Orpheus Music publishes contemporary recorder music featuring such composers as Diana Blom, Nigel Butterley, Zana Clarke, Justo Diaz, Lance Eccles, Ross Edwards, Malcolm Tattersall and Benjamin Thorn.
We represent over 70 composers, including many young composers, with more than 260 works that provide a wide range of styles and genres for one to ten recorder players. We also have a useful Recorder Composing Guide and Glossary of Unusual Recorder Techniques for those interested in writing for the recorder.
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Score 13 pp. Parts 7 pp. Contemporary Piece. Lively, funky trio with an atmospheric middle movement. MD OMP133 Benjamin Thorn, Ragged Robin Talented Australian composer Benjamin Thorn is becoming well known for a distinctive body of creative music for the recorder. Within a generally conservative harmonic world, Thorn produces a variety of colours and effects that always serve attractive m
Score 13 pp. Parts 7 pp.
Contemporary Piece. Lively, funky trio with an atmospheric middle movement. MD
OMP133 Benjamin Thorn, Ragged Robin
Talented Australian composer Benjamin Thorn is becoming well known for a distinctive body of creative music for the recorder. Within a generally conservative harmonic world, Thorn produces a variety of colours and effects that always serve attractive m usical purposes.
Ragged Robin is in three movements for recorder, guitar, and pizzicato (plucked) double bass. The opening movement, for all three instruments, draws on both rock and Baroque styles in an energetic mood. The second movement is atmospheric; the recorder explores simple multiphonics, and the guitar provides more dissonant, colourful chords to support it. The double bass player plays only a rainstick during that movement. The third movement returns to the energetic world of the first movement, taking the exact same musical material and recasting it in triple meter.
Of upper moderate difficulty, it is a suitable recital offering and would add a creative twist to a program if a guitar and double bass were available. Orpheus's score and parts are clear and easy to use. Page turns are easily done. In the less conventional second movement, all play from score for ease of reading.
Carson Cooman, American Recorder, September 2005
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