Tristram Ogilvie Cary OAM (14 May 1925 – 24 April 2008) was a pioneering British composer. Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance

Contents 1 Early life 2 Musical works 3 Death 4 Honours 5 List of works 5.1 Orchestral/Choral 5.2 Chamber/Solo 5.3 Vocal 5.4 Electroacoustic 5.4.1 For analogue tape 5.4.2 For computer 5.5 Films 5.6 Radio 5.7 Television 5.8 Theatre and Miscellaneous 5.9 Books 6 References 6.1 Published references 7 External links

Early life

Cary was born in Oxford, England and educated at Westminster School in London. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain 's leading boys' Independent schools with London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. He was the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. Joyce Arthur Cary (born Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, December 7, 1888 – March 29, 1957) was an Irish novelist and artist Mister Johnson is a motion picture from 1990 based on the 1939 Novel by Joyce Cary. While working as a radar engineer for the Royal Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

Following the war he created one of the first electronic music studios, later travelling around Europe to meet the small numbers of other early pioneers of electronic music and composition.

With Peter Zinovieff and David Cockerell he founded Electronic Music Studios (EMS), which created the first portable sythesiser, the VCS 3, and was then involved in prodcution of such distinctive EMS products as the Synthi 100. Peter Zinovieff is a British inventor of Russian ethnicity most notable for his EMS company which made the famous VCS3 Synthesiser

Musical works

His concert works of note include a Sonata for guitar (1959), Continuum for tape (1969), a cantata Peccata Mundi (1972), Contours and Densities at First Hill for orchestra (1972), a Nonet (1979), String Quartet No. Usage of sonata The Baroque applied the term sonata to a variety of works though most works in the Baroque Period were fugues and toccatas The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A cantata (derived from the Italian word 'cantare' meaning 'to sing' is a vocal composition with an instrumental Accompaniment and often An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well A nonet refers to a group of nine In music a nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance A string quartet is a Musical ensemble of four String instruments &mdash usually two Violins a Viola and Cello &mdash or a piece 2 (1985) and The Dancing Girls for orchestra (1991). An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well

Cary is also particularly well known for his film and television music. He has written music for the science fiction television series Doctor Who (including the first Dalek story^[1]), as well as the score for the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955). Science fiction first appeared on Television during the Golden age of science fiction, first in Britain (UK and then in the United States Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. A Dalek (, ˈdɑːlεk is a member of a Fictional extraterrestrial race of Mutants from the British science fiction television For the film see Ealing Comedy (film. For the film comedies see Ealing Comedies. This article is about the 1955 film For the remake see The Ladykillers (2004 film. Later film scores included Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), both for Hammer. Quatermass and the Pit is a 1967 British science-fiction / Horror film, produced by Hammer Film Productions and based on the Blood from the Mummy's Tomb is a 1971 British film starring Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, and James Villiers. Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Upon his death some Australian media sources incorrectly credited him as the composer of the Doctor Who theme music^[2], which was in fact written by another Australian, Ron Grainer. Ron Grainer ( 11 August 1922 — 21 February 1981) was an Australian born composer who worked for most of his professional career in

Cary was one of the first British composers to work in musique concrète. Musique concrète ( French; literally "concrete music" is a style of Avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds including natural In 1967 he created the first electronic music studio of the Royal College of Music. The Royal College of Music is a well known conservatoire located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and one He built another at his home in Suffolk, which he transported to Australia when he emigrated there, and incorporated it into the University of Adelaide where he worked as a lecturer until 1986. Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The University of Adelaide (colloquially Adelaide University or Adelaide Uni) is a Public university located in Adelaide, South Australia ^[3]

He provided the visual design for the EMS VCS3 synthesizer, the first portable synthesizer, though not the first to be attached to a keyboard, designed by Bob Moog a year later in 1970. The VCS 3 (an acronym for V oltage C ontrolled S tudio with 3 oscillators is a portable analog Synthesiser with a flexible Dr Robert Arthur Moog (ˈmoʊɡ to rhyme with "rogue" ( May 23, 1934 &ndash August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of ^[3]

Death

Cary died in Adelaide, South Australia on 24 April 2008, aged 82^[4]. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

Honours

Cary was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1991 in recognition of service to music. Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition ^[5] He also received the 2005 lifetime achievement award from the Adelaide Critics' Circle for his contribution to music in England and Australia.

List of works

Orchestral/Choral

• Peccata Mundi for Chorus, Orchestra, Speaking voice, Four tracks of tape (1972/76),
• Contours & Densities at First Hill - Fifteen Landscapes for Orchestra (1976)
• The Dancing Girls Four Mobiles for Orchestra (1991)
• Sevens Concertino for Yamaha Disklavier and Strings (1991)
• Inside Stories for chamber orchestra and prerecorded CD (1993)
• The Ladykillers Suite for Orchestra (1955/96)

Chamber/Solo

• Sonata for Guitar Alone (1959)
• Three Threes and One Make Ten Mixed decet (1961)
• Narcissus for Flute and two tape recorders (1968)
• Romantic Interiors for violin, cello and tape (1973)
• Family Conference for four clarinets (1981)
• Seeds Mixed Quintet (1982)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1985)
• Rivers Four percussionists and two tape recorders (1986)
• Black, White & Rose Marimba and tape (1991)
• Strange Places Piano solo (1992)
• Messages Cello solo (1993)
• Through Glass Piano and electronics (1998)

