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• McLeod: Childhood; computer-set 

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• McLeod: Childhood; facsimile  Year: 1988 

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• Jenny McLeod: Childhood 

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• Jenny McLeod: Childhood 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 4  Year: 1985 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir  Year: 1985 

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• NZ National Youth Choir on Tour North America  Year: 1994 

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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Composed at the 1984 Cambridge Summer School, Clouds over Pirongia is a short delicate piece which uses a wide variety of metallic percussion instruments. The resonant sonorities were suggested by various cloud formations over nearby Mt. Pirongia.

• Rimmer: Clouds over Pirongia; facsimile 

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• Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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• Sound Barrier  Year: 2006 

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This work for solo piano has been described as “a haunting gem for a modern baby.” (Blanks, Sydney Morning Herald)

“In a simple arch structure of eight bar phrases, it progresses in variations from naive simplicity to what could almost amount to a nightmare in the centre, then back to slumbering innocence once again.” (Bibby, Music in New Zealand)

• Whitehead: Lullaby for Matthew (SOUNZwrite score); computer-set 

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• Whitehead: Lullaby for Matthew; facsimile 

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• Whitehead: Lullaby for Matthew; computer-set  Year: 1996 

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• First Fifteen - a selection of piano music by NZ composers  Year: 1996 

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• Tuhonohono 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Lullaby for Matthew 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 1  Year: 1996 

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• You Hit Him He Cry Out - Dan Poynton  Year: 1996 

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• New Zealand Colours – Alternative Works for Royal Schools Music Exams  Year: 2008 

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Inspired by sparkling waters of Tasman Bay Nelson, this choral work (SSAATB) was originally composed with flute accompaniment, which has been substituted in performances by the Shakuhachi (traditional Japanese flute) and also the Koauau (traditional Maori flute). There are recordings of Pounamu with each of these flutes. The piece’s choral texture uses Maori vowel sounds and a text which is a whakatauki (proverb) from the Waikato region.

• Helen Fisher: Pounamu (SOUNZwrite) - hardcopy study score  Year: 1997 

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• Helen Fisher: Pounamu - hardcopy vocal score  Year: 1997 

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• Helen Fisher: Pounamu - hardcopy score & part  Year: 1997 

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• Pounamu 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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• Cresswell: Sextet; facsimile 

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• Edward Harper and Lyell Cresswell  Year: 1997 

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• Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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The Hanging Bulb consists of a continuous movement, divided into four sections: slow, fast, slow, fast. Sections 1 and 2 are thematically related, as are sections 3 and 4, so the structure could be described as a double couplet. The work expresses particular emotional and psychological states of mind, encapsulated in the title of the work which is an image of despair. Hanging light bulbs have been associated with despair and obsession in the world of art and in the real world. They became a significant image to the composer at the time of writing this piece, which was not born in happy circumstances.

Tension in the music is created through extensive use of the octatonic scale, bi-modal effects and thickly layered chords (such as occur near the end). The xylophone and bass drum are used as symbols of cruelty, while the piano has an important ‘personal’ statement in the first section. The last section has an obsessional quality which is expressed through repeated rhythms and motifs.

A music resource for secondary schools is available for this work from SOUNZ.

• Ritchie A.: The Hanging Bulb; computer-set 

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• Ritchie A.: The Hanging Bulb; facsimile 

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• SOUNZ Orchestral 1993 

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• Ritchie A.: The Hanging Bulb 1992 

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• Works for Orchestra: Young, Harris, Blake, Ritchie 

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• Farr and Ritchie: Pembuka'an, The Hanging Bulb 

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• New Zealand Composers  Year: 1995 

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Ever popular with audiences, this three movement string quartet juxtaposes transcriptions of music played by a Chinese jaw’s harp, a Madagascan zither and the music of a Bulgarian village band. It was composed at the request of the Kronos Quartet who have played the work throughout the world.

The New Zealand String Quartet has championed the work giving performances all over the world. You can see them on Youtube in the process of making a new recording (due for release in 2010) and talking about the music.

• Body: Three transcriptions; facsimile 

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• Body - Three Transcriptions 

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• New Zealand Music for Creative Dance (Volume Two) 

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• Jack Body: Three Transcriptions 

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• Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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• Jack Body: Pulse  Year: 2001 

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• notes from a journey  Year: 2010 

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• John Psathas: Waiting for the Aeroplane (SOUNZwrite) - hardcopy study score 

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• First Fifteen - a selection of piano music by NZ composers  Year: 1996 

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• Firestarters 2: seven new recital pieces for piano  Year: 2005 

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• John Psathas: Waiting for the Aeroplane; video 

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• John Psathas: Works 1 

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• SOUNZfine Volume 1  Year: 1996 

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• Michael Houstoun - Elusive Dreams  Year: 1996 

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• You Hit Him He Cry Out - Dan Poynton  Year: 1996 

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• John Psathas: Rhythm Spike  Year: 1999 

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• Firestarters 2: 7 new recital pieces for piano  Year: 2005 

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