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Susan Frykberg  

Saxarba

Duration: 45' 00" Year: 1985
electronic music theatre

• Instrumentation
  counter-tenor, actress, slides, tapes, 2synths, signal processing.

Tony Baker  

Scandanavian Suite

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1984
for solo tenor sax and other instruments

• Instrumentation
  solo tenor sax and fl/pc, ob/ca, cl/bs-cl, timp/vibes, hp, strs, jazz rhythm section of pf,guit,bs,drms
• Availability

  • Tony Baker: Scandinavian Suite 

    Vinyl (LP or EP)
    

Bryony Jagger  

Shosho

Duration: 40' 00" Year: 1980
one act chamber opera

• Instrumentation
  soprano, alto, 2 tenors and bass solos, oboe and percussion - Three acting soloists (soprano, tenor and bass) and two (alto and tenor) as chorus.

John Cousins  

Signs In The Vicinity Of Memories

Duration: 40' 00" Year: 1987
for tape

Philip Dadson  

Songs for Heroes

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1989
for tuned percussion

• Instrumentation
  PVC pipes, drums, bass-drones, soprano saxophone, tone trees, zitherum, voices, hand-clapping, cello, harmonics and piano horns
• Programme Note

  Heroes are travellers who journey into uncharted regions of human experience to tame the ‘tigers’ which dwell there. Songs for Heroes is a tribute to these people, echoing their search with a journey through rhythm and melody.

• Availability

  • From Scratch: Songs for Heroes  Year: 1991 

    CD
    
    $30.00
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William Dart  

Songs to the Judges

Duration: 50' 00" Year: 1980
a song-play

• Instrumentation
  5 actor-singers (2f, 3m) and piano
• Programme Note

  This song-play by Mervyn Thompson investigates the injustices that the pakeha land courts has dished out to the tangata whenua over the years. It was premiered in January 1980 and toured under the auspices of the New Zealand Students Arts Council in 1981.

• Availability

  • William Dart: Song Book; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
    $20.00
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  • Parihaka 

    CD
    
    $30.00
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  • Mervyn Thompson and William Dart: Songs to the Judges  Year: 1982 

    Vinyl (LP or EP)
    

John Cousins  

Soundings

Duration: 1h 00' 00" Year: 1980
performance installation - mixed media

• Availability

  • John Cousins: Soundings 

    Digital movie
    

Susan Frykberg  

Spinster

Duration: 35' 00" Year: 1989
Music for a play, for tape and voice

• Instrumentation
  Tape and voice

John Cousins  

Sunwalk Emblem

Duration: 30' 00" Year: 1988
installation in wood, brass, photographic mosaic, five channel sound

Kenneth Young  

Symphony

Duration: 42' 00" Year: 1987
for orchestra

• Instrumentation
  (1)32(+ca)3(incl E-flat and bs-cl)3(1);4331;3perc, timp,pf/cel;strs and solo soprano
• Availability

  • Kenneth Young - orchestral music  Year: 1998 

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