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fifth continent

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The fifth continent : for speaker and orchestra / Peter Sculthorpe.

by Peter Sculthorpe (1963)

  • Sales Availability: This item is not available to customers outside Australia and New Zealand.
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  • Library Availability: 784.2/SCU 16 — Available for loan
  • Instrumentation: Narrator, pre-recorded sounds (didjeridu and natural wind sounds), chamber orchestra (oboe, trumpet, percussion, harp, strings).

  • Audio Sample

    Performance by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Peter Sculthorpe, David Porcelijn, Barbara Jane Gilby, David Pereira, Vanessa Souter, Joseph Ortuso, Mark Atkins, Bruce Lamont from the CD fifth continent

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Product details

Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from Faber Music) — 1 score (54p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 30 mins

Contents note:

Prologue -- Outback -- Small town -- Pacific -- Epilogue.

Commission info: Commissioned by the ABC as the organisation's entry for the Prix Italia.

First performance by ABC Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Matthews — 13 Dec 69. Hobart Town Hall.

Includes programme notes and full text.

The text featured in this work is selections from D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo.

Typeset edition.

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