{"id":300,"date":"2020-11-10T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2024-07-24T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T10:35:46","slug":"sculthorpe-peter-1929-2014-from-irkanda-iii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300","title":{"rendered":"Sculthorpe, Peter (1929-2014) &#8211; From Irkanda III"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe class=\"fusion-hidden\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" src=\"\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" data-privacy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/me3NkIXmT44?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder\" style=\"width:600px; height:360px;\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder-content\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-label\">For privacy reasons YouTube needs your permission to be loaded.<\/div><a href=\"\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" class=\"fusion-button button-default fusion-button-default-size button fusion-privacy-consent\">I Accept<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h4 data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"38.08px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"--fontSize:28; line-height: 1.36; --minFontSize:28;\">&#8220;Landscapes&#8221; program note<\/h4>\n<p><i>From Irkanda III <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersculthorpe.com.au\/\">Peter Sculthorpe<\/a> was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania.  He began writing music at a young age, and studied composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.  Sculthorpe then spent several years running a hunting and fishing store with his brother until his compositional work eventually found a footing overseas, as it was considered too modernist for Australian tastes at that time.  Sculthorpe won a scholarship to study at Oxford, and spent the years 1958-1960 there, before returning to Australia to be close to his terminally ill father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Irkanda III<\/i> is the third of four <i>Irkanda <\/i>works written in the 1950s-1960s by Sculthorpe.  <i>Irkanda <\/i>was defined by JH Sugden as an aboriginal word meaning \u2018scrub country\u2019, and was the name of a railway halt in Queensland\u2019s North Coast line.  Sculthorpe used it to mean \u2018a remote and lonely place\u2019 also describing his first <i>Irkanda <\/i>work for a time as \u2018an aboriginal burial rite.\u2019  <i>Irkanda III<\/i>, written in 1961, was Sculthorpe\u2019s first commissioned work, and he later withdrew the second and third movements.  He inscribed the score as \u2018Music to be always austere, Australian\u2019, and states that \u2018the brisk outer sections frame a slow, central section evocative of Australia\u2019s outback landscape\u2019.  Scholars argue that Sculthorpe\u2019s knowledge of the outback was, at this point in his life, not one of personal experience but more of imagination.  Sculthorpe\u2019s piano writing in this work is reminiscent of Bartok or Stravinsky\u2019s \u2018primitivism\u2019 with its driving rhythms, dissonant to virtually atonal harmonic language, and dry, percussive articulation.  In the slow middle section especially, Sculthorpe uses expressive string techniques such as harmonics, mutes, sul ponticello and tremolos to create a ghostly sound-world.  The texture eventually breaks out into another rhythmic march section, ending with strident <i>fff<\/i> gestures in all instruments.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1601\" height=\"2135\" title=\"Peter Sculthorpe\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271601%27%20height%3D%272135%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201601%202135%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271601%27%20height%3D%272135%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Peter-Sculthorpe.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-360\"\/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Peter Sculthorpe in Sydney in the mid-1960s.  Photograph by James Murdoch, from <\/span><i><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Peter Sculthorpe: His music and ideas 1929-1979 <\/span><\/i><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">by Michael Hannan.<\/span><i><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The score and parts can be purchased from<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fabermusic.com\/music\/from-irkanda-iii-3600\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> Faber Music.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sculthorpe, Peter (1929-2014) - From Irkanda III - Australian Piano Trios<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sculthorpe, Peter (1929-2014) - From Irkanda III - Australian Piano Trios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Australian Piano Trios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-24T10:35:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300\",\"name\":\"Sculthorpe, Peter (1929-2014) - From Irkanda III - Australian Piano Trios\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-10T11:22:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-24T10:35:46+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=300#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sculthorpe, Peter (1929-2014) &#8211; 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