Australian Chamber Music with Piano

Details

ISBN (print):

9781921862403

ISBN (online):

9781921862410

Publication date:

Oct 2011

Imprint:

ANU Press

DOI:

http://doi.org/10.22459/ACMP.10.2011

Disciplines:

Arts & Humanities: Art & Music, History

Countries:

Australia

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• Preliminary Pages (PDF, 163KB)
• Acknowledgments (PDF, 49KB)
• Preface (PDF, 97KB)

Part 1: The First Generation

1. Composers of Their Time: Early modernists and neo-classicists (PDF, 1.0MB)
2. Composers Looking Back: Late romantics and the nineteenth-century legacy (PDF, 1.0MB)
3. Phyllis Campbell (1891–1974) (PDF, 630KB) – Fiona Fraser

Part 2: The Second Generation (PDF, 52KB)

4. Post–1945 Modernism Arrives in Australia (PDF, 2.6MB)
5. Retrospective Composers (PDF, 728KB)
6. Pluralism (PDF, 812KB)
7. Sitsky’s Chamber Music (PDF, 1.8MB) – Edward Neeman

Part 3: The Third Generation (PDF, 52KB)

8. The Next Wave of Modernism (PDF, 1.3MB)
9. Maximalism (PDF, 204KB)
10. Pluralism (PDF, 2.3MB)

Part 4: The Fourth Generation (PDF, 52KB)

11. The Fourth Generation (PDF, 1.7MB)

• Concluding Remarks (PDF, 233KB)
• Appendix (PDF, 6.9MB)

1. Dance of the White Browed Babbler (audio/mpeg, 4.87 MB)

Recording the Brewster-Jones Bird Impressions is a significant step in our knowledge of early 20th century Australian Music. Sadly, the composer never heard his work performed in public or indeed published, and it has taken almost 100 years for this major opus to make it into the public arena. Adelaide in the early 1920s would have regarded the idea of using Australian bird calls as thematic material for a series of art-music pieces as bizarre. Brewster-Jones therefore did not even bother making a fine copy of his work and so all we have is the music in the composer’s barely legible scrawl, obviously written down in a hurry and for his private edification. My research assistant, Dr. Judith Crispin, spent many long months transcribing the very rough manuscripts into computer type-setting. As pianist, I had to make sense of the often sketchy material to arrive at a hopefully convincing final product. The pieces vary from simple to quite sophisticated and the harmonies which cloak the bird calls are at times advanced for their day. Brewster-Jones was obviously familiar with the output of Scriabin and Debussy, which, combined with his own original bent, make some of the pieces quite arresting even now. I have put my working scores on line for the listener’s interest; but really, every pianist must begin with the original text and then make something of it. I treated his score as I treat scores by others- that is, with more freedom than some of my pianistic colleagues may approve! The original scores also have a very informative essay by Judith Crispin about the problems of working with the original material, to be found in the Barr-Smith Library in Adelaide. The only edition of the work available commercially is by The Keys Press in Perth. I hope that other pianists will now take up these pieces. Larry Sitsky

2. Boom of the Bronze-wing Pigeon (audio/mpeg, 3.21 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

3. Song of the Grey Shrike Thrush (audio/mpeg, 2.47 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

4. White Shafted Fantail (audio/mpeg, 1.47 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

5. Bronze-wing's Mating Song (audio/mpeg, 6.64 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

6. Black Swans Flying (audio/mpeg, 1.90 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

7. Tree Creeper (audio/mpeg, 10.78 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

8. Quarrelsome Blue Wrens (audio/mpeg, 2.32 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

9. Wattle Bird (audio/mpeg, 1.56 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

10a. One of Haysen's Hens (audio/mpeg, 1.63 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

10b. Song of the Brown Treecreeper at Heysens (audio/mpeg, 3.21 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

11. Song of the Yellow-breasted Shrike Tit at Bridgewater (audio/mpeg, 1.42 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

