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Saouah! is a nightscape – sounds having the fleet and fluid disembodied quality of sounds overheard at night, snatches of human melody, clusters of close pitches with the hazy quality of sounds on the threshold of hearing. Separating the groups of singers allows me to play with sound as movement, to send syllables darting across the space, or circling and reversing direction.


Sound changes, not always predictably, as it travels across water, which interests me very much, and at first I planned to literally move the groups of singers around, to have them glide, silently changing position. But there seemed much to explore simply in designing paths for the sounds to travel from group to group, without complicating things with a choreography of boats.

Many of the words used in the text I invented for their sonic properties. The title derives from the onomatopoeic Samoan words which describes a speeding car’s swoosh – saoasaoa.

Annea Lockwood

• Lockwood: Saouah!; computer-set 

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An anthem with words from Psalm 98. Commissioned by All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North for an anniversary celebration. To be sung with verve. A choir of children’s voices at the beginning makes a fitting introduction to the fuller vocal writing which follows.

• Caskie: Sing with Joy; facsimile 

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• Macky: Sweet Singing Bells; facsimile 

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• Willow Macky: Six Songs for Celebrations; computer-set  Year: 2010 

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This choral work was commissioned by Auckland Choral Society and was one the composer’s earlier works to consciously employ minimalist techniques. An exuberant work it includes a mixed-voice choir (SAATBB) with two semi-choruses (SSA and SAB) with accompaniment for organ, piano and percussion.

• Hamilton: Te Deum; facsimile 

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four choruses for SATB choir and 6 percussionists in five movements to settings of Maori poetry Five movements, settings of Maori poetry

• Powell: The Ever-Circling Light; facsimile 

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• Powell: The Ever-Circling Light; facsimile 

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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.

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• 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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Hone Tuwhare’s poem “The Old Place” conjures up a picture of an old run down house that no-body comes to visit. “No one cares to look upon the drunken fence posts and the gate white with moss. No-one except the wind saw the old place make her final curtsy to the earth and sky.” Hone Tuwhare’s words are very evocative and it was not hard to write music that emphasized the picture of people leaving their run-down farms and moving to the cities, in the hope of a better life.

• Hulford: The Old Place; facsimile 

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• Hamilton: There is a Solemn Wind Tonight; computer set 

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• Jagger: Virgin Birth; facsimile 

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• Macky: What Do We Want With a Bomb?; facsimile 

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