can in one breath, sinking to the lowest note,⁴²⁵
‘Terraced melody’ of 3 sections of a small song: The first section identifies the upper main notes; the second section if relevant, contains the main melodic descent; and the third section identifies the final note.⁴²⁶

Margaret Clunies Ross associates breathing cycles with the descending pitch sequences in Aboriginal traditional music. ⁴²⁷ The timbre of this descending phrase on the Stuart piano is enhanced by the simultaneous engagement of both the una corda and dolce pedals, by the pianist’s left foot. An increase of clarity and sustain in mm.6 is enhanced by the singularly engaged una corda pedal.

Sound 3 : Pemulwuy

Composed and performed by Marlene Cummins⁴²⁸ . Marlene is a descendant of the Guguyelandji and Woppaburra ⁴²⁹ peoples in far Nrth Queensland. She has been settled in the Sydney region for several decades and is an identity of Sydney. Marlene has contributed as an Aboriginal elder to the OUR MUSIC festivals and workshops for this research program. Her tune, ‘Pemulwuy’ is an eight bar blues, introduced as ‘with this I impart to you the blues of my country’ ⁴³⁰

The extreme registers of the 97 key Stuart piano are used to create abstract sounds of both soft ethereal and loud violent, depicting the battles and anguish of Pemulwuy’s⁴³¹ resistance to the colonisation of the 1790s. The lowest note F0 21.85 Hz and the highest note F8 5587.65 Hz are featured in these sounds. The pianist strikes selectively sustained ⁴³² bass strings of the lowest Stuart piano notes with their knuckle and palm.

^{425     4}Collins, 394.
^{426     3}Ellis, 90.
⁴²⁷ Margaret Clunies Ross, Songs Of Aboriginal Australia (NSW: University of Sydney,1987) ,127 ; 4Collins, volume 2: online text, 166:http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/pdf/colacc2.pdfSource: 2Skinner, 63-64 ; 3. 2 Stubington.
⁴²⁸Thomas, S. “Black Panther woman Marlene Cummins breaks silence on fight for freedom”Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, 7th June,2014. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/black-panther-woman-marlene-cummins- breaks-silence-on-fight-for-freedom-20140606-39okl.html#ixzz3kM9DEKtn accessed 7th June 2014.
⁴²⁹Marlene Cummins, “Introduction To Woopaburra History” video, Australian Museum, http://australianmuseum.net.au/movie/introduction-woppaburra-historyaccessed 31st August, 2015.
⁴³⁰ Marlene Cummins, performed her song ‘Pemulwy’ at the OUR MUSIC festival concerts and workshops, 26th& 30th June 2012, at the Sydney Conservatoium of Music www.deepeninghistories.anu.edu.au/sites/music-day accessed 31st Aug 2015. OUR MUSIC-http://music.sydney.edu.au/our-music/
⁴³¹James L. Kohen, ‘Pemulwuy (1750–1802)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pemulwuy-13147/text23797, published first in hardcopy 2005, accessed online 27th August 2015.
⁴³²Sostenuto pedal see p.15