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‘Almost an Island’, a phrase which refers to the Otago peninsula, is the title I’ve given to a short set of haiku written by peninsula poets, which I set for voice and piano as a wedding present for my then neighbours, Breffni and Dave.

Rain blows on windows plastered with new leaves it’s spring again (Eleanor Koch)
Golden pendant blossoms bright against blue spring sky beckon tuis (Eleanor Koch)
Gleaming white across Arapatiki three spoonbills fly towards us (Gillian Whitehead)
Aramoana pathway to the wide ocean memories remain (Kay Sinclair)
Fiery rata circled by glitter almost an island (Kay Sinclair)
Track winds past pine trees tangled vines scratching bare skin sharp smell of gorse flowers (Fran Bolgar)
Low pressure warning on the macrocarpa thirty herons swaying (Gillian Whitehead)
Kereru wheeling soaring and plummeting bounce now on tree-top (Joyce Whitehead)

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• Mozart Fellows Concert 2007 - Vol. 1 

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• McCallum: Aspiration's Meaning; computer set 

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• McCallum: Aspiration's Meaning  Year: 2004 

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• Selection 05  Year: 2005 

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• sync / shed  Year: 2001 

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Bele Doette (‘Lovely Doette’) is based on an anonymous 12th century Chanson de Toile. The vocal line follows the original song-line closely for two of the eight stanzas and refrains.

Doette is at a window, reading, when she receives the news that her friend Doon has been killed in a jousting contest. The refrain reads “See now what grief I have”, and at the end she vows to become a nun in the church of St Paul. The original transcription of the song is published in the Anthology of Medieval Music, edited by Richard Hoppin (1978). Pitches are notated in the transcription but no rhythm. Therefore, rhythm is freely interpreted while the original melismas and word setting are maintained. The refrain is expanded beyond the original. The oboe has a dual role. First, it freely develops motifs based on the song-lines by a process using magic squares. These motifs are used in the introduction and interludes between stanzas and refrains. Second, the oboe has a dialogue with the soprano that involves imitation and decoration, particularly in the refrains.

Bele Doette was commissioned by Pepe Becker, and written for her and oboist, Robert Orr. It has been composed as part of Ritchie’s research at the University of Otago.

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• Anthony Ritchie: Bele Doette; audio 

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• Becker; From the far point of the rising of the sun (Part I)  Year: 2005 

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• Phil Dadson: Sound Tracks - solo improvisations  Year: 2004 

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• Jordan Reyne: Passenger  Year: 2004 

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

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• Jordan Reyne: Passenger  Year: 2004 

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• Nunns and Melbourne: Hinemokemoke 

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• Melbourne and Nunns: Te hekenga-a-rangi  Year: 2003 

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