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“The systems they learn are nothing but skeletons to them…” – John Ruskin Arrows of the Chace (1880)

Ruskin’s words suggest that rigorous formulae, valuable as a starting point, may be overwhelmed by the vigor of life itself. bone-flower takes its name from a dialect word for daisy, a humble bright flower growing on the bones of the dead. Soon we’ll all be pushing up the daisies.

• Palmer: bone-flower; computer-set 

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• Palmer: bone-flower; computer-set 

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• Mix-up - various works by Juliet Palmer 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 3 

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• Princeton: bone-flower (Palmer) and other works  Year: 1996 

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• Freed: Deserted Beach; facsimile 

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• Freed: Deserted Beach; facsimile 

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• New Zealand Composers: Franchi, Axtens, Bowater, Freed, Lockwood 

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• The Music of Dorothy Freed 

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• Dr Kevorkian & the Suicide Machine: The Ironman  Year: 2000 

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• A Little Lovely Dream - music by Hugh Dixon  Year: 2007 

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Pukeko is a setting of a poem by the prominent New Zealand writer Ian Wedde and was composed in 1972 while John Rimmer was the Mozart Fellow and Ian Wedde was the Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin. The piece follows the mood of the poem with demonstrative gestures in the opening – ‘the mind can fly like a cool blue Braque bird straight to the heart of a storm’ through to the delicate textures of ‘but consider the pukeko going doubtfully on spindly legs among swamp grasses’.

At the end an improvisation features some of the players whispering the last line ‘poor ludicrous fowl’ while the soprano hums previous motives ad libitum and the horn and cello provide high wailing sounds.

Pukeko was first performed at Milton High School on 7 August 1972 during a tour of Otago schools by the Marama Players of the Department of Music, University of Otago.

• Rimmer: Pukeko; computer set 

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• Ritual Auras - Karlheinz Company  Year: 2011 

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• Booth: Rawhitiwhiti; computer-set 

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• Waikohu: Mere Boynton and Friends 

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From a music-theatre show Fowkes Alive, which toured nationally in NZ in 1989-90 (supported by Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council). The song occurs at the moment a character’s chattels are repossessed for default of payment.

This work can performed freely with credit for non or semi-professionals. For professional usage please contact composer via SOUNZ: info@sounz.org.nz

• Direen: Repossession; computer set 

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• William (Bill) Direen: Repossession 

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• Adams: Requiem for a big man; computer-set 

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• Adams, C.: Requiem for a big man; computer-set 

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• Chamber Vulgarus - Autumn 2011 

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• Booth: Rere Atu Rere Mai; computer-set 

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• Clark: Reverie; computer-set 

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• Ewan Clark: Reverie 

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