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alla marcia – adv. As a musical direction: in the style of a march. Also as adj., n. (Source: Oxford English Dictionary.)
Marcia Brady – A character from the 1969-1974 American television series The Brady Bunch. (Source: Wikipedia.)

General instructions/suggestions include:
- Gather a dozen or so wind and brass players. Have them memorise this music.
- The players should walk one by one from off-stage to on-stage.
- If possible, have them do a complete circuit across the stage, off the other side, through the backstage area, then back onto the stage through the original entry point.
- I encourage the use of surprising points of entry, e.g. balconies, strange doors, trapdoors, zip lines, time machines.
- Optional: incorporate the theme tune to The Brady Bunch in Bb major.

• Ellis: Alla Marcia Brady; computer set 

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When Silencio Ensemble asked me to write the original piece, it was suggested that I write something inspired by or relevant to Canterbury – one possibility being a piece inspired by the landscape. In a funny kind of way, Mad Cow-Farmer’s Disease is inspired by the landscape – going to a Canterbury river and seeing the signs that say “Do Not Swim” or another where cows are loose in the riverbed and cow shit is all over the place.

It is inspired by dry riverbeds surrounded by farms with pumps constantly irrigating the land – the premise being that any ounce of water that makes it to the sea is wasted. These same farmers, self-titled “environmentalists,” use hypothetical science to justify their wanton destruction of the natural environment.

• Chris Adams: Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version) - hardcopy score & parts 

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• Chris Adams: Mad Cow Farmers' Disease (Jazz Band version) - downloadable PDF 

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Piece No.4 uses a variety of techniques from Jazz and Classical music.


Firstly, it is a concerto for our bassist Mike Kime who improvises his solo throughout the work. Secondly, the piece has a mosaic structure. The sections in the piece can be played in any order which is decided upon by the conductor as the piece progresses. This lends a dynamic and exciting atmosphere from which the textures and solo in the piece develop.

• van den Broek: Piece No. 4; computer-set 

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The piece was written in collaboration with Andrzej Nowicki, a NZSM student who dances with a Polish folk group in Wellington. The clarinet carries the dance tunes in both movements, with a second clarinet and a baritone saxophone joining in the second. The gamelan accompaniment moves between “slendro” and “pelog”, suggesting a ‘bent’ version of western harmony.

Jack Body

• Body: Polish Folk Dances; computer-set 

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• Now I Know - New Music for Gamelan and Winds 

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Tempest was the First Equal Winner of the 2005 Lilburn Trust Student Composition Awards at Victoria University of Wellington.

• Eastwood: Tempest; computer-set 

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• Eastwood: Tempest; computer-set 

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A one movement work composed for the Silencio Ensemble for the Canterbury Composers Series.


This piece in three main sections features the piano, saxophone and flute respectively, each section is derived from similar material but differs in its texture. The two outer sections are cloudy, sustained and expressive. The middle section is more jazz like with the ensemble playing together behind an improvised saxophone solo. The piano divides the sections with strong forceful material to insert depth and weight into a piece which has a very refined, reserved and obscure quality much like being on a canvas.

• van den Broek: White and Pink on Light Red; computer-set 

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• Alex van den Broek: White and Pink on Light Red 

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• Silencio - New Music Ensemble - Canterbury Composers 2008 

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