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Orchestral works

Meditations of Thomas Traherne (1968) 22'

Children's recorder group (22 players)
3.3.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2)-harp-pf-strings
Recording: ABC Classics 446 478-2

Pentad (1968) 9'

4.4.4.4-4.3.3.1
Recording: ABC RRCS 135 (out of print)

Refractions (1969) 10'

1.1.1.1-1.0.0.0-strings (8.8.5.5.2)
Recording: ABC RRCS 382 (out of print)

Explorations for Piano and Orchestra (1979) 26'

3.3.3.3-4.3.3.0-timp.perc(2)-solo piano-strings
Recording: Festival SFC 80019 (out of print)

Violin Concerto (1970, rev. 1975) 19'

2.2.2.2-4.2.3.0-perc(2)-harp-solo violin-strings
Recording: ABC Classics 426 993-2

Fire in the heavens (1973) 8'

3.3.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2)-harp-pf-strings
Recording: RCA VRL10191 (out of print)

Symphony (1980) 18'

3.3.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2)-harp-pf/cel-strings

Goldengrove (1982 rev. 1993) 21'

String orchestra
Recording: ABC Classics 446 478-2

In Passing

1.EH.2.1-2.2.3.0-harp-strings (no basses)

From Sorrowing Earth (1991) 23'

3.3.3.3-4.3.3.0-timp.perc(2)-harp-pf/cel-strings
Recording: ABC Classics 446 478-2

Poverty (1992) 4'

Christmas carol
2.2.0.0-4.0.0.0-harp-strings
Recording: Tall Poppies TP016

Spell of Creation (2000) 44'

Soprano, baritone, semichorus (SSATBB), double choir,
3.3.2.3-4.4.3.1-perc(3)-harp-strings

Never this sun, this watcher (2004) 12'

2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp-perc(2)-strings

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Choral works

The True Samaritan (1958 rev. 1976) 14'

Morning Fanfare (Austin) 4'
The True Samaritan (Anon) 3'
My Wishes (Anon) 3'
Surrexit Dominus (Dunbar) 4'
SATB
Hovea Music Press
Recording: Tall Poppies TP142

Who Build on Hope (Bruce Beaver) (1960) 3'

SATB, organ

Prayer During Sickness (Herrick) (1960) 3'

SATB
Hovea Music Press

Exsultate Domino (1961) 4'

SATB
Hovea Music Press

What shall I render to the Lord? (1965) 3'

from Psalm 116
SATB

No Man is an Island (Donne) (1977) 4'

SATB (four voices per part)

Flower in the crannied wall (Tennyson) (1980) 4'

SSAATTBB

There cam a Wind like a Bugle (Dickinson) (1987) 22'

SSAATTBB
Recording: Tall Poppies TP142

Sleep (Kathleen Raine) (1992) 1'

SSATBB

Spring's Ending (Du Fu) (1997) 10'30"

SATB

Towards Autumn (Du Fu) (1998) 3'30"

SSAA, fl, cl, Chinese gong
Morton Music

Paradise unseen (Kathleen Raine) (2001) 12'

SSATBB

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Ensemble works

Laudes (1963) 15'

fl/picc, cl/bcl, hn, tpt, vln, vla, vc, pf
Recording: ABC Classics 465 651-2

String Quartet no. 1 (1965) 13'

Recording: ABC RRCS 126 (out of print)

Variations (1967) 20'

Wind quintet, piano, recorded piano
Recording: Philips 6508001 (out of print)

Voices (1971) 11'

Wind quintet
Recording: EMI OASD 7565 (out of print)

String Quartet no. 2 (1974) 18'

Fanfare and Processional (1977) 6'

4 tpts, 2 tbn, 2 timp

Trio (1979) 15'

Clarinet, cello, piano

String Quartet no. 3 (1980) 13'

Recording: Anthology of Australian Music on Disc CSM no. 10

String Quartet no. 4 (1995) 20'

Figments (2003) 7'

3 tpt, 3 tbn, hn, tuba

Four pieces for Recorder Trio (2004) 7'

2 treble, 1 tenor
Orpheus Music

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Instrumental works

The White-throated Warbler (1965) 3'

Soprano recorder (or fl or picc), harps (or piano)
Orpheus Music
Recording: Tall Poppies TP142

Evanston Song (1978) 3'

Flute, piano
Recording: MBS 13 CD; Tall Poppies TP142

Forest I (1990) 7'

Viola, piano

The wind stirs gently (1992) 4'

Flute, cello
Recording: Tall Poppies TP069/TP142

Forest II (1993) 5'

Trumpet, piano

Of Wood (1995) 8'

Solo cello
Recording: Tall Poppies TP075/TP142

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Opera

Lawrence Hargrave Flying Alone (1988) 90'

Libretto by James McDonald, published by Opera Australia

Soprano, mezzo-soprano, 2 tenors, 2 baritones, bass-baritone, chorus, dancer
2.2.2.1-2.1.2.0-perc(3)-elec.keyb,elec.guit,strings

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Piano works

Arioso, Toccata
Comment on a Popular Song (1960) 6'

Hovea Music Press (1 and 3)
Recording: Tall Poppies TP080/TP142 (1 and3)

Letter from Hardy's Bay (1971) 11'

Recording: Festival SFC 80025 (out of print)

Grevillea (1962, rev. 1985) 5'

Lawrence Hargrave flying alone (1981) 12'

Uttering Joyous Leaves (1981) 5'

Hovea Music Press
Recording: Move CD MD3066; Tall Poppies TP037/TP142

Il Gubbo (1987) 3'

Hovea Music Press
Recording: Tall Poppies TP080/TP142

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Works for radio

In the Head the Fire (1966) 29'

Tenor, baritone, male speaker, SATB choir, wind, perc, organ, piano
Recording: WRC S2495 (out of print)

Watershore (Whitman) (1978) 22'

Female speaker, 3 male speakers, fl, perc, prepared piano, 3 vc.

Hello mister radio

This is a thing

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Vocal works

Three Serenades (Sacheverell Sitwell) (1954 rev. 1993) 6'

Tenor, pf
Hovea Music Press

Six Blake Songs (1956 rev. 1996) 13'

Medium voice, pf
Hovea Music Press

Child in Nature (Robin Gurr) (1957) 11'

Soprano or tenor, pf
Recording: Tall Poppies TP142

Joseph and Mary (Trad.) (1959) 4'

Soprano, flute
Hovea Music Press

Song of Christ the Rock (1962) 4'

(Bible, trad)
Unaccompanied voice
Hovea Music Press

Carmina: Four Latin Poems of Spring (1968 rev. 1990) 12'

Medium voice, wind quintent

Sometimes with One I Love (Whitman) (1976) 55'

Soprano, baritone, male speaker, fl, cl, hn, 2 vc. pf
Recording: EMI OASD 7613 (out of print)

The Owl (James McDonald) (1983) 25'

Soprano, fl, cl, vn/va, vc, pf, perc
Recording: Vox Australis VAST 011-2

Two Burns Songs (1992) 3'

Trad. arr. tenor, pf

The Woven Light (Raine) (1994) 21'

Soprano, orchestra

Frogs (Dickinson) (1995) 3'

Tenor, pf
Hovea Music Press

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Music for young people

Music for Sunrise (1967) 5'

Recorders, percussion
Orpheus Music

Piano Games (1970) 7'

Piano
Recording: Vox Australis VAST026-2

Conversation Pieces (1982) 8'

Flute, piano
Allans Publishing