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Arafura dances

Sheet Music: Score & Part(s)

Arafura dances : concerto for guitar and string orchestra, piano reduction / Ross Edwards.

Also known as: Concerto for guitar and string orchestra

by Ross Edwards (1995)

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  • Instrumentation: Guitar, piano (reduction of orchestral parts).
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    Performance by Karin Schaupp, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills from the CD White ghost dancing


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Arafura Dances is in three movements: a lyrical and expressive adagio framed by two pulsating maninyas (Australian dance/chants) in which references to a variety of Australasian and Pacific musical cultures are woven into a fabric of insect rhythms and drones. Edwards, clearly under the spell of Darwin and coastal Arnhem Land as he composed, refers to the turquoise Arafura Sea as a constant backdrop. Other influences include flora and fauna of the region and the colourful Macassan sailing boats in Darwin's Maritime Museum. Edwards also mentions Ian Morris's photograph "of a gloriously flowering Red Bud Mallee against a deep blue sky", an image he likes to think is "somehow inlaid in the music".

Originally composed as a Guitar Concerto for John Williams, who gave the first performance with the Darwin Symphony in 1995, Ross Edwards arranged the work for string quartet especially for performance at the 2006 Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, where it was performed for the first time by Marshall McGuire (who also transcribed the guitar part for harp) and the Goldner String Quartet.

Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from G.Schirmer Australia) — 1 score 33p. -- A4 (portrait)) and 1 part (17p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Professional.

Duration: 18 mins, 30 sec.

Contents note:

I. Maninya -- II. Arioso -- III. Maninya II.

Dedicated to John Williams

Includes programme note.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 2003.

ISMN: 979-0-720130-70-5

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This work also exists as the following versions:
- Guitar with string orchestra
- Quintets: Harp, 2 violins, viola, cello

 

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