Search Music:

pc2233cb; 2331; timp.; 3 perc (triangle, tomtoms, bass drum, suspended cymbal, xylophone, tam tam, log drum); strs

In 1995 I was approached by the NZSO to write an overture to commemorate the recent death of New Zealand’s most famous war hero, Sir Charles Upham. Upham was famous for having won the Victoria Cross twice for bravery during World War II. He was, however, extremely modest when it came to discussing his achievements. Some years before his death it was suggested to Upham that he have a state funeral; he simply replied, “A bugle will do”. This comment seemed like a good starting point for my piece.

There are no bugles in the orchestra, but the opening section depicting the horrors of battle contains plenty of brass. Sub-titled Maleme and Ruweisat Ridge, the music is fast and furious, built from several motifs, and includes the opening rhythm for the most well known Maori haka (war dance), Kamate, kamate. The music builds to a climax, and the scene changes to a bleak Colditz Castle, where Upham was imprisoned during the war. While in prison he dreams of rural NZ, and the farm near Kaikoura called ‘Landsdowne’, where he eventually settled after the war. This brief pastoral section links into a coda celebrating the outbreak of peace. Motifs from earlier in the piece return but changed into brighter modes. ’

A Bugle Will Do was first performed by the NZSO in 1996 under Andrew Sewell, and was subsequently performed in the USA.

• Ritchie, A.: A Bugle will Do; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• Ritchie A.: A Bugle will do; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  $25.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Anthony Ritchie: A Bugle will Do; video 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

• Music by Anthony Ritchie 

  Cassette
  
  • Borrow

• Anthony Ritchie: A Bugle Will Do 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

Originally called A Song of Tamatea, this work was revised in 2000 to become An Offering for Parihaka.

• Hamilton: A Song of Tamatea; facsimile 

  Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
  
  • Borrow

• Hamilton: An Offering for Parihaka; computer set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $20.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Hamilton: An Offering for Parihaka; computer set 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $20.00
  • • Quantity:

• David Hamilton: A Song of Tamatea 

  Cassette
  
  • Borrow

• Parihaka 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

pic2,2CA,2Bass,2 Contra; 4331; Timpani; 3 Perc; Strings (optional organ part)

Commissioned by the Christchurch Youth Orchestra and premiered by them, it has subsequently been played by the Auckland Philharmonia, in Australia and in the USA by the Eugene Symphony Orchestra. It is full of pounding rhythms and a vital sense of action and movement as befits a work which takes the Haka as its inspiration.

• Ryan: Haka!; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• Tony Ryan: Haka! 

  Cassette
  
  • Borrow

• Tony Ryan: Haka! 

  DAT
  
  • Borrow

• Tony Ryan: Haka! 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

solo violin, 2.2.2.2, 4.2 trpt(in C).3.1, timp., perc., male voice, kapa haka, strings

• Farr: He Tango mo Elena; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• Elena  Year: 2002 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

3*3*3*3*; 4331; Timp; 2 Perc.; Organ; Strings

Mahuika for organ and orchestra was, like several of my pieces, given a title in its infancy. In the way that a child grows into her name over time, Mahuika has developed a particular character during the process of writing. The work is not programmatic, but the origins of its name have come to influence the work: Mahuika, a Maori fire goddess, is awakened into her full terrifying extreme, utilising the full range and capacity of both the Auckland Town Hall organ and the Auckland Philharmonia. Mahuika evokes the sense of a young teenage goddess full of ideas and vitality but without the opportunity to yet develop and explore them fully.

The work has the potential to mature into a full-scale organ symphony of around 30-40 minutes: if anyone is in a position to fund her to grow further please contact me to discuss.

• Chris Adams: Mahuika - hire set 

  Score and parts | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Hire

• Chris Adams: Mahuika - hardcopy score 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $35.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Chris Adams: Mahuika - downloadable PDF 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $29.50
  • • Quantity:

solo flute; 022(bass)2; 2200; perc.; strings

Maui Tikitiki a Taranga (“Maui formed in the topknot of Taranga”) was a demi-god found in the tribal myths of the Māori people of New Zealand.

Maui, the fifth and youngest child, was born at the edge of the sea. His mother, Taranga, thought he was stillborn, and wrapped him in a tuft of her hair and set him adrift. He was cared for by the seaweed until a breeze blew him ashore, where he was saved and brought up by one of his great-ancestors.

Maui was a great prankster. In one of his mischievous moods he decided to put out all the fires in the world. To bring fire back, he had to find Mahuika, the goddess of fire. He was awestruck upon meeting her, but decided to play a trick on her by taking fire from her fingernails one at a time, until she realised his game and threw fire to the ground, catching everything alight. Maui changed himself into a hawk to escape the flames, which singed his feathers. He called upon his ancestor to send rain and drench the fire, depriving Mahuika of her powers.

