the composer
| • After Bach | gamelan
with 4 viola soloists and massed violas (8 parts), and also in a version without gamelan (6.5 min.) (2001) |
Commissioned for the 29th international viola congress, Wellington.
Score: the composer
| • Sentimental Songs | voice, pno, recorder, cl, tbn, perc, guitar/ukulele, vln, cb. (13 min.) (2001) |
A
campy setting of three old-fashioned popular songs: Sweet
Genevieve, Little Brown Jug and Silver Threads among the Gold
Commissioned
by the Marten Altena Ensemble.
Score: the composer
| • Sentimental Songs | piano
& 3 percussionists (marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, tubular bells, celesta, etc) (13 min.) (2001) |
Exotic arrangements of Daisy Bell, All through the Night, and Little Brown Jug.
Score: the composer
| • Tribute to the Blues | violin,
viola, cello, clarinet & piano (also versions of movements II & III for violin, cello & piano, and for violin, viola, cello & piano) (11 min.) (2004) |
Transcriptions of famous blues musicians Big Joe Turner, John lee Hooker and Mary Lou Williams.
Score: the composer
| • Waiata Maori | Maori singer and ensemble (fl, ob, cl, tmb, 2 perc, kyd, accordion, 2 vlns, vla, vlc, cb). (14 min.) (2005) |
A setting of dark and powerful poems by women - including Marina Tsetayeva and Edith Södergran - translated into Maori and sung in an authentic Maori style. Written for Hera Black-Taute and the New Music Works ensemble, Santa Cruz.
Score: the composer
| • Tribute to the Blues | ensemble
(fl./pic, cl./b.cl, alt. sax/t. sax, tbn, piano, accordion, marimba, vibraphone, 2 violins, vla, vcl, cb) (18 min.) (2005) |
An
expansion of the work listed above with the inclusion of transcriptions of a solo
blues singer and
two chain gang chants recorded in penitentiaries of the Southern
US by Allan Lomax.
Score: the composer
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