2009

for string quartet, gamelan, narrator and sheng (or oboe)

By:

• Jack Body
• Wayan Gde Yudane

Instrumentation:

for violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, gamelan, narrator and sheng (or oboe)

Contents:

I. Balinese gamelan
II. Fighting crickets
III. The day of silence
IV. A flock of pigeons

Samples

Score (567k)

Page 1 of the violin part with gamelan cues

© Jack Body

Availability

• This work has 4 scores and a recording

Programme Note

This work uses four short passages from Canadian composer and ethnomusicologist, Colin McPhee’s famous account of his experiences while living in Bali in the 1930s. A joint composition between Jack Body and Wayan Yudane who composed the gamelan sections. A Creative New Zealand grant assisted the composition of this work.

Text Note:

Text: Colin McPhee (from A House in Bali)

Funders:

• Creative New Zealand

Performance History

	02 Oct 2009	Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet and Gamelan Taniwha Jaya at the Adam Concert Room, University of Victoria, in Wellington
		New Zealand String Quartet
	03 Oct 2009	Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet and Gamelan Taniwha Jaya at the Adam Concert Room, University of Victoria, in Wellington
		New Zealand String Quartet