Daintree Wonders

• Daintree Wonders uses a recorder orchestra in a contemporary way to represent a journey through the Daintree Rainforest. The piece starts with an eerie mood then as the sun rises, birdsong represented through the sopranino recorder, is heard piercing the silence. Other scenes evoked include rain falling on the canopy and life in the rainforest both beautiful as well as dangerous. 
• The piece has a motif sprinkled throughout (crochet B Ab G Eb D) that always appears as the same pitches but in different contexts. This helps connect the different sections together and draws the listeners in as they hear something familiar in an unfamiliar setting. The first minute and 10 seconds is comprised purely of the motif in a kind of prolation canon form. The piece also utilises modes as a way to reference mediaeval and Chinese music for recorder
• Composer Elliot Leahy is a young composer from Sydney, Australia, who is studying a BMus (Composition) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has been composing since the age of 8 when he was given a music notation software (Finale 2012) for his birthday, since then he has composed many works, a number of which are for brass. He also plays French Horn and Trumpet and enjoys playing horn in his local community youth orchestra. 

Score: 12 pages. 9 parts @ 2 pages ea.