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• Farquhar: A Christmas with Carols; facsimile 

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• Hinds: After Midnight; facsimile 

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• Hinds: After Midnight; facsimile 

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• Williams, N,: All My Heart This Night Rejoices; computer-set 

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• Williams, N: All My Heart This Night Rejoices; facsimile 

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• McLeod: Sun Festival Carols; computer-set 

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• Wanganui Schola Sacra Choir: Pohutukawa Carols  Year: 2002 

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A New Zealand Christmas carol for kids, mostly in unison or echoing separate parts. The carol emphasises the continuity of family life through the ages.

• Caskie: Before the Paling of the Stars; computer-set 

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• Jarman: Bell-bird from a Forest Tree; computer set 

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• Bray: Carol for a Dark Night; computer set 

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This carol was intended to capture something of the Christmas festival as it is experienced by most New Zealanders. The first verse sets the scene in the beaches which begin to attract more and more people as the school holidays end and the warm weather arrives. The second verse describes something of the hectic shopping spree that precedes the giving of Christmas presents. The last verse relates the festival to its origins in the birth of Jesus. In a land of many trees and forests, an important feature of the celebration of Christmas has been the provision and decoration of the Christmas tree. The Pohutukawa tree flowers in December, and is sometimes referred to as “the Christmas tree”. The last verse of the carol includes a reference to the tree that must have yielded its boughs for the cross on which the Christmas child was ultimately to perish. There are several versions of the carol; CA30 for SATB and organ, through-composed. CA30a for easy SATB (all verses to the same music) with optional organ/piano/guitar. CA30b for unison voices with simple piano or guitar accompaniment.

• Baker: Carol of the Festival Tree; computer-set 

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• Baker: Carol of the Festival Tree; computer-set 

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This cycle of pieces was written for South Auckland Choral Society’s end of year concert which I was invited to conduct in 2007. The original request was for a concert of New Zealand music, but beyond a number of short Christmas pieces there is little in the way to extended seasonal music by New Zealand composers. I offered to write something new for the concert, to complement Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.

Having already written a Christmas cycle for a similar choir the same year, I was keen to move away from texts about the trappings of the Christmas story. I finally found a number of texts about children and their relationship to Christmas. Surrounding these texts are some more traditionally focussed texts. Inevitably it was hard to avoid poetry with images of snow, bells and stars.

The first poem is a traditional Afro-American spiritual text and sets the scene by telling of Mary and her baby. In order to give the men of the choir something worthwhile to do in the rehearsal (white the women worked on the Britten), I decided to feature them in several pieces. The second text, “Children’s Song of the Nativity”, is really a series of questions such as a young child might ask: “What will we see? Can we go in?” The third text, for unaccompanied men’s voices, is the despairing pleas of a young man who desperately wants to be something significant in the nativity play this year. The fourth text sets Eleanor Farjeon’s “Advice to a Child” – some suggestions as to ways in which Christmas might be prepared for.

• Hamilton: Christmas Crackers; computer-set 

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