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Performance by Christine Myers, Eleanor Lewis from the CD Chamber music |
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Score
Songline : for violin and cello / Paul Stanhope.
Library shelf no. 785.712/STA 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
In many Australian Indigenous cultures, songlines map out the journey of spirit-beings across the landscape and are marked with traditional songs, stories, dances and painting. This piece imagines this notion of song mapping out a landscape, perhaps imagined from above.
The piece also examines a theme central to Indigenous culture, that in death, the full richness of artistic life is celebrated; hence there are sections of dance-like exhilaration as well as mourning. The piece is in three main sections: an opening statement of the songline, a ritual celebratory dance and a third solemn and sparse lament. Peter Sculthorpe's influence might be detected in the imagery and sound-world explored in this piece written while I was still a student.
Work Details
Year: 1998
Instrumentation: Violin, cello.
Duration: 8 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Dedication note: To Eleanor and Christine.
First performance: by Christine Myers, Eleanor Lewis — 12 Dec 98. Old Darlington School, Sydney University
Previously titled Mularra
Revised and re-titled 2016
Subjects
- Influenced by: Indigenous Australian Culture
Performances of this work
27 Oct 2019: at BACH - BRITTEN - STANHOPE - RAVEL (St Andrew's Anglican Church, Ormiston). Featuring Camille Barry, Daniel Curro.
5 Oct 2018: at DUOZ - Debut (Simply for Strings). Featuring DUOZ.
17 Aug 2016: at Muscle Memory (The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts). Featuring Collusion.
26 Aug 2011: at Edinburgh Fringe - Alba to Oz (The Space @ Symposium Hall). Featuring Alice Rickards, Sonia Cromarty.
23 Aug 2011: at Alba to Oz (To be confirmed). Featuring Alice Rickards, Sonia Cromarty.
23 Aug 2011: at Edinburgh Fringe - Alba to Oz (The Space @ Symposium Hall). Featuring Alice Rickards, Sonia Cromarty.
12 Dec 98: Old Darlington School, Sydney University. Featuring Christine Myers, Eleanor Lewis.
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