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This wonderful recital piece for 12 part (SSSAAATTTBBB) choir has been performed all over the world and is one of the composer’s best-known works.

It was written in 1974 as part of a set entitled O Magnum Mysterium and first perfromed by the Dorian Choir under Peter Godfrey at the 1975 Three Choirs Festival in England. Since then it has been recorded by choirs in New Zealand and the United States.

The piece is essentially simple in its form using delayed overlaying if the voice parts to startling effect. The overshadowing of Mary by the Holy Spirit, the gestation in the womb and the birth of Jesus can be clearly heard in the parameters of the work.

• Griffiths, D.: Beata Virgo; computer-set 

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 2  Year: 1972 

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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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• Hamilton: Carol of the Mother and Child; computer-set 

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• Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs  Year: 1990 

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A “deconstruction/recomposition” of a fifteenth century carol for 3 soloists and choir on the martyrdom of St Stephen. This dramatic work has become a standard text for study in schools through New Zealand. It has been recorded by the New Zealand National Youth Choir.

• Body: Carol to Saint Stephen; facsimile 

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• Jack Body: Carol to St Stephen  

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• Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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• Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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

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This splendid setting of Psalm 148 for for SATB choir and SATB soloists has some wonderful effects, but requires four good soloists.

• Griffiths, D.: Cosmic Praise; facsimile 

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• New Zealand Choral Music Vol. 1  Year: 1994 

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This is a very attractive and moderately easy Christmas carol arranged for SATB choir.

• Griffiths, D.: Dormi Jesu; computer-set 

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• Choral Works (NZ Composer Edition) 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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• Tower Voices New Zealand: A Voices Christmas  Year: 2004 

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• Marshall: Faleula E!; computer set 

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• Marshall: Faleula E!; computer set 

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• Marshall: Songs of Samoa; computer-set 

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• 1993/94 New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir  Year: 1994 

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The text for this work is a short poem by Lucille Clifton (1936-) suggesting an intense religious experience and part of the traditional Latin ‘Magnificat’. The choir is accompanied by pre-recorded sounds which are mostly bell-like sounds, some deep and some very high. Holy Night was written for Opus to sing at the 2000 Secondary Schools Choral Festival.

• Hamilton: Holy Night; computer set 

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• David Hamilton: Holy Night; video 

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• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol 1 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2000  Year: 2000 

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• Sound Barrier  Year: 2006 

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• Ritchie J.: Lord when the sense of thy sweet grace; computer-set 

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• John Ritchie: Lord, When The Sense of Thy Sweet Grace; video 

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• Southern Youth Choir in Concert 

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• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

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• A Sound Came from Heaven  Year: 2007 

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• The Jubilate Singers: Southern Landscapes  Year: 2011 

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Scored for unaccompanied SSAATB voices this work is probably the most widely performed piece by David Hamilton. It has been recorded twice and performed on tour by visiting choirs including the choir of Christ’s College Cambridge (England) and the St. Olaf Choir from Minnesota (USA).

• Hamilton: Lux Aeterna; computer-set 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir 

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

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• NZ Flora Series Vol 5  Year: 1985 

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• Prisms - The Bach Choir  Year: 1985 

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• Hamilton: Lux Aeterna  Year: 1988 

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• Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs  Year: 1990 

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• When the morning stars sang together  Year: 1997 

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• Tower New Zealand Voices: Spirit of the Land  Year: 2006 

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A setting that incorporates new and old styles of composition, the work evolved from the two-trumpet figure opening the work.

• Bell: Magnificat Antiquitatis; computer set 

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• Bell: Magnificat Antiquitatis; computer set 

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• Michael Bel: Magnificat Antiquitatis 

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