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This short blessing was written for my choir St Mary’s Schola at St Mary’s College. It was composed for use in a performance at mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Auckland.

The text is based on traditional Irish blessing, with a version of the concluding blessing often used in many services added at the end.

David Hamilton

• Hamilton: A Blessing for this Day; computer-set  Year: 2009 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol. 3  Year: 2011 

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• Biddington: A New Zealand Fable; computer set  Year: 2007 

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• A New Zealand Fable - Eric Biddington  Year: 2008 

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• Smythe: A Solis Ortus; computer set 

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• NZ Premieres 2005 

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• From the far point of the rising of the sun... (Part II)  Year: 2005 

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• Smythe: A Solis Ortus  Year: 2005 

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

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A commissioned work to close the Silencio/Rita Angus Show at the Christchurch Art Gallery in July 2009.

• Alex van den Broek: After Lilburn 

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• Kass Finlay: Alone on a Hilltop  Year: 2004 

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Although the work was not commissioned, it was indirectly ‘requested’ by Ross Carey, who performed Aquarius I in a New Zealand Piano Music concert on 30 March 2008. Aquarius I was written for, and premiered by, Anita van Dijk in 2000, and there was a note at the end of it saying that “Aquarius II may emerge at a later date” – it was in response to Ross’ enquiry about this that I was spurred to write Aquarius II. Both works are dedicated to Anita van Dijk, upon whose birthday numbers they are based.

Aquarius II is the sequel to Aquarius I.

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• Becker: Aquarius II; computer-set 

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

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A bouncing little piece.

• Christopher Prosser: Bouncer  

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• Prosser and Seymour: Camden Mews NW   Year: 2006 

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A dance for solo violin in 11/8 time, similiar to a Bulgarian dance.

• Christopher Prosser: Brightest Day 

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This cadenza represents part of an attempt to reestablish some of the bravura tradition of the late Baroque, so easily passed over in modern interpretations of the period’s music. A case in point is the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto, which supplies a simple cadence as a stepping-stone between its two movements. On nearly every recording of this piece, one will hear the reverential yet unimaginative error of playing the score exactly as written, with two blunt chords executed with the utmost seriousness, then leading directly on into the next movement. Yet what is called for in style of the period (if not the score itself) is an extended improvisation by the continuo player, more than the few feeble arpeggios that are often heard.

Goss’s cadenza melds some of the muscular, intellectual style of J.S. Bach with other influences from the period, including Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, and a touch of Couperin, blended together with a sensibility and flair borrowed from the approach of Bach’s son Karl Phillip Emmanuel. The overall effect is to evoke the younger Bach in a mischievous mood, alternately eliciting groans and intrigued sighs from an attentive father as the themes of the concerto are whimsically run through a series of transformational episodes. These are in essence private jokes, referring to some of the works like the Well-Tempered Clavier upon which the Bach boys cut their virtuosic teeth.

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• Thomas Goss: Cadenza to the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto of J.S. Bach 

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• Nock: Cloudless Blue; computer-set  Year: 2005 

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• In the time of sakura: the piano music of Mike Nock  Year: 2007 

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