Composers and Authors

Flute, Trumpet and Double Bass, c.4'50.  Level of difficulty: 6th grade.  

Aurorae Sinus is a dark feature in the southern hemisphere known as the "eye of Mars". In this work Wilkins has tried to capture an enigmatic mood of stillness, weightlessness and stasis through use of gradually shifting harmonies. 
Composed 2016

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• Aurorae Sinus - sheet music  and audio
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUzqK_zjApg

ISMN 9790720171487 

 $20.00 for instant PDF download score and parts

New music for viola and piano by Australian Composers

 

Dawn Bennett, viola and Diana Blom, piano

When two musicians undertake research into the music they perform, thoughts will inevitably turn to a creative research project in which they can put this focus into practice. Australia East and West sought to foster national and international interest in contemporary classical music written by Australian composers through new music for viola and piano.
The project was devised by composer and pianist Diana Blom and violist Dawn Bennett, who commissioned, performed, recorded and researched a program of new works for viola and piano by Australian composers – Alice Humphries, Michael Hannan, John Encarnacao, Nicole Murphy, Cat Hope, Diana Blom, Lisa Cheney, and Clare Maclean.
The project resulted in nine new works which connected to the project title through their exploration of aural, cultural and creative notions of Eastern and Western Australia. Diana lives in Sydney and Dawn in Perth, so the two sides of the large Australian continent were in our minds, and we had associations with composers on each coast.
Wirr 101

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[1]   Surface - Nicole Murphy
[2]   Fear - Alice Humphries
[3]   Majesty - Alice Humphries
[4]   Waltzing with Elling - Diana Blom
[5]   In the Sea Paths - Clare Maclean
Tarantula Variations - John Encarnacao
[6]   Variation I
[7]   Variation II
[8]   Variation III
[9]   Variation IV
[10]  Into the Sun - Diana Blom
[11]  Echo Tango - Michael Hannan
[12]  The Sinister Glamour of Modernity (after Ross Gibson) - Cat Hope
[13]  Fragile - Lisa Cheney

PP23 piano solos and 2 duets for elementary to first grade pianists

Co-written with Felicity Martin, this delightfully illustrated volume for early grade pianists book is not a primer but a collection of pieces to be used in conjunction with a traditional primer to introduce, in an imaginative way, new musical concepts. 

Composed 2021

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• Australian Animals - sheet music 
• YouTube: 
• https://youtu.be/Gsnr2PC9ofU
• https://youtu.be/14wuQqFgOfY

ISMN9790720249681

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16 works for SATB with distinctly Australian content, composed by various Australian composers.

A ‘call for scores’ requested that the word content must be of ‘distinctly Australian flavour’. More than 40 works were submitted, obviously more than one volume!  Hence, three volumes have emerged with one each for SATB choirs (mostly with piano accompaniment); a SA choir; and choir with instruments other than piano (with separate instrument parts).  As a result, their words have captured our Australian fabric; gum trees, many types of birds - kookaburras, magpies, currawong, even the Noisy Miner, and more - brumbies, bushfires, climate, seasons, and of course, arrangements of traditional folk songs.

Overall, we have tried to make this project as accessible as possible to ensure that this Australian music is heard and appreciated by many and enjoyed by the singers. 

Multiple choir copies of any of the works can be purchased individually under license at very reasonable rates. Please contact keats@wirripang.com.au

Enjoy these new Australian pieces!

• Andy’s Gone with Cattle – John Martin
• Brumbies – Carolyn Morris
• Country Towns - Vivien Arnold
• Ghost Gum – Tania Owens
• Australian Bird Song – Joanne Burrows
• Noisy Miners – Diana Blom
• The Old Grey Gum – Robert Burrell
• Bushfire Smoke Haze 0300 Day 30 – Brennan Keats
• Country Towns #2 – Vivien Arnold
• Early Summer – Brett McKern
• Imprints in Fire Ash - Brennan Keats
• Monsoon Time – Louise Denson
• Moreton Bay – John D’Arcy
• So Autumn Comes – Jocelyn E Kotchie
• The Wild Colonial Boy – John Martin
• Uluru – Thomas McConochie

 Sample page of each work

• Australian Choral Anthology for SATB
  

ISMN 9790720231273

$30.00 for instant PDF download complete Volume 1 

 

9 works for SA choir with distinctly Australian content, composed by various Australian composers.

