Sunrise Music from NZ for Young Pianists (WPIG)

This book is the celebration of new sounds, new ideas and new music written by
New Zealand composers at home and abroad.

It will appeal to young pianists, their families and their teachers, and is
suitable for students of preliminary through to grade 2 levels. For the
younger student there are pieces which can be taught by rote. There is also a
scattering of slightly more advanced pieces to challenge themore adventurous.
The inclusion of a duet, a duo for voice with piano, and a trio for six hands
at one piano (with optional percussion) enlarges its scope and will intrigue
some to further expectations.

Sounds and sights distinctive to New Zealand and the Pacificalso feature in
the book. There are references to Polynesian choral singing and to New Zealand
landscape and birdlife. There is the Tui, a bird with two voice boxes, one
producing bell-like tones, the other a harsh warning cry; the Pukeko, a
long-striding, red-beaked, deep blue swamp hen; the huge extinct Moa which
lives on in popular imagination; and there are P_enguins_ ofcourse the
Taniwha, a mythological water monster.

The idea for this book arose when a committee member, Mary Barber, suggested
that the Wellington Piano and Instrumental Group commission a new piano piece
for a beginner pianist from a New Zealand composer. from this suggestion for a
single commission grew the project to produce this book.

A CD of the music is included with the book.