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Written in McLeod’s second year of study at Victoria University, this piece shows influences of Benjamin Britten and David Farquhar. The text is a poem by W. S. Broughton, the older brother of one of her childhood friends. She was drawn to the poem because it expressed the disillusionment with religion she herself was experiencing at the time.

Being a student work, Epithalamia has been somewhat neglected by performers, and has only recently been ‘rediscovered’. The youthful composer’s impressive self-confidence, both in the expressive use of the voice and in the effective piano writing is obvious. (Programme note: Mark Jones).

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 5 - Composer Portrait: Jenny McLeod 

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• War and Peace and Jack Winter's Dream - Incidental Music by Ashley Heenan 

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• Ashley Heenan: Orchestral Music  Year: 1996 

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• Lilburn: Prodigal Country; facsimile 

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• Douglas Lilburn: A Song of Islands  Year: 1987 

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• Lilburn: Prodigal Country  Year: 1987 

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• Lilburn: Prodigal Country  Year: 1987 

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• Lilburn: Elegy and The Return 

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• Lilburn: The Return and Elegy 

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• Lilburn: The Return 

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• Lilburn: Complete Electroacoustic Works 

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This song for female voice and piano to a text by Katherine mansfield won the Radio New Zealand/ APRA Prize in 1957 for a New Zealandlad.

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• Kowhai - an album of songs by NZ women composers  Year: 1994 

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• The Music of Dorothy Freed 

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• Burning Bright - four NZ women composers  Year: 1999 

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The title comes from the first piece of the set, which was completed in 1946. The second piece, Prelude, dates from 1950 and the third from 1972, revised in 1981. These superbly evocative pieces belong together yet span different periods within Lilburn’s writing: the early, individual lyricism and the later time when he was writing almost entirely electronic music. Lilburn brings to each of the Sea Changes his breadth and sensitivity, and awareness, from a Pacific perspective, of a universal environment.

• Lilburn: Three Sea Changes; facsimile  Year: 1988 

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• Lilburn: Three Sea Changes; computer-set  Year: 1996 

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• New Zealand Sounds - October Sound 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Complete Piano Music Volume 2 

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• Sea Changes  Year: 1986 

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• Douglas Lilburn: Piano Music  Year: 1995 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 1  Year: 1996 

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• Michael Houstoun: Lilburn - music for solo piano CD  Year: 2012 

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Lilburn composed these songs in 1958 for the baritone Donald Munro and his wife the violist Jean McCartney, who gave the first broadcast performance.

The influence of serialism on the composer’s style at this point in his career makes for a challenging vocal line, especially in the first two songs. Nonetheless, Lilburn’s work capitalizes on the affinities between voice and viola, and exploits technical capabilities of the viola to evoke moods rather than painting the words. In the penultimate verse of “Warning of Winter”, for example, the viola’s wavering line, thickened with chords, heralds the darkness of winter that “descends the flowered pathway”. Such subtle evocation of the text is also found in “Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness”. Here the viola’s wide leaps to high trills are to be executed with the bow placed over the fingerboard; this evokes the troubling paradoxes of spring, the “Birds that are silent now/And buds of barren springing”. Between these bleak poles, the viola and voice pairing are used with bold irony in “Song of Allegiance”. This march is a poet’s humble yet robust reflection on his own position in comparison to the poetic geniuses of the past. Again Lilburn enlists the viola to speak with and as the poet: wide intervals, tense chords, and motivic stutters convey a poetic voice that is “cracked and harsh”.

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• Lilburn: Three Songs for baritone and viola; facsimile  Year: 1972 

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• Chamber Works Vol 1 (NZ Composers Edition) 

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• Viola Aotearoa  Year: 2000 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 9 - Douglas Lilburn: Salutes to Poets  Year: 2006 

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