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Jenny McLeod  

18 Easy Pieces

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1996
easy pieces for 1-4 players (or more)

• Instrumentation
  miscellaneous instruments/keyboards
• Programme Note

  Though written for beginners, these pieces are quite attractive, and could be programmed for other than beginners concerts!

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Jack Body  

23 Pages

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 1971
for large orchestra

• Instrumentation
  (pc)3(alto)3(ca)3(bcl)2;4331;3 perc (timp,s-dr,vibe); cel,hp,pf; strs

Ronald Dellow  

8 Songs From The I Ching

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1998
a cycle for high voice and oboe

• Instrumentation
  oboe can be replaced by flute or recorder
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  • Dellow: 8 Songs From The I Ching; facsimile 

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Dugal McKinnon  

[o]

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2001
electroacoustic work

• Programme Note

  eau [o] n. (F, = water) 1. … [o] seeks to establish a metaphorical relationship between music and water. The meaning of this metaphor, as is the case with all metaphors, is endlessly open to interpretation. Completed in Berlin, February 2001 in the Grosse Tonstudio of the Technische Universitat Berlin, thanks to a DAAD stipendium.

  Credits – Interviewees: Katrin Becker, Robert Frances, Guinevere Narraway, David Prior Voices: Isobel Bolter, Lee Differ, Antti Saario, Gareth Thomas, Richard Whitelaw, Michael Wolters; Musical Excerpts: Britten Sea Interlude No. 3 (from Peter Grimes); Debussy La Mer; Handel Water Music; Schumann Symphony No.3 (Das Rhenisch); Smetana Die Moldau (Vlatava); Instrumentalists: Iain Armstrong, violin; Alistair Bannerman, piano

Chris Watson  

_duomusiq+

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2008
for percussion and violin

• Instrumentation
  for vibraphone, kick drum, 2 roto-toms, 2 bongos, 2 cowbells, 2 brake drums, 7 woodblocks/temple blocks/Korean woodblocks and violin
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Felicity Williams  

A Cat and Mouse Love Story

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1991
a dance drama for assorted classroom instruments

Bryony Jagger  

A Nursery of Pain

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1989
for solo treble recorder (with optional spoken voice )

• Instrumentation
  With spoken voice if the poems are read
• Programme Note

  Suite of pieces with poems that can be read between movements or omitted.

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Maria Grenfell  

A Pinch of Time...

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 1991
five songs for baritone (or medium voice) and piano

• Programme Note

  This cycle of five songs for baritone and piano was awarded the Philip Neill Prize by the University of Otago in 1991. It expresses five perspectives on the concept of time, some humorous and some more contemplative.

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  • Grenfell: 2 pieces from "A Pinch of Time..."; computer-set 

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  • Kowhai - an album of songs by NZ women composers  Year: 1994 

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  • Grenfell: selected works 

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  • Burning Bright - four NZ women composers  Year: 1999 

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Alexander Cowdell  

A Place of Quiet

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1987
for solo tenor and chamber orchestra

• Instrumentation
  flute/picc., 2 clar. (2nd dbls bass cl.); tpt; strings
• Programme Note

  This composition is a setting of a poem by the Australian philosopher, poet and musician Melvyn Cann. The first part describes a spiritual journey through suffering to transcendence and peace. The second part describes a state of consciousness where both thought and time cease, and only feeling remains.

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Denise Hulford  

A prayer for the twenty-first century woman

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1999
for bass clarinet, bassoon and 2 violoncellos

• Programme Note

  A prayer for the twenty-first century woman is written for bass clarinet, two violoncellos and bassoon and consists of eight short movements. The title of the work comes from an article about the plight of a Rwandan refugee family, and each movement suggests an emotion that the family might experience in the course of a day as they deal with the process of survival. The work concludes with a prayer. The work was commissioned by the Composing Women’s Festival for Musicwomen Aotearoa and is dedicated to World Vision.

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