Maui decided to defeat death by journeying to where the earth meets the sky, where lived his great-ancestress Hine nui te po (“Great Hine the Night”). He was accompanied by many birds, and told them his plan to enter the body of the sleeping Hine and so defeat death. The birds sat quietly trying not to laugh as Maui, in the form of a caterpillar, crawled towards Hine. Suddenly the fantail could be quiet no longer and laughed aloud, dancing about with delight. Hine awoke with a start, realised Maui’s trickery, and he was killed.

• Maria Grenfell: Maui Tikitiki a Taranga - hardcopy score 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $44.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Maria Grenfell: Maui Tikitiki a Taranga - downloadable PDF 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $37.00

• Maria Grenfell: Maui Tikitiki a Taranga - hire set 

  Score and parts | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Hire

• Maria Grenfell: Maui tikitiki a Taranga; audio 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

• Grenfell: Four Works 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

• Grenfell: Maui Tikitiki a Taranga; cassette 

  Cassette
  
  • Borrow

• Norman/Grenfell/MacKenzie; cassette 

  Cassette
  
  • Borrow

• Elena  Year: 2002 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

1(1 pic.),2,2,1(1 cbn); 4,2,3,1; timp., 3 perc., hp, celesta; strs

• Gareth Farr: Ruaumoko 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Island Song  Year: 2010 

  CD
  
  $20.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

2222; 0200; 1 perc; strings

The starting point for this piece was a curiosity in the metal doors that covered the entrances to cells imbedded in the cliffs near Andersons Bay inlet, in Dunedin. A friend informed me that during the 19th century Maori prisoners were kept there at night, and worked on the Dunedin Harbour land reclamation during the day. Some of these prisoners were brought down to Dunedin from Taranaki in the North Island, as a result of the conflict in 1881 at Parihaka.

Upon reading Dick Smith’s book Ask that Mountain – The story of Parihaka I learned of one of the most shocking incidents in our country’s history. The land wars of the 1860s provoked a new approach from Maori to the protection of their lands. Te Whiti, Tohu and their followers at Parihaka combated the Pakeha land grab by organising passive resistance through a variety of means. In response to unauthorised land confiscation Te Whiti ordered the ploughing of fields, building of fences and planting, all of which impeded the surveyors who wished to carve up the land for settlers. Many were arrested, offering no struggle, and soon prisons around the country were full. Despite the many injustices Te Whiti maintained his policy of passive resistance to the end. In November 1881, government troops entered Parihaka with guns and artillery. They were greeted by Maori women and children chanting songs, but no armed struggle. Te Whiti and Tohu were taken away, the Pa was broken up, and hundreds sent away to prison. Despite a press blackout, two reporters were smuggled into the Pa, one commenting that “it was one of the saddest and most painful spectacles I have witnessed”.

Remember Parihaka attempts to sum up my thoughts and feelings about the events at Parihaka. The slow opening is peaceful, like a sun rise, with melodic fragments that slowly unfold into a fuller, more passionate statement. Flutes and oboes announce a chant-like theme, based on an actual song composed at the time of the incident. This ‘Maori’ theme alternates with a more European-sounding theme on solo violin, accompanied by an Irish drum, the bowron. At the heart of the piece the various melodic ideas come together over a grinding, relentless bass, building to a climax. In the short postlude, the peace of the opening is suggested, but now it is tinged with sadness, and a slightly uneasy feeling.

Remember Parihaka was first performed in 1994, under the baton of John Hopkins.

• Ritchie, A.: Remember Parihaka (hire set); computer set 

  Score and parts | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Hire

• Ritchie, A.: Remember Parihaka; computer-set 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $23.50
  • • Quantity:

• Ritchie, A.: Remember Parihaka; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $28.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Ritchie A.: Remember Parihaka; cassette  Year: 1994 

  Cassette
  
  • Borrow

• Remember Parihaka - orchestral music by Anthony Ritchie  Year: 2009 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

picc2222contrabassoon; 423(incl. bass)1; timpani; 3 perc.; strings. Percussion only plays the interludes. Inst. for Interlude 2, Te Koanga: picc2222contrabassoon; 4231; timpani; 3 perc. and strings

• Farr: Ruaumoko; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• Gareth Farr: Ruaumoko 

  Cassette
  

• Gareth Farr: Ruaumoko 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Farr: Ruaumoko (Interlude - Te Ru Tuatoru)  Year: 1997 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

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

  CD
  
  • Borrow