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The first in my Chaos of Delight series of pieces based on birdsong, Chaos of Delight I requires the bass clarinettiest to trill, click, screech, book and roll in a virtuosic display of avian sonorities, using the full range of the instrument, from the boom of the kakapo to the shriek of the the morepork and the bleat of the bush falcon. All these can be heard amongst sounds which exploit the unique characteristics of the bass clarinet, such as its uncannily high register, slap tonguing and multiphonics.

The title is taken from a passage in A Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Falla, Gibson and Turbott: “…there are still many quiet places far from the madding crowd, where the mind can become, in Darwin’s phrase, ‘a chaos of delight’ at the abundance and variety of birds which pass before the eye or perplex the ear.”

• de Castro-Robinson: A Chaos of Delight I; facsimile 

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• De Castro-Robinson: Chaos of Delight I; computer-set  Year: 2006 

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• A Chaos of Delight: music by Eve de Castro-Robinson  Year: 1998 

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• X – Ros Dunlop plays music for clarinet  Year: 2001 

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Transcribed for guitar by Gunter Herbig and John Rimmer

• Hauturu - Where the Winds Rest  Year: 2007 

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This song for voice and piano is part of the Trinity Singing Syllabus, 2005. It originally appeared in the children’s songbook “Moa Music”.

• Ritchie A. and Court S.: Moa Music; computer-set  Year: 1995 

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• Ritchie A. and Court S.: Moa Music; computer-set  Year: 1995 

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• Ritchie and Court: Two Bird Songs; computer-set  Year: 2004 

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• Anthony Ritchie and Suzanne Court: Moa Music  Year: 1995 

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