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• Cresswell: Atta; computer-set 

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• Cresswell: Atta; facsimile 

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• Under the Southern Cross: works for cello 

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• Lyell Cresswell: Anake and other works  Year: 2000 

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In 1990 I attended the launch of Cilla McQueen’s new book Berlin Diary. This diary made a big impression on me, initially because it brought back memories of my own trip to Europe. I also liked the brilliant mixing of poetic and prosaic styles, and the vivid descriptions of people and places. Something else that impressed me was the strong contrast between the inhuman political situation in Berlin (the wall was still up) and the natural, peaceful beauty of Dunedin, New Zealand (Cilla’s and my own home town). A few months later the Aramoana tragedy (where a deranged gunman killed 13 people – Aramoana is a remote seaside township at the end of the Otago peninsula) changed that around. Cilla’s beautiful, almost ecstatic centrepiece in the dairy “O Aramoana” now took on a terrible subtext, and it seemed as if the inhumanity of Berlin had come to the remote beach community. A year later, the Berlin wall finally came down, and the unification of East and West Germany became a reality.

When Judy Bellingham approached me in 1991 to write a song cycle for her, I immediately wanted to set extracts from the Berlin Diary, to capture these layers of dramatic historical irony along with the essence of a marvellous text. In reality I was able to only set a fraction of the diary to music, and hence the title of my work – Berlin Fragments (which I would also like to think suggests the breaking of the Berlin wall into bits). After talking to Cilla about the work, I decided to make “O Aramoana” the heart of the work, around which somewhat shorter texts are clustered. Sections are often linked by a recurrent chord in the bottom of the piano (the dyad E-F), which I have imagined as a tombstone in musical terms. Framing the work are brief sections which convey the flight to and from Berlin (the “green below” being an unmistakable reference to a return to New Zealand).

The 23 minutes of this song cycle run continuously.

• Ritchie A.: Berlin Fragments; facsimile 

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• Bellingham, Dennis, Rawson: NZ vocal music  Year: 2006 

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• John Rimmer: Fleeting Images  Year: 1993 

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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.

• Anthony Ritchie: CONCERTINA  Year: 2012 

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This tone poem, along with Far Calling, was composed to evoke the Rocky Mountains – as seen from the vantage point of Canmore, Alberta. Far Calling includes parts for mixed voices SATB sung to the sound of ‘Ah’. The works honour Canada’s magnificent beauty and its vast open, unspoiled places – truly a garden of Eden.

• Twomey: High Valley (Opus 20); computer-set 

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• Twomey: High Valley (Opus 20); computer-set 

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• Ray Twomey: Music for Orchestra and Carillon 

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• Ray Twomey: The Spirit of the Land 

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• Reflections - Music Composed by Ray Twomey 

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• Ray Twomey: High Valley and A Time Before 

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A suite of five piano pieces inspired by places I have visited in the United States, and the title is taken from the cartoons by Winsor McCay.

• Davidson: In the Land of Wonderful Dreams; facsimile 

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• Davidson: Whippin' The Keys - 75 years of Novelty - Piano Ragtime 

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• Davidson: Sugar's Nightmare - piano rags to jazz 1898-1995  

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• Scholes: Islands II (2nd movement)  

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• Different Tracks  Year: 1993 

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This work for orchestra and organ was commissioned by Uwe Alexander-Grodd and the St. Matthews Chamber Orchestra and premiered in November 1996. Based on Maori themes, it is in three movements.

• John Wells: Organ Concerto (organ part) - hardcopy score 

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• Wells plays Wells 

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• Elmsly: Pacific Hockets; computer-set 

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• Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra: New Zealand Music 5 

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• Orchestral Music by Norman, Ritchie, Elmsly, Farquhar 

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These pieces utilise Abelian form, a concept I developed whereby the proportions of a large form were reflected in its constituent parts. A large form, for instance, has sections A, B, C, D, and E, with respective durations t1, t2, t3, t4, t5. A, B, C, D, E also have subsections whose proportions are also t1, t2, t3, t4, t5. We can designate the subsections of A as Aa, Ab, Ac, Ad and Ae, and similarly for the others. The whole process can be shown in the following table: Aa Ab Ac Ad Ae Ba Bb Bc Bd Be Ca Cb Cc Cd Ce Da Db Dc Dd De Ea Eb Ec Ed Ee This looks like a mathematical Abelian Group – hence the name. The durations of subsections symmetrically placed about the leading diagonal (Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd and Ee) are also equal because duration of Ab = duration of Ba, duration of Ac = duration of Ca, etc. This fact led me to use the same material in matching subsections, often mirrored. In PIANO POEMS 1, 4, 8 and 9 I use this form; although the proportions are all equal, the Abelian shape determines the order. 1 Abelian form (3 X 3 matrix) with overlaps 2 a mirror piece 3 a chance piece: the contents of the four different chords and their order and the interruptions by the fist rolls were all determined by chance 4 Abelian form (4 X 4 matrix): all sections are four bars long. Subsection Ab is the mirror of subsection Bb, etc 5 Free form 6 Bogen form: A, B, C, C’, B’, A’, where A’ is the augmentation of A, etc 7 Free variations on a short melody 8 Abelian form (3 X 3 matrix): all repetitions are shortened 9 Abelian form (4 X 4 matrix) using fragments from sections 1 to 8

• Powell: Piano Poems; computer set 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 2 - Chamber Music  Year: 1997 

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