A ‘call for scores’ requested that the word content must be of ‘distinctly Australian flavour’. More than 40 works were submitted, obviously more than one volume!  Hence, three volumes have emerged with one each for SATB choirs (mostly with piano accompaniment); a SA choir; and choir with instruments other than piano (with separate instrument parts).  As a result, their words have captured our Australian fabric; gum trees, many types of birds - kookaburras, magpies, currawong, even the Indian miner bird, and more - brumbies, bushfires, climate, seasons, and of course, arrangements of traditional folk songs.

Overall, we have tried to make this project as accessible as possible to ensure that this Australian music is heard and appreciated by many and enjoyed by the singers. 

Multiple choir copies of any of the works can be purchased individually under license at very reasonable rates. Please contact keats@wirripang.com.au

Enjoy these new Australian pieces!

• An Australian Lullaby (Women's Choir) – Colin Brumby
• Botany Bay (SA Choir) – Rod Heard
• Currawong (Treble Choir) – Jane Andino 
• Magpie (Treble Choir) – Jane Andino
• Moreton Bay (SAA Choir) – Rod Heard
• The Old Grey Gum (SA Choir) – Robert Burrell
• Springtime Brings on the Shearing (SA Choir) – Rod Heard
• The Christmas Bush (SA Choir) – Brennan Keats
• The Wild Colonial Boy (SSAA Choir) – Rod Heard

 Sample page of each work

• Australian Choral Anthology for SA and Treble choirs

ISMN 9790720231297

$25.00 for instant PDF download complete Volume 2 

6 works for SA and SATB choirs accompanied by  instruments and with words having a distinctly Australian content, composed by various Australian composers.

A ‘call for scores’ requested that the word content must be of ‘distinctly Australian flavour’. More than 40 works were submitted, obviously more than one volume!  Hence, three volumes have emerged with one each for SATB choirs (mostly with piano accompaniment); a SA choir; and choir with instruments other than piano (with separate instrument parts).  As a result, their words have captured our Australian fabric; gum trees, many types of birds - kookaburras, magpies, currawong, even the Indian miner bird, and more - brumbies, bushfires, climate, seasons, and of course, arrangements of traditional folk songs.

Overall, we have tried to make this project as accessible as possible to ensure that this Australian music is heard and appreciated by many and enjoyed by the singers. 

Multiple choir copies of any of the works can be purchased individually under license at very reasonable rates. Please contact keats@wirripang.com.au

Enjoy these new Australian pieces!

• Australian Lullaby (flute or violin) – Colin Brumby
• Bushfire at Christmas (flute/oboe) – Brennan Keats
• Dennis O’Reilly (flute and double bass) – Rod Heard
• Laudator Temporis Acti (flute) – Richard Peter Maddox
• The Convict Maid (flute) – Rod Heard
• Winter (flute) – Vivien Arnold

 Sample page of each work

• Australian Choral Anthology for SA and SATB with instruments
  

ISMN 9790720231303

$25.00 for instant PDF download complete Volume 3 with parts 

For two violins and piano, c.10'00, grade AMEB 8

Australian Dawn is a music picture of the magic of dawn in Australia when the magpies send their call and myriads of birds greet the new day. c 4'39

Bush Dance is a lively piece with memories of bush dances in Australia, when the violinist was prominent in the ensembles which abounded in country towns and were the life and soul of entertainment in the bush.  c.4'42
Composed 2017

Recorded on Fandango Returns (Wirr 090) available online

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• Australian Dawn and Bush Dance - sheet music 

