2003

for orchestra with Pacific Island drums

By:

• Gary Daverne

Duration:

10' 00"

Instrumentation:

(1),2,2,2,2; 4,3,3,1; hp, timp., 3 perc. (side drum, bass drum, hand drum, log drum, sus. cymbals, crash cymbals, tambourine, xylophone, rain tree, wind chimes, tam tam, glock.); strings

Samples

	Score (132k)	Page 48 - 50	© Gary Daverne
	Score (157k)	Page 12 - 14	© Gary Daverne
	Recording (394k)	Excerpt a - 24 seconds	© Gary Daverne
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	Recording (782k)	Excerpt b - 50 seconds	© Gary Daverne
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Availability

• This work has 2 scores and a recording

Programme Note

Composed over 9 days in 2003, the idea of writing a piece of music with such a title developed while writing, over a ten year period, an opera based on the life and hardships of Wesleyan and Anglican missionaries in the South Pacific. The setting for this opera is mainly in the northern region of New Zealand in the 1830s, leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The main theme based on the expression Tribal Ritual and Pacific Island drum rhythms (Tongan) are the major features in the structure of the composition.

Influences:

• South Pacific - history and culture
• History - NZ

Performance History

	09 Oct 2005	Performed by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Olomouc, Czech Republic