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Maiden Voyage, The
By Phillip Wilcher
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Cello and piano, c. 2'40. Level of difficulty - ProfessionalComposed 2005
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Majesty
By Bruce Crossman
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Piano solo, c.3'00. Advanced Majesty explores rich interval-colour sonorities juxtaposed with melodic fragments based on an equal temperament approximation of the kyemyonjo scale from Korean folk music.
Composed 2005
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ISMN M720060729
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Making My Own Music
By Joanne Burrows
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61 exercises in this collection for easy keyboard improvisation.
A resource book for practicing chords, fillers and improvisation using chord charts. It is a wonderful thing to be able to sit at the piano and make music. Improvising is like writing a letter or short story. Everyone can improvise, so encourage students not to be afraid to try and focus on enjoying the process rather than the product. Improvising is not about finding the next Bach, Mozart or Oscar Peterson, it is about freedom to make music. Remind students that simple is great and their ideas have merit.
Making My Own Music provides a simple step-by-step process with suggested activities for the teacher and student to use to develop improvisation skills. The material can be used in the sequence given, or as the teacher and student choose. The exercises and repertoire in the book have been used very successfully with students of all ages from the very young to adult. For younger students with small hands make adaptations to the given ideas, for example: use two note chords instead of three.
The preface outlines the many ways the examples may be used and re-used as new skills are acquired. The unexpected of adding improvisation to each lesson and weekly practice at home significantly increases student motivation to play each day. Once students are at the piano, improvising and creating, it seems the scales, studies and pieces are practiced as well.
Compiled 2014
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Making My Own Music Anthology
By Joanne Burrows
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Ideally used as an extension or addition to Making My Own Music - the Art of Keyboard Improvisation Made Easy, these pieces in Making My Own Music, Anthology students start from different positions, skill sets and interest and so the pieces can be used in any order suitable. Feel free to simplify chord progressions if needed, and or to add 7th chords, substitute chords and such to those given. Mix and match and vary the order of using the repertoire of this book in the best way to develop student improvisation skills. You can also give students just the chord progressions without the tunes, so they may experiment with improvisation of melody. Make sure students try many different ways of adding chords, accompaniment patterns, substitute chords, tempos, fillers and arrangements. Try using just the chord progressions alone without the given tune. Try improvisation with a friend and make the solo into a duet. Compiled 2014.
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ISMN 9790720151342
Man Called Thunderbolt, The
By Vivien Arnold
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Ideal Music Theatre work for higher school students and adults.
Fred Ward - alias Captain Thunderbolt - was Australia's longest lasting and most successful bushranger. Over seven years he held people up in the New England area and was rumoured to have taken twenty thousand pounds. Naturally this peeved a great many people. However there were others who truly held him in esteem - even some of his victims.
This arose from admiration of his superb horsemanship, his unfailing politeness, his eschewed non-violence, his good humour and sense of fun, his soft-heartedness, his kindness to the orphaned, his championship of the underdog, and his sense of fair play. In short, he was Australia's real life Robin Hood.
In sharp contrast, the authorities showed him no leniency at any stage. Moreover, after his death, some believe accounts of his life were deliberately suppressed and expunged because he was a natural inspiration for the sort of republican rebellion they dreaded.
His strong and passionate relationship with Maryanne Bugg - Queen Yellow Long - pointed to reconciliation with the first Australians. Sadly their children were farmed out and the lineage lost.
This opera traces the story of their lives as a reality, albeit somewhat romanticised. At the same time it examines attitudes and interests of the day in the young colony of New South Wales through using both anecdotes and written records.
Its large cast features people documented in the stories told about Ward. All chorus members are required to have speaking or solo/ensemble singing roles so this is not a production that asks people to sit around back-stage for slabs of time. The original staging comprised large blocks that could be quickly rearranged for set changes. This too was the job of the entire cast, who sometimes turned their backs to the audience forming human walls as part of the set. Costuming is inexpensive.
The work was written for an amateur society with a cast of around 50 (good for ticket sales!). It received critical acclaim when it was staged in 1988 for the bicentennial. Being an historic piece it has not dated.
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Man from Ironbark, The
By Gavin Lockley
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Voice and orchestra, c.3'45
Words by A B Paterson. From Orchestral Songs of Australia.
Composed 2008
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Man in the Other Room, The (string quartet)
By Ross Fiddes
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A song cycle for soprano and string quartet.
- The Cord
- Breakfast In Bed
- The Man In The Other Room
- Autumn’s Wake
- The Lesson
- A Suitcase Outside Your Door
- Regret
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- The Man in the Other Room - sheet music
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https://soundcloud.com/ross-fiddes-879229144 (Anna Fraser, soprano and Acacia Quartet)
ISMN 9790673141740
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Man in the Other Room, The (voice and piano)
By Ross Fiddes
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A song cycle for soprano and piano. Advanced.
A version for string quartet is also available online.
- The Cord
- Breakfast In Bed
- The Man In The Other Room
- Autumn’s Wake
- The Lesson
- A Suitcase Outside Your Door
- Regret
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ISMN 9790673142251
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Mandolin Music
By Ann Carr-boyd
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Mandolin orchestral music, c.8'00This colourful piece consists of a slow opening introduction followed by a fast-slow-fast section in traditional ternary form. Adrian Hooper describes it, from a performer’s aspect, as "a beautiful idiomatic work”. Composed 1981
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ISMN 9790720159577
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Manly Beach Rompango, The
By Gina Ismene Chitty
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For piano, c4'10. Advanced level of difficulty
The opening chordal flourishes reflect the startlingly magnificent seascape. Thereafter, a few descending sequences which are slightly dissonant and ornate, reflect on a “tonal” portrayal of the stepping down to the beach. Snippets of tango rhythms and the Brazilian samba are thrown into the summery ‘romp’ rhythms and movement of shifting sands beneath the gentle waves on this beautiful Sydney beach. Hence, the word “rompango” which sums up the essence of the lighthearted and very lyrical jazz-like prelude.
Composed 2023
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ISMN 9790673144828
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Manus
By Rod Heard
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Baroque Oboe and Guitar; c.5'20The composition Manus carries the subheading “God Bless the Child” after the Billie Holiday song of the same name. Melodic and rhythmic elements of this song are combined with rhythms typical of Papua New Guinea indigenous music—particularly flute—to form part of the vocabulary of the piece.
Composed 2014
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ISMN 9790720166667
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March on Duke Street
By Brett M Mckern
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Solo organ, c.4'30. Grade 6Tempo: Moderato; crotchet = 88
Genre: Neo-Romantic
In the tradition of Edwardian marches for organ. A consistent tempo and march rhythms feature.
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ISMN M720041445
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