Country: Australia

Ulpirra

RM840e Ulpirra Edwards OB
RM840e Ulpirra Edwards OB
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Composer: Ross Edwards
Composed: 1993 Duration: 2 mins.
Instrumentation: Oboe Solo
Exam Grade: HSC Oboe
ISMN: 979-0-720109-94-7 Catalogue: RM840
Level: D Country: Australia

The Australian recorder player Jo Dudley commissioned this brief, virtuosic solo.

Ulpirra is an Aboriginal word meaning pipe or flute. It has been performed and recorded on many different treble instruments apart from the recorder: piccolo, flute, oboe, B-flat and E-flat clarinets, a special version for bass clarinet with handclapping accompaniment in Enyato IV, and soprano or alto saxophone.

Being short and snappy it is especially useful as an encore piece for recitals.

Brightest Threads

RM834e Brightest Threads Davidson R SAX QUARTET SATB
RM834e Brightest Threads Davidson R SAX QUARTET SATB
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Composer: Robert Davidson
Composed: 2009 Duration: 10 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Quartet SATB Level D
ISMN: 979-0-720114-32-3 Catalogue: RM834
Level: D Country: Australia

Performed by Continuum Sax

Half Steps (13 pieces)

RM831e Half Steps (13 pieces) Barrett OB
RM831e Half Steps (13 pieces) Barrett OB
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Composer: John Barrett
Composed: 2006 Duration: 20 mins.
Instrumentation: Oboe & Piano Level B
ISMN: 979-0-720114-29-3 Catalogue: RM831
Level: B Country: Australia

Other Worlds (3 pieces)

RM830 Other Worlds (3 pieces) Ross PNO
RM830 Other Worlds (3 pieces) Ross PNO
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Composer: Kent Ross
Composed: 2010 Duration: 4 mins.
Instrumentation: Piano Solo
Exam Grade: HSC Piano
ISMN: 979-0-720114-28-6 Catalogue: RM830
Level: C Country: Australia

Alien Terrain
Alien Terrain is a piece describing the landscape of another planet.  Its strangeness and wonder mixed into one.

An Afternoon on Katoya
For this piece I tried more of a Jazz approach, with a twist.  The main melody line comes from a famous Jazz work by John Lewis called An Afternoon in Paris.  However, the melody has reshaped using the enigmatic scale. What you end up with is hints of the original melody but with a more warped or other worldly feel to it.  The chord progression was also taken from the piece by Lewis but using only the chords that are found within the Enigmatic Scale for the basis for its harmony.

The original idea was as follows. Let us pretend that you were an alien musician on another planet and that you got a radio signal from deep space.  You don’t know where it is from, but you tried to write down this music before the signal degraded.  Frantically looking for something write it down and when finally do you find something to write it down with you hear one piece before the transmission ends. All you have you got for sure was the form, and fragments of some of the melody.  Wanting to show this new music to your fellow musicians you had to combine the music that you heard with some of your own native style.

The Holy Mountains of Deion
This piece was to show that while Enigmatic Scale can produce some very harsh and strange harmonies, it can also be used to make a more beautiful melody or atmosphere.  The main idea Deion is a water planet and any land mass is considered to be a sacred place.

Sonata

RM824e Sonata Spiewak TBN/PNO
RM824e Sonata Spiewak TBN/PNO
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Composer: Tomasz Spiewak
Composed: 1992 Duration: 15 mins.
Instrumentation: Trombone & Piano
Exam Grade: HSC Trombone
ISMN: 979-0-720114-22-4 Catalogue: RM824
Level: D Country: Australia

Sonatina

RM823e Sonatina Spiewak Bb SAX/PNO
RM823e Sonatina Spiewak Bb SAX/PNO
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Composer: Tomasz Spiewak
Composed: 1989 Duration: 15 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Soprano & Piano, Sax Tenor & Piano Level D
Exam Grade: HSC Saxophone Soprano,
HSC Saxophone Tenor
ISMN: 979-0-720114-21-7 Catalogue: RM823
Level: D Country: Australia

Sunburnt Aftertones CD – The Chamber Music of Katy Abbott

Composer: Katy Abbott
Composed: 2010 Duration: 60 mins.
Instrumentation: CD Albums
ISMN: n/a Catalogue: RM696
Level: Country: Australia

Suburnt Aftertones CD Cover

Contents: Making Angels (2001) Flute, clarinet & piano

Syzygy Ensemble

No Ordinary Traveller (2006) Song-cycle for mezzo-soprano & mixed trio
Halcyon (Jenny Duck-Chong - mezzo-soprano)

The Empty Quarter (2008) Percussion duo & cello
Collision Theory & Caerwen Martin (cello)

MultiSonics (2010) Solo bassoon
Mark Gaydon

Sunburnt Aftertones (2001) Mixed sextet
Syzygy Ensemble with Arwen Johnson, Aaron Barndon & Caerwen Martin

Egyptian Wish (2001) soprano saxophone trio
Barry Cockcroft, Jessica Voigt & Joseph Lallo

MOVE (MCD 441) Showcasing Caerwen Martin (cello), Mark Gaydon (Bassoon), Barry Cockcroft (saxophone), Joseph Lallo (saxophone), Jessica Voigt (saxophone), Syzygy Ensemble, Halcyon & Collision Theory. Featuring the art of Matthew Quick's Pure Honesty.