Richard Want, Esquire (2004)    2 mins.
Medium voice and piano.    Text:  Franz Holford.

St. Brigid's Blessing (2006)  2mins. 15secs.  Voice and piano.
Text:  Anon.

Peace of the Running Waves to You (2006).2min.10sec.
Voice and piano.  Text:  Traditional Gaelic blessing.

ENVIRONMENTAL MUSIC
Procession, A March of Celebration….The March of the Bunyip, a musical event for untrained
musicians.  (1983)  Commissioned:  Childrens Activities Group Association, Brisbane.   Performed in many towns, large, medium and tiny, throughout Queensland.

PUBLISHED NON-MUSICAL WORKS

Spice and Magic: (1983).
Betty Beath and David Cox. Published: Boolarong Publications
An account of their travel and experience in Indonesia.


Reflections  from Bali:  (1981)   
Betty Beath and David Cox. Published: Addison-Wesley Publishers Pty Ltd, A personal encounter with the land and its people.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, edited by
Warren Bebbington

A Dictionary of Australian Music, edited by Warren Bebbington (Oxford University Press)

Contemporary Composers, St. James Press, Chicago &
London

The New Groves Dictionary of Women Composers (1994).  Macmillan Press, London

Women Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the
Twentieth Century.   Selected Biographies by  Jane
Weiner Le Page.  The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 

International Encyclopedia of Women Composers,
Aaron Cohen

500 Notable Women:  published January, 1999   American
Biographical Institute.


INFLUENCES -  BETTY BEATH

As biographical details, list of works, performances and awards  can be accessed through the Australian Music Centre, The New Groves Dictionary of Women Composers (1994),  The Oxford Companion to Australian Music .....I thought it may be more relevant to look at those influences which have shaped my work.

Gender is an obvious influence.   I am the eldest of five girls brought up in a household in which my mother was dominant.. (.my father away for years during World War 2).  The lovely landscapes of  the Queensland bush, where I  spent my childhood also influenced me as did  the orchard cultivated by my grandparents on the banks of the Burrum River;  the perfumes and beauty of wild bush flowers and the many,  many hours in which there was time to explore, without limits,                        an imaginative world, one which was absolutely satisfying and ever changing. 

Music was always part of this since my piano lessons began  before I was three; it seems to me now that my life in music was predetermined,  I could read music before I could read words.

For nine months I lived on the small island of Abau, half-way between Port Moresby and Samarai, where, for much of the time I was the lone European woman;  I had the chance to  accompany patrols my husband made for the then Australian Administration of Papua New Guinea.  Later, posted to Kavieng, New Ireland, I developed a strong and enduring interest in non-western culture.   


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