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Prologue for an Evening
By Houston Dunleavy
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$50.00
Trombone Choir or Trombone Quartet, c.4'00Composed 1989
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ISMN M720041537
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Præterita Parant
By Robert Burrell
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$8.00
SATB, c.2'30Prætarita Parant began as an English text, which attempts to convey some of the notions of process philosophy.
Composed 2014
The past provides, The present lives, The future has hope; We give thanks.
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ISMN 979072014683
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Psalm 23
By Brett M Mckern
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$15.00
SATB and organ, c.4'45Discount for multiple copies contact keats@wirripang.com.au
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ISMN M720072869
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Psalm 33
By David Yardley
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$10.00
David Yardley is a critically-acclaimed, award-winning composer of choral music, writing medieval/fantasy-inspired works influenced by authentic medieval techniques. Based in New York as of 2016, David was born in Australia and has composed music performed by a number of Australian and international choirs.
In 2012, he released a CD of his compositions, titled New Carols and Songs for Chaucer’s Pilgrims. The CD has been broadcast on national radio and received a 4½ star review in the national newspaper, The Weekend Australian. On the CD, his works were performed by some of Australia’s finest choral musicians, using medieval English lyrics for which the original music from the time has not survived.
Since this time, in the context of his diplomatic postings, David has composed music for the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and the choir of Southwark Cathedral, London. In 2016, David won the Royal School of Church Music (Australia) Composition Competition with his setting of Psalm 33, from the Middle English Wycliffe Bible. 'Wirripang New Composition' (2015).
Youtube Canberra choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SccSd9lDDFY
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Psalm for Palm Sunday
By Vivien Arnold
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$6.00
Treble, SATB choir and piano accompaniment, c.2'30
Biblical text. Composed 2015
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ISMN 9790720166186
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Psyche - Opera
By Meta Overman
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Opera in three acts, c.105'00
Based on the novel of the same name by Louis Couperus.
Characters:
The King of the Kingdom of the Past and his three daughters: Psyche, Emeralda and Astra
Prince Eros of the Kingdom of the Present
The Chimera
A Satyr
A Hermit
Synopsis:
Act 1: In the Kingdom of the Past the King has three daughters. A prince (Eros) from the Kingdom of the Present arrives with the intention of finding taking a bride from one of the three daughters.
The king presents each daughter to Eros in turn. Emeralda, is only interested in Eros’ potentiality to procure for her a coveted jewel and if he is successful agrees to marry him. The second daughter Astra, speaks only with her harp and Eros is daunted by her talent.
The third daughter, Psyche, is the favourite of the King and very young but Eros falls in love and chooses to marry Psyche. A Chimera, who can see the future, appears and Psyche begs him to reveal what is beyond the horizon but he refuses to tell her. The King dies and Emeralda gleefully takes over the kingdom. Eros and Psyche marry and leave for the Kingdom of the Present.
Act 2: All is well in the Kingdom of the Present. Psyche and Eros are in love and enjoy the benefits of living in peace and harmony. However without Eros knowing it, there is a lascivious Satyr lurking who desires Psyche. Although she tries desperately to keep him at bay the Satyr eventually manages to seduce Psyche. Eros returns and is dismayed to find the flowers and birds colourless and dying and no one able to tell him where Psyche has gone. He eventually realises what Psyche has done and completely in despair, dies. A hermit comes on stage and tells how he has always resisted the temptation that beckoned. When Psyche appears in a panther skin without her wings the hermit firstly chastises her for being a sinner but then relents and tells Psyche how she can redeem herself. She must go back to the castle of the Kingdom of the Past, to Emeralda and beg for mercy.
Act 3: Emeralda and Astra sit in the castle. When Psyche appears Emeralda firstly assumes she must be a beggar bringing jewels to earn Emeralda’s favour. When she realises it is her sister Psyche she is overcome with rage. She sends Psyche off to the underworld to search for the jewel of mystery.
Psyche wanders through the underworld and is first frightened by bats, spiders and sea monsters. A voice calls out Idleness! Idleness! and Psyche suddenly receives the courage she needs to go on. She is led back to the Kingdom of the Past and arrives there with the knowledge that the jewel that Emeralda seeks does not, and never has, existed.
When Psyche brings this news to Emeralda she is so overcome with rage that she lashes out and strangles Psyche. The Chimera returns and brings back Psyche’s wings and binds them on again. He shows Psyche the light which will lead her to the Kingdom of the Future where the King and Eros await her arrival. All is forgiven and Psyche, the King and Eros are reunited.
Emeralda continues to live in bitterness and hate, continuously seeking that which does not exist.
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Parts:
Orchestral: flute, oboe, bassoon, harp, piano, violin I, II, viola, cello, double bass
Vocal: tenor, baritone mezzo-soprano
Available in digital format only with PDF of full score, orchestral and vocal parts. The full length film can be view on YouTube: https://www.youtube.
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ISMN9790720226392
Puppet Maker, The
By Betty Beath
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$15.00
Voice and piano, c. 3'30
A setting of a poem by the Javanese poet, the late Subagio Sastrowardojo and is a translation from the original Bahasa Indonesia by Dr Harry Aveling.
Composed 2006
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ISMN9790720133225
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Puppet Play in Java
By Betty Beath
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$40.00
String Orchestra, c.3'00Puppet Play in Java was inspired by the music of Sunda, West Java and of the street musicians heard playing in Bandung and Jogjakarta. Street musicians singing as they played and sometimes spontaneously move into dance, all being part of the colourful and relaxed life of Java. The composer sought to capture some of that relaxed and playful spirit in this work.
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ISMN 97907201012408
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Purim
By Linda Phillips
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$35.00
Trio for violin, cello and piano. Composition date unknown
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ISMN9790720166506
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Purim Festival, The
By Linda Phillips
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$30.00
Violin and piano, c.4'00. Advanced grade (8th)
“Purim is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an official of the Achaemenid Empire who was planning to have all of Persia's Jewish subjects killed, as recounted in the Book of Esther. Haman was the royal vizier to Persian king Ahasuerus.” The festival is obviously of great significance and Phillips has written this one movement work for violin and piano and a trio for violin, cello and piano related to the same Jewish theme.
Edited by Jeanell Carrigan
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ISMN9790673142305
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Qi Colour from Hidden Resonances
By Bruce Crossman
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$25.00
Solo piano, c.5'00. AdvancedThe work was inspired by the Chinese literati philosophy where subtle hidden sounds of yun sit alongside more robust qi energy. Hidden half timbres from rubber-stopped and finger-dampened strings, as well as silently undampened strings as resonators for attack dyad resonances gradually build to and decay from juxtaposed colour blocks of sound strewn across wide resonances as a type of qi inspired energy.
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ISMN 9790720106014
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Qliphoth of the Kabbalah
By Larry Sitsky
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$100.00
Cello and piano a cycle of 10 pieces. Composed 2011- 1. Thaumiel c.4'48
- 2. Ghagiel c.3'00
- 3. Satariel c.4'25
- 4. Gha'ogs Shebalah c.3'00
- 5. Golachab c.na
- 6. Thagirion c.4'00
- 7. Aarab Zarsq c.4'50
- 8. Samael c.4'20
- 9. Gamaliel c.na
- 10. Lilith c.4'00
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ISMN 9790720164625
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