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Cool Grooves (violin)
By Diana Blom
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Three pieces for solo violin. Grades 4-6
- 1. Funk, grade 4
- 2. Rock Opera, grade 4
- 3. Grunge, grade 6
Composed 2022
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Creative Explosion
By Various Composers
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The creative aesthetic behind this project is to have a strong intercultural focus featuring Asia-Pacific traditions of Korean samul nori drumming techniques, Filipino kulintang percussion, Japanese shakuhachi 'moment' aesthetic and East Asian string techniques (Korea, Japan, China) interacting with contemporary music. The trajectory from modern violin through to Chinese erhu and Korean kayageum techniques interacting within contemporary composition and cutting edge digital technology forms a thread behind this collection. The sound of Asia-Pacific gongs (Korea, China, Philippines) intersecting with modern percussion as an enlargement of the contemporary music tradition in performance and composition is another angle. Finally the use of the techniques of reed membrane and coloured breath from Western clarinet to Japanese shakuhachi exploring the 'single-note' aesthetic of East Asia within contemporary composition and improvisation also forms a focus. Wirr 028
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1 Tristan Exploded (Ian Stevenson)
Haiku 1 (John Encarnacao)
- 2 Between the sky and ...
- 3 ... the not sky we fly towards ...
- 4 ... the heart of winter
5 Not Broken Bruised-Reed (Bruce Crossman)
6 Genji (the Shining Prince) and the Koto Player (Diana Blom)
7 Patina (Michael Atherton)
Dark, the Light, The
By Diana Blom
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Low voice and piano c.11'00A long song and short story. Helen Garner is a very fine and evocative Australian short story writer and ‘The Dark, the Light’, from Postcards from Surfers (Penguin 1985). Almost a music theatre work in miniature because of the different musical styles matching different text moods, the song can be sung by memory, but also with the score held as if reading the story to an audience. Composed 1997
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Drawing Firewheels
By Diana Blom
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For solo piano and toy piano (one player), c.5'50This works was inspired by a drawing of the Australian rainforest tree, Stenocarpus sinatus (Firewheel Tree), with its distinctive wheel-like inflorescences and mature fruits and seeds, shaped this work, the sound gestures and the sustain pedal as "sound brush" colouring specified notes and note groups.
Composed 2016
Recorded on New Music for Multiple Keyboards (Track 11 Disc One) CD 9Wirr 0899 is available online
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Drawing Inflorescence
By Diana Blom
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For solo piano. Grade 8 to AMus/LMusThe title and influences for this work come from two sources. First, the exquisitely detailed botanical illustrations y Elizabeth Cooper of the Australian rainforest tree, Stenocarpus sinuatus (Firewheel Tree), with its distinctive wheel-like inflorescences and mature fruits and seeds, shaped the work, the sound gestures and the sustain pedal as ‘sound brush’ colouring specified notes and note groups. The second influence was Deanna Petherbridge’s book, The Primary of Drawing (2010), which explains and illustrates technical drawing terms such as pentimento, grisaille, chiaroscuro, parerga, reverso, ébauche and line itself. Several of these have been drawn into the work. A companion piece for piano and toy piano (one player), Drawing Firewheels, exploressimilar sound concepts. The work was written for pianist, Michael Kieran Harvey, who gave its first performance.
Composed 2016
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(Pianist Danae Killian)ISMN9790720214580
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Dream Weaving
By Diana Blom
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Piano Duet
Playing piano duets is one of the most intimate ways of making music. Dream Weaving explores this intimacy through crossing hands, exchanged motives and interlocking textures and players are to work out which hand crosses when. Musically the piece moves in a tonal whole-tone sound world to evoke the shifting, ephemeral quality of dreams.
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ISMN9790673144989
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Earth Tones
By Diana Blom
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Solo for toy piano, c.5'30. Advanced gradeComposed 2014
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Fearless Dreams
By Diana Blom
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Clarinet, cello and piano. c.10'00 The work explores the sonorities and textures and references a piece for clarinet and piano, Painajainen (Nightmare), by Finnish composer Kari Tikka. Reference too to some small fragments of Aboriginal musics. The stages of sleep and dreaming acted as an initial guide for the structure of the work.
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ISMN9790720140346
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Five Green Songs
By Diana Blom
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Five songs for voice, cello and piano - about natural environment - floods and fires, gardening, whale-watching and exploring a river. Words by Diana Blom. Composed 2011 Download sheet music samples
- Which Way? - c.2'00
- Red Moon - c.5'45
- Green Thumb - c.2'30
- The Whale's Footprint - c.2'00
- The River - c.5'00
ISMN9790720126197
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Freefall
By Diana Blom
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For two pianos, c.4'05This piece is a four voice fugue which draws on several fugal devices, plus minimalist episodes, as it moves from the high register of the pianos to the low.
Composed 2016
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Recorded on New Music for Multiple Keyboards CD (Wirr 089) is available online
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Full Moon - CD
By Diana Weston, Michael Tsalka
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Classical and contemporary music for square piano and harpsichord.
Michael Tsalka: Piano forte primo, harpsichord I
Diana Weston: Piano forte secondo, harpsichord II
In the making of this album, our purpose was to bring to light a long-forgotten and yet highly significant instrument that was the ‘square’ piano - specifically the English square piano. We wanted to demonstrate a little of its nature, to outline its relevance in social history, to let you hear its voice. To do this, we are fortunate to have available a relevant instrument – a Robertson c. 1835 partially restored square piano crafted in Liverpool. In the recording, music from its era (late eighteenth to early nineteenth century), is interspersed with newly created pieces that are sympathetic to its variable sounds and registers, that is, its limitations and virtues. Diana Weston
Wirr 125
Critique Blog by Pamela Hickman
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Johann Christian Bach (1735 – 1782)
Sonata in A major for piano forte four hands, Op.XVIII,
[1] Allegretto
[2] Tempo di Minuetto
Johann Baptist Vanhall (1739-1813)
Sonata II in A major from Two Sonatas for four Hands for the Harpsichord or the Forte Piano, Op. 3
[3] Adagio alla Francese, Variazioni alla Italiana, Variations I – 6
[4] Rondo alla Tedesca/Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827)
Song, ‘Ich denke dein’, with six Variations, WoO 74 piano duet, sung by Angelica Minero Escobar
[5] Andante cantabile, Variations 1 – 6
Ann Carr-Boyd (commissioned work) Michael Tsalka (square piano), Diana Weston (harpsichord)
[6] Moonrise over Lake Argyle for Forte piano and Harpsichord
Diana Blom (commissioned work)
[7] Night Music
Ann Carr-Boyd (arranged) Michael Tsalka (harpsichord), Diana Weston (square piano)
[8] Stairway to the Moon
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Genji (the Shining Prince) and the Koto Player
By Diana Blom
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Violin and piano, c.8'30
The story of "The Tale of Genji" is full of musical references and is portrayed in this piece. Genji, himself, plays the wagon, a six-stringed koto considered old-fashioned in the story, while the key women in his life play the kin, a seven-stringed, unfretted koto from China. Several modes are mentioned including the richi (ryo) and ritsu modes, to indicate a change of mood. Poems which have a constant role in special conversations are described as tanka (short song), waka (long song) or simply uta (song).
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ISMN 9790720101552
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