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Helen Caskie  

A Sweet Season but Short

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1988
for mezzo-soprano and piano

Kit Powell  

Chinese Songs

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 1988
for high soprano and tape

  • Programme Note

    First performed in a concert of the Swiss Computer Music Center with soloist Franziska Staeheli. Later performances in Bern (with a short lecture about it by me) and in Schaffhausen. Bruno Spoerri also played the tape abroad, in a demonstration of our work here.

    Preparation for the work involved analysis of several Chinese instruments; Ch’in (a zither), gong and wood block. The wave analysis was done with a computer program and my imitations were realized on the Computer Music Center’s DMX. There are two sets of texts: from the Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse) and from the I Ching. The Lao Tse texts were chosen by me and set with traditional notation. The I Ching texts were chosen by chance (with the computer) and set with a computer generated graphic notation. Proportions within the piece were also made with a computer program using chance and units of Golden Section. (More details in the introduction to the score).

    This piece could be performed with two singers: one singing the Tao texts, the other singing the I Ching texts.

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Diana Blom  

Clavichord

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1984
for high voice and piano

  • Programme Note

    Clavichord was written for soprano, Anne Cheng, and first performed by her, with Marilyn Watson (piano), for broadcast on Radio Television Hong Kong in 1984. The piano part draws on the affect of J. S. Bach’s Prelude in C (BWV 846) written for clavichord (or harpsichord).

    Diana Blom

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Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Commemoration

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1988
for unaccompanied mezzo soprano or soprano

Lyell Cresswell  

Eight Shaker Songs

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1985
song cycle for soprano and piano

Hugh Dixon  

Five Shakespeare Songs

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1983
A song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano

Anthony Ritchie  

Five Songs of Colour

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1980
for soprano and piano

Noel Sanders  

Four Poems from Aftonland

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1986
For soprano and piano

Judith Exley  

Four Small Songs

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1993
for soprano and piano

Clare Maclean  

Four Songs to Poems by James K. Baxter

 Year: 1982, r. 1984
for mezzo-soprano and piano