Tres Casidas del Diván del Tamarit
poems by Federico García Lorca
music by Peter Billam
for Voice and Piano
© Peter J Billam, 1997, 2005, 2016
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poem by Federico García Lorca
music by Peter Billam
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Casida del llanto
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Casida del llanto
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poem by Federico García Lorca
music by Peter Billam
Casida de la Rosa
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Casida de la rosa
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poem by Federico García Lorca
music by Peter Billam
Casida de las Palomas Oscuras
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Casida de las palomas oscuras
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Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to
1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Director
of the Théâtre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer and computer
programmer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, and lectured in composition at the Conservatorium.
He founded www.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, taking scores
from Composer to Performer in one immediate step. Www.pjb.com.au offers a new approach to
music publishing. These pieces are written to be read, made to be played !
Compositions at www.pjb.com.au include: Five Short Pieces, guitar, 1979; Divisions on an Italian
Ground, flute and guitar, 1980; De Profundis and Nacht, on poems by Lama Anagarika Govinda, voice and
piano, 1980; Fünf Bagatellen, piano, 1980; Five Rounds, choir, 1986; Go Forth and Multiply, choir, 1986;
Three Violin Duets, 1987; Fable, for piano, 1987; To Erich Jantsch, SAATTB recorders, 1988; A Suite of
Curves, trombone (or horn) and piano, 1990; Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melody
instruments, 1991; Trombone Quintet, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994; Three Songs, on
poems by Jack Kerouac, Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of these are
available), 1994; Piano Study, piano, 1994; Four Dances, various ensembles including recorder quartet,
string quartet, 1995; The Poet in the Clouds, on a poem by S. T. Coleridge, SATB choir, 1995; Tres Casidas
del Diván del Tamarit, on poems by Federico García Lorca, voice and piano, 1997; Three Suites, for the
solo line, piano, and piano and a solo line, 2000; Die Zeiten, on poems by Kästner, Bachman and Jünger,
choir (only the second and third of these are available), 2000; Three Duets for flutes, 2001; For Four Hands for
piano four hands, 2002; Three Preludes for piano, 2003; Second Solo Suite for flute, violin, viola or cello,
2003; Guitar Duet for two guitars, 2006; We Who Mourn for choir, 2007; Trio With Guitar for guitar and
two clarinets or two recorders or two violas, 2008; Canons for two- and four-hand piano, 2009; Flute Trio,
2012; Twenty Studies for piano, 2013-14; Music for Strings and Two Encores for Strings for 2vln, 2vla,
2vlc, 2015; Album for Choir, 2015.
Arrangements include: By J. S. Bach: Trio BWV 655, piano and flute; Vor deinen Thron BWV 668,
piano; Fugue in F minor BWV 689, SATB recorders; Four Duets BWV 802-5, keyboard; Six Preludes and
Fugues from Book I, keyboard; Flute Sonata BWV 1031 transposed into G major for alto recorder and
keyboard; Flute Sonata BWV 1032 completed by Peter Billam for flute and keyboard, also in C major for
alto recorder, and in G major for descant; Ricercare a 3, from the Musikalisches Opfer for keyboard;
Ricercare a 6, for sSATBG recorders, or strings, or two keyboards; and Fuga Canonica in Epidiapente;
from the Art of Fugue: Contrapuncti 1, 4 and 9 for keyboard, and Contrapunctus 14 as completed by D. F.
Tovey, for keyboard, or for SATB recorders, or for strings; Passacaglia and Fugue in c for piano four
hands; Chorales with Descant for melody instrument and piano; Cello Suites I, II and III for flute or alto
recorder, Forty Chorales for piano, Der Geist hilft for SATB-SATB recorders. By Brahms: Fugue in Ab
minor for organ, for SATB recorders and gamba, in A minor; Choralvorspiele for organ plus settings by
Isaac, Bach, Praetorius, recorders. John Carr, Divisions on an Italian Ground, flute or recorder and guitar.
Franz Liszt, Late piano pieces, G.F. Händel: Concerto Grosso in A minor op 6 no 4, harpsichord and
recorders; Recorder Sonata in Bb no 5, in G for tenor recorder and keyboard. Claudio Monteverdi, Ecco
Mormorar l’Onde, SSATB recorders. Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht for piano. Franz Schubert:
Four Songs, voice and guitar; Dances, recorders and guitar, Dances, piano 4 hands. Scriabin, Two Preludes
op.67; Five Preludes op.74, piano. Telemann, Twelve Flute Fantasias, recorder. Wilbye, Draw on sweet
Night, SSATTB recorders, and for flute choir. Twelve Italian Songs, voice and guitar; Seven English Songs,
voice and guitar; Fourteen Folk Dance Tunes, recorder and guitar; Bushband Dances, violin, accordeon and
banjo; Easy Classical Pieces, Bb trumpet and piano; Famous Beginnings, for piano.
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