Hanging Rock (2011)

Instrumentation

  • 2 Flutes
  • 2 Oboes
  • 2 Clarinets in B flat
  • 2 Bassoons
  • 4 Horns in F
  • 2 Trumpets in B flat
  • 2 Trombones
  • Bass Trombone
  • Tuba
  • Timpani
  • Percussion [Suspended Cymbal, Vibraphone, Triangle, Tam Tam, possible Glockenspiel]
  • Violin I
  • Violin II
  • Viola
  • Cello
  • Double Bass

Duration

c. 6 minutes 30 seconds

Creation Note

Hanging Rock was written for the Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Workshops, November 2011.

About the work

Hanging Rock has been orchestrated and developed from sections of the composer’s Picnic at Hanging Rock Suite (2009) for piano. Both works recall Joan Lindsay’s novel; in particular the underlying exploration of the nature of time. The present composition is in three sections:

  1. Grounded
  2. Transient
  3. Heightened

P.P. 2011