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fl. (3-3rd dbl picc.), ob. (3-3rd dbl CA), cl. in A (3-3rd dbl bass cl.), bsn (3-3rd dbl contra.), alto sax.; 4,3 (trumpets in C), 3,1; timp., perc. (5), hp, cel., pno; strings. Percussion includes tri., tambourine, sus. cymbal, clash cymbal, gong, xylophone, glock., bells, woodblk, claves, rattle, whip, side drum, bass drum.

• Lilburn: A Birthday Offering; computer-set  

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• Lilburn: A Birthday Offering; facsimile  Year: 1991 

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• Douglas Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1987 

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• Lilburn: Prodigal Country  Year: 1987 

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• Lilburn: Prodigal Country  Year: 1987 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Music  Year: 1995 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Works   Year: 2004 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Allegro Concertante - hardcopy score & part  Year: 2012 

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• Lilburn: Allegro Concertante  Year: 1988 

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• Lilburn: Allegro for Strings; computer-set 

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• Lilburn: Allegro for Strings; computer set 

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• Aotearoa - Orchestral and String Music by Douglas Lilburn 

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• NZBC Schola Musica 

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• Lilburn/Watson/Pruden: New Zealand Chamber Orchestra  Year: 1993 

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2122;2210;timp,perc,pf;strs

• Cambridge Suite  Year: 1973 

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flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, tape

• Rimmer: Composition 2; electroacoustic part 

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• Rimmer: Compositions 1-5; electroacoustic part 

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• Rimmer: Composition 2; facsimile 

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• Chamber Works Vol 1 (NZ Composers Edition) 

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• Concertante Ensemble - Wind Quintets  Year: 1980 

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• Ritchie, J.: Concertino for Clarinet and String Orchestra; facsimile 

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• Ritchie J.: Concertino for Clarinet and String Orchestra; facsimile  Year: 1963 

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• Ritchie J.: Concertino for Clarinet and String Orchestra; computer-set  Year: 2005 

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• National Youth Orchestra 1975 

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• Frank Gurr with the NZSO under John Ritchie 

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• The Alex Lindsay Orchestra: Ring Round the Moon 

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• Ring Round the Moon  Year: 1963 

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• Aquarius: Music by John Ritchie  Year: 1998 

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• Alex Lindsay String Orchestra  Year: 1998 

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Some of the themes of this work are taken by permission from Chants populaires et danses de Bretagne arranged for violin and piano by Andre Mangeot (pub. J.W. Chester, London)

• Pruden: Dances of Brittany; facsimile  Year: 1967 

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• Larry Pruden: Collected Edition Volume 5 - Works for String Orchestra  Year: 2007 

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• Carr and Pruden: various works 

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• The Lindsay String Orchestra of Wellington: Landfall in Unknown Seas and other works 

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• Alex Lindsay String Orchestra  Year: 1998 

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2222; 3230; timp, perc; strs.

When I arrived at the Royal College of Music in London, in September 1937, and was accepted as a student by Vaughan Williams, he put me through routine disciplines of writing fugues and part-songs, and then one day said: “Isn’t it time you composed something?”

I accepted the challenge and produced by Drysdale Overture, with its nostalgic memories in a musical language which rather disconcerted him. Still more did it upset Sir George Dyson, who brilliantly realised my rough orchestral score on the piano and then said: “Don’t bring me another manuscript like that.” He did, however, give it a reading rehearsal with the RCM first orchestra, and I took steps to improve my musical handwriting.

In those far-off heady days, Hans Keller’s “functional analysis” had hardly impacted on the RCM – we students ignorantly and derisively called it “sweet FA”. And so I may hardly provide an “analytical synopsis”.

With my meagre knowledge of classical forms, I thought that proper overtures should have a solemn introduction, with motifs recalled later in various structural guises, and that they should have a contrasting “second object” – hence my nostalgic oboe tune, with fitting Scottish inflections. Curiously, what might have been a routine “development” turned into a sunlit rondo, nostalgic of childhood happiness.

I’m left with that lovely Mark Twain image of Jim and Huckleberry drifting on their barge down that great river, looking up at the stars and wondering “whether they was made, or only just happened”.

Douglas Lilburn
14 October 1994

• Lilburn: Drysdale Overture; computer-set 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Drysdale Overture; audio 

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• Alfred Hill and Douglas Lilburn- Wellington Chamber Orchestra Vol. 2 

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• Landscapes: New Zealand Orchestral Music 

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• Douglas Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1987 

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• Lilburn: Prodigal Country  Year: 1987 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Music  Year: 1995 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Orchestral Works   Year: 2004 

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• Island Song  Year: 2010 

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• Canzona - Music for strings and voices 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 2  Year: 1972 

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For the composer, Fantasia is a particularly significant work. It was her first ever commission. Numerous performances in Europe by Tessa Birnie – including a premiere broadcast on Radio Turkey! – led to subsequent performances by other pianists. Displaying a new technical confidence from her studies with Peter Maxwell Davies, the work’s single unified structure marks a turning point in Whitehead’s composing method. The title, refers not so much to free fantasy but to the imagination required to create music from minimal material; in this case – the opening three-note motive. The work is in three sections, corresponding to these notes, and fabric of the entire piece is generated from them. There are patterns that emerge within sections, as well as those spanning the entire piece, (trills and tempi changes included). Because of the inherent symmetry of the generated material, with layers building up both forwards and backwards, Whitehead’s original intention was to make a palindromic structure, but it became instead a through-composed work with coda. (Programme note by Emma Carle and Jack Body).

• Whitehead: Fantasia on three notes; facsimile  Year: 1969 

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• Tessa Birnie: Piano Music by New Zealand Composers 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 3 - Composer Portrait: Gillian Whitehead  Year: 2000 

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