Search Music:

400 Roncesvalles Avenue is the address of the Revue Cinema, a historic movie-house in a historic area of Toronto, Canada. The way to approach the theatre from downtown is to take the subway eastbound to Dundas West station and from there to take a streetcar to the theatre. These are depicted at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the piece. The third and fourth section of this work also quote fairly extensively from the Adagio movement of Bruckner’s 8th symphony. The reason for this is that it was while I was resident in Toronto that I became familiar with and recognised the genius of this composer. I regret to say that I have no recollections of ever seeing any interesting films at the Revue Cinema. It is dedicated to Salvatore Martirano, who expressed a liking for the piece.

• Davidson: Etudes Book II - A Ragtime Odyssey; facsimile 

  Full score | Pdf - facsimile
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:

• Davidson: Etudes Book II - A Ragtime Odyssey; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Davidson: The Graceful Ghost: Contemporary Piano Rags 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Davidson: Voodoo Queen - Piano Rags, Jazz and Blues 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

• Daverne: Music for Accordion; computer-set  Year: 2006 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• Gary Daverne: Accordion Concert Music 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

Originally, A Jazz Burlesque was composed as a piano solo. It was later arranged for accordion trio, then for accordion orchestra. This string arrangement followed for the all female string ensemble ‘String Silhouette’.

• Daverne: A Jazz Burlesque; computer-set 

  Score and parts | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Hire

• Daverne: A Jazz Burlesque; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• Gary Daverne: Gallipoli 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

This work was composed in 1992. I performed the piece for the “Hawkes Bay Original Music and Songwriters Awards 1994-Classical Section” and it won the award.

• Wregglesworth: Andante Cantabile; computer-set 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $6.00
  • • Quantity:

• Wregglesworth: Andante Cantabile; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $6.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Jagger: Bandanna; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $3.50
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

In 1990 I attended the launch of Cilla McQueen’s new book Berlin Diary. This diary made a big impression on me, initially because it brought back memories of my own trip to Europe. I also liked the brilliant mixing of poetic and prosaic styles, and the vivid descriptions of people and places. Something else that impressed me was the strong contrast between the inhuman political situation in Berlin (the wall was still up) and the natural, peaceful beauty of Dunedin, New Zealand (Cilla’s and my own home town). A few months later the Aramoana tragedy (where a deranged gunman killed 13 people – Aramoana is a remote seaside township at the end of the Otago peninsula) changed that around. Cilla’s beautiful, almost ecstatic centrepiece in the dairy “O Aramoana” now took on a terrible subtext, and it seemed as if the inhumanity of Berlin had come to the remote beach community. A year later, the Berlin wall finally came down, and the unification of East and West Germany became a reality.

When Judy Bellingham approached me in 1991 to write a song cycle for her, I immediately wanted to set extracts from the Berlin Diary, to capture these layers of dramatic historical irony along with the essence of a marvellous text. In reality I was able to only set a fraction of the diary to music, and hence the title of my work – Berlin Fragments (which I would also like to think suggests the breaking of the Berlin wall into bits). After talking to Cilla about the work, I decided to make “O Aramoana” the heart of the work, around which somewhat shorter texts are clustered. Sections are often linked by a recurrent chord in the bottom of the piano (the dyad E-F), which I have imagined as a tombstone in musical terms. Framing the work are brief sections which convey the flight to and from Berlin (the “green below” being an unmistakable reference to a return to New Zealand).

The 23 minutes of this song cycle run continuously.

• Ritchie A.: Berlin Fragments; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $15.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Bellingham, Dennis, Rawson: NZ vocal music  Year: 2006 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

Bold as Brass is written for a brass quintet consisting of two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba. The work is designed to show to best advantage the varying qualities and abilities of each of these instruments, and accordingly there are solo passages and cadenzas for each. Hulford has experimented with each line as a “voice” and has manipulated and blended the differing timbres to excellent effect. The composition is in 3 movements. The first and third of these are reasonably fast and are somewhat aggressive in nature while the second is slower and reflective. The world premiere of the work occurred in Seoul, Korea, in October 1993 by members of the Korean National Orchestra. The work has not been performed in its entirety in New Zealand.

• Hulford: Bold as Brass; facsimile 

  Full score | Pdf - facsimile
  

• Hulford: Bold as Brass; computer-set 

  Parts - written | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $15.00
  • • Quantity:

• Hulford: Bold as Brass; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $10.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

Ritchie’s Brass Quintet is dedicated to his father, John Ritchie, and was composed in 1992 for the Canterbury Quintet. Unfortunately this ensemble folded before the work could be performed, and consequently the composer had not heard the work prior to the recording by the NZ Chamber Brass. Ritchie notes that, at the time of composing the work, he was fascinated by the work of several Minimalist composers, this influence being most apparent in the first two movements.

• Ritchie A.: Brass Quintet; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $15.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• New Zealand Chamber Brass - New Zealand Works for Brass Quintet 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

Children and Adults was conceived as a song cycle, commissioned by Rosemary Stott for the Klarion Trio in 1992. The different ways that children and adults view the world has been a recurring source of fascination for the composer (who has reared three children of his own). This is encapsulated in these four settings, in which issues such as life, death, survival and creativity emerge as the main themes.

• Ritchie A.: Children and Adults; facsimile 

  Full score | Pdf - facsimile
  
  $15.00
  • • Quantity:

• Ritchie A.: Children and Adults; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $15.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Ritchie, J.: Christmas Day in the Morning; facsimile 

  Full score | Pdf - facsimile
  

• Ritchie J.: Christmas Day in the Morning; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  • Borrow

• John Ritchie: Winter and Rough Weather 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow