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Voice of Australia (Medium to High)

By Miller, Dixon, Foulsham

Regular price $65.00 Sale

Medium to High voice and piano.

Songs by 12 Australian composers demonstrates the unique relationship between poet, composer, singer and pianist in the genre of art song.

Voice of Australia is an expression of art song and the unique relationship between poet, composer, singer and pianist which this genre exemplifies. A composer’s choice of text is neither arbitrary nor insignificant. It is the text that inspires the composer to translate words into music. The responsibility of performers is to discover the composer's intention and to share this with the audience.

Voice of Australia aims to provide an understanding of the fine balance between text, keyboard accompaniment and voice for each song. Singers have the advantage of using text as an expressive tool, but this advantage can only be fully realised by a shared understanding with the pianist. Performance of a well crafted art song demands textual understanding by both performers, as well as an appreciation of the intricacies of each others’ music.
To assist performers and teachers the authors have proposed Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced levels to equate with standard examination grades from 1st to 4th, 5th to 8th, and Associate level and above.
Composers chosen for this book epitomise the quintessential Australian voice. The Australian voice embodies many cultures and has been shaped by many influences. The various voices within our multi-cultural society have found expression in a wide range of musical styles. The authors have attempted to encompass this diversity in our book.

Backing tracks and vocal CD is included (performed by Wendy Dixon soprano, Tim Collins baritone, David Miller piano).

Also available in Medium to Low voice

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Voice of Australia - sheet music

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First Person Feminine - iii (c.1'20) (Cooper)
First Person Feminine - iv (c.1'15) (Cooper)
Strange Requiem (c.2'45) (Sutherland)
Titania's Lullaby (c.3'05) (Dixon)
Auguries of Innocence (c.2'25) (Peterson)
I am Black (c.1'35) (Schultz)
Frogs 1 (c.1.00, 1.00, 0.40) (Butterley)
Frogs 2
Frogs 3
Quel rosignuol (c.3'45) (Brumby)
Each thoughtless day (c.2'15) (Pearce)
where the wind sighs (c.2'00) (Pearce)
Night After Bushfire (c.2'05) (Kerry)
Balloon Ride (c.2'50) (Greenbaum)
Asmaradana (c.3'20) (Beath)
Turning Fifty (c.4'20) (Paviour)

Many of these works are available separately, see titles in catalogue.

ISMN M720041988, ISBN 9781876829117

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Voice of Australia (Medium to Low)

By Miller, Dixon, Foulsham

Regular price $65.00 Sale

Medium to Low voice and piano.

See listing above Voice of Australia - Medium to High for details.
Backing tracks and vocal CD is included.

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Many of these works are available separately, see titles in catalogue.

ISMN720072302, ISBN 9781876829133

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Voice of the Depths

By Peter Mcnamara

Regular price $55.00 Sale

Piano, percussion and pre-recorded electronics, includes CD.

Russell Keats, eldest son of the Australian composer Horace Keats, was killed during the attack on his ship HMAS Canberra (1) during 1942. His father and entire family was devastated by this event, and Horace Keats composed a very solemn and reflective song in memory of his son entitled Over the Quiet Waters. Voice of the Depths is composed for piano, percussion and pre-recorded electronics, and follows the story of Russell Keats during his deployment on the Canberra. Spoken passages of text from the letters sent home to his family, read by his brother Brennan Keats, outline and initiate the structural points of the work. The pitches from the central motif of Over the Quiet Waters form its harmonic basis, and are used as fundamentals from which other pitch material is derived from their physical-acoustic properties. These physical-acoustic properties are used to synthesise sounds in the electronic component of the work, and are re-enforced in the piano and vibraphone parts. A speaker is also directed into the piano internal mechanism to agitate the strings creating sympathetic vibrations at various points. This results in a subtle reverberation effect that blends with the electronic reverberation and creates deceptive tone colour transformations.
Composed 2015

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ISMN 9790720167954
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Voice of the Forest

By Horace Keats

Regular price $60.00 Sale

A collection of 11 songs set to words of Hugh McCrae for soprano and/or medium voice and piano.

Most of these songs have been recorded by Jane Parkin, Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) and by Wendy Dixon, John Pringle and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online

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Columbine - sheet music and audio
O Deep and Dewy Hour - sheet music and audio
The Moon - sheet music and audio
Sun After Rain - sheet music and audio
The Trespass - sheet music and audio
Twilight - sheet music and audio
Under the Sky - sheet music
Versicle - sheet music and
Voice of the Forest - sheet music
The Wild Man's Dear - sheet music and audio
The Pantler's Son - sheet music and audio

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1. Columbine
2. O Deep and Dewy Hour
3. Moon, The
4. Sun After Rain
5. Trespass, The
6. Twilight (Crepuscule)
7. Under the Sky
8. Versicle

9. Voice of the Forest
10. Wild Man's Dear, The
11. Pantler's Son,The
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ISMN M720011271

Voice of the Forest (McCrae)

By Horace Keats

Regular price $15.00 Sale

Soprano and piano, c.3'10

Grade: 6
Genre: Neo Classical
Date: 1941
Tempo: Marked Andante, a song of freedom of spirit, life and joy.

Words by Hugh McCrae.

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Voice of the Forest - sheet music

ISMN M72007601

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Voices in the Sky

By Michael Hannan

Regular price $25.00 Sale

Solo piano. Professional performance

In this piece the composer has attempted to impose strict controls upon quite limited materials but at the same time, has tried to create in places, a kind of reckless flamboyance. Composed 1980 rev 1987.

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ISMN 9790720140223
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Voltage

By Peter Mcnamara

Regular price $30.00 Sale

Solo percussion
Voltage is a work primarily based on rhythmic combinations related to 240 W.

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ISMN 720106212
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Voluntary on 'Tallis' Canon

By Brett M Mckern

Regular price $12.00 Sale

Solo organ c.5'00. Grade AMusA

Tempo: Various from maestoso to allegro; crotchet = 66-100
Genre: Neo-romantic
A sort of theme and variations on the famous hymn tune using various techniques in each section as the theme is used at least motivically. There is fugue, stretto, canon, French organ-toccata style, fanfare, and others
Composed 2014

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ISMN 9790720146003
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Vuillard Suite, Op.76

By Victor Morrison

Regular price $40.00 Sale

Six pieces for solo piano.

Reflections on Nabi paintings by Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940). The collection is beautifully presented by the composer to include the paintings of Vuillard illustrated as in the titles below.

1. The Tea Garden in The Grand Teddy, c.2'00
2. The Garden at Vaucresson, c.3'30
3. La Salle Clarac, c.1'55
4. The Public Gardens, c.2'05
5. Woman In A Striped Dress, c.3'20
6. Place Vintimille, c.2'20

Composed 2020

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Vuillard Suite - sheet music

ISMN 9790720231068

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Vulture Culture

By Frank Millward

Regular price $100.00 Sale

A choreographed music theatre.

In Vulture Culture, contemporary society is characterised as an orchestra with each section striding carelessly and at times, brutally, over any vulnerable little thing that get in its way. Words by David Gale.

For parts contact keats@wirripang.com.au

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