Peter Sculthorpe

... draws its inspiration from plainsong and maintains a wonderful sense of space and stillness. Helen Wallace, BBC Music Magazine, October 1995

The two pieces last 4 minutes.

This is the piano score only of Djilile, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, for cello and piano in digital sheet music format.

Instrumentation: 0.2.0.2.cbsn - 2231 - perc(3): tam-t/susp.cym/bongo/3 congas/BD/glsp/crot/3 tom-t - strings

Irkanda is an Australian native word meaning 'a remote and lonely place'.

'Earth cry' is a straightforward and melodious work. Its four parts are made up of a quick ritualistic music, framed by a slower music of a supplicatory nature, and an extended coda. It owes a debt to...

Instrumentation: 0100 - 0200 – timp – perc(2): BD/chimes/tgl/ch.cym/tam-t/vib/tom-tom/susp.cym/glsp – harp – strings

... conveyed an impression of a harsh, blistering landscape, which seemed at times on the point of eruption. Scotsman (Conrad Wilson), 27 August 1984, Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp(=BD)...

Music for Japan begins with a great sobbing breath of sound, rather like the deep chesty vocalism of Japanese classical singer-actors. Slow planetary wanderings of timbre and accent give way to a midd...

Lush and pictorial, it consisted of sharply defined sections that courted the charge of mere exoticism - evocations of Oriental musics and sounds, full of throbbing strings, rapidly reiterated percuss...

... a powerfully evocative piece for orchestra of strings, brass and percussion, which translates into a variety of extraordinary orchestral timbres and motifs, the feeling of the sun as a vast, glari...

The work was inspired by a visit to Easter Island, famous for its great stone heads, monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its grea...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): tam-t/susp.ch.cym/susp.cym/BD/SD/bongo/3 tom-t/thunder sheet/chime - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4230 - timp - perc(1) - strings

Peter Sculthorpe's program note reads as follows: 'Lullaby is based upon one of the number of indigenous Australian melodies collected by Dr H.C. Lethbridge during the 1930s and is a lullaby for child...

The hard glitter of the Australian sun is translated into an imaginative range of vocal sonorities for SATB chorus with piano and three percussion players.

Instrumentation: didjeridu solo - 2222 - 4331 - timp - perc(3):tam-t/ch.cym/tgl/tubular bell (below D)/congas (pair)/timb/tom-toms(pair)/BD - strings

Into The Dreaming, composed by Peter Sculthorpe and arranged for classical guitar solo in digital sheet music format.

**Selected on the ABRSM Grade 7 Piano Syllabus 2015-2016.**

Singing Sun from 'A Little Book Of Hours', composed by Peter Sculthorpe for Piano Solo.

Little Passacaglia, written by Peter Sculthorpe and arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format.

Playing score of To Meadows composed by Peter Sculthorpe, in digital sheet music format.