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Two versions exist of this work. Much of the vocal material is exactly the same – but the later version has developed and extended the final section.

In the original version Full Fathom Five (2001) is a work for three vocal parts with a digital soundscape. The generated sounds capture a watery submerged feeling as suggested in the text. The backing soundscape was created using an early version of the programme “Absynth” – much of the connection between the vocal lines and the backing was much a happy accident – the soaring sax-like solo is an example of this.

The later version (2007) retains and expands the vocal parts and has been scored for string quartet, replacing the digital soundscape. The string quartet carries through the hazy underwater atmosphere described in Shakespeare’s famous words from his play The Tempest.

The new version was revised and first performed to celebrate the 90th Birthday of Epsom Girls’ Grammar School, where the composer currently teaches music. She continues a long and proud tradition of composers who have taught in the Epsom Girls’ Music Department – Dorothea Franchi, Martyn Heath, and David Hamilton.


Jeni Little

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One of New Zealand’s most popular choral works Minoi, Minoi has been performed by hundreds of choirs around the world. It was part of the winning program of the New Zealand National Youth Choir’s winning entry in the 1990 ‘Let the People Sing’ competition in Germany.

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

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• NZ National Youth Choir on Tour North America  Year: 1994 

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• New Zealand Choral Music Vol. 1  Year: 1994 

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• Sing we triumphant; NZSSC  Year: 1999 

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Choir of the World  Year: 1999 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2001   Year: 2001 

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• 2005/06 New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir: Choral Champions  Year: 2006 

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• A Sound Came from Heaven  Year: 2007 

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“Rain” is a little onomatapoeic piece commissioned by the Sydney Children’s choir.

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• Adams, C.: Sanctus; computer-set 

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Shanti is an electroacoustic work and an elegy. It is dedicated to four people – my close friend David who died from skin cancer in 1991; Georgia who died in 1997, a past student who was killed in a motorbike accident; my Nana who died in 1997; and Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn who also died in 1997, the world’s finest Qawaali singer from Pakistan.


All of these deaths had a strong impact on me and inspired the composition of this work. Each of the dedicatees has a section (or verse) which refers directly to them. The piece ends with a life-affirming coda – the simple act of having the sun on our back always makes us feel better. The backing track is a digital soundscape with manipulated vocals layered throughout.

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These are the thoughts of a slave on the verge of freedom. His defiant stance as he sends away his work tools to the captain, is expressed forcefully in the “huh! huh! huh!”.

The song is made up of three sections with a euphoric coda. Each section is more defiant than the last. In the first he sends his tools to the captain. He then runs away flying. Finally he offers (rather sarcastically) that he was crying as he left. It could have an audible stomp throughout.

The poem is called Take This Hammer and is a traditional freedom song. It is found in the book In Search of Colour Everywhere – A Collection of African-American Poetry, edited by E. Ethelbert Millerand and published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang, New York, 1994.


It is dedicated to my friend Joy, and was first performed at the NZ Choral Festival 2001 by the Selwyn College Vocal Group.

Jeni Little

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• Alex van den Broek: The Trip  

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• New Zealand Choral Music Vol. 1  Year: 1994 

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Written in Australia over ANZAC weekend 2008, this work pays homage to the last moments of my Great Uncle, Corporal HD Bridge in the muddy wastelands of WW1 France. The ending is deliberately unresolved, asking the question posed in the last line of text. The English words are my own, and were translated into Latin with the assistance of Professor Constance Mews of Monash University, Melbourne.

Mark Smythe

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• Baroque Voices: Brother Sun, Sister Moon  Year: 2011 

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• Childs, D.N.: Weep No More; computer-set 

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