ISMN 9790720172798
$30.00 for instant digital download two scores

For two violins, string orchestra and keyboard, c.11'40 each piece.
Australian Dawn is a music picture of the magic of dawn in Australia when the magpies send their call and myriads of birds greet the new day.
Bush Dance is a lively piece with memories of bush dances in Australia, when the violinist was prominent in the ensembles which abounded in country towns and were the life and soul of entertainment in the bush.  Composed 2017

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• Australian Dawn and Bush Dance - sheet music

ISMN 9790720172804
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Piano music by Australian Women Composers 
There were many examples in the early part of the twentieth century in Australia of women who were exceptional pianists and who also wrote a great number of piano works. Many of these women were labelled child prodigies and obviously showed enormous potential and musical ability. These women performed as soloists and accompanists and contributed hugely to the musical and cultural life in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. They also left a large collection of compositions written for the solo keyboard.

To produce these three volumes within this Collection, Dr Jeanell Carrigan has researched and edited almost 50 works of Australian women composers, most of which have never been published. Each volume is accompanied by a CD of its works recorded by Jeanell. and biographical notes on each composer. All the composers were born between 1862 and 1915.  Many of them lived for the whole of the twentieth century, and in that time experienced many changes in the way music was composed, thought about  written about and performed.  Of course, they experienced many difficulties.  To be a composer in Australia during this period was a difficult enough, and to be a woman, was short of impossible!

The composers in this volume:  

Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs (1861-1949); Mona McBurney (1862-1932); Florence Donaldson Ewart (1864-1949); Mary Bowden (1868-1950); (Annie) May Summerbelle (1868-1949); Esther Khan (1877-1962); Una Bounre (1882-1974); May Brahe (1855-1956) and Katherine (Kitty) Parker (1886-1971)

 "Nostalgia" CD is a collection of 28 works from these volumes and is available online

Nostalgia

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Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs (1861-1949)

• The Heather Waltz

Mona McBurney (1862-1932)

• Gavotte 
• Minuet
• Polonaise

Florence Donaldson Ewart (1864-1949)

• Prelude No. I
• Prelude No. II
• Prelude No. III 
• Sequence

Mary Bowden (1868-1950)

• Balletto, Op. 12
• Melody in Ab 

(Annie) May Summerbelle (1867-1949)

• Cake Walk (Two step)

Esther Kahn (1877-1962)

• Intermezzo no. 1 (Morceau de ballet)
• The Watermill
• Valse Brillantè in E Major

Una Bourne (1882-1974)

• Papillons
• March Grotesque
• Wiegenlied (Cradle Song)

May Brahe (1885-1956)

• Minuet for Ninon
• Marita

Katherine (Kitty) Parker (Eisdell) (1886-1971)

• Arc-en-ciel
• A Water Colour
• Nocturne

ISMN 9790720166926

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 Piano music by Australian Women Composers

The composers in this volume:  

Mirrie Hill (Solomon) (1889-1986); Elsa Marshall Hall (1891-1980); Edith Harrhy (1893-1969); Iris De Cairos Rego (1894-1987); Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984); Linda Phillips (1899-2002);  Nellie Cuddigan (b.ca. 1901); Vera Buck (1903-1986)

 "Nostalgia" CD is a collection of 28 works from these volumes and is available online

Nostalgia

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Mirrie Hill (Solomon) (1889-1986)

•  Will O' the Wisp
•  Prelude
•  Fun
•  Longing (from the Cinderella Suite)

Elsa Marshall Hall (1891-1980)

• Royal Salute march

Edith Harrhy (1893-1969)

• Maori Sketches for Piano -
• On the Wanganui
• Lullaby
• Love Song
• War Dance
• Poi Dance
• Lament

Iris De Cairos Rego (1894-1987)

• Four sketches -
• (i) Waltz in A
  
• (ii) Song of the Trees
  
• (iii) Little Dog 
• (iv) Country Dance (1935)

Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984)

