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Eight Australian Birds Discover the Music of the Twentieth Century (1989)
5 mins
piano (Grades 2/3/4)
i) An emu emulates Alban Berg
ii) A brolga behaves like Bartók
iii) A lyre-bird in love with Ligeti
iv) A parrot preens to Arvo Pärt
v) A kookaburra considers Cage
vi) A galah gawps at Glass
vii) A scrub fowl succumbs to Sculthorpe
viii) A common mynah mocks Messiaen