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Jonathan Besser

Duration: 52' 00" Year: 2003
educational resource for dance (levels 1 - 6)

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1991
bicultural work for dance and school instrumentalists

Instrumentation
flute, clarinet, recorders, voices, percussion, piano, rock band
Programme Note

This children’s dance theatre work choreographed by Rangimoana Taylor is based on taniwha (sea-monsters) Whataitai and Ngake, a traditional Maori legend from the Wellington region.
Availability
- Helen Fisher: Works 1 Year: 1992
  
  Cassette
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Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1992
a bicultural work for school choir, instruments and dance

Instrumentation
choir, percussion, Rarotongan drums, guitars (students), Taonga Puoro (koauau), piano, clarinet in B flat, alto saxophone, horn in F, flute, guitar (advanced performer)
Programme Note

Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe’s journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery of various landmarks around Whanganui-a-Tara / the Wellington region.

While this work maintains a strong Maori theme, with karanga, haka and waiata, as well it weaves in other Pacific and European elements.

For school choir, instrumentalists, dancers and kapa haka, this work was composed with the financial assistance of a composition grant from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, was first performed by 140 students from South Wellington Intermediate School in July 1992 for Artsplash, the Wellington Young People’s Festival.
Availability
- Fisher: Nga Tapuwae o Kupe; facsimile
  
  Full score | Pdf - facsimile
- Fisher: Nga Tapuwae o Kupe; facsimile
  
  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $20.00
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- Helen Fisher: Works 1 Year: 1992
  
  Cassette
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Duration: 54' 00" Year: 2000
electronic dance tracks for primary school dance

Year: 1999
a children's dance work

Duration: 23' 00" Year: 2001
16 original dance pieces for children on violin and guitar

Instrumentation
can be played on other instruments
Programme Note

These tunes can be played on any instrument (e.g. violin, flute) with accompaniment of chords on guitar or piano. They are played in Celtic fashion, that is, the tunes have a cyclical nature and can be repeated as many times as desired.
Availability
- Prosser: Wee Happy and the Lounge Bears; computer-set
  
  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $8.00
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- Prosser: Wee Happy and the Lounge Bears; computer set
  
  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $8.00
  - Quantity:
- Wee Happy and the Lounge Bears Year: 2001
  
  CD
  
  $30.00
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- Prosser and Seymour: Camden Mews NW Year: 2006
  
  CD
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