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Bryan James  

Composition XVI

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1984
two pieces for 2 flutes

John Rimmer  

Cosmic Dances

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1986
for recorder ensemble (minimum of six players)

Matthew Davidson  

Deux Plaisenteries

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1988, r. 1993
for E flat alto saxophone and piano

  • Programme Note

    ‘Roll Jordan Roll’ (movement one) is a series of genre variations on the African-American spiritual of the same name. The melody was transcribed from a 78rpm recording of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and in turn, this appeared on the 1962 Folkways LP entitled An Introduction to Gospel Song. In my version, the listener will hear my own harmonization followed sequentially by pastiches of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lennie Tristano, Anton Webern, and Thelonious Monk, in turn.

    ‘Dangdut’ (movement two) is a direct transcription of an Indonesian street musician called Mas Sujud. He and the tune appeared on a 1982 Kiwi-Pacific Records Ltd./Hibiscus Records LP called Music for Sale (Indonesian street music recorded by Jack Body). In the original, the singer accompanies himself on a small drum, and in my version, the piano part was generated solely by the notes in the melody and rhythms played by the drum. The sax part plays the melody.

    This piece was recorded in 1991 by Taimur Sullivan (sax) and Allissa Eells (piano) with funding from the American (then Minnesota) Composers Forum.

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Bryan James  

Ecdysis and Blues (Composition XIV)

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1982
Two pieces for solo soprano sax

David Griffiths  

Fantasy

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1983
for solo flute

Noel Sanders  

Five Poem Songs

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1980
for clarinet

Kit Powell  

Floetenspieler und Fledermaeuse

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1987
for solo flute and tape

Ross Harris  

Fluchtig

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1986
for flute and tape

  • Programme Note

    Fluchtig was composed in 1986. The title comes from the German word fluchtig – fleeting – used by Schoenberg and others in various compositions (eg. Op. 19 No. 1). The work is built around the interaction between flute multiphonics (two or more notes played simultaneously) with their characteristic ‘fleeting’ nature, and FM sound on tape.

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Leonie Holmes  

Flute Quartet

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1986
for four flutes

Dorothy Buchanan  

Flute Song for the Birds

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989
for solo flute