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Padma

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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Horn and piano c.5'00.  Grade: 8

Padma captures an evocative mood through the use of natural harmonics 

Recorded on the CD, piano and ... (Wirr 003) available online


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ISMN M720041551

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Padma 2nd Edition

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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Horn and piano c.3'00.  Grade: 7 - 8, suitable for HSC/Senior music

Padma captures an evocative mood through the use of natural harmonics.

Recorded on the CD, piano and ... (Wirr 003) available online


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ISMN 9790720226286

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piano and ... CD

By Various Composers

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This instrumental recording features compositions by seven Australian Composers - Hugh Dixon, Horace Keats, Houston Dunleavy, John Spence, Michael H Dixon, Kevin Young, and Brennan Keats - performed by Andrew Evans (trumpet), Emma Knott and Karen Lonsdale (flute), Mark Walton (clarinet and saxophone), Luke Spicer (viola), Michael Hugh Dixon (horn), Regis Danillon and David Miller (piano).
Print music for most of the works are available online.
Wirr 003

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1  Soulful Soliloquy No.2 (Kevin Young)
2  Soulful Soliloquy No.3 (Kevin Young)
3  Echo (Horace Keats arr Brennan Keats)
4  Romance (Hugh Dixon)
5  Jennifer's Song (Houston Dunleavy)
6  Ylang Ylang (John Spence)
7  Padama (Michael H Dixon)
8  Fireball (Houston Dunleavy)
9  Inner Life (Michael H Dixon)
10  Early Autumn (Horce Keats)
Slightly Latin (Kevin Young) (11-14)
11 Rhumba for Ruth
12 Bill's Bossa
13  Christopher's Calypso
14  Meg's Meringue 

Play with Ease

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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BAND TRAINING PROGRAM
This training band program has been developed to allow beginners to start together whilst playing some of their easiest notes. This requires the use of harmony from the outset. Concert B-flat is easy to produce on a clarinet and a saxophone but not at all easy on a flute or an oboe. The same note is easy for many a player of the trumpet, baritone and trombone yet some find a concert F easier, so there are options for those players. Horn players often find a concert F easier to play than a concert B-flat at, also a concert F is easily playable on both a single B-flat at horn and a single F horn. Concert A is an easy note on the flute and oboe, although a B would be easier, the A is not much more complicated and provides a nice note in the dominant chord of B-flat at major. The whole process begins with alternating B-flat at and F chords. Often, training band leaders direct from a keyboard, so the chords are shown above the flute part to make it simple to play along.
Each student has a page advising the numbers to practice each week and the program is divided into sections to give the feeling of completion from time to time. It is important that each band be directed at the most appropriate pace, therefore the music director should feel at liberty to overlap the designated weekly projects, hold them back, or skip some altogether. Much effort has been made to progress the players of an instrument at a decent pace. It is anticipated that many players will be ready to play other published material by the time they can play the numbers at the end of the book. 

Composed 2018

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ISMN 9790720214429

Instrument program training books are available on request - $20.00 each, please contact keats@wirripang.com.au

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Self-balance

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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For French Horn and Marimba, c.6'50

Explores the intervals and qualities of a 9-note scale occasionally in bi-tonality. 


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ISMN M720072517
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Self-balance 2nd Edition

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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For horn and piano, c.3'00.  Suitable for HSC/Senior music. Grade 8-AMus

Explores the intervals and qualities of a 9-note scale occasionally in bi-tonality. 


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ISMN 9790720226279
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Seven and Nine

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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Solo bassoon with horn ensemble backing track, c.5'50

Seven and Nine has the form of Recitative and Aria for solo bassoon with a backing track of 6 pre-recorded horn parts. It was premiered by Ben Hoadley at the Sydney MicroFest 4 in 2022. There are harmonies using the 7th harmonics of the overtone series. (7-limit harmonies in just intonation music theory). These are both above and below standard tuning by 31 cents (compared to a standard semitone of 100 cents).   The notation supports the sound of the horn harmonies so are reasonably straightforward for the bassoon soloist to hear.

Composed 2022


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ISMN 9790673144231

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Seven Portals

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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Cycle of seven songs for soprano and horn

The text is from H P Blavatsky's spiritual manual The Voice of the Silence. Each
of the seven portals is set simply, yet has significant intonational requirements. The soprano is asked to play a small bell on a number of occasions. The horn player is asked to sing and play simultaneously on a few occasions as well as play a hand percussion instrument.  Composed 2017


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ISMN 9790720209012

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Seven Small Wheels Revolving

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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Horn and bassoon, c.5'00

The music is composed using the tuning system called 'Just Intonation'.  Here the tunings are organised around twelve sets of harmonics playable on a standard double horn.  Each valve slide is precisely tuned in a just intonation ratio to the central pitch, F concert.  The bassoon player has more limiied number of pitches to play though most will require non-standard fingerings to match the horn.  
Audio sample performed by Sofia Ree (bassoon) and Michael Dixon (horn).  Composed 2010
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ISMN 9790720126173
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Simply Songs CD

By Various Composers

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This recording features works by many of our Australian Composers as seen here on our website and is performed by Wendy Dixon, soprano and David Miller, pianist. Composers include:  Robert Stove, Horace Keats, John Wayne Dixon, Stephen Yates, Michael H Dixon, Houston Dunleavy, Brennan Keats, Hugh Dixon, Sylvia Rice, Brett McKern, Mark Matthews. 
Wirr 001

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1  Love Song ( R J Stove)
2  Lullaby ( R J Stove)
3  Ballad of a Talked Off Ear ( R J Stove)
4  The Fig Tree (Horace Keats)
5  White Wind (Horace Keats)
6  Nature's Changes (John Wayne Dixon)
7  Evening (John Wayne Dixon)
8  New Feet Within (John Wayne Dixon)
9  Asclepiades the miser (Stephen Yates)
10  Thought I would (Stephen Yates)
11  Become Complete Michael Dixon)
12  All Fall Down (Houston Dunleavy)
13  In Good Stead (Michael Dixon)
14  Elegy (Brennan Keats)
15  The Hour of the Parting (Brennan Keats)
16  Fascination (Hugh Dixon)
17  Tranquil Repose (Hugh Dixon)
18  Concentration  (Hugh Dixon)
19  Motion (Hugh Dixon)
20  Mermaids (Horace Keats)
21  Song of the Little People (Horace Keats)
22  My Heart was Wandering (Horace Keats)
23  This Moment (Sylvia Rice)
24  Praise the Lord (Brett M McKern)
25  Healed (Mark Matthews)
26  An Angry Cactus Does No Good (Stephen Yates)
27  The Trouble with Geraniums (Stephen Yates)

 

Songs of Tao (Tao Te King)

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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Cycle of three songs for soprano and piano. Grade: 7
Composed 2002.

  • Humility, c.2'20
  • In Good Stead, c.1'30*
  • Become Complete, c.2'30*
* [below] have been recorded on the CD Simply Songs (Wirr 001) by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller, available online.

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ISMN M720041223
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stillness of unceasing activity

By Michael Hugh Dixon

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Solo tenor trombone, c.4'50. AMEB Associate Grade


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ISMN720072340
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