Description

• Composer: Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014)
• Instrumentation (this edition): Percussion Quartet
• Originally for: Piano
• Work: Djilile (1986)
• Binding:
• ISBN: 9780571555963
• Pages: None

Description

Djilile is based upon an adaptation of an Aboriginal melody collected in northern Australia, in the late 1950s by A P Elkin and Trevor Jones. The title means ‘whistling-duck on a billabong’.