website – dharugdalang.com499 Green describes his process of reclamation of the Sydney language in his essay Reclamation process of Dharug in Sydney500 .
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| Score: Ngaya Wagul Appendix 8 p.489 Audio Recording 1: Ngaya Wagul 1 std.rec.wav (Mt Druitt Children’s choir) Audio Recording 2: Ngaya Wagul 2 std.rec.wav (Richard Green) |
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Richard Green has assisted the Mt Druitt children’s choir with their pronunciations of the Dharug language, Dharug dalang, (tongue).The choir performs many songs in the Sydney language. I collaborated with the Mt Druitt choir for large performance piece Land Of Dreams by Greg Stigter . Two recordings are included of Nygaya Wagul .The OUR MUSIC performance with the childrens choir, and Richard Green in the studio with myself playing the 102 key Suart & Sons piano.
OUR MUSIC 2014
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
499 http://www.dharug.dalang.com.au/filedownload/FrontPage.html
500John Hobson, Re-awakening Languages Theory and Practice in revitalizationof Australia’s Indigenous languages. (Sydney: Sydney University Press 2010).
501 © Rusty Peters, courtesy of Warmun Art centre WA
