Music Theatre
Alice's Common Sense Song
By Frank Millward
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$40.00
For Solo or Duet young voice and Chamber Orchestra (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, ‘Cello, Double Bass, Trumpet Bb, Horn in F, Bass Trombone, Keys, Percussion)
This piece is ideally suited to young female performers and can be presented as either a solo or duet. Technical difficulty - level five standard
As part of the complete production of Hilary Westlake's "Dining with Alice",
other pieces from the Suite are available online.
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Box, The
By Houston Dunleavy
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$50.00
Short Opera about love, c.9'30.
Libretto by Laura E Goodin.
Leona works in a warehouse with Gil and Byron, who have been friends, as well as co-workers, for years. In the course of her work, she opens a box that's inexplicably empty. Tossing it aside as a fluke, she continues - but something odd is happening. Why are Gil and Byron looking at each other like that? She hears a news item on the radio: everyone in Sydney is falling in love! Terrified that this sudden vulnerability will leave her friends open to heartbreak, she slams the box shut again. Nothing good can come of this: nothing good has ever come of such reckless emotion. "Hearts are warehouses," she sings, "shelves of plain brown boxes holding nothing much. I've always known it - the heart has no possibilities".
Leona can't decide - will she open the box, or not?
Composed 2010.
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ISMN 9790720126517
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Brightside
By Frank Millward
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$120.00
Five pieces from the full work for Soprano and Baritone, Choir and Chamber OrchestraIn Brightside a poem, written to a pre-prepared scenario, was interpreted using music, song, dialogue and movement. Synthersising these so that no one form dominates another, Brightside develops themes of blind optimism, obstructive cynicism and misguided treachery. This work was originally performed by Lumiere and Son Theatre Company London.
The score presented here is a re-orchestration of the original score that was performed as an electro-acoustic piece, disseminated through an immersive quadraphonic system. This re-orchestration is ideally suited to an acoustic concert presentational format and works well in accompanying a solo or small ensemble dance component.
Approximately 18’00” in duration there are five major sections scored for Choir (or Quartet with microphones) S.A.T.B. and Chamber Orchestra consisting of Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, ‘Cello, Double Bass, Trumpet Bb, Horn in F, Bass Trombone, Keys and Percussion.
The sections of the work are:
1. No One Knows How Fine They Are – Duration 4’ 32”
2. Ella – Duration 3’ 46”
3. Your Will Never Waivers – Duration 3’ 30”
4. All I Want – Duration 2’ 00”
5. Stella – Duration 3’ 36”
There are opportunities for solo parts in Ella (Soprano) and in All I Want (Baritone), however these can also be sung by combined ensemble voices. The poem ‘Pale fingers…’ by David Gale is a part of the full poem of the work and can be spoken to fit within the section Ella. It is offered as a performance choice if spoken word were to be included in the performance.
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Comets and Chocolates (high)
By Houston Dunleavy
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$35.00
High voice and pianoSix songs from the music-theatre by the same name staring Greg Shand with words by Laura E Goodin. The songs convey the theme of: 'people we love make us, for good or for ill, into who we are'.
Special, Me and Mum, I am My Own Self, Talking to Dinosaurs, Never Again, Not What I Expected.
Composed 2012
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ISMN 9790720133898
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Comets and Chocolates (low)
By Houston Dunleavy
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$35.00
Low voice and pianoSix songs from the music-theatre by the same name starring Greg Shand with words by Laura E Goodin. The songs convey the theme of: 'people we love make us, for good or for ill, into who we are'.
Special, Me and Mum, I am My Own Self, Talking to Dinosaurs, Never Again, Not What I Expected.
Composed 2012
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By Houston Dunleavy
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$35.00
Medium voice and pianoSix songs from the music-theatre by the same name starring Greg Shand with words by Laura E Goodin. The songs convey the theme of: 'people we love make us, for good or for ill, into who we are'.
