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John Drummond  

Christmas Bells

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1975
Four carols for childrens' voices with piano

  • Instrumentation
    Optional instrumental accompaniment includes recorders, chime bars and percussion

David Farquhar  

Ostinato

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1975
for gamelan

  • Instrumentation
    Cirebon Gamelan - 8 players
  • Programme Note

    This piece was written in 1975 when Allan Thomas first brought his Cirebon gamelan to Victoria University. I encouraged a composition class to join in learning how to play the various instruments involved, and then to write something of their own as an exercise in modal composition. Also to see if they could come up with something that worked in a non-traditional-Javanese way. Having a go at doing such a piece myself was part of the encouragement. In the end, only one student and I finished our pieces!

    My Ostinato, while taking into account the gamelan instruments and their colours, is a sort of “process” piece that could also be adapted for other timbres. Basically the process is a shrinking canon. The theme, first played by the kenong, is imitated six beats later by the bonang. With each repeat of this the theme gets louder and the canonic imitation a beat closer until at the climax they play together. The other gamelan instruments provide background ostinati throughout, and at the end join in the final echo cadence.

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David Griffiths  

Sun Shower and other pieces for piano

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 1975

  • Programme Note

    These are very accessible pieces for younger piano players which encourage good technical skills.