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Arapatiki was commissioned by Stephen De Pledge as one of a series of Landscape preludes, and received its first performance in the Wigmore Hall, London, in January, 2004. Arapatiki translates (from the Maori language) as ‘the way of the flounder’, and is the ancient name of the sand flats in front of my house at Harwood, near Dunedin. The piece has something to do with the advance and retreat of the tide across the flats, where many species of sea and water birds spend much of the day – an ever-varying water-scape. The opening idea is based on the song of the korimako or bellbird.

• Whitehead: Arapatiki; computer-set 

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• Landscape Preludes  Year: 2011 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Arapatiki; video 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Various Works 

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• Stephen de Pledge - Landscape Preludes  

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• Stephen de Pledge plays Arapatiki by Gillian Whitehead 

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• Tuhonohono: Music by Gillian Whitehead 

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• An Interview with Gillian Whitehead 

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• Stephen de Pledge: Three Landscape Preludes  Year: 2004 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Arapātiki CD  Year: 2012 

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• Palmer: Clip; computer-set 

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• Maurice Faulknor: Organ Works - hardcopy score 

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This set of jazz miniatures introduces beginner pianists to a range of performance techniques and are designed to delight both player and audience alike.

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A quiet time of reflection at the New Year; five “breaths”, each a triadic meditation. First performed by Ross Carey at the Indonesia- America Institute, Medan, North Sumatra, December 2004.

• Carey: Five Breaths in the New Year, 2004 (piano/organ); facsimile 

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• Carey: Five Breaths in the New Year, 2004 (piano/organ); facsimile 

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An exercise in response to tutoring first year students on fugue.

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Everyone of my generation remembers the ‘Goodnight Kiwi’ – the animation that used to signal the end of television for the night in the days when we only had two channels to choose from.

I remember the rare occasions I was allowed to stay up late enough to see the Goodnight Kiwi carry out his nightly duties. It was always way past my bedtime and therefore overwhelmingly exciting. But I always felt very melancholy afterwards. I would lie awake for hours thinking about the kiwi shutting down the power and climbing up to sleep in the sky. It seemed so final.

As I was composing this piece in 2004, my mother was approaching the end of a long illness and she and I were going through a process of looking through photographs, telling the stories that accompanied them and wondering what
lay ahead. It made me remember long summers, lawn-mowers, barbeques, pohutukawa trees at the beach and a time in life that wasn’t weighed down with responsibilities or fears for the future. This piece is an emotional landscape that tries to evoke that feeling of nostalgia, presenting childhood memories into which the future begins to creep.

I imagined my mother was setting off on the same journey as the kiwi… wandering through the building, shutting down the power and then climbing up to sleep in the sky. I wrote this piece for her.

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• Landscape Preludes  Year: 2011 

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• Victoria Kelly: Goodnight Kiwi; video 

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• Stephen de Pledge - Landscape Preludes  

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• Stephen de Pledge: Three Landscape Preludes  Year: 2004 

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• Michael Houstoun: Inland (CD & DVD set)  Year: 2007 

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Three short piano pieces composed in 2003-4 for Charmian Keay and Ursula Keay. These three pieces are suitable for intermediate level or younger players.

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• Keay: Little Tango Suite; computer set 

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A medicine bundle is part of the traditional teachings and practices of the First Nations peoples of North America. The title of the first Medicine Bundle piece, which I wrote as one of the many invited composers worldwide to contribute a piece for pianist Ananda Sukarlan’s Concerts for Bali commemorating the Bali bombing of October 2002, was my response to an article published in the Toronto Star, where an elder of the Six Nations Reserve of southern Ontario spoke of a “medicine bundle” found within each of us; a place of healing and transformation which we can tap into in times of strife and need. I envisaged the bundle in this case as a bundle of notes from which the performer(s) can freely bring their own sensitivities, experiences and responses to the work’s realisation. In this medicine bundle piece the performer follows the musical lines starting from either the left or right hand side of the page; they are able also to repeat the lines and freely alter the order of performance.

• Carey: Medicine Bundle (No. 3); facsimile 

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• Maurice Faulknor: Organ Works - hardcopy score 

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