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Australian Women Composers' Piano Anthology Volume III

By Katie Zhukov

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Grades Intermediate (5th) to Advanced (Dip.)
15 piano works by Wirripang-published, Australian Women Composers 2020.  

Again, especially written and selected for this volume as edited by Katie Zhukov and it includes a CD of each work recorded by Katie Zhukov.  

This third volume of new piano repertoire by Australian women composers is a companion to the Australian Women Composers’ Piano Anthology (2015)  and Volume II (2017) published earlier by Wirripang.

Commissioning new work from established and emerging composers provides an opportunity for women’s voices to be heard in the Australian classical music arena that tends to be dominated by live and recorded performances of music by male composers. Introducing new generations of piano students to music by women composers helps drive the grassroots campaign for gender equality in Australian classical music.
The pieces vary in style from Romantic to contemporary, neo-classical, and jazz-influenced idioms.
Each work is accompanied by the composer’s biography, composer comments and pedagogical advice. The grading will assist teachers is choosing repertoire of appropriate difficulty for study and as extra lists for examinations.

Sheet music samples and links to the complete works on YouTube

Australian Women Composers' Piano Anthology - sheet music

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          Balmoral Beach Rag (cornet)

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Cornet and piano, c.5'0. Grade 7

          The Rag is descriptive and performer and listener will not find it difficult to relate the chromatic scales, the grace notes, the running and walking music, to the ever-new shock of entering the cold water; the warmth of the sand underfoot and the droplets of water gleaming on the ocean or on arms and legs of people at the beach.  Composed 2009

          Recorded on Ragging with Razz CD (Wirr 029) available online


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          ISMN 9790720093932
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          Balmoral Beach Rag for solo piano

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Solo piano, c.5.00, Grade 6/7
          The Rag is descriptive and performer and listener will not find it difficult to relate the chromatic scales, the grace notes, the running and walking music, to the ever-new shock of entering the cold water; the warmth of the sand underfoot and the droplets of water gleaming on the ocean or on arms and legs of people at the beach.   Composed 2009


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          Beneath the Yellow Moon

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Cello and piano,  c.15'00, suggested grade 8-A.MusA

          The three movements form a large ternary structure and the cello imitating the didjeridu at various points in the score evokes a distinctly Australian feel. Some opportunities are provided for improvising high harmonics in the cello part during the third movement which suggests images reminiscent of outback mirages.  Composed 2004/2005
          • 1.  Beneath the Yellow Moon, c.8'30
          • 2.  Billabong, c.4'30
          • 3.  Dreamtime Haze, c.2'00
          Recorded Fandango Returns! (Wirr 090) available online

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          Birch Tree, The

          By Diana Weston, Thoroughbass

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          The theme of this recording is music inspired by folkmusic. Diana Weston (harpsichord) and the ensemble Thoroughbass have recorded this wonderful collection of tunes by composers such as, Mary Mageau, Béla Bartók, May Howlett, Ann Carr-Boyd and Elena Kats-Chernin.
          Folk melody and rhythm can be found permeating works from all centuries and genres up to the present. For the French of the 17th and 18th centuries, it formed the backbone of a national style, albeit one with a sophisticated overlay (the dance suite). For some composers, like Bartók, folkmusic became the stuff of their compositional voice. For others like Ann Carr-Boyd, adaptation of folksong was a way of approaching a wide variety of audiences of different ethnic backgrounds. Her new composition, Suite for Diana, follows this trend, as does Elena Kats-Chernin’s The Birch Tree, both composed for Thoroughbass in 2014 and recorded here for the first time. Thematically overlapping Bartók’s miniature pieces ‘For Children’ (arguably ‘about’ children as much as ‘for’ children) are four songs for children by May Howlett. Both composers recognize the complexity of childhood in music that is expressive and authentic, innocent and above all, fun.
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          1 Variations on Scarborough Fair (Mary Mageau)
          For Children - Hungarian (Béla Bartók)
          2 No. 4 Pillow Dance 
          3 No. 6 Study for left hand
          4 No. 10 Children's Dance
          5 No. 11  6 No. 17 Round Dance
          7 No. 18 Soldier's Song
          8 No. 26  9 No. 28 Choral  10 No. 31 
          11 No. 38 Winter Solstice Song 
          12  No. 40 Swineherd's Dance
          13  The Littlest Dragon 14  The Cat
          15  The Dog  16  Flutter by, My Butterfly
          Suite for Diana (Ann Carr-Boyd)
          17  The Wild Colonial Boy
          18  Interlude 119  Two Latvian Folksongs
          20  Interlude 2    21  Gulumkan 22  Interlude 2a
          For Children - Slovakian (Béla Bartók)
          23  No. 1 24  No. 6 Round Dance
          25  No. 7 Sorrow
          26  No. 10 Funeral Dance  27  No. 11  28  No. 17  29  No. 18 Teasing Song
          30  No. 19. Romance 
          31 No. 20 Game of Tag
          32  No. 22 Revelry  33  No. 25 Scherzando
          34  No. 26 Peasant's Flute
          35  No. 28 Choral  36  No. 33
          37  No. 34 Farewell  38  No. 38 Dirge
          39  The Birch Tree  (Elena Kats-Chernin)

          Blues in Orange

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Solo piano, c.3'55. Grade 6
          The double bass is associated with classical and jazz music and it is here that the jazz mood of the double bass is predominant with its "blues" chords and slow swing rhythm with the prominent role of the bass notes of the piano. 


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          Boomerang Chocolate Cake, The

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Voice and harpsichord or piano, c.1'35.   Composed 1974

          Part of the recent collection of 38 pieces for Flying West - recorded by Thoroughbass Ensemble on a double CD available online (Wirr 066)


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          Boulevard Waltz, The (ensemble)

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Flute, oboe and string quartet, c.5'20
          The music is lyrical and reminiscent of scenes and moods in Paris and France.  Composed 2008 rev. 2012

          Recorded on the CD Ragging with Razz (Wirr029) available online

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          Boulevard Waltz, The (piano)

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Piano solo, c.5'20, Grade 6/7
          The music itself is lyrical and reminiscent of scenes and moods in Paris and France.
          Composed 2008, rev 2011

          Recorded on the CD Ragging with Razz (Wirr 029) available online

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          Boulevard Waltz, The (violin)

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          Violin and piano, c.5'20.  Grade 7

          The music is lyrical and reminiscent of scenes and moods in Paris and France.
          Composed 2011


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          Boulevard Waltz, The for two pianos

          By Ann Carr-boyd

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          For two pianos, four hands, c.9'20
          Composed 2008, rev 2011
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          Brown Pansies

          By Ann Carr-Boyd

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          Song cycle for Soprano/Mezzo Soprano and piano, c.10'00, Grade 8. 
          Three contrasting movements in various styles ranging from the impressionistic and romantic nature of Brown Pansies, to the spoken improvisation and plainsong-inspired Parchment Rose to the free Country and Western feel of Blues in Green.
          • 1.  Brown Pansies, c.1'40
          • 2.  Parchment Rose, c. 2'30
          • 3.  Blues in Green, c.4'50
          Composed 2005


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