12. Shrike Thrush 7.30A.M. (audio/mpeg, 2.50 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

13. Pallid Cuckoo at Dusk (audio/mpeg, 2.42 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

14. Magpie in the Air (audio/mpeg, 3.77 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

15. Mudlark, or the Magpie Lark (audio/mpeg, 3.73 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

16. Shrike Thrush at the Window (audio/mpeg, 1.92 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

17. White Shafted Fantail (audio/mpeg, 1.47 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

18. Red Wattle Bird (audio/mpeg, 4.24 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

19. Crescent Honey-eater (Egypt) (audio/mpeg, 4.65 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

20. Honey-eater in the Heather (audio/mpeg, 1.42 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

21. Shrike Thrush (Morning at Glen Osmond) (audio/mpeg, 5.00 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

22. Shrike Thrush in the Driving Mist of Morn (audio/mpeg, 4.43 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

23. Love Calls of the Tawny Crowned Honey-eater (audio/mpeg, 5.54 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

25. Golden-Breasted Whistler (audio/mpeg, 3.71 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

26. Call of the White Naped Honey-eater (audio/mpeg, 2.72 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

27. Bronzewing and a Wet Dawn (audio/mpeg, 5.11 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

28. Rosella's Wooing (audio/mpeg, 4.86 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

29. Calm After Rain (audio/mpeg, 2.04 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

30. Blackbird in the Olives (audio/mpeg, 2.14 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

31. Blackbird in the Garden (audio/mpeg, 3.80 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

32. Superb Warbler (audio/mpeg, 3.59 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

33. Shrike Thrush at Long Gully Station (audio/mpeg, 4.02 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

34. Shrike Thrush in the Spring Shower at Dawn (audio/mpeg, 4.72 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

35. Shrike Thrush in the Saplings (at Ambleside) (audio/mpeg, 3.19 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

36. The Cooing Pigeon (audio/mpeg, 2.90 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

37. Shrike Thrush by the River (audio/mpeg, 4.36 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

38a. The Skylark in Australia (audio/mpeg, 5.85 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

38b. Reed Warbler (audio/mpeg, 7.78 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

39. Scarlet-breasted Robin (audio/mpeg, 3.46 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

40. The Magpie in the Tree (audio/mpeg, 5.34 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

41. Two Captive Magpies (audio/mpeg, 3.72 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

42. Rosellas in the Misty Morning (audio/mpeg, 3.58 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

43. Greenie (audio/mpeg, 2.03 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

44. Blackbird (audio/mpeg, 5.36 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

45a. Golden-breasted Whistler(a) (audio/mpeg, 6.86 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

45b. Golden-breasted Whistler(b) (audio/mpeg, 3.55 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

46a. Golden-breasted Whistler (audio/mpeg, 2.00 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

46b. Madame Golden-breasted Whistler (audio/mpeg, 2.00 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

47. Mopoke (audio/mpeg, 7.86 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

48. Wattle Bird in the Gardens (audio/mpeg, 2.06 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

49. The Distant Magpie (audio/mpeg, 3.61 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

50. Shrike Thrush (audio/mpeg, 2.72 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

51. Calls of the Bell Bird (audio/mpeg, 5.00 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

52. The Spotted Pardalote on High (audio/mpeg, 2.42 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

53. Tom Tit (audio/mpeg, 4.08 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

54. Calls of the Pallid Cuckoo (audio/mpeg, 3.90 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

55. The Peaceful Dove (audio/mpeg, 1.90 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

56. Blackbird at Rose Park (audio/mpeg, 2.61 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

57. Crescent Honey-eater (audio/mpeg, 2.46 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

58. Bird by the Brook (audio/mpeg, 4.88 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

59. The Spotted Pardelote on High (audio/mpeg, 2.42 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

60. The Yellow-tailed Pardalote (audio/mpeg, 2.92 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

61. The Fighting Fantails (audio/mpeg, 996.97 kb)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

62. Tawney Crowned Honey-eater (audio/mpeg, 4.31 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

63. Diamond Firetail (audio/mpeg, 3.56 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

64. Shrike Thrush, Call 7 (audio/mpeg, 2.58 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

65. Shrike Thrush in the Fog (audio/mpeg, 3.79 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

66. Striped honey-eater (audio/mpeg, 2.25 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

67. Mysterious Mopoke (audio/mpeg, 3.19 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

68. Jacky Winter Enlivens the Farmyard (audio/mpeg, 3.87 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

69. Wattle Bird at Noon (audio/mpeg, 4.15 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

70. Blackbird in the St. John's Tree (audio/mpeg, 3.60 MB)

Performed by Larry Sitsky

Bird Call Impressions, Book 1. Hooper Brewster Jones (1887-1949) (PDF, 2.24 MB)

Please note: The original publisher (Keys Press) has requested that only the first page of each piece be provided here.

Bird Call Impressions, Book 2. Hooper Brewster Jones (1887-1949) (PDF, 1.70 MB)

Please note: The original publisher (Keys Press) has requested that only the first page of each piece be provided here.

Bird Call Impressions, Book 3. Hooper Brewster Jones (1887-1949) (PDF, 1.86 MB)

Please note: The original publisher (Keys Press) has requested that only the first page of each piece be provided here.

Bird Call Impressions, Book 4. Hooper Brewster Jones (1887-1949) (PDF, 2.07 MB)

Please note: The original publisher (Keys Press) has requested that only the first page of each piece be provided here.

Bird Call Impressions, Book 5. Hooper Brewster Jones (1887-1949) (PDF, 1.74 MB)

Please note: The original publisher (Keys Press) has requested that only the first page of each piece be provided here.

Bird Call Impressions, Book 6. Hooper Brewster Jones (1887-1949) (PDF, 2.06 MB)

Please note: The original publisher (Keys Press) has requested that only the first page of each piece be provided here.