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Moondani Dances

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Moondani Dances : Moondani Music III for symphonic wind ensemble / Taran Carter.

by Taran Carter (2024)

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  • Instrumentation: Piccolo, 2 flutes 2 oboes 2 bassoons clarinet in E flat, 3 Clarinets in B flat, alto clarinet, 5 saxophones (S, A, A, T, B), 3 trumpets, 4 French horns, 2 trombones, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, string bass, piano, 4 percussion.

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In 2014 Eltham High School commissioned me to compose MOONDANI:Black, a work in memory of the victims of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. This piece contained a short "market theme" that was devised as a way of introducing the town of St.Andrews and portraying the energy and wonderful chaos of the St.Andrews Market on a hot February morning.

Ten years after MOONDANI:Black was first performed, Rick Keenan asked if I would be interested in expanding the "market" section of this earlier work into a stand-alone piece. I loved the idea of revisiting this material and of musically celebrating the renewal of the township of St.Andrews after the devastating fires.

This new composition, Moondani Dances, expands on this earlier musical through programmatic devices, extended rhythmic patterns, musical fragmentation and expansion, simple harmonic ideas infused with internal clusters, and a prominent and integral percussion groove.

The music depicts the hustle and bustle of the St.Andrews market and if you listen carefully you can hear the sounds of buskers playing Irish folk music, the sounds of children's pony rides, djembe drumming coming from the famous chai tent, the sound of wind whipping up the market dust, bird calls, the down-pour of rain bringing respite to the hot summer market and, if you listen very, very carefully, the traditional English folk-tune To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig.

"Moondani" is the name of my family home, on the northern edge of St.Andrews.

Program notes by the composer, February 2024

Published by: Matt Klohs — 1 score (49p. -- A3 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 17 mins

Commission info: Moondani Dances was commissioned in 2024 by Eltham High School and is based on an idea of the Eltham High School Symphonic Band conductor/educator, Rick Keenan.

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