Peter Sculthorpe

Tailitnama Song (‘Tai’ pronounced ‘tie’) is based upon The Song of Tailitnama, for soprano, six cellos and percussion, a work that I wrote in 1974. The text of the original work consists of four verse...

The very opening melody of this work is a transcription of an aboriginal chant from Arnhem Land, collected by the anthropologist A.P.Elkin in the late fifties. Still well-known in the area, the chant...

This work began life as a short song, with words by Heine, written in 1947 when I was a student in Melbourne. In this arrangement for viola and piano, I made some minor revisions to the verses of the...

This short work was part of a garland of pieces written as a tribute to Justine Peberdy. A member of the executive staff of the Dartington International Summer School, Justine, for family reasons, had...

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

Songs of Sea and Sky was commissioned by the School of Music, Yale University, upon the retirement of Keith Wilson. The work is based on a traditional dance song from Saibai, an island just south of P...

This work was written out of sympathy for the violinist, who, like all performers, spends many hours practising on his or her own. It is, then, a duet in which violinist takes comfort in whistling or...

The instrumental violin part for Serenade, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, and arranged for violin solo in digital sheet music format.

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...

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