Peter Sculthorpe

This charming 9-minute collection for string quartet comprises two arrangements of songs by George Gershwin: The Man I Love bookended by two versions of Somebody Loves Me.

This is the Viola part for the String Quartet No.16 composed by Peter Sculthorpe for string quartet (with optional didjeridu) in digital sheet music format.

This is the Violin I part for the String Quartet No.16 composed by Peter Sculthorpe for string quartet (with optional didjeridu) in digital sheet music format.

This is the Violin II part for the String Quartet No.16 composed by Peter Sculthorpe for string quartet (with optional didjeridu) in digital sheet music format.

This is the Cello part for the String Quartet No.16 composed by Peter Sculthorpe for string quartet (with optional didjeridu) in digital sheet music format.

Instrumentation: perc(2): timp/vib/chimes/tam-t/2 susp.cym/BD/tom-t/bongos/guiro/mcas/sandblock/whip/tgl

This work began life as a short song, with words by Heine, written in 1947 when I was a student in Melbourne. In this arrangement for viola and piano, I made some minor revisions to the verses of the...

Tailitnama Song (‘Tai’ pronounced ‘tie’) is based upon The Song of Tailitnama, for soprano, six cellos and percussion, a work that I wrote in 1974. The text of the original work consists of four verse...

The very opening melody of this work is a transcription of an aboriginal chant from Arnhem Land, collected by the anthropologist A.P.Elkin in the late fifties. Still well-known in the area, the chant...

This work began life as a short song, with words by Heine, written in 1947 when I was a student in Melbourne. In this arrangement for viola and piano, I made some minor revisions to the verses of the...

This short work was part of a garland of pieces written as a tribute to Justine Peberdy. A member of the executive staff of the Dartington International Summer School, Justine, for family reasons, had...

This is the cello part only of Djilile, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, for cello and piano in digital sheet music format.

Songs of Sea and Sky was commissioned by the School of Music, Yale University, upon the retirement of Keith Wilson. The work is based on a traditional dance song from Saibai, an island just south of P...

The instrumental violin part for Serenade, composed by Peter Sculthorpe, and arranged for violin solo in digital sheet music format.

When I was a student in Melbourne, I entered a collection of Shakespeare settings in the 1948 Victorian School Music Association Composition Competition. To my delight, the collection was judged runne...