Sheet Music: ScoreWhite Ghost Dancing : arranged for wind orchestra / Ross Edwards.by Ross Edwards (2018)
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There are recorded instances of Aboriginal People mistaking early
Europeans in Australia for the ghosts of their ancestors, since
ghosts were believed to be light-coloured.
As I composed White Ghost Dancing, the concept of a white ghost
came to symbolise non-indigenous Australia's innate Aboriginality
- its capacity to transform and heal itself through spiritual
connectedness with the earth.
I believe that music, which has enormous therapeutic properties
and, for me, a close relationship with ritual - and especially
dance - is destined to make an important contribution to this
transformation and healing, hence the title.
Typical of my maninya (dance/chant pieces), White Ghost Dancing
is a compact mosaic of unconsciously processed shapes and
patterns from the natural world: fragments of birdsong, insect
and frog rhythms, as well as fleeting references to other works
of mine and hinted fusions of Aboriginal and Gregorian chant.
Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from G.Schirmer Australia) — 1 score (68p. -- A3 (portrait))
Duration: 10 mins
First performance by Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wind Symphony, John Lynch at SCM Wind Symphony (Greenway Series) (Verbrugghen Hall) on 24 May 2019
Includes programme notes.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-67311-240-7
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This work also exists as the following versions:
- Cello with orchestra
- Full orchestra
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Analysis & Media
- Book: 2002 Australian composition kit : resource kit / Sydney Symphony Education Program.
- Kit: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards / music resource kit by Philip Cooney.
- Kit: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards / teaching booklet by Philip Cooney.
- eBook: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards [eKit] / teaching booklet by Philip Cooney.
- Document: Composer profile – Ross Edwards, A Natural Way
- Program note: Ross Edwards' "White ghost dancing"
by Ross Edwards
Source: the score of this work
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