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I did intend to sit down and compose an orchestral epic. I really, really DID, honest. Could I help it that as soon as I made that decision, the saxes started up a 1920s tea dance in my computer?! Only it’s not all sweetness and light and good ol’ days, in fact it sometimes gets a little murky in there, to say the least…

• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; computer set 

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• Yvette Audain: A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version; video 

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For some reason we never seem to fully escape our formative influences. In this case it is the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1959 Time Out album, featuring the smooth, lyrical alto saxophone sound of Paul Desmond, as well as time signatures not yet widely heard by the general public on a jazz recording.

Why Grooves Unspoken? Because we do not speak music, we play (or sing) it.

• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoke; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; alto or baritone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; alto or baritone version; computer-set 

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• Yvette Audain: Grooves Unspoken 

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Guardians of the North is a work for wind orchestra commissioned by the Opononi Summer School. It was written to celebrate the school but also to introduce and/or make more familiar New Zealand music to the participants. Because of this, it was written in an accessible yet challenging style in the hope to encourage interest in new music, and more specifically, New Zealand music, which lacks music for this timbre.

The summer school is set in the Hokianga, where New Zealand’s first Maori, and second European, settlements were established. Since then, no other place in New Zealand carries such rich and storied past. Maori legend has it that two taniwha, Arai-te-uru & Niwa, were situated at the entrance of the harbour to protect it from invading waka. Arai-te-uru was placed on the south head, and Niwa at the north head. They would stir the waters and lash out at the waka, ceasing their entry. These two taniwha were the … Guardians of the North.

This work was funded jointly by the Opononi Music School and Creative New Zealand.

• Youens: Guardians of the North; computer-set 

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• Youens: Guardians of the North; computer-set 

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Invisible Waves, inspired by the Orewa Beach in Auckland, imitates the evening sea waves, sound of the seagulls accompany the sunset. The melodic material derives from a set of four-note A, G#, F, and D. The ascending scale-like motif appears several times to imitate the flow of sea waves.

• Chen: Invisible Waves; computer-set 

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• Chen: Invisible Waves; computer-set 

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January. Everything stops. Ah well, write a piece about it.

• Audain: January Blues; computer-set 

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• Audain: January Blues; computer-set 

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• Audain: January Blues; computer-set 

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• Biddington: Lincoln Green Suite; computer-set 

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• Eric Biddington: Tunes and Airs  Year: 1998 

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This work was purpose-written upon request from one of the schools I work in, as a companion piece for my solo work Hazine (Treasure). The musical material here needed to be in a similar vein: that is, using exotic modality in a Middle Eastern/Mediterranean style, which in this case alternates with a more jazz-fusion-based, contemporary sound.

The title originates from a tale by the great storyteller Nasreddin Hoca, called ‘Hide and Seek’. The protagonist says at the end “If you do not look in your own heart first, then you will not find wisdom”. My work consists of 5 short, intuitively-composed ‘meditations’, linked together by either solo saxophone cadenza-like passages, or pianistic interludes.

To reflect a little upon the purpose of this work’s composition, the last of said meditations is actually ‘old wine in new bottles’, so to speak: it revamps and then develops, in a written-out improvisation, a melody and accompaniment I composed when in my final year of high school, seeing as I was writing this for an advanced student in their own final year of high school.

Yvette Audain

• Audain: Meditations Upon Nasreddin Hoca; computer-set 

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• Audain: Meditations Upon Nasreddin Hoca; computer-set 

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The arrangement of four traditional tunes, Nursery Rhyme Suite was written to be played by the Cashmere High School Wind Quintet. The first public performance was gien by the Quintet on 9 August 1990 at the I.H.C. Rehabilitation League Sheltered Workshop in Christchurch.

• Biddington: Nursery Rhyme Suite; computer set 

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• Eric Biddington - Nursery Rhyme Suite 

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• Biddington: Flutes Concertos and Chamber Music  Year: 2001 

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In South Otago the Clutha River enters the sea at Molyneux Bay. Above the cliffs of “Summer Hill” the panoramic view of the bay curving past old Port Molyneux to the Nuggets Lighthouse is magnificent. The backdrop to this scene are the Kaihiku Hills always heralding weather to come. Kaitangata and this area were the playground of my childhood and when I revisited those cliffs in my later years, the memories flooded back. This inspired the composition.

• Canzona: Music for Younger Players 

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• Wregglesworth: Prelude No. 21; computer set 

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• Wregglesworth: Prelude; computer-set 

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Sonatine – Dialogue between Wind and Snow was written in December of 2002. This piece was meant to be a sister piece of a much earlier miniature called Dawn (1994). But as it was finished and performed, I thought it stood on its own quite well. A tonal and more conventional style was used in order to fit the two pieces together.

This piece has a carefree, fresh, and uncomplicated character. The musical ideas are often presented in polyphonic textures to give a sense of dialogue. I had a good time writing it and it was finished quite quickly. The winter of 2002 was exceptionally snowy and windy in Cincinnati where I was residing at the time, and some of the ideas came to me while I was watching the snow through the window.

This work exists in 2 versions, one for flute and piano, and another for violin and piano. I have performed both versions with two exceptional performers: the Russian flutist Alexander Viazovtsev and violinist Yang Liu.

• Gao Ping: Sonatine for flute and piano "Dialogue between wind and snow" - downloadable PDF 

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• Adrianna Lis: Rozmowa / Dialogue  Year: 2012 

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