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• Starrett: a good opener; facsimile 

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A Viola on Skye was inspired by a trip to Scotland that included a stay on the Isle of Skye in the depths of winter. The initial sketches for the work were made at the time, influenced by the bleak, barren but richly hued landscape. This is personified by the characteristic timbre of the instrument and accounts for the particular sweep and colour of the music.

The work falls naturally into two parts and can be described as a transition from complexity to simplicity. The first is characterized by a great variety of activity – agitated configurations, short melodic phrases, alternations of sul pont, pizzicato, arco, tremolo and so on. The structure is loosely based on a twelve note series and features a series of twelve groups. These are short sections of music, each emphasising one of the notes of the series. There are only four types of groups used so the first part of the work can be heard as three related variations. The second part of the work uses the series material melodically. It opens with these notes presented in the order and registers established in the preceding part. Ultimately this develops into an extended melodic line with the close of the work attaining the ultimate in simplicity – a repeated note.

• Blake: A Viola on Skye; facsimile 

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This piece was inspired by the beguiling sounds of the aeolian harp to which I was first introduced by Chris Cree Brown. Said to have been first ‘discovered’ by the ancient Greeks, aeolian harps are intended to be played not by human hands, but by the wind. The strings vibrates through a range of harmonics creating an eerie effect difficult to describe.


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• Body: Aeolian Harp; computer-set 

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• Harris: Chaconne for Solo Viola; computer set 

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• Harris: Chaconne for solo viola; computer-set 

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• Works: Farquhar, Harris and Rimmer 

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• Harris: Chaconne for Solo Viola 

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Written for Gavin Saunders, who planned to spend some months on the island of Lifou (French Caledonia) exchanging his music with that of his hosts. Farquhar’s idea was to provide an opportunity for the Lifouans to collaborate in the piece by providing a rhythmic background (clapping), and then taking over the piece to a rousing climax at the end.

• Farquhar: Chap-Chap; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Chap-Chap; facsimile 

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• Viola Brass and Winds  Year: 2003 

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This short piece was written as a twenty-first birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

• Gardner: Charge; computer-set 

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“Composition for Solo Viola” explores the gradual growth of material from a single note to long chains of gestures. The soft opening sound, which returns throughout the piece, delineates each of the sections, allowing for clear perception of the process of expansion. Each new section of the piece is generated by overlaying the previous two sections, in such a way so as to expand the material both in time and spatially. “Composition for Solo Viola” was written for and is dedicated to Justine Goode.

• Hall: Composition for Solo Viola; facsimile 

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• Hall: Composition for Solo Viola; facsimile 

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• Vidulich: Concertpiece in C Minor; computer-set 

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The electronic part for this work was prepared in the computer music studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, using real-time granular synthesis to process samples produced by the viola. A small resource of bowed and plucked sounds has been treated in this way to produce a large-scale mosaic of sounds to background the solo viola part, which explores playing techniques involving small changes, drifts, in pitch. For instance the opening is played with the fingers in closer than normal position to produce rhythmic patterns on very small intervals, a technique which recurs as a sort of technical motto throughout, and later material makes considerable use of much larger slides to produce a very fluid melody in the upper reaches of the instrument.

The first performance was given by violist David Nalden in the
ExtravaCANZa festival at Victoria University of Wellington in November 1994. David Nalden describes ‘Drift’ as ‘a vast soundscape of seemingly infinite varieties of colour, pitch and rhythm which bore as much resemblance to the sequence of sounds in my initial recording as a luxuriant garden to a handful of seeds which had given it its existence.’

• Elmsly: Drift; computer-set 

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• Elmsly: Drift; facsimile 

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• Marshall: Elegy; computer-set 

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