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Voice of the Depths

By Peter Mcnamara

Regular price $55.00 Sale

Piano, percussion and pre-recorded electronics, includes CD.

Russell Keats, eldest son of the Australian composer Horace Keats, was killed during the attack on his ship HMAS Canberra (1) during 1942. His father and entire family was devastated by this event, and Horace Keats composed a very solemn and reflective song in memory of his son entitled Over the Quiet Waters. Voice of the Depths is composed for piano, percussion and pre-recorded electronics, and follows the story of Russell Keats during his deployment on the Canberra. Spoken passages of text from the letters sent home to his family, read by his brother Brennan Keats, outline and initiate the structural points of the work. The pitches from the central motif of Over the Quiet Waters form its harmonic basis, and are used as fundamentals from which other pitch material is derived from their physical-acoustic properties. These physical-acoustic properties are used to synthesise sounds in the electronic component of the work, and are re-enforced in the piano and vibraphone parts. A speaker is also directed into the piano internal mechanism to agitate the strings creating sympathetic vibrations at various points. This results in a subtle reverberation effect that blends with the electronic reverberation and creates deceptive tone colour transformations.
Composed 2015

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ISMN 9790720167954
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Voice of the Forest

By Horace Keats

Regular price $60.00 Sale

A collection of 11 songs set to words of Hugh McCrae for soprano and/or medium voice and piano.

Most of these songs have been recorded by Jane Parkin, Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) and by Wendy Dixon, John Pringle and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online

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Columbine - sheet music and audio
O Deep and Dewy Hour - sheet music and audio
The Moon - sheet music and audio
Sun After Rain - sheet music and audio
The Trespass - sheet music and audio
Twilight - sheet music and audio
Under the Sky - sheet music
Versicle - sheet music and
Voice of the Forest - sheet music
The Wild Man's Dear - sheet music and audio
The Pantler's Son - sheet music and audio

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1. Columbine
2. O Deep and Dewy Hour
3. Moon, The
4. Sun After Rain
5. Trespass, The
6. Twilight (Crepuscule)
7. Under the Sky
8. Versicle

9. Voice of the Forest
10. Wild Man's Dear, The
11. Pantler's Son,The
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ISMN M720011271

Voice of the Forest (McCrae)

By Horace Keats

Regular price $15.00 Sale

Soprano and piano, c.3'10

Grade: 6
Genre: Neo Classical
Date: 1941
Tempo: Marked Andante, a song of freedom of spirit, life and joy.

Words by Hugh McCrae.

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Voice of the Forest - sheet music

ISMN M72007601

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We Sat Entwined (Brennan)

By Horace Keats

Regular price $15.00 Sale

Soprano and piano c.5'10.

Grade: Lic.Dip.
Genre: Neo classical
Date: 1936
Tempo: Marked Andante. A poem fashioned out of wooden emptiness and voiceless misery prior to departure from one once loved.

Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online

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ISMN 9790720007236

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Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest (Foott)

By Horace Keats

Regular price $12.00 Sale

Baritone and piano, c.3'15

Grade: 8
Genre: Neo classical
Date: 1942
Tempo: Marked Moderato crochet equals 108. A setting of a well known "bush poem".

Recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on a Poet's Composer available online

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ISMN M720060156

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White Heather (Sterling Levis) - high

By Horace Keats

Regular price $12.00 Sale

Soprano and piano, c.2'30

Grade: 6
Genre: Neo classical
Date: 1943
Tempo: Marked Moderately with a gentle swing. A distinctive setting of a Celtic poem.

Words by Edith Sterling Levis.

Recorded by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) available online

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ISMN M720007700

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White Heather (Sterling Levis) - low

By Horace Keats

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Soprano and piano, c.2'30

Grade: 6
Genre: Neo classical
Date:1942
Tempo: Moderato with a slight swing a distinctive setting of a Celtic poem.

Words by Edith Sterling Levis.

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White Heather - sheet music

ISMN M720007700

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White Wind (Brennan)

By Horace Keats

Regular price $15.00 Sale

Soprano and piano, c.1'15,

Grade: Assoc. Dip
Genre: Neo Classical
Date: 1936
Tempo: Marked Coin moto, dotted crochet equals one hundred. A verbal and musical depiction of the fury of wind and its impact upon ones being.

Words Christopher Brennan

Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Simply Songs (Wirr 001) by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller both CDs available online.

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ISMN M720007243

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Wild Mans Dear, The (McCrae)

By Horace Keats

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Soprano and piano, c.4'15

Grade: 8
Genre: Neo Classical
Date;1940
Tempo: Marked Con fuoco, a portrayal of ancient years coupled with clothyard music, peace, pastoral bliss and swimming of forest fawns. Then Spring!

Words by Hugh McCrae.

Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) available online

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ISMN M720007618

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Yellow Bracken (Powys) #1

By Horace Keats

Regular price $12.00 Sale

Soprano and piano, c. 1'30

Grade: 5
Genre: Neo classical
Date:1937
Tempo: Marked Allegretto, crochet equals one hundred and twelve. A poem of love from our distant past.

Words by John Cowper Powys.

Recorded by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) available online

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ISMN M720007649

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Yellow Bracken Oboe and Piano

By Brennan Keats

Regular price $20.00 Sale

Oboe and piano, c.1'30

First performed using the original song (Powys) by Sir Charles Mackerras accompanied by the composer, Horace Keats, now arr. Brennan Keats (2006)

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Yellow Bracken - sheet music

ISMN M720060989
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