Beth Wiseman was a British

United Kingdom

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 composer

Composer

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, specializing in multimedia

Multimedia

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.

Biography

She studied composition with Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr is an English composer and academic.Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Oliver Messiaen's...

 and was strongly influenced by her study of the Australian composer David Lumsdaine

David Lumsdaine

David Lumsdaine is an Australian composer. He studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music . He moved to England in 1952 and for a while shared a flat with fellow expatriate, the poet Peter Porter, with whom he collaborated on several projects including the cantata Annotations of...

. She also taught in several British Universities and schools. Early on, she was drawn to composition with text and other external stimuli such as painting

Painting

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s, photography

Photography

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, dance

Dance

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 and theatre, often using mixed media such as live performers alongside taped sounds and live electronic

Electronic music

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s, as well as extra-musical elements. She had three children and was the wife of composer Geoffrey Poole.

List of compositions

• Two Songs from the Japanese, for mezzo
  Mezzo
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  , clarinet
  Clarinet
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  , viola
  Viola
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  , piano
  Piano
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   and percussion,
• Poe, ballet
  Ballet
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   score - tape composition,
• Incidental music
  Incidental music
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   for: I, Claudius - small ensemble
• Blood Wedding - small ensemble,
• The Fire-raisers - tape,
• Out of the Long Night, Multi-media piece for reciter, tape, live instruments and projection, based on Aboriginal creation myths/oral poetry.
• The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate -Music-drama for children - narrator and-small ensemble
• Blow of Thy Breath, Two poems of Indian mystical poets - soprano and recorder.
• Ad Marginem for Large Chamber Ensemble - inspired by the Klee
  Klee
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   painting of the same name.
• Myriad, for Oboe
  Oboe
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  , Harp
  Harp
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   and dancers, centred on the eponymous sculpture by Katharine Dowson, commissioned by Okeanos for performance in the Whitworth Art Gallery
  Whitworth Art Gallery
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  Sculpture Court.