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White ghost dancing

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White ghost dancing : for orchestra / Ross Edwards.

by Ross Edwards (1999)

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  • Instrumentation: 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo) , 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon), 4 hornsin F, 2 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion (3 players), harp, piano, strings. 

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    Performance by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills from the CD White ghost dancing

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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))

Difficulty: Medium — Advanced student or professional.

Duration: 7 mins, 30 sec.

Dedicated to David Porcelijn

Commissioned by Symphony Australia for performance by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with funds provided by Australia Council.

First performance by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn — 5 Jul 00. Odeon Theatre, Hobart

Includes program note.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 2007.

ISMN: 979-0-720121-40-6

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This work also exists as the following versions:
- Cello with orchestra
- Wind band

 

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Analysis & Media

- Book: 2002 Australian composition kit : resource kit / Sydney Symphony Education Program.

- Book: Beyond sacred and maninya : developments in the music of Ross Edwards between 1991-2001 / P.G. Cooney.

- 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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