Peter Sculthorpe

Music for Japan begins with a great sobbing breath of sound, rather like the deep chesty vocalism of Japanese classical singer-actors. Slow planetary wanderings of timbre and accent give way to a midd...

Lush and pictorial, it consisted of sharply defined sections that courted the charge of mere exoticism - evocations of Oriental musics and sounds, full of throbbing strings, rapidly reiterated percuss...

... a powerfully evocative piece for orchestra of strings, brass and percussion, which translates into a variety of extraordinary orchestral timbres and motifs, the feeling of the sun as a vast, glari...

The work was inspired by a visit to Easter Island, famous for its great stone heads, monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its grea...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): tam-t/susp.ch.cym/susp.cym/BD/SD/bongo/3 tom-t/thunder sheet/chime - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4230 - timp - perc(1) - strings

The score to Cello Dreaming, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, for solo cello, string orchestra and percussion in digital sheet music format.

... an absolutely sterling score, accessible yet boldly original, conceptually fascinating and musically compelling. John Rockwell, The New York Times, 7 February 1988

The work draws its inspiration from Australia's so-called Top End. There, along the northern coastline, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island cultures mingle with those of Melanasia and Indonedia. Cello...

Evening Star (from 'A Little Book Of Hours'), composed by Peter Sculthorpe for Piano Solo.

Mountains was commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition, 1981, with assistance from the Music board of Australia Council. It was first performed by Gabriella Pusner in Verbugghen Hall...

Callabonna, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, taken from 'Three Pieces for Piano'. Arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format. A short 4-minute work in three parts, which takes its name from a...

Djilile, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, taken from 'Three Pieces for Piano'. Arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format. Peter Sculthorpe's 6-minute Djilile (‘whistling-duck on a Billabong’)...

Simori, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, taken from 'Three Pieces for Piano'. Arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format. Simori is a substantial 11-minute work which is based upon a series of...

Peter Sculthorpe’s evocative 7-minute Nocturnal originated in the central section of the composer’s Piano Concerto. Sculthorpe became obsessed with the music’s calm, flowing, toccata-like figurations...

Sonatina, succinctly composed by Peter Sculthorpe, not only is one of Sculthorpe’s first overt acknowledgements of the influence of Aboriginal culture on his music, but, taking his cues from the spars...

These two charming pieces – ‘Sea Chant’ and ‘The Left Bank Waltz –are dedicated in turn to the memory of Sculthorpe's housekeeper and mother. The pieces together last 4 minutes, and would make perfect...

In this solo piano piece from 2000, Peter Sculthorpe recalled his childhood in Tasmania, and the travelling fairs that would set up each year opposite his family shop. For a penny, he would select a s...

This 2-minute work, one of a number of piano miniatures by Peter Sculthorpe, recalls a period from 1957 when the composer first moved to Sydney to write popular music for theatre. One of his collabora...

The score for Song Of The Yarra, composed by Peter Sculthorpe for soprano solo, violin obligato, SATB chorus and chamber ensemble, in digital sheet music format.

The digital score to the chamber orchestra version of Peter Sculthorpe's Djilile. Based on a traditional aboriginal chant from Arnhem Land but with touches of contemporary European music, the work is...

Singing Sun (from 'A Little Book Of Hours'), composed by Peter Sculthorpe and arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format.

Sea Chant (from 'Two Easy Pieces'), composed by Peter Sculthorpe and edited by John Lenehan for easy piano solo in digital sheet music format.

Mountains was commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition, 1981, with assistance from the Music board of Australia Council. It was first performed by Gabriella Pusner in Verbugghen Hall...