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Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The
By Wendy Hiscocks
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$30.00
Suite for piano solo, c.12'00 - ANZCA Syllabus Licentiate Performer Dip.The Wind in the Willows. In a scene far removed from the antics of Mr Toad, two of the animal characters journey through a summer night to the breaking of dawn, drawn on irresistibly by a mysterious glad piping to a vision of Pan, protector of all wild creatures.
Composed 1990-2003
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ISMN 9790720146447
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Pirouettes
By Phillip Wilcher
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$18.00
Solo piano, c.2'10, Grade L.Mus - Professional
Composed 2009
Recorded by Jeanell Carringan on Wind Chimes (Wirr 049) available online
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ISMN: 979 0 720093 23 9
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Pizzicato Pluckers, The
By Greg Butcher
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$20.00
String QuartetA light entertaining piece but can be augmented and played by larger ensembles.
Composed 2013
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ISMN 9790720133744
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Play with Ease
By Michael Hugh Dixon
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$80.00
BAND TRAINING PROGRAM
This training band program has been developed to allow beginners to start together whilst playing some of their easiest notes. This requires the use of harmony from the outset. Concert B-flat is easy to produce on a clarinet and a saxophone but not at all easy on a flute or an oboe. The same note is easy for many a player of the trumpet, baritone and trombone yet some find a concert F easier, so there are options for those players. Horn players often find a concert F easier to play than a concert B-flat at, also a concert F is easily playable on both a single B-flat at horn and a single F horn. Concert A is an easy note on the flute and oboe, although a B would be easier, the A is not much more complicated and provides a nice note in the dominant chord of B-flat at major. The whole process begins with alternating B-flat at and F chords. Often, training band leaders direct from a keyboard, so the chords are shown above the flute part to make it simple to play along.
Each student has a page advising the numbers to practice each week and the program is divided into sections to give the feeling of completion from time to time. It is important that each band be directed at the most appropriate pace, therefore the music director should feel at liberty to overlap the designated weekly projects, hold them back, or skip some altogether. Much effort has been made to progress the players of an instrument at a decent pace. It is anticipated that many players will be ready to play other published material by the time they can play the numbers at the end of the book.
Composed 2018
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ISMN 9790720214429
Instrument program training books are available on request - $20.00 each, please contact keats@wirripang.com.au
Playing with Fire
By Diana Blom
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$30.00
Acoustic piano and CD Soundbed. c.6'07
A collaboration with composer, Brendan Smyly, Playing with Fire explores the sounds of live acoustic piano and distorted piano. The two sound sources borrow and share pitch fields and texture blocks. At times the live piano is foregrounded and at other times the CD soundbed engulfs the piano sound. It captures the immediacy of the improvised gestures, drawn into a sonic narrative that highlights the piano’s ability to adapt to a sound space usually occupied by more contemporary instruments.
Playing with Fire has been recorded by Tamara Anna Cislowska and is available online Wirr 095. *
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ISMN9790720226897
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Playing with Fire CD
By Diana Blom
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New Australian music for electroacoustics and acoustic piano
Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano
The project, Playing with Fire, began with an interest in electroacoustics, on Ian’s part, and in live acoustic piano with CD soundbed, on Diana’s. Triggered by Diana’s exploration of digitally distorted piano, with Brendan Smyly, the project explores the productive aspects of processes of digital techno aesthetic intermediation in the composition of new musical works for electroacoustics and piano. Composers were asked to compose a new work for electroacoustics and acoustic piano and to discuss their process with us. And the project would not have been possible without the interest and collaboration of Australian pianist,Tamara Anna Cislowska, an explorer of contemporary Australian piano music.
While this medium has been used via tape and acoustic piano in the previous century, the 21st century offers other possibilities for electroacoustics and acoustic piano which the project aimed to explore.
Wirr 095
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[1 ] Stephen Adams - Piano in a field of recordings
[2] Daniel Blinkhorn frostbYte - liten snø trinn – allemande
[3] Daniel Blinkhorn frostbYte - liten snø trinn – courante
[4] Daniel Blinkhorn frostbYte - liten snø trinn – gavotte
[5] Daniel Blinkhorn frostbYte - liten snø trinn – sarabande
[6] Diana Blom & Brendan Smyly Playing with fire
[7] Robert Davidson Out of silence
[8] Leah Kardos I bought this piano in 1996
[9] Kim Lajoie, Thomas Reiner, and Tristram Williams Forlorn remix
[10] Daniel Portelli Mapping Australia
Playmates
By Phillip Wilcher
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$20.00
Five piano solos. Grades 3 - 4
Composed 2014
- 1. Chimes
- 2. Rock Climbing
- 3. Care Free
- 4. The Happy Yodeller
- 5. Willow Waltz
Recorded by Jeanell Carrigan on Simply Beautiful Wirr 123. Available online
These YouTube recordings have been performed by Tetyana Hoch, 2020 as too the following link with the collaboration of JJ's Painting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDe8O_CkomU
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ISMN 9790720164083
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Pledge, A
By John Martin
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$10.00
Baritone or Mezzo Soprano and piano, c.2'30Words by Ben Johnson.
Composed 2018
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ISMN 9790720214313
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Plucking the Rushes (4th C Chinese)
By Horace Keats
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$12.00
Soprano and piano c.2'20
- Grade: 7 (TCL) and Grade 6 (AMEB)
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: c.1936
- Tempo: Andante, two lovers lose the day whilst plucking rushes.
Words Anonymous 4th Century Chinese poem
Included in the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) and by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) and Songs from Australia, all CDs available online
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ISMN M720007748
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Pneumatophores
By Linda Dalgliesh
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$25.00
Quintet for flute, Bb clarinet, oboe, bassoon and vibraphone, c.3'05
Pneumatophores are specialised roots which mangroves need to thrive in salty mud. In this piece, the Clarinet depicts the mangrove roots, and the Vibraphone represents the rhythmic ebb and flow of saltwater. The Flute, Oboe and Bassoon express the movement of birds, fish, crabs and people as they gather food in their bountiful habitat.
Composed 2018
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ISMN 9790720226255
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Pocketful of Jazz, A
By Jocelyn E Kotchie
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$25.00
5 solo piano pieces for young pianists
Grades 2nd to 7th. A mixed bag of jazzy numbers for intermediate to advanced piano.
Composed 2006-2010
Below are samples of each piece and the complete audio tracks
- Midori Afternoon - sheet music and audio
- Jazz Invention - sheet music and audio
- Latchkey Baby - sheet music and audio
- Rush Hour Crush - sheet music and audio
- A Pocketful of Jazz - sheet music and audio
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| Rush Hour Crush |
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| A Pocketful of Jazz |
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ISMN 9790720115023
Poco Meno Mosso
By Michael Hannan
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$10.00
Piano solo
The Italian expression "poco meno mosso" (a little less motion) is a standard performance direction in classical music. Accordingly the first movement ("Poco") is very short, the second ("Meno") is even shorter, and the last ("Mosso") is very animated. All three movements of this pandiatonic (white keys only) work use similar intervallic ideas. Composed 2016
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ISMN 9790720209173
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