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Susan Frykberg  

Machinewoman

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1984
electronic music theatre

• Instrumentation
  for tape, saxophone, dancer and 'machinewoman' (actor-singer wearing a costume that includes a portable sound system enabling her to sing and speak electronically.)
• Availability

  • Susan Frykberg Electroacoustic Music 

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Magnificat

Duration: 37' 00" Year: 1981
for mezzo, choir, flute and brass ensemble

• Instrumentation
  SATB, SSA, fl, 2trp, 3trm
• Availability

  • Buchanan: Magnificat; facsimile 

    Full score | Pdf - facsimile
    

  • Buchanan: Magnificat; facsimile 

    Full score | Hardcopy - facsimile
    
    $50.00
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John Cousins  

Membrane

Duration: 7h 00' 00" Year: 1984
performance installation

• Availability

  • John Cousins: Membrane 

    Digital movie
    

Dorothy Buchanan  

Music for Treasures: Nga Taonga

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1989
music for chamber quintet to accompany a silent film

• Instrumentation
  flute, clarinet, cello, double bass, piano
• Availability

  • Buchanan: Music for Treasures Nga Taonga; facsimile 

    Full score | Pdf - facsimile
    

  • Buchanan: Music for Treasures - Nga Taonga; facsimile 

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Gillian Whitehead  

Napier's Bones

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1989
for 24 percussionists and improvising jazz piano

• Instrumentation
  also in a version for 6 perc and improvising piano
• Programme Note

  For improvising piano and percussion, Napier’s Bones was written for the outstanding improvising pianist Judy Bailey and exists in two formats – one involving 24 percussionists and the other involving 6 virtuoso percussionists.

  “The New Zealand work which evoked a similarly strong reaction was Gillian Whitehead’s Napier’s Bones whose protracted time-frame of beautifully controlled percussive and pianistic gestures was music from another sphere – an utterly compelling experience of the type I am always looking for in contemporary music.” (de Castro-Robinson).

Gillian Whitehead  

Napier's Bones

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1989
for 6 virtuoso percussionists and improvising jazz piano

• Programme Note

  For improvising piano and percussion, Napier’s Bones was written for the outstanding improvising pianist Judy Bailey and exists in two formats – one involving 24 percussionists and the other involving 6 virtuoso percussionists.

  “The New Zealand work which evoked a similarly strong reaction was Gillian Whitehead’s Napier’s Bones whose protracted time-frame of beautifully controlled percussive and pianistic gestures was music from another sphere – an utterly compelling experience of the type I am always looking for in contemporary music.” (de Castro-Robinson).

Gillian Whitehead  

Out of this Nettle, Danger

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1983
a monodrama on Katherine Mansfield for mezzo-soprano and chamber sextet

• Instrumentation
  flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello, percussion, keyboard
• Programme Note

  “Out of this Nettle, Danger is intimate, acute, fleet, with a fascinating sensitivity to the deep implications of the text. There is a big range of percussion instruments, used with the greatest economy and power of suggestion so that no sound or thematic fragment is perfunctory, each has a voluptuous, expressive, original shape. The piece moves forward in small episodes, held together partly by text, partly by the sheer consistent quality of the imagination.” (Oakes, The Independent)

• Availability

  • Whitehead: Out of this nettle, danger; facsimile 

    Full score | Pdf - facsimile
    

  • Whitehead: Out of this nettle, danger; facsimile 

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    $20.00
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  • Gillian Whitehead: Out of this Nettle, Danger; audio 

    Media on Demand | Embedded
    

Kit Powell  

Piece of Four

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1981
A music theatre piece for four players

• Instrumentation
  For four players each with four found instruments, as well as live electronics

Dorothy Buchanan   John Densem  

Roadshow

Duration: 1h 00' 00" Year: 1982
a road safety musical

• Instrumentation
  multi-media presentation, concept
• Availability

  • Roadshow  Year: 1983 

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  • Roadshow  Year: 1983 

    Vinyl (LP or EP)
    

John Drummond  

Robin Hood

Duration: 2h 00' 00" Year: 1983
music and lyrics for a pantomime