Composers and Authors
Burlesque
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$10.00
For piano solo, c.1'15. Intermediate grade (5/6)
The work is intended to be tongue-in-cheek fun, whilst providing some challenges.
Music samples and complete audio tracks
ISMN 9790673140622
$5.00 for digital download 
Combination Permutations
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$10.00
For piano duet, c.2'25. Grade: 7 - A.Mus
Composed for fun and should be treated as such although there are quite a few challenges.
Composed 1984 rev. 2022Music samples and YouTube links:
ISMN 97906731401339
$10.00 for digital download
Four Last Songs
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$65.00
For soprano, clarinet, violin and piano, c. 20-27'00
From the music of Richard Strauss.
The arrangement seeks to achieve some of the colour and atmosphere of the original orchestrations, whilst allowing artists the joy of performing these sublime works in a chamber format.
- Fruhling: Spring (words by Hermann Hesse)
- Fruhling: September (words by Hermann Hesse)
- Beim Schlafengehn: Time to Sleep (words by Hermann Hesse)
- Im Abendrot: At Dusk (words by Joseph von Eichendorff)
Music samples and YouTube link
ISMN 9790673141322
$50.00 for digital download score and parts
I Had No Human Speech
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$15.00
For low voice and piano, c.4'45.
Words by Roland Robinson
In setting the poem, the composer has endeavoured to capture in music, the poet’s picture of the solitude and grandeur of the Australian outback.
Music samples and complete audio tracks
(The singer is US mezzo, Karen Quicker)
ISMN 9790673140639
$8.00 for digital download
Image & Refraction
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$85.00
Instrumental Octet, c.5'30. Advanced level of difficulty.
For: Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Horn in F, Violins I, II, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass.
The piece begins with growling melody beginning in 11/4 for lower instruments, gradually coming ‘into the light’ – the Image. This melody is then fractured and used within the Refraction section, with lyrical and melodic overlays.
Music samples and YouTube link
- Image & Refraction - sheet music
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W.A Arts Orchestra/Gerald Krug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuSOII72Ov8
ISMN 9790673142862
$65.00 for digital download score and parts
Jaclyn's Doll Dance
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$10.00
Piano solo, c.1'00. Grade 1st - 2nd
The work is conceived as depicting a wind-up dancing doll, with somewhat stiff movements, but an item of enjoyment nonetheless. The dynamics and other markings should be carefully noted.
Composed 1990
Music samples and YouTube link
ISMN 9790673141889
$5.00 for digital download
Kids Bits
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$10.00
10 short pieces for piano. Grades: Beginner, Preliminary, Level 1
- Waltz for the Mootz
- Andrew’s March
- Song for Samantha
- Pedestrian
- The Strut
- Parade
- Chorale
- Bells
- Snakes and Ladders
- Two Part Invention
Music samples and YouTube links:
- Kids Bits - sheet music
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https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/piano-games-australian-post-1970-solo-piano-works (Jeanell Carrigan, pianist)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jciO4RQUEkg (Ross Fiddes, pianist)
ISMN 9790673140599
$10.00 for digital download
Man in the Other Room, The (string quartet)
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$85.00
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
Music samples and YouTube link
- 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
$65.00 for digital download score and parts
Man in the Other Room, The (voice and piano)
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$30.00
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
Music samples
ISMN 9790673142251
$20.00 for digital download
O For a Thousand Tongues
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$35.00
Arranged for Brass Band., c.2'45. Suitable for B-C grade community bands.
Based on the hymn and music by Charles Wesley.
Music samples
ISMN 9790673141582
$25.00 for digital download score and parts
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$30.00
Three movements for trumpet and piano, c.12'45. Advanced level of difficulty.
Composed in three movements, which are through played, the work places demands on both performers. The first movement is a ‘Con moto’, more in the nature of a prelude, followed by the slow movement, marked ‘With feeling, expressively’ which is in ternary form with an expanded “B” section. The last movement, marked ‘Lively”, uses multiple time signatures and cross rhythms, and nods to jazz and south American idioms. But there is a flashback when the first movement interjects itself, before the liveliness returns in conclusion
Music samples and YouTube link
ISMN 9790673141575
$20.00 for digital download score and parts
Stony Town
By Ross Fiddes
Regular price
$10.00
For SSATB a capella or with piano accompaniment, c.4'10
Words by John Shaw Neilson
“Stony Town”, derives its power from the fact that although it engages a fairly trite opposition – that between the city and the bush – and although it is written as a simple ballad, it draws on and thus celebrates the transformative power of poetry and the imagination rather than content itself with a critique of the mercantile world. From Australian Poetry Journal, 2:2 (December, 2012)
Music samples and complete audio tracks
(Recording by The Song Company, with permission)
ISMN 9790673140646
For discount on multiple copies contact keats@wirripang.com.au
$5.00 for digital download