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8 actor-singers (4f,4m) and piano, drums, bass, reeds.

• Footrot Flats - Songs of the Musical 

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clarinet, clarinet/bass-clarinet, violin/viola, cello, percussion (marimba, 9 drums in high to low sequence, drum of fluctuating pitch, bass drum, 5 suspended cymbals, ching - Thai finger cymbals, bell tree, rasp, 2 woodblocks, 3 temple blocks, wood chimes)

This monodrama for mezzo soprano and chamber sextet, commissioned by Northern Arts UK, tells of the 14th century North of England warrior Henry Percy (Hotspur), seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Mortimer, in a striking ballad sequence written by Fleur Adcock.

Whitehead’s imaginative score combines exotic and arresting instrumental colours, a strong dramatic vocal line (often with flamboyant flourishes) and an admirable overall conception of the mood changes and tonal graduation of the work. (William Dart, NZ Listener)

She has the rare gift of knowing when to us nightmarish vehemences and when to be utterly straightforward and calm. (Roger Covell, Sydney Morning Herald).

• Whitehead: Hotspur; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Hotspur; facsimile 

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• Gillian Whitehead: selected works 

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• Anthology of Australian music - Dramatic vocal music  Year: 1997 

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Main roles for bari, ten; smaller roles for sop, m-sop, alto, ten, 3 bari, 2 bass; additional roles for sop, 2m-sop, alto, ten, bari; 6 children (1 solo); accomp for pf, 2 synth.

• Drummond: Plague upon Eyam; computer-set 

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• John Drummond: Mr Polly at the Potwell Inn   Year: 2000 

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5 actor-singers (2f, 3m) and piano

This song-play by Mervyn Thompson investigates the injustices that the pakeha land courts has dished out to the tangata whenua over the years. It was premiered in January 1980 and toured under the auspices of the New Zealand Students Arts Council in 1981.

• William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

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• Parihaka 

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• Mervyn Thompson and William Dart: Songs to the Judges  Year: 1982 

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