Search SOUNZ Toroa Toi te Arapūoru Find music, resources, composers and artists Find news, interviews, podcasts and videos Search Showing results for: Orchestra Clear all × Catalogue Works 1,617 People Library Films & audio Shop Content Refine ▼ Type of MusicStrings (Bowed) Woodwind Brass Percussion Mixed Chamber Groups Sonic Art Vocal Solo Vocal Ensemble (2-8 voices) Orchestra Choral Music Keyboard Vocal Music for the Stage Jazz Strings (Plucked) Māori Music Moana Pacific Music Music for Screen Subcategories Please Select Primary Category Wind Band/Concert Band Wind Band or Orchestra Opera and Operetta Percussion Ensemble (7+) Recorder - solo or with keyboard Other keyboard instruments solo Musical Percussion Trio Wind Duos String Orchestra Violin - solo or with keyboard Percussion Quartet Wind Trios String Orchestra with soloist/s Viola - solo or with keyboard Percussion Sextet Wind Quartets Contralto or Alto with other instrument Wind Quintets Countertenor - solo or with keyboard Countertenor with other instrument Tenor - 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Such increased standards in instru... 5 film/audio 6 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work December Nights1970 John Rimmer for chamber orchestra This work for chamber orchestra has been performed in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the Ukraine. 2 buy/borrow 1 score 2 samples Work Symphony (1968)1968 John Rimmer for orchestra In many ways Symphony (1968) which was composed in Toronto while I was studying with John Weinzweig, encapsulates what I wanted to achieve stylistically as... 1 film/audio 2 buy/borrow 5 scores 1 sample 5 resources Work Second Journey1972 John Rimmer for wind quintet and twelve solo strings Work Viola Concerto1980 John Rimmer for viola and orchestra 1 film/audio 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Manukau Refrains2007 John Rimmer for three percussionists and orchestra Manukau Refrains is a delicate, colourful piece for 3 percussionists and community orchestra inspired by images of wading birds ('manukau'), shifting patte... 1 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample 1 resource Work At the Appointed Time1973 John Rimmer for orchestra For full orchestra, this work has been performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on tours to Australia and Hong Kong. 1 film/audio 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample 2 resources Work Symphony No 1 in Eb2019 Robbie Ellis a song for voice and orchestra See original voice/piano version here! This is a symphonic movement which might be for orchestra, migh... 1 film/audio 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work Leafspin2002 John Rimmer for orchestra 2 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample 1 resource Work Cloud Fanfares1990 John Rimmer for orchestra Cloud Fanfares is one of ten fanfares for orchestra commissioned in 1990 by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Thi... 1 film/audio 2 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 resource Work Suite Helen1994 John Rimmer for concert band This suite was originally composed for the wind band at the Glenfield Music Centre and conducted by the composer’s wife Helen. In the process of arranging... 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work Explorations-Discoveries1971 John Rimmer for horn and orchestra A concerto for horn and orchestra, Explorations- Discoveries was composed in the early 1970’s at a time when the James Cook bicentenary was being celebrated.... 2 film/audio 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work 12181977 Larry Pruden for orchestra An unsolemn overture after Tchaikovsky - a tapestry of English tunes 1 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 resource Work Anniversary Suite No. 21965 David Farquhar for orchestra These pieces were originally piano duets, written with one easy part for my wife to play, and presented to her on various anniversary occasions in the 1960s... 3 buy/borrow 4 scores 1 sample 2 resources Work Concerto for Piano and Orchestra2007 Gao Ping for piano and orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is untitled but the music is hardly “absolute”. On the contrary, it is often extroverted, evocative, and full of passionat... 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 2 samples 1 resource Work Timescapes, Op. 292001 Ray Twomey for string orchestra The string choir or string orchestra can be the most cohesive of all instrumental ensembles. These three movements explore the rich tapestry of sound that st... 4 buy/borrow 2 scores 2 samples Work Harp - The Herald Angels Play!, Op. 312001 Ray Twomey for harp and orchestra 6 buy/borrow 5 scores 2 samples Work Diversion, Op. 11963 Ray Twomey for oboe and string orchestra Composed for Oboe and String Orchestra. The Romance is Ray's first composition and the Dance is based on an aria from the children's opera "The Three Shepher... 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Diversion, Op. 1a1963 Ray Twomey for clarinet and string orchestra Composed for Clarinet and Piano or String Orchestra. The Romance is Ray's first composition and the Dance is based on an aria from the children's opera "The ... 