Sheet Music: Score
White Ghost Dancing : arranged for wind orchestra / Ross Edwards.
by Ross Edwards (2018)
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- Instrumentation: Piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in B flat, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players), piano, double bass.
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Audio Sample
Performance by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills from the CD White ghost dancing
(this sample is of the full orchestra version of this work)
Product details
There are recorded instances of Aboriginal People mistaking early
Europeans in Australia for the ghosts of their ancestors, since
ghosts were believed to be light-coloured.
As I composed White Ghost Dancing, the concept of a white ghost
came to symbolise non-indigenous Australia's innate Aboriginality
- its capacity to transform and heal itself through spiritual
connectedness with the earth.
I believe that music, which has enormous therapeutic properties
and, for me, a close relationship with ritual - and especially
dance - is destined to make an important contribution to this
transformation and healing, hence the title.
Typical of my maninya (dance/chant pieces), White Ghost Dancing
is a compact mosaic of unconsciously processed shapes and
patterns from the natural world: fragments of birdsong, insect
and frog rhythms, as well as fleeting references to other works
of mine and hinted fusions of Aboriginal and Gregorian chant.
Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from G.Schirmer Australia) — 1 score (68p. -- A3 (portrait))
Duration: 10 mins
First performance by Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wind Symphony, John Lynch at SCM Wind Symphony (Greenway Series) (Verbrugghen Hall) on 24 May 2019
Includes programme notes.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-67311-240-7
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This work also exists as the following versions:
- Cello with orchestra
- Full orchestra
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Analysis & Media
- Book: 2002 Australian composition kit : resource kit / Sydney Symphony Education Program.
- Kit: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards / music resource kit by Philip Cooney.
- Kit: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards / teaching booklet by Philip Cooney.
- eBook: White ghost dancing : orchestral music by Ross Edwards [eKit] / teaching booklet by Philip Cooney.
- Document: Composer profile – Ross Edwards, A Natural Way
- Program note: Ross Edwards' "White ghost dancing"
by Ross Edwards
Source: the score of this work
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