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Claire Cowan

Duration: 22' 00" Year: 2007
for voice and mixed chamber sextet with taonga puoro

Instrumentation
for bass clarinet, synthesizer, strings, piano, percussion, taonga puoro (including bone flute, wooden flute, gourds, river stones, whirler, sticks) and voice
Availability
- 'Whetu-Rere' - The Sea Lion and the Comet Year: 2007
  
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Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1988
for traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoru) and string orchestra

Programme Note

Originally called A Song of Tamatea, this work was revised in 2000 to become An Offering for Parihaka.
Availability
- Hamilton: A Song of Tamatea; facsimile
  
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- Hamilton: An Offering for Parihaka; computer set
  
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- Hamilton: An Offering for Parihaka; computer set
  
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- David Hamilton: A Song of Tamatea
  
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- Parihaka
  
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  $30.00
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Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2004
for soprano, Maori instruments, percussion and synthesizer

Year: 1998
for soprano, taonga puoro, flute, bassoon, cello and piano

Instrumentation
Taonga puoro include: Putatara, Poi awhiowhio, Koauau ponga ihu and Pumotomoto
Availability
- Whitehead: Aria from Outrageous Fortune; computer set
  
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- Whitehead: "Aria" from Outrageous Fortune; computer-set
  
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- Tuhonohono: Music by Gillian Whitehead
  
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- Tuhonohono
  
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Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1993
opera in two acts for soloists, chorus and orchestra

Instrumentation
2sop,1ten,2bari,SATB chorus and orchestra: (2)22(2)2(2); 2220; 2perc,timp,2keyb; strs.
Programme Note

Bitter Calm is a full length opera for five principals, chorus and orchestra in two acts. It is based on an incident at Motuarohia Island in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in the 1840s. It is a drama of human passions in the contexts of land alienation and tensions between Maori and new settlers. Premiered at the New Zealand International Festival for the Arts in 1994 and filmed for television.
Availability
- Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile
  
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- Blake: Bitter Calm; facsimile
  
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- Blake: Bitter Calm (Scenes 1-3)
  
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Year: 2000
for school orchestra, based on different styles of dance

Programme Note

This work attempts to evoke dance styles from different parts of the world, without using any real folk music. The six dances are linked without a break: 1. Maori Action Song 2. Celtic Gig 3. Transylvannian ’ Swaying Dance ’ 4. Ragtime Dance 5. Latin American Dance 6. Russian Sabre Dance