Composers and Authors
Anthem for the Offertory
By Vivien Arnold
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$6.00
SATB choir and piano accompaniment, c.1'50
Words by Vivien Arnold. Composed 2015
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ISMN 9790720166209
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Australian Choral Anthology Volume 1 - SATB
By choral
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$40.00
A ‘call for scores’ requested that the word content must be of ‘distinctly Australian flavour’. More than 40 works were submitted, obviously more than one volume! Hence, three volumes have emerged with one each for SATB choirs (mostly with piano accompaniment); a SA choir; and choir with instruments other than piano (with separate instrument parts). As a result, their words have captured our Australian fabric; gum trees, many types of birds - kookaburras, magpies, currawong, even the Noisy Miner, and more - brumbies, bushfires, climate, seasons, and of course, arrangements of traditional folk songs.
Overall, we have tried to make this project as accessible as possible to ensure that this Australian music is heard and appreciated by many and enjoyed by the singers.
Multiple choir copies of any of the works can be purchased individually under license at very reasonable rates. Please contact keats@wirripang.com.au
Enjoy these new Australian pieces!
- Andy’s Gone with Cattle – John Martin
- Brumbies – Carolyn Morris
- Country Towns - Vivien Arnold
- Ghost Gum – Tania Owens
- Australian Bird Song – Joanne Burrows
- Noisy Miners – Diana Blom
- The Old Grey Gum – Robert Burrell
- Bushfire Smoke Haze 0300 Day 30 – Brennan Keats
- Country Towns #2 – Vivien Arnold
- Early Summer – Brett McKern
- Imprints in Fire Ash - Brennan Keats
- Monsoon Time – Louise Denson
- Moreton Bay – John D’Arcy
- So Autumn Comes – Jocelyn E Kotchie
- The Wild Colonial Boy – John Martin
- Uluru – Thomas McConochie
Sample page of each work
ISMN 9790720231273
$30.00 for instant PDF download complete Volume 1
Australian Choral Anthology Volume 3 - SA and SATB with instruments
By choral
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$30.00
6 works for SA and SATB choirs accompanied by instruments and with words having a distinctly Australian content, composed by various Australian composers.
A ‘call for scores’ requested that the word content must be of ‘distinctly Australian flavour’. More than 40 works were submitted, obviously more than one volume! Hence, three volumes have emerged with one each for SATB choirs (mostly with piano accompaniment); a SA choir; and choir with instruments other than piano (with separate instrument parts). As a result, their words have captured our Australian fabric; gum trees, many types of birds - kookaburras, magpies, currawong, even the Indian miner bird, and more - brumbies, bushfires, climate, seasons, and of course, arrangements of traditional folk songs.
Overall, we have tried to make this project as accessible as possible to ensure that this Australian music is heard and appreciated by many and enjoyed by the singers.
Multiple choir copies of any of the works can be purchased individually under license at very reasonable rates. Please contact keats@wirripang.com.au
Enjoy these new Australian pieces!
- Australian Lullaby (flute or violin) – Colin Brumby
- Bushfire at Christmas (flute/oboe) – Brennan Keats
- Dennis O’Reilly (flute and double bass) – Rod Heard
- Laudator Temporis Acti (flute) – Richard Peter Maddox
- The Convict Maid (flute) – Rod Heard
- Winter (flute) – Vivien Arnold
Sample page of each work
ISMN 9790720231303
$25.00 for instant PDF download complete Volume 3 with parts
Australian Women Composers' Piano Anthology Volume II
By Katie Zhukov
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$50.00
Grades Intermediate (5th) to Advanced (Dip.)
16 piano works by Wirripang-published, Australian Women Composers 2018.
Especially written and selected for this album as edited by Katie Zhukov and it includes a CD of each work recorded by Katie Zhukov.
This second volume of new piano repertoire by Australian women composers is a companion to the Australian Women Composers’ Piano Anthology (2015) 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.
