Search Music:

• Biddington: A Short Overture; facsimile 

  Full score | Pdf - facsimile
  
  $25.00
  • • Quantity:

• Biddington: A Short Overture; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $29.50
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Eric Biddington: Mad Music 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Eric Biddington - A Short Overture 

  Digital sound file - MP3
  
  $3.50
  • • Quantity:

‘Beginnings’ was commissioned by Auckland Philharmonia. It was inspired by the birth of Ritchie’s son Tristan. It depicts the slowly mounting tension of the labour, through to the birth itself. There is a gradual growth in the music from small, delicate gestures into wild and pulsating ones towards the end. The child is represented by a ‘little Tristan waltz’ which eventually gets caught up in the musical frenzy. The waltz sequence imposes order on the music, which tends to be fragmentary and changeable. There are some echoes of Bartok and Debussy in this early work, and it presents a good challenge for a professional orchestra.

• Ritchie A.: Beginnings ; Facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $20.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Anthony Ritchie: Beginnings; audio 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

• Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra: New Zealand Music 1  Year: 1990 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

This work was written before and after a visit to Colyton, where a cousin of the composer has a farm, and whose daughter was playing ’cello in the orchestra at the time. He intended the work to reflect the rural open spaces that provide welcome relief for a city-dweller.

• Hinds: Colyton Overture; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $15.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

The Auckland Symphony Orchestra commissioned this work in 1983 for John Russell, principal trombonist with the orchestra. It was premiered that year and has had many performances to date.

The Rondo is written in a melodic, rhythmical style with the orchestral scoring strongly influenced by film music.

• Daverne: Rondo for Trombone and Orchestra; computer-set 

  Score and parts | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• Gary Daverne: Youth of Auckland 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Gary Daverne: Orchestral Music  Year: 1981 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

An arrangement of String Quartet 1983

• Utting: String Sonnet; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $7.50
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Utting: String Sonnet; computer-set 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $16.00
  • • Quantity:

Translation of title: ‘The winds of Kaiaua’

In Maori mythology, Kaiaua was a child of Tahwiri, the great god of the wind. The winds of Kaiaua are the nor’-westers that frequently sweep across the Canterbury plains. This piece describes an old Maori legend about a chief who disliked the hot nor’-westers so much that he instructed a tohunga (or priest) to perform a chant, making the mountains bigger and stopping the winds coming. However, this caused the plains to become too damp and miserable for the people to live there. The chief prayed for the return of the winds, and eventually they do indeed return, forcing their way over the Southern Alps. The music for this one-movement piece is directly programmatic, owing something to the composer’s experience as Composer-in-schools (1987), where childrens’ imagination very readily turns sounds into images. Consequently, a theme from Ritchie’s own youth (from age 13) is used in the piece, to depict the march of the wind at the end.

• Ritchie A.: Te Hau-a-kaiaua; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $16.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Biddington: Two Pieces for Flute and Strings; facsimile 

  Full score | Pdf - facsimile
  

• Biddington: Two Pieces for Flute and Strings; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $20.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Biddington: Concerto Movements and Music for Strings 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Biddington: L'Estro Armonico  Year: 2006 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow