Trumpet Feature
Edifice, which means "structure" attempts to create three contrasting musical scenarios. The first of the three movements, entitled Rising Pillars, captures the building's physical structure made up of high ceilings and tall support columns.…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
David Jarvis
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Jazz Sketches for cello and vibraphone features three movements of contrasting jazz moods. Livin’ In The City, a fast paced driving straight-eighth note feel is a musical description of urban life. Blues Lament is a slow somber dirge using jazz harmony and a…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
David Jarvis
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Oboe Feature
Kohola (Hawaiian for humpback whale), written for oboe and percussion quartet by David Jarvis, was inspired from the songs of humpback whales. The work begins slowly and freely with ocean drums and oboe stating the main theme. The middle of the…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
David Jarvis
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The title of the piece, Tap-Click represents the sound motive and rhythmic structure for the entire work. The piece is performed with the players placed around the audience, creating a “surround-sound” effect.Program NotesThe title of the piece, Tap-Click…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
David Jarvis
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Water colour country. Here the hills
rot like rungs beneath enormous skies
and all day long the shadows of the clouds
stain the paddocks with their running dyes.
In the small valleys and along the coast,
the land untamed between the scattered farms,…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Don Kay, Simon Reade
Publisher:
Brolga Music
ToccataFugue is a virtuosic showpiece for the vibraphonist featuring a mixture of figurative passage-work along with complex contrapuntal writing. The fugue is merged with (imbedded into) the body of the toccata.Program NotesToccataFugue is a virtuoso…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
George R. Belden
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Depicting two Tasmanian scenes - Bruny Island where shearwaters and penguins gather in great numbers; and People's Park in Strahan the site of many a family picnic and brass band performance, Two Places provides two musically challenging movements for the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Simon Reade
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Two Places was composed to mark the bicentennial of the European settlement at Risdon Cove and Hobart Town in 2004. Representing two contrasting Tasmanian locations, this work reflects the character of Two Places: The Truganini Memorial on Bruny Island and…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Simon Reade
Publisher:
Brolga Music