• Dithyramb - A ballet (transcribed for the piano)

Linda Phillips (1899-2002)

• Tone poem for piano in three parts -
• Dawn
• Flight
• Return at Sunset

Nellie Cuddigan (b. ca. 1901)

• Meditation

Vera Buck (1903-1986)

• Piper’s Dance
• Marche Orientale

ISMN 9790720166933

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Piano music by Australian Women Composers

The composers in this volume:  

Esther Rofe (1904-2000); Meta Overman (1907-1993); Majorie Hesse (1911-1986); Josephine Bell (1912-2006); Peggy Glanville Hicks(1912-1990); Miriam Hyde (1913-2005); Dulcie Holland (1913-2000); Phyllis Batchelor (1915-1999).

 "Nostalgia" CD is a collection of 28 works from these volumes and is available online.   Nostalgia

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• Samples pages of each work 
  

Esther Rofe (1904-2000)

• Echo di Vienne
• Miniature Variations
• Miniature Variations on a Theme in A minor

Meta Overman (1907-1993)

• 19 Charivari Variations 
• Ritsel (Rattle) 

Marjorie Hesse (1911-1986)

• The Ballerina
• Valse Gracieuse.  Licentiate Level 3, AMEB Piano

Josephine Bell (1912-2006)

• Murmuring Trees
• In A Thoughtful Mood

Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)

• Obeisance to a Lucite Spectrum
• Pastorale

Miriam Hyde (1913-2005)

• Blackbird’s Song
• Ballerina
• The Fountain

Dulcie Holland (1913-2000)

• Asterisk
• The Lake
• Nocturne for Piano

Phyllis Batchelor (1915-1999)

• Prelude
• Sarabande
• Waltz

ISMN 9790720166940

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Piano music by Australian composers played by Katie Zhukov. 
It became apparent that there was a need for new piano works which represented contemporary Australian composers.  Wirripang approached its composers who, with their magnificient response, produced so many excellent works. 46 compositions were finally chosen, edited and critiqued by Katie Zhukov, and were embodied in three albums of sheet music each accompanied by a CD of the pieces recorded by Katie.  
It was from these recordings by Katie that this CD evolved. It is a collection of very pleasant, listenable and varied piano music and representative of the very high standard of work being written by Wirripang Australian composers. 
Wirr045

The three books of these works (and more) are available online titled:
Wirripang Australian Piano Anthology - 2011 - Books One or Two or Three

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1  Baggy Green Rag  (John Martin)
2  Prelude and Fugue Chromatica (Tony Wheeler)
3  Catherine Wheels (May Howlett)
4  Nocturne for a Nebula (Ann Carr-Boyd)
5  The Pink Ballerina on a White Pony (May Howlett)
6  Key Connections (Betty Beath)
7  Thorn of the Rose (John Martin)
8  Prelude to Play(Betty Beath)
9   Parade (May Howlett)
10  The Demented Demon (Brennan Keats)
11 Paradise Bar   Prelude (Andrew Schultz)
12  Red Dust Settles (Brennan Keats)
13  Politically Correct Rag  (Paul Paviour)
14  Very Slow Jazz (Ann Carr-Boyd)
15  The Jazz Cat Miaou (Frank Millward)
16  Light Through a Stained Glass Window 
(Betty Beath)
17  Outlines (Andrew Helberg)
18  Intermezzo in E  (Phillip Wilcher)
19  Lucky Thirteen (John Peterson)
20  Toccatina (Colin Brumby)
21  Dreamboat Blues (Amanda Handel)
22  Watching the River Flow (John Petrson)
23  Valse Triste (Stephen Yates)
24 The Breeze and You (Frank Millward) 
25 Prelude II (Jennifer Trynes)
26 Mistique (Mark Matthews)
27  Ball Games - Basketball (Diana Blom)  
28  Tip-Toe Tango (Jocelyn E Kotchie) 
29 The Afghans (Stephen O'Connell)
30 At Sundown  (Amanda Handel)