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Sheet Music: ScoreEcstatic dance II : arranged for 2 violas / Ross Edwardsby Ross Edwards (1990)
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In 1979 I contributed a flute duo to a garland of miniatures by Australian composers in celebration of Peter Sculthorpe's 50th birthday. A revised and expanded version of this duo was incorporated into Ecstatic Dances (1990), which I composed for the flautist Geoffrey Collins.
Ecstatic Dance has special significance for me as the earliest manifestation of my so-called maninya style, the extrovert antithesis of the contemplative music I had been writing in the 1970s. Radiant and insistently melodic to befit its celebratory function, it exists today in many different arrangements, including several for string duo, and as the finale of Chorale and Ecstatic Dance for string quartet, string orchestra and full orchestra. In 2013 I made a special orchestral version for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra to record in volume 13 of the Hush collection, a series of CDs put out by the Hush Music Foundation, whose purpose is to produce music designed to help children and parents through stressful medical procedures. Sales of the CD also help raise money for Australian Children's Hospitals.
Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from G.Schirmer Australia) — 1 score (8p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 6 mins
This is scored in alto and treble clefs.
This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.
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Score: Ecstatic dance no. 2 : arranged for 2 violas or viola and cello / Ross Edwards
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Score [ePDF]: Ecstatic dance no. 2 : arranged for 2 violas or viola and cello [eScore] / Ross Edwards
CD: MLC School : 1999 Biennial Opera House concert.
This work also exists as the following versions:
- Duos: 2 flutes
- Duos: 2 Violins
- String Quartets
- Duos: Viola, cello
- Duos: Violin, cello
- Duos: Flute, clarinet
- Unknown instrumentation
- Duos: 2 Cellos
- Orchestral music
- Browse other works published by Australian Music Centre (under licence from G.Schirmer Australia)
- Browse other works for Duos: 2 Violas
- Browse other works by Ross Edwards
Analysis & Media
- Resonate Article: Narrating the Early Music of Ross Edwards
- Kit: The chamber music of Ross Edwards / written by Stephen Lalor.
- Book: 2000 secondary resource kit / Sydney Symphony Orchestra Education Program.
- Kit: Dance with nature : the chamber music of Ross Edwards / music resource kit by Philip Cooney.
- eBook: Dance with nature : the chamber music of Ross Edwards [eKit] / music resource kit by Philip Cooney.
- Program note: Ross Edwards' "Ecstatic Dance"
by Ross Edwards
Source: the score of this work
- Video: Noche Australiana (Australian Night), XVI Festival Internacional de Música Alfredo De Saint Malo
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