Exam: HSC

Steppin’ Up (8 pieces)

RM422e Steppin Up Barrett
RM422e Steppin Up Barrett
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Composer: John Barrett
Composed: 2006 Duration: 12 mins.
Instrumentation: Flute & Piano Level A, Flute & Piano Level B
Exam Grade: HSC Flute
ISMN: 979-0-720083-04-9 Catalogue: RM422
Level: A - Easy, B Country: Australia

Contents: Herbie’s Journey, Heaven’s Steps, Dracula’s New Shorts, Cha Cha Boom, I Wonder Why, Eat My Shorts Dance, My Neighbour’s Pool, Half a Dozen

Flight of Fancy

RM421e Flight of Fancy Orlovich OB/PNO
RM421e Flight of Fancy Orlovich OB/PNO
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Composer: Matthew Orlovich
Composed: 2006 Duration: 3 mins.
Instrumentation: Oboe & Piano Level D
Exam Grade: HSC Oboe,
VCE Oboe
ISMN: 979-0-720083-10-0 Catalogue: RM421
Level: D Country: Australia

This piece, a flight of fancy for clarinet and piano, comprises three sections, each lasting about a minute or so. The first section kicks off in an energetic and cheerful way with the bright, upper registers of both instruments at play. Also evident in the opening section are ideas such as angular melodic lines played in unison, a little harp-like piano accompaniment texture and a contrasting theme fashioned atop a jazzy, dance-inspired bassline. The middle section of the work is perhaps the more unearthly music of the work. Little updrafts and whirlwinds of tinkling, glockenspiel-like piano figurations add a haunting quality to a chromatically inflected clarinet melody, evoking, for me, images of night and a kind of magic. The final section of the piece – which brings us back to earth with its recapitulation of earlier material – is characterised by the sound of its ‘slow-to-start’, hand-cranked engine.

Legends Vol 1 (6 pieces)

RM419e Legends Vol 1 Barrett SAX
RM419e Legends Vol 1 Barrett SAX
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Composer: John Barrett
Composed: 2008 Duration: 10 mins.
Instrumentation: Sax Solo Level C
Exam Grade: HSC Saxophone Alto,
HSC Saxophone Tenor
ISMN: 979-0-720083-11-7 Catalogue: RM419
Level: C Country: Australia

Contents: Cool, Yarn, Lester Sleeps In, Get Stan, Mecker Blue , Tom Cat

 

This body of work comprises six pieces based on styles of saxophone playing associated with several of the legendary players of past and present years. To perform these pieces you will be called upon to use a variety of techniques from the use of vibrato and playing in the altissimo register to the use of multiphonic fingerings to name but just a few. With all the pieces keep the style foremost in your thinking when performing. Listen to lots of examples and with some assistance from your teacher and your good taste have some fun with these pieces.

Statues (5 songs)

RM390e Statues (5 songs) Charlton-Harpercollins VOICE/PNO
RM390e Statues (5 songs) Charlton-Harpercollins VOICE/PNO
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Composer: Richard Charlton
Composed: 2005 Duration: 12 mins.
Instrumentation: Voice & Piano Level C
Exam Grade: HSC Voice
ISMN: M-720071-47-3 Catalogue: RM390
Level: C Country: Australia

Contents: The Statues Awake, Venus & Apollo, Flowers, The Ghosts of Flesh, Reality

“STATUES” was composed especially for soprano Wendy Dixon & pianist David Miller and takes its text from a Kenneth Slessor poem called “Realities”.  Slessor meditates on the beauty of another dimension or ‘reality’ within some of the etchings of the artist Norman Lindsay.  The ‘image’ is of statues coming to life, or maybe they have always been alive, behind our own reality.  I also took as inspiration the beautiful setting of Norman Lindsay’s own statues in the garden of his house at Springwood in the Blue Mountains.  A place where on a warm sunny afternoon, time could very well stand still, and this whole other world exist!

The cycle was premiered by Wendy & David on December 4th 2005 at the Crows Nest Performing Arts Centre in Sydney.