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Great White Bird

Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: Score

Great White Bird : for string quartet [eScore] / Hilary Kleinig.

by Hilary Kleinig (2016)

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  • Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello.
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Great White Bird imagines the time in Australia before European settlement. It makes reference to Susie's Ship Song - a song sung by Susie, a Wirangu woman from Yardea on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia - which tells the story of a great white bird that came over the seas and was tethered to the bay so that it couldn't get away. It is believed that the song was created in response to the tall ships of Mathew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin sailing into and anchoring in Denial Bay.

Great White Bird honours and pays tribute to Australia's first people, their stories and their land.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (9p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Medium

Duration: 4 min.

Dedication note: Dedicated to the Wirangu people of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

First performance by Zephyr Quartet — 13 Nov 16. Maritime Museum, Fremantle, WA

Includes program notes.

The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc assocaited with this work:
Indigenous, First Nations, Aboriginal, Wirangu, Yardea, Eyre Peninsula, Boats, Immigration

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