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Anthony Ritchie  

Balkan Bagpipes

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1985
for amateur orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2(1pc)222; 4210;timp (3), 1-2perc (sd-dr,tri,xylo, sus cym, tamb), pf,hp; strs
  • Programme Note

    This is a lively 9-minute piece is written for a full-sized amateur orchestra. It evokes the music of East European bagpipes, which the composer experienced while studying in Budapest, in 1984.

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Anthony Ritchie  

Caroline Bay Suite

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1999
four pieces for piano

  • Programme Note

    This suite of four short pieces is aimed at the younger pianist, of Grade 3 – 4 level. Sunrise, children playing, a runner and a carnival have become the subjects for imaginative musical interpretation.

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Thomas Goss  

Circles

Duration: 06' 30" Year: 1990
for solo piano

Brent Parker  

Credo

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for SSATBB choir and organ with optional brass ensemble

Tabea Squire  

Dream Bird

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2009
a mid-length meditative piece for solo harp, stylistically suitable for any kind of concert.

Anthony Ritchie  

Echoes

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2009
for Javanese gamelan ensemble

  • Instrumentation
    Gender (1 part)), Saron (3 parts), Gambang, Bongang, Panerus, Bongang, Kenong, Kempul, Kandang, Kecer
  • Programme Note

    Echoes was written for the Puspawarna Gamelan Group at the University of Otago. I have long enjoyed the sounds of the gamelan, and welcomed the invitation by Dr Shelley Brunt to compose something for Puspawarna. Although I knew some rudimentary things about the instruments, composing this piece gave me the opportunity to learn a great deal more. Being able to play a little in the ensemble was invaluable, as was advice provided by leader Joko Susilo, Shelley, Chris Watson (Mozart Fellow at Otago University) and one of my students, Ali Churcher, who coincidentally was writing a piece for gamelan at the same time.

    Echoes is the first piece I have written without using a piano at all to compose. Having been to a gamelan rehearsal I found a tune popping into my head during a walk to the dairy. I developed this tune on the computer (using vibraphone sounds to represent the gamelan), layering it into a canon, or round. Two further tunes appear, based on different home notes, but all the tunes use the same pelog scale. They are decorated and varied, before the opening tune returns like an echo at the end. The idea of echoes is also evoked by the canons, and the ringing sounds of the gamelan itself. Echoes have a spiritual significance, I think; sound waves return to a listener in the same way memories flood the brain when triggered by something special happens. They induce a reflective state.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Five Witchy Poo Songs

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1976
for voice(s) and piano

Jillian Bray  

Four Characteristic Pieces for Grade Four

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1985
for piano

Craig Utting  

Four Poems for String Orchestra

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1985
for string orchestra

Jenny McLeod  

Henna

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1983, r. 2008
for SAA (T) choir and piano with optional bass part