- For Claire (Vivien Arnold), Grade 5, c.1'37
- Prelude III (Jennifer Trynes), Grade 5, c.1'27
- Nuages (Karlin G Love), Grade 5, c.2'59
- Locrian Solitude (Jane Hammond), Grade 6, c.2'37
- Honeyeater Waltz (Learne Faint), Grade 6, c.1'38
- Time Travel (Jane Andino), Grade 6, c.1'56
- Thinking of You (Betty Beath), Grade 6, c.2'30
- Velvet Drop (Nicole Murphy), Grdae 7, c.2'08
- The Stones Start Spinning (Amanda Handel), Grade 7, c.2'04
- Star Dance (Keyna Wilkins), Grade 7, c.3'35
- Illuminatio (Louise Denson), Grade 8, c.3'02
- Crimson Rosella (Ann Carr-Boyd), Grade 8, c.3'08
- Hot Wind, Red Dust and Rolling Weeds (Joanne Burrows), Grade 8, c.2'40
- The Lost Waltz (May Howlett), Grade Dip., c.4'07
- Sonata Neoclassica (Diana Blom), Grade Dip., c.4'44
- Midnight at Mishka's (Jocelyn E Kotchie), Grade Dip., c.4'43
Sheet music samples and the complete works on YouTube
- For Claire and https://youtu.be/KJUtsMM5R-4
- Prelude III and https://youtu.be/pNJF-QPiR3I
- Nuages and https://youtu.be/1sqkwxZwL2M
- Locrian Solitude and https://youtu.be/fUxjU_AX9Bs
- Honeyeater Waltz and https://youtu.be/Md6kRGoUMxM
- Time Travel and https://youtu.be/iM5fFeBezIg
- Thinking of You and https://youtu.be/ERuNB5xkLNA
- Velvet Drop and https://youtu.be/Dis5HrV5vEk
- The Stones Start Spinning and https://youtu.be/LQhbK6QpGw4
- Star Dance and https://youtu.be/cFyytXCpS_A
- Illuminatio and https://youtu.be/QIUhqUnJtiA
- Crimson Rosella and https://youtu.be/PfD8VnuakQY
- Hot Wind, Red Dust and Rolling Weeds and https://youtu.be/iT7dBHXXSCc
- The Lost Waltz and https://youtu.be/jmA4nbg2h_o
- Sonata Neoclassica and https://youtu.be/Ncv_twAnm_4
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Midnight at Mishka's and https://youtu.be/tW5nH03zWIo
These works are now available separately, see titles in catalogue.
ISMN 9790720214191
$40.00 for instant PDF download
Encompassing Prayer
By Vivien Arnold
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$5.00
SSATB
Composed 2016
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ISMN 9790720171128
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Greatest of the Three, The
By Vivien Arnold
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$8.00
SATB, soloists, flute, guitar and piano
Words by the composer. Composed 2017
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ISMN 9790720172774
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I See His Blood Upon the Rose
By Vivien Arnold
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$8.00
SATB choir and piano accompaniment, c.2'00
Text by Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916). Composed 2015
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ISMN 9790720166193
$6.00 for instant PDF download
Incidental Music for Peter Pan
By Vivien Arnold
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$120.00
Flute and Piano. Ideal Music Theatre work for primary and secondary school students and adults.
The Peter Pan script is available from the internet copyright free throughout the world (except USA until 2023). Some additional lyrics have been included.
Music composed c.1980
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ISMN 9790720172194
$60.00 for instant PDF download (160 pages) score and part
Irish Blessing
By Vivien Arnold
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$8.00
Soloists, choir, flute and piano
Irish Traditional. Composed 2017
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ISMN 9790720172750
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Isabella
By Vivien Arnold
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$90.00
Ideal Music Theatre work for primary and secondary school students and adults.
Isabella [or The trials of a convicts maid] is a cross-genre piece - a combination of melodrama, pantomime and G&S. The humour, using caricature, pun and slap-stick, is designed to cater for all ages. Over the past three decades it has been regularly performed in schools and adult drama and operatic societies throughout Australia.
Composed 1977 rev 1979
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ISMN 9790720171838
$45.00 for instant PDF download (105 pages)
Job Pilgrim
By Vivien Arnold
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$150.00
Ideal Music Theatre work.
This work was informed and inspired by many contemporary theologians, psychologists, scientists and poets including Cynthia Bourgeault, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rohr, John Saxbee, Eckhart Tolle, and Keith Ward, and those now dead including Meister Ekhart, TS Eliot, John Greenleaf Whittier, Hafiz, G M Hopkins, Rainer Rilke, Rumi, and in particular Carl Jung. Their words have been used both as quotes and libretti throughout. Biblical texts have also been used. The work is based on the Book of Job. Inspiration also came from doctors, nursing staff and patients.
The script is loosely modelled on a miracle play. The music is enigmatic in the use of keys: Bb (be flat); C (see); C# (see sharply), B (Be); although, for the sake of variety, this idea isn’t used exclusively.
The choir of pilgrims, the quartet and many of the solos and duets by Christof and Sophia, act like a Greek chorus, commenting on the play.
Although this is conceived as a dramatised oratorio, the music could stand alone as a whole or as separate items. A second script - Faith Re-Found - (included as an addendum) is provided to hold much of the music together for performance as an oratorio with no dramatics.
Written and music composed 2014
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ISMN 9790720171999
$70.00 for instant PDF download (185 pages)
Lukannon
By Vivien Arnold
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$8.00
Baritone solo or men's choir
Words by Rudyard Kipling. Composed 2016
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ISMN 9790720171111
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