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On the beach : film score / Christopher Gordon
by Christopher Gordon (2000)
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- Instrumentation: Flute/piccolo, oboe/cor anglais, clarinet in B flat/bass clarinet, bassoon, 4 horns (2nd and 4th doubling bass Wagner tuba), 2 trumpets in C (1st doubling flugel horn in B flat), 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (2 players), piano, harp, SATBarB choir, child soprano, strings (including featured solos for violin, viola and cello).
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Audio Sample
Performance by Christopher Gordon, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs from the CD On the beach
(this sample is of the Unspecified Choir with orchestra version of this work)
Product details
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (235p. -- A3 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Professional
Duration: 1 hours, 2 mins
Part one: The world at war -- Let's surface -- A matter of months -- A new day -- Melbourne -- Decommission -- Above the 60th Parallel -- Through the darkness -- Train ride -- Christmas memory -- Yachts -- On the jetty -- Blanket -- Admiral -- [1M17] -- The chemist -- On the beach -- The beginning of the end -- Message from the north -- Prepare to dive -- Voyage north -- Part two: Don't despair -- Anchorage -- Visions in Anchorage -- San Francisco -- (Revised) San Francisco -- (Rev 2) San Francisco -- (Rev 3) San Francisco -- When the order came -- Swain goes home -- The vote -- This one's for you -- -At the Taj Mahal -- Hirsch collapses -- Hospital -- Savage Melbourne -- Lunch -- Homecoming -- Lovemaking -- Hirsch dies -- Flight through the Apostles, and Elegy -- Final farewells --- Lacrimosa -- Lux perpetua -- A perfect place -- From the beach, silently weeping.
This is the complete film score.
Winner of Australian Screen Music Awards, 2000 (for Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie; Best Original Title Theme for a Series, Serial or Mini-Series; and Best Soundtrack Album), awarded by Australian Guild of Screen Composers.
If a choir is not available the Lacrimosa should be substituted wtih 3Alt. Hirsch.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: M-67301-254-7
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- Unspecified Choir with orchestra
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