Exam: HSC Flute

Horizons (15 pieces)

RM677e Horizons (15 pieces) Barrett FL
RM677e Horizons (15 pieces) Barrett FL
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Composer: John Barrett
Composed: 2010 Duration: 20 mins.
Instrumentation: Flute Solo
Exam Grade: HSC Flute
ISMN: 979-0-720109-75-6 Catalogue: RM677
Level: B, C Country: Australia

A Little Cha Cha, A Little Off Beat, The Way Home, Different Noodles, Fish 'n' Chips, Groovy Baby, It's Not Where You Think It Is, Latin Holiday, Low Tide, Secret Agent, Possums in the Roof, Strange Sounds From the Forest, Suede Shoes, Things That Go Bump in the Night, Whistling

Two Fires Suite

RM767e Two Fires Suite Draeger FL
RM767e Two Fires Suite Draeger FL
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Composer: Christine Draeger
Composed: 2005 Duration: 10 mins.
Instrumentation: Flute Solo
Exam Grade: AMEB Flute Grade 7,
HSC Flute
ISMN: 979-0-720109-38-1 Catalogue: RM767
Level: D Country: Australia

Contents: The Child, The Maker, Woman to Child, Seasonal Flocking, Lament for Passenger Pigeons

This suite comes from a piece written in 2005 for the Festival of Arts and Activism in Braidwood (near Canberra). The festival honoured the work of Judith Wright, a poet and enviromental activist. The original performance was semi-staged and included many more of Wright’s poems. I worked with storyteller Jane Ahlquist, alternating readings of the poems with solo flute. Later I reworked the music into a suite of five pieces.

Dirt, Deluge and a Lullaby (6 pieces)

RM692e Dirt
RM692e Dirt
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Composer: Taran Carter
Composed: 2010 Duration: 10 mins.
Instrumentation: Flute & Piano Level B, Flute & Piano Level C
Exam Grade: HSC Flute
ISMN: 979-0-720109-90-9 Catalogue: RM692
Level: B, C Country: Australia

Contents: Deluge, Dirt Blues, Karwan, Harriet's Lullaby, Simpatico, Umlaut

Sonatina – Under Capricorn

RM691e Sonatina - Under Capricorn Broadstock FL/PNO
RM691e Sonatina - Under Capricorn Broadstock FL/PNO
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Composer: Brenton Broadstock
Composed: 2009 Duration: 12 mins.
Instrumentation: Flute & Piano Level E
Exam Grade: HSC Flute
ISMN: 979-0-720109-89-3 Catalogue: RM691
Level: E Country: Australia

Phoenix – Bird of Fire

RM687e Phoenix - Bird of Fire Bright FL
RM687e Phoenix - Bird of Fire Bright FL
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Composer: Colin Bright
Composed: 2011 Duration: 5 mins.
Instrumentation: Flute Solo
Exam Grade: HSC Flute
ISMN: 979-0-720109-85-5 Catalogue: RM687
Level: D Country: Australia

Program note
A phoenix - is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colourful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends).

It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes,  from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again.

The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self.