Vocal

• Divertimento (1973) - for Olivetti machines, 16 singers and jazz drummer (1973) (10') Commissioned by Olivetti for the opening of a new training centre at Haslemere, England (designed by the world-famous architect James Stirling) as (a) part of a 'Venetian' concert conducted by Cary himself, and (b) the sound track of a film. Described by Cary as "friendly, undemanding music" which nevertheless he was nervous about performing, since the audience was composed of VIPs and included Yehudi Menuhin. The text of the piece consists of cardinal numbers in four languages. The performance: Premiered 21/6/1973 at Haslemere HQ of Olivetti, though the film version had already been previously recorded. Performed again in Adelaide 1974. Cary also extracted a piece from it without vocals - "Tracks from Divertimento" - in 1978. It is published on a disc - "Full Spectrum" (MOVE Records MS3027). The original Haslemere personnel were the Ambrosian Singers and Chris Karan (drums).
• Two Nativity Songs from the Piae Cantiones (arr. ) (1979)
• I Am Here Soprano and Tape (1980)
• Earth Hold Songs Soprano and Piano (1993)
• Songs for Maid Marian Soprano, Piano (1959/98)

Electroacoustic

For analogue tape

• Suite - the Japanese Fishermen (1955)
• 4 5 - A Study in Limited Resources (1967)
• Birth is Life is Power is Death is God is. . . . (1967)
• Continuum (1969)
• Suite - Leviathan '99 (1972)
• Steam Music (1978)

For computer

• Nonet (1979)
• Soft Walls (1980)
• Trellises (1984)
• The Impossible Piano (1994)

Films

• The Ladykillers, Ealing Studios (1955)
• Time Without Pity, Harlequin (1956)
• The Little Island Animated, Richard Williams (1958) (best experimental film, Venice 1958; best experimental film, British Film Academy 1959)
• Sammy Going South, Michael Balcon (1963) (Royal Command Film Performance 1963)
• EXPO 67 Montréal - All film soundtracks for Industrial Section, British Pavilion (1967)
• A la Mesure de l'Homme, Canadian Government (1967)
• Quatermass and The Pit, Hammer Films (1967)
• A Christmas Carol, ABC Films (1972) Academy Award
• The Fourth Wish, SA Film Corporation (1976)
• Katya and the Nutcracker: special arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet for a 30' children's animated film (John Cary Films / Minotaur International)

Radio

• The Children of Lir (Craig) (1959)
• La Machine Infernale (Cocteau) (1960)
• The End of Fear (Saurat) (1960)
• King Lear (Shakespeare) (1960)
• The Flight of the Wild Geese (Dillon) (1961)
• The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Spark) (1962) Italia Prize
• The Ha-Ha (Dawson) (1963)
• The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (Peake) (1964)

Television

• Jane Eyre (Brontë) (1963)
• The Daleks (7-part Dr Who serial) (1963)
• Madame Bovary (Flaubert) (1964)
• Marco Polo (Dr Who serial) (1964)
• Mill on the Floss (Eliot) (1964)
• The Rescue (2-part Dr Who serial) (1965) (stock from The Daleks)
• The Head Waiter (Mortimer) (1966)
• The Daleks' Master Plan (12 part Dr Who serial) (1966)
• The Ark (4-part Dr Who serial) (1966) (stock from The Daleks)
• The Gunfighters (4-part Dr Who serial) (1966)
• The Power of the Daleks (6-part Dr Who serial) (1966) (stock from The Daleks and The Daleks' Master Plan)
• The Paradise Makers (Winch) (1967)
• The Million Pound Banknote (Twain) (1968)
• Sinister Street (Mackenzie) (1969)
• The Mutants (Dr Who serial) (1972)

Theatre and Miscellaneous

• Macbeth Old Vic Theatre (1960)
• Henry IV, Pt. The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb is a narrative poem written by Mervyn Peake in 1947 and published with his felt-pen illustrations in 1962 Biography Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution I Old Vic Theatre (1961)
• La Contessa (Druon, dir: Helpmann) (1965)
• Die Ballade von Peckham Rye Salzburg Festival (1965)
• Escalator Music and Centre Music EXPO 67, Montreal
• Hamlet Theatre Roundabout, (1968)
• Music for Light Olympia London (1968)
• "H" (Wood) National Theatre (1969)
• Echoes till Sunset - 3 hour open air entertainment, Adelaide Festival (1984)

Books

• Dictionary of Musical Technology (1992) (also known as the Illustrated Compendium of Musical Technology)

References

Published references

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Macmillan 1980
• The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music Macmillan 1988
• The New Oxford Companion to Music Oxford University Press 1983
• The Oxford Companion to Australian Music Oxford University Press 1997
• Dictionary of 20th Century Music Thames & Hudson 1974
• Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies Harper Collins (freq. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an Encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held International Publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held International Publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Thames & Hudson (also Thames and Hudson and sometimes T&H for brevity are a Publisher, especially of Art and Illustrated Books HarperCollins is a Publishing company owned by News Corporation. reprinted)

External links

• Interview with Tristram Cary
• Tristram Cary at the Internet Movie Database
• Tristram Cary at Allmusic
• Tristram Cary (Personal website)
• Australian Music Centre
• Australasian Performing Right Association
• Story about Tristram Cary in the University of Adelaide's Lumen magazine
• Telegraph article
• University of Adelaide obituary

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