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Moondani Dances Recording Project. Composer Taran Carter
For the full audio recording from this session of Monodani Dances by Taran Carter, please go to this CZcams link: czcams.com/video/N7odUskkehY/video.html
MOONDANI DANCES
Composed by Taran Carter
Performed by the Eltham High School Alumni & Friends Band, June 21 2024
Conducted by Rick Keenan
Commissioned by the Eltham High School Symphonic Band, 2024
The Eltham High School Music Department commissioned Melbourne Composer Taran Carter to write Moondani Dances for our Symphonic Band.
On June 21 2024, 44 professional musicians came together to create a new ensemble, with the goal of producing the first recording of Moondani Dances. The musicians are a combination of current Eltham Music Staff, Alumni, Previous Instrumental Staff and Friends of the Music Program.
Moondani Dances Program Notes:
Moondani Dances was commissioned in 2024 by Eltham High School and is based on an idea of the Eltham High School Symphonic Band Conductor, Rick Keenan.
In 2014 Eltham High School commissioned me to compose a piece that became MOONDANI: Black, a work in memory of the victims of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. This piece contained a short “market theme” that was devised as a way of introducing the township of St. Andrews and portraying the energy and wonderful chaos of the St. Andrews Market on a hot February morning.
Ten years after MOONDANI: Black was first performed, Rick Keenan asked if I would be interested in expanding the “market” section of this earlier work into a stand-alone piece. I loved the idea of revisiting this material and of musically celebrating the renewal of the township of St.Andrews after the devastating fires.
This new composition, Moondani Dances, expands on this earlier musical through programmatic devices, extended rhythmic patterns, musical fragmentation and expansion, simple harmonic ideas infused with internal clusters, and a prominent and integral percussion groove.
The music depicts the hustle and bustle of the St. Andrews market and if you listen carefully you can hear the sounds of buskers playing Irish folk music, the sounds of children's pony rides, djembe drumming coming from the famous chai tent, the sound of wind whipping up the market dust, bird calls, the down-pour of rain bringing respite to the hot summer market and, if you listen very, very carefully, the traditional English folk-tune To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig.
“Moondani” is the name of my family home, and Moondani Dances is the third Moondani Music to be composed.
Program notes by the composer, February 2024
MOONDANI DANCES
Composed by Taran Carter
Performed by the Eltham High School Alumni & Friends Band, June 21 2024
Conducted by Rick Keenan
Commissioned by the Eltham High School Symphonic Band, 2024
The Eltham High School Music Department commissioned Melbourne Composer Taran Carter to write Moondani Dances for our Symphonic Band.
On June 21 2024, 44 professional musicians came together to create a new ensemble, with the goal of producing the first recording of Moondani Dances. The musicians are a combination of current Eltham Music Staff, Alumni, Previous Instrumental Staff and Friends of the Music Program.
Moondani Dances Program Notes:
Moondani Dances was commissioned in 2024 by Eltham High School and is based on an idea of the Eltham High School Symphonic Band Conductor, Rick Keenan.
In 2014 Eltham High School commissioned me to compose a piece that became MOONDANI: Black, a work in memory of the victims of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. This piece contained a short “market theme” that was devised as a way of introducing the township of St. Andrews and portraying the energy and wonderful chaos of the St. Andrews Market on a hot February morning.
Ten years after MOONDANI: Black was first performed, Rick Keenan asked if I would be interested in expanding the “market” section of this earlier work into a stand-alone piece. I loved the idea of revisiting this material and of musically celebrating the renewal of the township of St.Andrews after the devastating fires.
This new composition, Moondani Dances, expands on this earlier musical through programmatic devices, extended rhythmic patterns, musical fragmentation and expansion, simple harmonic ideas infused with internal clusters, and a prominent and integral percussion groove.
The music depicts the hustle and bustle of the St. Andrews market and if you listen carefully you can hear the sounds of buskers playing Irish folk music, the sounds of children's pony rides, djembe drumming coming from the famous chai tent, the sound of wind whipping up the market dust, bird calls, the down-pour of rain bringing respite to the hot summer market and, if you listen very, very carefully, the traditional English folk-tune To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig.
“Moondani” is the name of my family home, and Moondani Dances is the third Moondani Music to be composed.
Program notes by the composer, February 2024
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Singing this with crescendo and we listen to this one to practice with
We’re singing it with young voices of Hobart along with eye of the needle also by Paul we did festival of voices with Paul as well may crescendos path cross with Paul’s again 🙂
great job....I love it
WOW!!!
Appyo❤
I love this ❤
Canadensis pavilous !
This Frogs song will make a big splash!
I can’t hear the other sections and the resonance or dissonance in the chords :( but golden hour is a beautiful song😊
700th sub 😘💅
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the time and effort the Training band Put into this work of art
WOWWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING MY EAR HOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Subtle but swing in!
Hell yeah! This sound dope
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Good luck to all people playing this piece of music!😊
I played this on Friday for a competition and two other songs we got a number 1 rating but iron heart is hard
wow this sounds quite a bit better than our school
0:33
Our school will be performing this in London and, (maybe) Austria and Germany later this year as part of the Summa Cum Laude Festival!
That sounds great! Enjoy your performances & thanks for checking out our recording.
Wow!
guys this is literally me im playing this song in band
One of the most inspiring Eltham performances there has ever been
Its THE song. Truly iconic
I play the clarinet, 😂🎉
That's great. I hope you are enjoying your lessons and band.
Absolutely beautiful. Keep it up Ladies and thank you. God Bless you all.
Excellent song.
My son is playing this in his concert in Ironside state school!
Nice playing to you all, especially liked the soprano saxophonist.
this is fire bro
Lucid dreams 💀
Playing this at a concert at GVJH on Tuesday. It's such a good song
😬
The saxophones play so powerful I love it 👍 Imbin my schools jazz band and we two performances on thisbsong and few others
I love the saxophone in this
First comment! Yahooooooo😂
Im playing this on piano in a nominated honor band performance from bands all around my state in two weeks wish me luck! Im excited but kinda scared too.
french horn
Good articulation though
I preformed this with my middle school band and it sounded so much worse😂
YOO I GOT THIS SONG IN 2 DAYS IN BAND
Too slow
They’re a middle school band
They have good articulation
I played this in middle school and we did it normal speed and it was better then this
@@tmnova6336 you are flexing against a middle school band… but for why
@@Tyty0526that’s my homie and we’re in a middle school band too. Ig we jus better🥱
That's me! I'm the cellist that comes into frame around 0:57
With the slightly lighter hair
I’m was making a meal of that triangle
My school band can play this
Bravissimo!
we need @JVKE attention!!
I played this in my string ensemble.
This was very helpful!
This song reminds me of my time in band as a flute player, we played this song for UIL one year and I got chosen to play the Piano portion of this song, going to double morning practices with percussion and flute was such a fun experience, it was honestly the most fun song we got to do maybe because I just got to learn how to play the flute portions and the piano but this piece brings me nostalgia of performing on a grand piano for UIL. Great job to these kids, they definitely had to have scored very high if this was a district piece used
Beautiful!👏👏
noice