Special, Me and Mum, I am My Own Self, Talking to Dinosaurs, Never Again, Not What I Expected.
Composed 2012
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Dark, the Light, The
By Diana Blom
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$28.00
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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Dining with Alice
By Frank Millward
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$150.00
Dining With Alice Suite - the complete production available as PDF on disc.For Soloists, Choir and Chamber Orchestra.
- A Slice of Alice
- Alice's Common Sense Song
- Flight of the Cornish Dog
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Spider and the Fly
The music presented here has been taken from the 2011 Artichoke production and comes from that section of the work which took place as a concert performance in an outdoor setting ‘grounds of a 15th-century moated manor house’ performed by the eight characters (Queen of Hearts, Red Queen, White Queen, the Duchess, King of Hearts, White Knight, Mad Hatter, Tweedle (Dum Dee), a choir of waiters and a Chamber Orchestra consisting of Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, ‘Cello, Double Bass, Trumpet Bb, Horn in F, Bass Trombone, Keys, Percussion.
‘Dining with Alice was one of the earliest instances of immersive (where spectators are part of the action), site-specific (the place is part of the subject) theatre. It was a landmark.’ First performed in 1999 at the Salisbury Festival, the piece was conceived and directed by Hillary Westlake and staged in the Victorian pleasure gardens of Salisbury as part of the Salisbury Festival, commissioned by the then festival director Helen Marriage. In 2011 the work was part of the Norfolk and Norwich festival, produced by Artichoke, transplanted to the beautiful grounds of a 15th-century moated manor house. ‘Lewis Carroll's characters unleashed from Alice's dream, wandering through a landscape accompanied by an audience whose walk is punctuated by the courses of a meal.’ (Quotations from Susannah Clapp - Observer Newspaper U.K. 15 May 2011).
The entire suite is available on a CD disc.
Individual pieces from "Dining with Alice" Suite are available online.Download samples
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ISMN 9790720167602
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Flight of the Cornish Dog, The
By Frank Millward
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$40.00
For Solo Spoken Voice and Chamber Orchestra. Duration 2’ 15” (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, ‘Cello, Double Bass, Trumpet Bb, Horn in F, Bass Trombone, Keys, Percussion). Words by David Gale.
Technical difficulty - level six standard
As part of the complete production of Hilary Westlake's "Dining with Alice",
other pieces from the Suite are available online.
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ISMN 9790720167565
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Grotesque - Operina
By Meta Overman
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$70.00
A one act operina (very small opera) for soprano, clarinet (or flute), four hands piano and dancer.
The score also includes a CD of the chamber works and a DVD of the first performance held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on 2nd April 2019 (also linked here).
Grotesque is a tragic comedy with quite an absurd plot involving an old man – the character played by the clarinettist, a young girl, sung by the soprano and a ghost whose antics are created by the sounds of the piano. Its structure is theme and variations as in the original version for piano four hands and the plot is described by a narrator. It is a little questionable whether in a performance that is staged the narrator is really necessary. In fact there is no mention of a narrator on the original score though when recording the work a narrator could be deemed necessary to outline the antics of the characters who cannot be seen. In a staged version the characters create the images and the “narration” on the score can be viewed as merely stage directions. The dancer would therefore act out the antics of the ghost and the instrumentalists would become the characters described by the stage directions. Composed 1951 rev. 1961
Edited by Jeanell Carrigan
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[The performers were: Goetz Richter (narrator), Narelle Yeo (soprano), Katherine Howarth (clarinet), Jeanell Carrigan (piano), Tonya Lemoh (piano), Ines Paxton (girl, ghost), Andrew Knight (old man), Filmed by Connor Malanos.]
ISMN9790720214559
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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
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Inde soete suikerbol
By Meta Overman
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$25.00
Of the sweet sugarbun14 pieces for children's music theatre. Translation of the work
Composed c.1923.
Researched and edited by David Wickham
Editorial from the Journal of Music, University of Adelaide by David Wickham
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