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David Downes  

A Green Piece

 Year: 1989
dance score for tape

Anthony Ritchie  

Concertina

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1999
dance music for violin and piano

  • Instrumentation
    violin and piano with parts for squeezebox
  • Programme Note

    Dance music for violin, piano, squeezebox and percussion

    It can be performed live as well, in part or in its entirety, though some effects are better achieved through the recording. The work is in nine sections which run continuously.

    This work was composed for violinist Paula Smart and pianist Terence Dennis, who first recorded the work in March 1999.

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David Downes  

Creature

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1992
dance score for tape

Douglas Lilburn  

Dance Sequence for Expo '70

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1970
for tape (sounds of NZ birdsong)

Bruce Crossman  

Daragang Magayon Cantata

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 2001
for mezzo-soprano, piano and (optional) dancer/chanter

  • Programme Note

    The rich overtone resonances from low, rubber-stopped notes on the piano create sensuous single sound moments in the music. These Filipino gong music inspired resonances combine with slow European chorale-like gestures throughout to provide breath moments within an increasingly combative musical texture. The melodic-line derived from Bontok war-chant, usually the prerogative of men, finds full cry in erotic “sea ripples”, which in turn generates long-lyric lines expressive of the poem’s princess meditation on war. Even the chorale-like breath segments work in shortening gasps leading to transfigured Kulintang (Filipino percussion) segments whose dance-like momentum undergird the “metal timbre” climax of work. The text is drawn from Merlinda Bobis’ epic poem Cantata of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon – a revisionist re-telling of the Philippines ancient myth associated with the active volcano Mount Mayon. It charts the play of ambivalence and conviction of a beautiful maiden on the eve of battle and is interpreted by the composer as a metaphor of volcanic, erotically-fuelled anger against social injustice, not just in war but in cultural colonisation.

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David Downes  

Fields of Jeopardy

 Year: 1988
dance score for tape

  • Programme Note

    The rousing nature of Celtic music was the basis for this piece which deals with a theme of aggressive competition. It is the final section of a composition commissioned for dance by Michael Parmenter.

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David Downes  

Insolent River

 Year: 1988
dance score for tape

Anthony Ritchie  

Leaf

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1998
for solo piano

Anthony Ritchie  

Line Dances

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 2010
music for a dance film by Daniel Belton

  • Instrumentation
    piano
  • Programme Note

    This music was commissioned by Daniel Belton and Good Company for his dance film, entitled Line Dances. It was written for performances in the Otago Festival of Arts, October 2010. The recording and first performances were played by the composer, in collaboration with Daniel Belton. The premiere took place in the Metro Cinema, Dunedin. The music is for 6 short films, each informed by an art work by Paul Klee. The music to these dances is intended to be performed as concert music, or prior to a screening of the films. The films themselves contain elements of the music, crafted into a soundscape by Belton. See www.goodcompanyarts.com.

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Matthew Davidson  

Love or Money

Duration: 1h 15' 00" Year: 2010
a Singspiel in one act and thirteen scenes