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Music for children

This section includes music both for children to perform (Eight Australian Birds) and to listen to.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

There Was a Man Lived in the Moon (2015)

28 minutes
for singer(s) and varying instrumentation

1. Have you seen the Muffin Man? (voice, bass clarinet, bassoon, trombone)
2. Cock a Doodle Doo (voice, 2 violins)
3. Miss Polly had a Dolly (2 voices, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, side drum)
4. Lavender's Blue (voice, horn, bassoon)
5. Higglety Pigglety my black hen (voice, oboe, bassoon)
6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross (voice, harpsichord, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass)
7. The Tailor and the Mouse (voice, flute, clarinet, bassoon, tubular bells)
8. Incy Wincy Spider (voice, piccolo, bass clarinet) 9. Aiken Drum (voice, bodhran, violin, viola, cello, double bass)
10. Girls and Boys come out to Play (voice, harpsichord, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass) 11. On a Mountain Stands a Lady (voice, piccolo, side drum, cello, double bass)
12. Oranges and Lemons (voice, trumpet, trombone, tubular bells)
13. Hot Cross Buns (voice, harpsichord)
14. See saw, Marjorie Daw (voice, viola, cello)
15. I love little pussy (voice, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone)
16. Ding dong bell, pussy's in the well (voice, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tubular bells)
17. Little Boy Blue (voice, horn, viola, cello, double bass)
18. Twinkle, twinkle, little star (piano)
19. Baa, baa, black sheep (voice, piano)
20. Rock-a-bye Baby (2 violins, viola, cello).

Soprano and/or baritone voices, flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano/harpsichord, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass

Commissioned by ABC Classics

First live performance by Tobias Cole (counter-tenor), Clive Birch (baritone), Vocal Fry, Turner Trebles, Simón Bolívar String Quartet, Meriel Owen (harp), Zubin Kanga (keyboards), Ensemble Offspring conducted by Roland Peelman, Canberra International Music Festival, Fitters' Workshop, Canberra, 30 April 2017

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Nonsense (2012)

8 minutes
for medium voice and piano

1. The Owl and the Pussy-cat 2. The Quangle Wangle's Hat 3. The Jumblies

Text: poems by Edward Lear

First performance by Michael Lampard (baritone), Shirley Trembath (piano), St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, 30 October 2013

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Little Star (2010)

4 minutes
for medium voice and harp/piano

Text: poem by Jane Taylor

First performance by Tobias Cole (countertenor) and Meriel Owen (harp), Canberra International Musica Festival, Fitters' Workshop, Canberra, 30 April 2017

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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

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