Search Music:

Robbie Ellis  

#llamadrama

Duration: 12' 30" Year: 2010
for solo piano

• Programme Note

  Starting in a field close to Melbourne’s Western Ring Road, a llama lives a placid and slightly bored existence. Absent-mindedly picking at a chain-link fence, a gap appears: the animal can fit itself through and escape its confines. After a few cautious steps, it lurches forward and runs in sudden jerks. Making its way down a grassy hillside, it reaches the freeway crash barrier. Occupants of moving vehicles begin to notice the animal: “there’s a llama!” After a few tries, it successfully vaults the crash barrier and makes it onto the road itself. Vehicles whizz by and drivers honk their horns, but the llama is enjoying its freedom too much to be affected by them. Reports begin to reach news services: we hear a radio news theme and the growing noise of the Twitterverse.

  The din of chatter around Melbourne becomes overwhelming and little more than indistinguishable noise, so the llama retreats into its head and to its elated thoughts: “I’m free! I’m my own animal! This is my dream, I’m no longer bound by a chain-link fence! It’s a whole new world! There’s a smile on my face for the whole…”

  SQUEAL!! Its reverie is interrupted by an SUV with an absent-minded yet aggressive driver: the vehicle has to brake extremely suddenly to avoid hitting the llama, and misses it only by inches. Police have arrived on the scene and have begun to divert traffic. The llama becomes outnumbered to a greater and greater degree: there’s one last chance for escape, one tricky path to freedom, one last high-stakes roll of the “OOH TASTY TASTY LLAMA TREAT ON THE GRASSY BANK!! I LIKE TASTY LL… oh damn.”

  Thirty minutes later, in the same field close to the Western Ring Road, the llama is once again bored. Picking at the chain-link fence, there’s no chance of escape. The fence has been repaired, the gap closed, the llama’s life restored to its former boredom.

  More details here: http://www.robbie.co.nz/2012/12/09/llamadrama/

• Availability

  • Robbie Ellis: #llamadrama - hardcopy score 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $23.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

  • Robbie Ellis: #llamadrama - downloadable PDF 

    Full score | Pdf - computer set
    
    $19.50
    • • Quantity:

Douglas Lilburn  

'Six Short Pieces'

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1962
for piano

• Availability

  • Lilburn: Complete Piano Music Edition Vol. 2; computer-set  Year: 2012 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $49.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

  • Douglas Lilburn: Complete Piano Music Volume 1  Year: 2004 

    CD
    
    $30.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

Susan Beresford  

12 Short Concert Pieces for Piano

 Year: 1982, r. 2003

• Programme Note

  Graded pieces for the piano student or amateur

• Availability

  • Beresford: 12 Short Concert Pieces for Piano; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $22.50
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

Jack Body  

14 Stations

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2000
for amplified pianist

• Programme Note

  A music-theatre work especially written for Wellington pianist Dan Poynton. Although referring indirectly to religious symbolism, the composition focuses on the physical and mental stress that pianists submit themselves to.

• Availability

  • Body: 14 Stations; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    • Borrow

  • Jack Body: 14 Stations 

    Digital sound file - MP3
    

  • Body: 14 Stations 

    Video
    
    • Borrow

  • Body: 14 Stations; cassette 

    Cassette
    
    • Borrow

Michael Smither  

21 Piano Pieces

 Year: 1978

• Programme Note

  Some of these pieces, written between 1968 and 1978 were for the entertainment of the composer’s children; others as gifts or tributes for friends.

• Availability

  • Smither: 21 Piano Pieces; facsimile  Year: 1983 

    Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
    
    $15.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

  • Smither: 6 paintings and 21 piano pieces 

    CD
    
    • Borrow

Anthony Ritchie  

24 Preludes

Duration: 49' 00" Year: 2002
preludes for solo piano

• Programme Note

  It is impossible not to feel inspired when playing some of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues, Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Debussy’s two books of preludes, or Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues. As a composer I wanted to make a small mark of respect to these greats with some dedications. I have also taken a cue from Bach and Shostakovich and included contrapuntal forms within these preludes. While not wanting to restrict myself to the form of a fugue, there are several preludes which are close in spirit to fugues: Nos.17 and 19 for instance, are what I would call my ‘prelugues’. There is also a passacaglia (No.16) which owes a debt to Shostakovich. I have conceived these pieces as a unified whole. Within them I have attempted to cover a whole variety of characters and moods, from the improvisational and experimental to the lyrical and gentle, from the wild and gestural to the calm and peaceful, from the quirky and ‘black’ to the light and sunny, from the depressive to the resolved. The extensive technical planning and preparation behind these pieces has been fun for me as the composer, but in the end it is the sound and musical expression that matters. I would like to think this voyage of discovery has led to something new and interesting to listen to.

• Availability

  • Ritchie A.: 24 Preludes; Computer Set 

    Full score | Pdf - computer set
    
    $35.50
    • • Quantity:

  • Ritchie A: Twenty-four Preludes; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $42.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

  • Anthony Ritchie: Piano Preludes  Year: 2004 

    CD
    
    $30.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

Maurice Faulknor  

3 by 3

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2005
for piano

• Availability

  • Faulknor: 3 by 3; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    • Borrow

Alan Cruise-Johnston  

30 Short Pieces

 Year: 2002, r. 2006
for piano

Matthew Davidson  

400 Roncesvalles Avenue

 Year: 1992
for solo piano

• Programme Note

  400 Roncesvalles Avenue is the address of the Revue Cinema, a historic movie-house in a historic area of Toronto, Canada. The way to approach the theatre from downtown is to take the subway eastbound to Dundas West station and from there to take a streetcar to the theatre. These are depicted at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the piece. The third and fourth section of this work also quote fairly extensively from the Adagio movement of Bruckner’s 8th symphony. The reason for this is that it was while I was resident in Toronto that I became familiar with and recognised the genius of this composer. I regret to say that I have no recollections of ever seeing any interesting films at the Revue Cinema. It is dedicated to Salvatore Martirano, who expressed a liking for the piece.

• Availability

  • Davidson: Etudes Book II - A Ragtime Odyssey; facsimile 

    Full score | Pdf - facsimile
    
    $30.00
    • • Quantity:

  • Davidson: Etudes Book II - A Ragtime Odyssey; facsimile 

    Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
    
    $30.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

  • Davidson: The Graceful Ghost: Contemporary Piano Rags 

    CD
    
    $30.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

  • Davidson: Voodoo Queen - Piano Rags, Jazz and Blues 

    CD
    
    • Borrow

Ray Twomey  

5 Pansonics (Opus 28)

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2001
for carillon

• Programme Note

  These five compositions were created to explore the unique harmonic essence of this most magnificent of instruments. The compositions were designed specifically for Timothy Hurd QSM, the carillon master of the Wellington War Memorial instrument in New Zealand, and for Gordon Slater, the Dominion Carilloneur for the Peace Tower situated in front of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Canada.

• Availability

  • Twomey: 5 Pansonics; computer-set 

    Full score | Pdf - computer set
    
    $9.00
    • • Quantity:

  • Twomey: 5 Pansonics; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $9.00
    • • Quantity:
    • Borrow

  • Ray Twomey: Music for Orchestra and Carillon 

    CD
    
    • Borrow