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Jenny McLeod  

Africana

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1985
for 2 saxophones (doubling clarinet), trumpet and bass trombone

• Instrumentation
  sop saxophone/clarinet, alto saxophone/bass clarinet, trumpet, bass trombone

David Hamilton  

Bass'o'Alto

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1985
for treble recorder and double bass

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Cross-Hatchings

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1985
for flute, clarinet, horn, vibraphone, violin, cello and piano

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  • Eve de Castro-Robinson: Cross-Hatchings; audio 

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Christopher Prosser  

Flight

Duration: 54' 00" Year: 1985, r. 1988
for scordatura violin with Indian tanpura

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  • Chris Prosser: Flight  Year: 2000 

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Bryony Jagger  

From the Land of the Tattooed Faces

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1985
for tenor, oboe and reciter

Dorothy Buchanan  

Fugue for the Forties

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1985
for flute and horn

Craig Utting  

Little Fantasy

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1985
for flute, horn and percussion

• Instrumentation
  Perc: triangle, tamtam, wind chimes (metal),vibraphone
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  • Utting: Little Fantasy; computer-set 

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Gillian Whitehead  

Manutaki

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1985
for chamber sextet

• Instrumentation
  flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano
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  • Whitehead: Manutaki; facsimile 

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  • NZ Women Composers Vol. 3 

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  • Australia Ensemble: Cafe Concertino 

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  • NZ Women Composers Vol. 1 

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  • Whitehead/McLeod  Year: 1972 

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David Hamilton  

Mister Bones and Mister Jones

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 1985
incidental music for a play by Eve Hughes

• Instrumentation
  6 players: flute (doubling piccolo), two clarinets (doubling alto saxophones), trumpet, and piano duet. Music also includes songs for cast to sing.
• Programme Note

  In 1985 Epsom Girls Grammar and Auckland Grammar Schools presented a double bill of two New Zealand plays. Under the overall title of “Family Benefits”, the plays were Anyway Sweet Christmas by Gordon Dryland, and Mister Bones and Mister Jones by Eve Hughes. Both plays dealt with the family unit and the search for success and recognition. The latter play also demanded a certain amount of incidental music, to which were added (with the playwright’s permission) several songs to amplify aspects of the action or narrative. The lyrics were written by the director Michael Evershed.

  Mister Bones and Mister Jones is presented as a type of minstrel show, held together by the character of “Mister Interlocutor” – a sort of ringmaster. Two families are contrasted: one striving for material success, while the other cares little for the trappings of contemporary society.

  Of the many school productions I have been music director for, this was one of the happiest and most enjoyable experiences.

David Hamilton  

Nix Olympica

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1985
for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano

• Programme Note

  “Of all the discoveries made by Mariner 9, one of the most impressive was an enormous volcano, twice as high as Everest and five hundred kilometres across the base. It was located at a spot which the old map-makers, peering at the tiny telescopic image of Mars, had noted as being of unusual brilliance, and had given the astonishingly prescient name ‘Nix Olympica’, the Snows of Olympus.�” (Arthur C. Clarke)

  While the title provided the impetus for this work, it is not intended to be strictly programmatic; rather, I have sought to establish a mood (or perhaps a ‘landscape’) which each title suggested to me. Nix Olympica was written at a time when I was becoming very interested in minimalism in musical composition, and much of the material reflects this. Minimalist works are usually built from a small amount of melodic or rhythmic material repeated many times, often with only slow subtle changes. Although the work is quite active rhythmically (especially the middle section) it is harmonically quite static. The first of the three sections (which follow each other without a break) establishes B flat as its tonal centre, and presents fragments of material which occur later in the work. The second section uses G as its rallying point with a secondary focus on B flat (a minor 3rd above G). The music consists of a series of ideas which gradually lengthen, framed by a structure of major subdivisions which come closer and closer together. The third section moves to an E minor tonality (a minor 3rd below G) and consists of a long languid melody played throughout by the clarinet.

  This music is derived from an independent work for flute, percussion and organ written at the 1985 Cambridge Music School. Throughout the work there is a preference for middle and upper-range timbres from all the instruments, but with few ‘extended playing techniques’.

  Nix Olympica was commissioned by the Music Federation of New Zealand (now Chamber Music New Zealand) for the Auckland Wind Quartet and pianist David Guerin. It was premiered by these performers in 1986.

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  • Hamilton/Harris/Blake/Pruden: Nix Olympica and other works  Year: 1989 

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  • Hamilton/Harris/Blake/Pruden  Year: 1989 

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