4 buy/borrow 3 scores 3 samples 1 resource Work Sinfonia, Op. 11a1997 Ray Twomey for string orchestra These works (Sinfonia Opus 11a and String Quartet Opus 11b) are two versions of the same composition, and are a musical autobiography. Ray was born in En... 5 buy/borrow 4 scores 2 samples 2 resources Work Concertino, Op. 10a1997 Ray Twomey for violin and string orchestra The Violin Sonatina and the later orchestrated version, the Concertino, was composed over many years from 1962 to 1984. The piece is a favorite of the co... 4 buy/borrow 4 scores 2 samples 2 resources Work Love Songs on words by John Donne1962 Ray Twomey for soprano and string orchestra Love Songs for Soprano and Strings or Piano, are based on the poems of John Donne 1572 - 1631. 4 buy/borrow 3 scores 3 samples 1 resource Work Concerto in B minor2001 Thomas Goss for cello and string orchestra Using the baroque concerto as a model, this work is designed to feature a baritone voice, of which bassoon, baritone saxophone, and even bass clarinet would ... 3 buy/borrow 4 scores 2 samples 2 resources Work Confluence2002 Dorothy Buchanan for full orchestra 1 film/audio 4 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample 1 resource Work Construals2015 Louisa Nicklin for orchestra 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Concerto: Piano and Orchestra1963 Philip Hodgson 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Encounter1996 Bryony Jagger for flute, trumpet and chamber orchestra 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Epithets2008 Chris Gendall for soprano and chamber orchestra 2 buy/borrow 1 score Work Evening Music for a Summer School1949 Larry Pruden for chamber orchestra 1 buy/borrow 1 score Work Fantail Concerto2010 Olga Parshotam for viola and orchestra 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work Garden Varieties: Four Dance Vignettes2001 Stephan Prock for full orchestra An orchestral suite inspired by the Baroque keyboard suites of Handel and Bach, the four movements of Garden Varieties, all allude to the various, typical in... 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample 1 resource Work General Intransigence2012 Robbie Ellis for orchestra intransigent (adj): uncompromising, stubborn, persistently irreconcilable, unyielding, intractable, dogged, ceding not an inch, never giving in, always hav... 1 film/audio 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work General Glen, Op. 262000 Ray Twomey for concert band General Glen was composed for Glen Younghusband, former lead pilot with the Canadian Snowbirds, former Commanding Officer at Cold Lake, Alberta and formerl... 4 buy/borrow 3 scores 2 samples Work Fruhling1935 Richard Fuchs for coloratura soprano Work Garden Music1988 Peter McClymont for small orchestra 1 buy/borrow 1 score Work Night Music1992 Jack Speirs for chamber orchestra 1 buy/borrow 1 score Work in the middle2017 Josiah Carr for orchestra in the middle depicts a journey of transformation as two musical ideas that are distinct in pitch, register, timbre and rhythmic energy slowly take on qual... 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work In Memoriam Edison Denisov Jason Kaminski for chamber orchestra 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Genesis1992 Denise Hulford for small orchestra Genesis was composed in 1992 during a period of study with Professor Stanley Glasser, Head of Music Department, Goldsmith College, London University. The w... 1 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample 1 resource Work Evolution1985 Denise Hulford for narrator/tenor and orchestra This work for narrator, tenor and symphony orchestra highlights the impact on nature of man's questionable progress. This idea is taken directly from Hone T... 1 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample 1 resource Work Fractal Apostles2001 Noel Sanders for chamber orchestra 1 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 resource Work Hauptstimme2011 Samuel Holloway for orchestra 1 film/audio 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work In meinem letzten Leiden2012 Robbie Ellis for orchestra For the last 28 months of his life, the composer Robert Schumann was confined to an insane asylum in Endenich, now a neighbourhood of Bonn. In _Musicophilia ... 1 film/audio 3 buy/borrow 3 scores 1 sample Work In Memoriam2019 Bryony Jagger for orchestra This piece was written between April and June 2019 in honour of the victims of the Christchurch Massacre, when I was in the middle of my opera The Bacchae.... 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work If "Red" be Read2005 Bryony Jagger for chamber orchestra 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work A Celebration 1988 Craig Utting for large orchestra 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Lahar2005 Craig Utting for orchestra The piece begins quietly, then gradually grows through fast, turbulent music to a large "crunch", dissipating slowly, leaving only cellos and basses. A quiet... 1 film/audio 1 score 1 resource Work Variation Suite1989 Craig Utting for string orchestra This piece was commissioned by Nova Strings for their 1989 tour to the USA. The Variation Suite consist of a theme with seven variations, forming a sui... 2 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample Work Horn Concerto1987 Craig Utting for horn and orchestra 1 buy/borrow 2 scores 1 sample 1 resource Work Collages1992 Craig Utting for twelve violas A smorgasboard of the viola repertoire - solo, orchestral and chamber music. Hilarious and fun - you've never heard 12 violas sound like this before! 4 buy/borrow 4 scores 1 sample « First ‹ Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next › Last » × Borrow/Hire: To borrow items or hire parts please email SOUNZ directly at info@sounz.org.nz.