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Sonata No 2 for Solo Flute

By Larry Sitsky

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Solo flute.  Advanced grade. AVAILABLE IN FACSIMILE ONLY

The Fourteen Days of Bardo Thödol
(“Liberation by Hearing on the After-Death Plane”)

“The third stage of the Bardo, called the CHÖNYID BARDO when the Karmic apparitions appear”

Influenced by a study of Tibetan Buddhist chant, and this contributed some of the musical basis of the work.  The chant is heard in its purest form at the very beginning and the very end of the sonata. "The Tibetan Book of the Dead has fascinated the me for a long time, and the vivid descriptions therein of the Karmic visions, plus the expressed notion of the liberation of the soul via sound gave me the poetic basis of the work, which then naturally fell into the two movements." Larry Sitsky

  • I   The Dawning of the Peaceful Deities
  • II   The Dawning of the Wrathful Deities

Composed 1979

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    (performed by Uliana Zhivitskaya )

    ISMN 9790720226637
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    Sonata No 3 "The Jade Flute"

    By Larry Sitsky

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    Solo flute, c.9'20".  Advanced grade.

    Whence comes the sound of the jade flute,
    Flying through the dark,
    Coming with the spring wind, Hovering over Loyang?
    Li-Po

    The Chinese held jade in the greatest veneration.  The word for jade, ‘yu’, also signified a beauty of spirit and the stone became the symbol of the five cardinal virtues.  Jade’s ability to produce a pure musical tone was known in China from very ancient times and indeed, gongs were made out of the material.  Jade was widely used as a miracle medicine as well as the most prized stone for elaborate works of art.

    Music, undoubtedly the most spiritual of our arts.
    Lin Yutang

    Composed 1994 (as a test piece for the 7th Australian Flute Competition in 1995).

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        ISMN  9790720227668
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        Sonata No 4 "Song of the Shaman" (flute)

        By Larry Sitsky

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        Solo flute.  Advanced grade
        The objective for this Sonata was to embrace collaborations between composers and performers working together on psychical and mental inabilities and extra-abilities incorporated into musical textures. In 2015 the composer presented the manuscript of Song of the Shaman accompanied by the following description:

        I treated the three octaves of the flute as symbolic:
        middle octave- the Shaman sings, in our world
        lower octave- he travels to the nether regions
        upper octave- he flies in a bird/spirit body.
        Musically, this meant that a different kind of music had to be conceived for each region,and that is essentially what goes on in the Sonata.

        Composed 2015

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          (performed by Michal Rosiak)

          ISMN 9790720226545
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          Sonata No 4 "The Sufi Path" (piano)

          By Larry Sitsky

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          Solo piano.  Advanced/Professional

          Ten movements, edited by Dante Clavijo and Aaron Chew

          Composed 2013

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            ISMN 9790673142343
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            Sonata No 5 "The Pied Piper"

            By Larry Sitsky

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            Solo flute.  Advanced grade.

            Fifty years separates the composition of Larry Sitsky’s first Sonata for Solo Flute (1959) and The Pied Piper, Sonata No. 5 for Solo Flute which was composed in Canberra in April 2019. This work  alludes to the Medieval German legend of the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin, while his other four sonatas refer to an Oriental source. The Pied Piper contains internal sections labelled by the composer as A, B, C, and D, which each have their own individual character that is maintained throughout the composition. 

            The premiere performance of The Pied Piper was given by Uliana Zhivitskaya on the 5th of December 2019 at the Moscow Conservatoire, Russia (see YouTube link below).

            Composed 2019

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              ISMN 9790720226552
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              Sonatina for Oboe and Piano

              By Larry Sitsky

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              Oboe and piano in 4 movements, c.5'00. Grade A.Mus 
              Composed 1962 rev. 2013


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              ISMN 9790720133959

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              Sonatina Seconda in Extremus

              By Larry Sitsky

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              Two pieces for solo piano

              • 1. The Singing Sands of Jebel Narkous
              • 3. Khro Bo Dharmapalas

              Composed 2012

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              ISMN 9790673144071

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              Study for Left Hand

              By Larry Sitsky

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              Solo piano, transcribed from JS Bach Chaconne in D minor. Grade AMus A  
              Composed 1959


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              ISMN 9790720164632
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              Tetragrammaton

              By Larry Sitsky

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              Violin and piano - 4 movements. Grade AMus 

              This work evolved from early sketches of a chamber work "The Secret Gates of the House of Osiris" and a quartet for flute, viola, cello and piano. The "Tetragrammaton" is like a compressed version of the later quartet; it is, too, by its very nature, more intimate and introverted with the extended colour and development of the basic materials in the quartet.
              Composed 1987


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              ISMN 9790720101965

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              Theme and Variations on Waltzing Matilda

              By Larry Sitsky

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              Solo double bass.
              Composed 1997

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               ISMN 9790720166018
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              Three Rumi Settings

              By Larry Sitsky

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              Mezzo-soprano with B flat and C Tibetan Bells. 

              Text from alāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, more popularly known simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
              Composed 2000


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              ISMN 9790720164588
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              Tribute to Miriam Hyde, A By Various Composers

              By Miriam Hyde

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              Solo piano works by:

              • Geofrey Allen, Berceuse, 
              • Betty Beath, In Accord with Miriam,
              • Ann Carr-Boyd, Southern Cross,
              • Ann Ghander,  For Miriam,
              • May Howlett, Reminiscence,
              • Mark Isaacs, Bunyip Friend, composed 1986
              • Mary Mageau, Berceuse,
              • Paul Paviour, Hyde and Seek,
              • Larry Sitsky, Epitaph for Miriam,
              • Phillip Wilcher, Without Her.

              Mostly composed 2005

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               ISMN 9790720164793

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