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for bass clarinet in Bb, alto flute
percussion — kick-drum, snare drum, low tom-tom, low woodblock, high woodblock, medium cowbell (muted), hi-hat, high ride cymbal, medium splash cymbal, thin metal sheet, cabasa, rainstick, tibetan bowl (F if possible), vibraphone, marimba;
narrator — amplified with microphone and/or paper megaphone and power megaphone;
piano (nylon fishing line rosined), violin and violoncello

“In the beginning, there was nothing. Just the water.”
“But where did all the water come from?”

Throughout Thomas King’s novel the character of the trickster Coyote reappears, hopelessly bamboozled, trying to learn what really happened when the world began. Who knows the Real Story? Coyote would like to think he does, but then there’s Coyote’s Dream – “gets loose and runs around. Makes a lot of noise”. Coyote’s Dream has his own idea about things: “I’m in charge of the world”. By the end of the piece, you’ll be wondering where all that water came from…

• Palmer: How it Happened; computer set 

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• Palmer: How it Happened; computer set 

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• Palmer: How it Happened; computer set 

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• Juliet Palmer: How it Happened 

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• Lilburn: Landfall in Unknown Seas; computer-set 

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• Lilburn: Landfall in Unknown Seas; facsimile 

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• The Lindsay String Orchestra of Wellington: Landfall in Unknown Seas and other works 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands and other works  Year: 1986 

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• Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1986 

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• Lilburn/Watson/Pruden: New Zealand Chamber Orchestra  Year: 1993 

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• Alex Lindsay String Orchestra  Year: 1998 

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The Love Sonnets of Michelangelo I wrote for Michael Parmenter, with whom I worked on a programme entitled Between Two Fires (also included was a dance-theatre work I created collaboratively with Michael, using his voice as well as his body, with imagery extracted from the diaries of Franz Kafka.) At the time I was focused on different styles of melody, having just completed my Five Melodies for Piano. Inspired by the lovely voices of some of the then current students in our School of Music, I felt that women’s voices gave the expressive quality I wanted, as well as providing a useful ‘cover’ for the overtly homo-erotic tenor of the texts. The original production used film, shot by my good friend Bayley Watson, showed the dancer’s prostrate figure, swathed in bandages. As the performance unfolded the cloth was gradually cut and pealed back by hands belonging to an old man whose face we never saw, the intended metaphor being of the sculptor cutting away marble to reveal the male form that he sensed already existed within the stone.

The work has since had other performances that have discarded the theatrical elements, most successfully when each setting is prefaced by a reading of the poem in translation.

These settings of some of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s most personal sonnets articulate the anguish of love and desire, as well as the despair of old age. The musical style combines the theatricality of Italian bel canto with the direct expressivity of folksong.

• Body: Love Sonnets of Michelangelo; facsimile 

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• Jack Body and Michael Parmenter: Love Sonnets 

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• Baroque Voices: How Great is the Pleasure   Year: 2001 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 6 - Composer Portrait: Jack Body  Year: 2003 

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• Ellis: Play Some Metallica; computer-set 

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• Robbie Ellis: Play Some Metallica 

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1111;2110;3perc;pf/hd,hp;strs(no cb); tenor soloist does narration

• Body: Poems of Solitary Delights; facsimile 

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• Jack Body: Poems of Solitary Delights; audio 

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• Farquhar: Prayer before Birth; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Prayer before Birth; facsimile 

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Taonga puoro: koauau

• Voyages  Year: 1992 

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• Harris: Roimata; computer-set 

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• Harris: Roimata; computer set 

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Percussion: Kempul, timpani, cymbals (2), rototoms (8), tomtoms (4). Involves speech and dramatic movement

• Palmer: Self; facsimile 

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narrator with amplification

• Farquhar: Sing unto the Lord a New Song; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Sing unto the Lord a New Song; facsimile 

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