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Sheet Music: Score & Part(s)Red earth : sextet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion / Colin Bright.by Colin Bright (1985)
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Red Earth explores psyche of place. That is, where we
live and how it affects the way that we think. Even if you live
on the more densely populated east coast of Australia, you are
nevertheless still aware of the vast distances involved in
travelling towards the centre, the north and west. Red
Earth draws on several aspects of Australian aboriginal
music and some of the distinctive features of the Australian
landscape. This is approached not in an imitative way, but is an
attempt to attain something of the 'essence' of the music and its
relationship to the land - that is - its manifestation of a sense
of 'place'.
In Red Earth:-
There are allusions to the rhythm of didjeridoo playing and the
voice of the songman. For example, the rhythmic interplay between
high and low notes refers to a technique of didjeridoo playing
where the primary harmonic is juxtaposed with the (lower) normal
playing note.
Most of the phrases tend to be repetitive and end on descending
melodic patterns. There are rhythmic drones and chant-like
phrases.
There is an overall sense of stasis and spaciousness, a flatness
and repetitiveness which is characteristic of so much of the
outback landscape.
Although I have been interested in Australian aboriginal music
for many years now, the origins of this were a social and
political awareness that Aborigines had little say in controlling
their own destinies (too many decisions being made by whites),
and that black culture and attitudes had not impinged greatly on
white thinking - even after 200 years. The ignominy of this being
that such a two-way flow between cultures could only have
enriched both cultures and created a closer
understanding of each other.
As a musician it seemed to me that there were aspects of
Aboriginal music that intrinsically reflected something of the
larger environment, and, as a consequence, Australian aboriginal
music has come to have a profound effect on my musical
thinking.
Colin Bright
Published by: Wirripang [979 0 720140 33 9] — 1 score 35p. -- A4 (portrait)) and 5 parts
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 8 mins, 50 sec.
Dedicated to Tony Smith
Includes programme notes and biographical notes on the composer.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979 0 720140 33 9
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