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The house allows one to dream in peace…

[from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard]

Domestic Architecture (2008) was conceived during a year in the Lilburn Residence, Wellington. It was commissioned by the Asian Composers League and was premiered at the 2009 Asian-Pacific Contemporary Music Festival in Tongyeong, Korea.

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• Samuel Holloway: "Strange Loops" and "Domestic Architecture" 

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• Statham: Pastorale; computer-set 

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• In Retrospect - Quintets, Quartets and Trios by Keith Statham 

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• Keith Statham: ...of wine and roses  Year: 2011 

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This is a short, tonal, romantic and somewhat wistful piece very much in the style and musical language of English composers of the 1940s and 50s.

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• Keith Statham: ...of wine and roses  Year: 2011 

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This work can be likened to an ‘essay in imagination’ – perhaps the remembrance of being young, with other children, discovering a secret place. There is an element of mystery, tip-toeing, beautiful tress and flowers all around, birds and butterflies. Child-like, there are sudden bursts of excitement, scampering, and then sudden quietness while another discovery is made. Even otherworldly scenes of fairy dances which children in their innocence see. “Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” says the poet – but sadly this is lost. The scene fades away.

A favourite of the composer, this quartet was originally written for flute, violin, horn (optional viola) and cello, and performed by the LOCANA Quartet twice in Brisbane in 2003. It now has four forms: the original grouping; flute and string trio; string orchestra and, now this string quartet.

• Dixon: String Quartet No. 1 - The Enchanted Garden; computer-set  Year: 2008 

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• Dixon: String Quartet No. 1 - The Enchanted Garden; computer-set  Year: 2008 

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• Works by Hugh Dixon 

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• Ross Harris: String Quartet No. 3 (Blood Red Roses); audio 

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• NZ Premieres 2005 

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• 2005 Adam Chamber Music Festival - New Zealand Compositions 

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• String Quartet No. 3 (Blood Red Roses)  Year: 2005 

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Transylvanian Dances was commissioned by The Jade String Quartet (Miranda Adams, William Hanfling, Robert Ashworth, Claudia Price) for their Arts on Tour series of concerts, October 5-28, 2007. The piece was funded as part of the composer’s work at the University of Otago.


Transylvanian Dances is based on two folk tunes that appear on the album The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania (HNCD 1373), by the Hungarian group Muzsikas. These folk tunes were well known to Jewish communities in Transylavania before the Second World War but were lost following the holocaust. In the 1990s, Muzsikas combined forces with two old Gypsy players who could still remember the tunes. Together they reconstructed the items in full, bringing to life music that had been silent for 50 years.


In Transylvanian Dances the tunes are transcribed and arranged for string quartet, and also developed into original passages of music, in an improvisational manner. Most motifs are derived from the folk music, but some additions are made, particularly in the harmonies. Some of the timbres in the quartet are designed to mimic the sound of the cimbalom, a Hungarian percussion instrument. The low-pitched, chugging chords on viola and cello also conjure up a familiar sound from Transylvanian folk bands.


Acknowledgement
The composer gratefully acknowledges permission from Muzsikas to use these two folk tunes in Transylvanian Dances.

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The title refers to the 25th Variation of the Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. When I heard the New Zealand String Quartet perform the Goldberg Variations during their Bach and Mendelssohn series in 2007, I had a strong desire to pay my respects to the beauty and richness of the music and to write another work for the wonderful New Zealand String Quartet. I set about doing this by taking the music of the 25th Variation and using it as the basis of a single movement for string quartet. The work begins with canonic additions to the original and evolves from there.

Variation 25 was written while I was the Jack Richards/Creative New Zealand Composer in Residence at the New Zealand School of Music in 2008.

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• Ross Harris: Variation 25 

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• notes from a journey  Year: 2010 

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