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Kakadu

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Kakadu : for orchestra / Peter Sculthorpe.

by Peter Sculthorpe (1988)

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  • Library Availability: Q 784.2/SCU 5 — Available for loan
  • Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 clarinets in B flat, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 4 trumpets in C, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players), strings.

  • Audio Sample

    Performance by Craig Woodland, MLC School Orchestra from the CD MLC School

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Product details

Published by: Faber Music [0571512747] — 1 score (46p. -- Non-standard page size)

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 15 mins

Dedicated to Patricia Papper

Commission info: Generously commissioned by Emmanuel Papper as a present for his wife Patricia, upon her birthday.

First performance by Jorge Mester, Aspen Festival Orchestra — 24 Jul 88. Aspen, Colorado.

Includes programme note.

The Australian Music Centre notes that this composition is historical and may contain some words or terms used in relation to Indigenous peoples, references to culture and/or content which could be considered offensive or distressing. These words and/or content reflect the attitude of the period in which they were written and/or that of the composer(s). The Australian Music Centre acknowledges the rights of Indigenous peoples to protect, control and develop their cultural expressions and intellectual property and warns this composition may contain ICIP belonging to Indigenous groups across Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. 

Version with didjeridu was prepared in collaboration with William Barton for the recording by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in 2003.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 1992.

ISBN: 0-571-51274-7

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Analysis & Media

- Kit: 2009 Australian composition resource kit

- Book: Meet the music : Australian composition resource kit, 1997.

- Book: Sydney Symphony Orchestra education program 1993 : K - 8 resource kit.

- Book: 1997 Meet the Music 5 : resource kit / Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

- Book: Book of analyses : Australian Music Workshop, MLC School, Sunday 7 March, 1999.

- Program note: Peter Sculthorpe's "Kakadu"
by Peter Sculthorpe
Source: the score of this work

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