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• Buchanan: A Matter of Timing; computer-set 

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• Dorothy Buchanan: A Matter of Timing 

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Nga Tapuwae o Kupe is a music drama directed by Rangimoana Taylor. It is based on the story of Kupe’s journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and his discovery of various landmarks around Whanganui-a-Tara / the Wellington region.

While this work maintains a strong Maori theme, with karanga, haka and waiata, as well it weaves in other Pacific and European elements.

For school choir, instrumentalists, dancers and kapa haka, this work was composed with the financial assistance of a composition grant from Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, was first performed by 140 students from South Wellington Intermediate School in July 1992 for Artsplash, the Wellington Young People’s Festival.

• Fisher: Nga Tapuwae o Kupe; facsimile 

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• Helen Fisher: Works 1  Year: 1992 

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• Ritchie, A.: The Flower of Scotland; computer-set 

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• Ritchie, A.: The Flower of Scotland; computer-set 

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• The Big Sing Finale 1999  Year: 1999 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2004  Year: 2004 

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Scored for two SSATB choirs with two homs, this work sets a poem by Miguel de Unamuno in Spanish. This work has been performed in Australia, England and the USA, as well as throughout New Zealand.

It is a setting of a short poem by the Spanish poet Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) and begins by setting the text in a fragmentary manner, choosing single key words from the poem: canta (singing), luna (moon), sosegada (lulling), blanca (white), and sola (alone). Throughout, I have sought to evoke a mood of stillness and calm (except at the two main climaxes), and much of the writing consists of simple diatonic chords alternating between the two choirs. The work ends, as it began, alternating the words ‘canta’ and ‘luna’.

The unusual scoring came about through my friendship with a fine horn player and singer – a flippant comment about unorthodox combinations of forces (although I have heard one other work for horn and choir) providing the germ of idea which eventually did bear fruit.

The Moon is Silently Singing is one of my most widely preformed works internationally, having been heard in Australia, Canada, Germany, England and the USA.

• Hamilton: The Moon is Silently Singing; computer-set 

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• Hamilton: The Moon is Silently Singing; computer-set  Year: 2004 

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• New Zealand National Youth Choir: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa  Year: 1992 

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• The Moon is Silently Singing  Year: 1994 

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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This setting of Antonio Machado’s poem is intended as a study in atmospheric textures. Little of the music is loud or dramatic, and much of the writing consists of repetitive patterns sung by the singers independently of each other. Machado, a Spanish poet of the early twentieth century, describes the simple image of a beach at night in summer, with a voice singing in the distance. Over the scene hangs the moon. The setting does not present the entire text, but uses only fragments of the poem. From the text the words “la luna” (the moon) are heard most often. A solo voice from within the choir sets the scene with the words “A summer’s night on the beach of Sanlucar…”.

Throughout the work a singing bowl sounds in the background, beginning and ending with the single struck note. At times the bowl disappears into the texture and at times it is clearly audible – steady and unvarying.

Una Noche de Verano was written for conductor Rowan Johnston and his choir Choralation (students of Westlake Girls’ and Westlake Boys’ High Schools, Auckland).

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• Hamilton: Una Noche de Verano; computer-set  Year: 2010 

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• David Hamilton - Music for Mixed Voice Choirs Vol. 1 

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