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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 Carmina Gadelica, known in Gaelic as Ortha nan Gaidheal, is a six-volume collection of orally-transmitted prayers, poems, blessings and other material, collected by the folklorist Alexander Carmichael in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the second half of the nineteenth century. Carmichael subsequently translated this material, and edited the first two volumes. The death dirge An Tuiream Bais was published in the third volume, edited by Alexander’s grandson, James Carmichael Watson. I have set the first, fourth, fifth and sixth verses in the original Gaelic language.

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• Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists  Year: 2010 

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Much of my work is a marriage (or balancing act) between the Western art music tradition and my own position in time and place. Along with many forms, I have had a love for sacred choral music from Mediaeval times through to the present, but in not being a Christian, I have felt a reluctance to set text in which I don’t fully believe.

In reading the work of spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle, I have discovered a new connection with biblical texts. Tolle quotes the line “Be still, and know that I am God” in his book A New Earth, as an example of a universal truth that is at the heart of all religions and belief systems. In this text “God” may be seen as the Christian God, an omnipresent spiritual dimension or the universe personified. This line, and the rest of the text, is from Psalm 46. In setting this text I have found an opening into the world of sacred choral music that aligns with my own beliefs.

Anthony Young

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• Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists  Year: 2010 

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Although on a surface merely a drinking song, this is really an early Christmas piece from the ‘wassail’ tradition. A wassail was a toast or a drink associated with Christmas festivities, and the term could also be applied to the drink itself: “a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples”. The text is probably from the time of Henry VI (1421-1471).

When the text was printed in a carol collection in the 1851, the editor cautioned:

“Good ale, however, like most other things when taken in excess, is attended by certain inconveniences, as the following song….will serve to explain.”

Bring Us In Good Ale was written for Mainly Men of Rangitoto College (Auckland), and conductor David Squire.

• Hamilton: Bring Us In Good Ale; computer-set  Year: 2009 

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• Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists  Year: 2010 

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• Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists CD 1 

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This short work sets a poem by Edwin Markham (1852-1940), American poet, teacher, lecturer and social activist. During his lifetime several collections of poetry were published, and he was often seen lecturing at labour and radical gatherings as at literary ones.

The poem Child of My Heart addresses a new-born child directly, asking where it has come from and questioning where life will lead it.

Child of My Heart was written for choral and teaching colleague Vanessa Kay who had requested something for two-part voices, with a text suited to high school level choirs. It was written shortly after the birth of her first child, and is dedicated to Vanessa and David Kay.

• David Hamilton: Child of My Heart - hardcopy score  Year: 2009 

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chor-respondent is a computer program that interacts with a live performer. The interaction is managed purely through sound, there is no complicated MIDI equipment or electronic sensors – just a microphone. chor-respondent listens to the sounds that the performer plays, and responds by producing sounds of its own. It builds up chords based on the performer’s recent notes, and any notes that it is currently playing. The result is swelling chords of beautiful but often unexpected harmony. A performance lasts as long as the live improviser wishes.

The program had its first performance at the Songs for Dynamic Systems concert organized by the Live Algorithms for Music network. The performance was with Finn Peters on flute, at Café Oto in London, August 6th 2009.

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• Oliver Hancock: chor-respondent 

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• Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists  Year: 2010 

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• Take Flight - Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists CD 2 

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