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Gary Daverne  

Waltz for Stephanie

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1989
for accordion

Gary Daverne  

Waltz for Stephanie

Duration: 02' 15"
for accordion and string orchestra

Judy Bailey  

Waltzing Matilda

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1998
for solo piano

Ashley Heenan  

War and Peace - Suite for Orchestra

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1978

Dorothy Freed  

War With the Weeds

Duration: 03' 00"
for baritone and piano

Gareth Farr  

Warriors from Pluto

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 2000
concerto for five percussion soli and double string orchestra

Jillian Bray  

Wata

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1993
for piano

Dorothy Ker  

Water Mountain

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1999
for violin, B flat clarinet and cello

  • Programme Note

    In contrast to the singular, organic process of solo for cello this piece plays with the idea of juxtaposing contrasting fragments of material. It was stimulated by a book of dream symbols, in the form of simple gouache paintings, originating in the Rajasthan Gujarat area of Western India in the early 19th century. The book is one of any number of dream lexicons to be found in ancient eastern cultures that guided the interpretation of dreams using mythological and cultural symbols pertaining to fortune and destiny.

    Although the Rajasthan Gujarat lexicon informs aspects of the aesthetic of the piece, it is not intended that the music function as an illustration of the visual images themselves. Rather: whereas the pictures seek to make concrete the ephemeral matter of the dream, the music embodies an attempt both to restore the subjective nature of the dreamscape and to reconstruct the grammar of its articulation in time – concentrated, disjunct and fleeting. This occurs perhaps in the way that one might attempt to reconstruct a paragraph in an archaic language from its written symbols, without having access to their original source or context, guided only by intuitions based on experience of one’s own language – in this case the ‘language’ of the dream. The title of the piece is borrowed from one of the images of the Rajasthan Gujarat lexicon.

    Water Mountain was composed for Apartment House 1999. It has been performed in Reading, New Zealand (175E ensemble 2002), Seoul (ACL festival 2003) and Brighton (Soundwaves festival, 2007) and broadcast by Radio NZ.

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Chris Gendall  

Wax Lyrical

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2008
for chamber octet