Peter Sculthorpe

When I was a student in Melbourne, I entered a collection of Shakespeare settings in the 1948 Victorian School Music Association Composition Competition. To my delight, the collection was judged runne...

‘Tailitnama’ (‘Tai’ pronounced ‘tie’) is an Aboriginal totemic centre in Central Australia. The text for this work consists of four verses, in the Aranda Language, from a rock wallaby song associated...

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

Instrumentation: 2222 - 0200 - perc(3): 2 rainsticks/thunder sheet/tam-t/ch.cym/bongos/tom-t - strings

This is a calm, straightforward work, filled with thoughts of friends and friendly places. Its music grows from the falling intervals played by the guitar at the outset. In one movement, the work cons...

At the time, I wrote that Australia lacks “a common cause, and the self-interest of many has drained us of much of our energy. A bogus national identity and its commercialization has obscured the true...

It grows, it blossoms, it evolves with as much variety as the images in a kaleidoscope, and like a kaleidoscope it seems to fix the listeners' attention at a central point. . . musical ideas as fresh...

The program included one bona fide masterpiece, written in 1967 by Peter Sculthorpe. . .Sun Music III (Nos. I,II and IV are equally imposing) could have been written only in Australia. The sounds of t...

Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): SD/BD/ch.cym/tam-t/3 congas/3 tom-t/bongos/crot/chime/glsp -strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4231 - perc(3): tam-t/whip/3 tom-t/susp.cym/ch.cym/bongos - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 2221 - timp - perc(1): susp.cym/gong/BD - harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4231 - timp - perc(1) tam-t/SD/susp.cym - strings

Instrumentation: tam-t/2 rain sticks/thunder sheet/vib/2 mar

Instrumentation: tam-t/2 rain sticks/thunder sheet/vib/2 mar

Instrumentation: vib/mar/xyl/timp/chimes/tam-t/susp ch & turkishcym/cyms/roto-toms/music sticks/bull roarer/ch.belltree/BD/tgl/whip

Instrumentation: vib/mar/xyl/timp/chimes/tam-t/susp ch & turkishcym/cyms/roto-toms/music sticks/bull roarer/ch.belltree/BD/tgl/whip

Instrumentation: vib/2 mar/tam-t/thunder sheet/2 rain sticks

Instrumentation: vib/2 mar/tam-t/thunder sheet/2 rain sticks

Instrumentation: perc(3): susp.cym/tom-t/gong/mcas/bongos/BD/guiro/sandblock

Duration: 13 minutes Instrumentation: scrt.4 solo crt.rcrt.2 crt.flhn.3 thn.2 brt.(2/4) trbn.btrbn.2 euph.2 Eb tuba.2 Bb tuba - timp - perc(1): SD/tam-t/tgl

Instrumentation: 2 fl.1 ob.2 cl.asax.tsax.bsax.1 bsn - 4 hn.4 crt.2 tpt.2 trbn.btrbn.euph.tuba - timp(=tgl)