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- for orchestra
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- Duration:
- 05' 25"
- Instrumentation:
- 2111 111tuba; timp; perc. (log-drum, marimba); harp; strings
- Contents:
- one movement
Samples
 | Score (116k) | Pages 1-3, 7-8, and 10-11 | © Jeni Little |
Availability
- This work has 4 scores and a recording
Programme Note
This work borrows ideas from the Cook Islands where I spent 6 months in 1988. I studied the traditional music and instruments and have been greatly influenced ever since. arc of the sun is in three sections (dawn/day/dusk) featuring some Cook Island musical ideas and characteristics – a fusion of their exciting instrumental drum dance and vibrant polyphonic vocal music.
As a work for wind orchestra, arc of the sun was first performed in 1997.
- Commissioned:
- Commissioned by Peter Thomas, HOD Music, Selwyn College, conductor of the Auckland Wind Orchestra and the North Shore Youth Orchestra
- Difficulty:
- Intermediate
- Influences: