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• Dellow: 8 Songs From The I Ching; facsimile 

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• Dellow: 8 Songs From The I Ching; facsimile 

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This cycle of five songs for baritone and piano was awarded the Philip Neill Prize by the University of Otago in 1991. It expresses five perspectives on the concept of time, some humorous and some more contemplative.

• Grenfell: A Pinch of Time...; facsimile 

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• Grenfell: A Pinch of Time...; facsimile 

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• Grenfell: 2 pieces from "A Pinch of Time..."; computer-set 

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• Kowhai - an album of songs by NZ women composers  Year: 1994 

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• Grenfell: selected works 

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• Burning Bright - four NZ women composers  Year: 1999 

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Percussion: vibraphone, snare drum, tom-toms (4), suspended cymbal, bass drum, timpani (4)

• Bisley: Come Back Safely; facsimile 

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• Bisley: Come Back Safely; facsimile 

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• Brigid Bisley: Come Back Safely; audio 

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• Women Composers: Grenfell, Exley, Bisley 

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• Brigid Bisley: Come Back Safely 

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Poems by Iain Lonie and Bernadette Hall, and commissioned by Tony Donaldson for performance by himself (guitar) and Robert Oliver (tenor) in 1997, with funding from Creative NZ. Originally from Dunedin, Bernadette studied Classics under Iain Lonie at Otago University. I have to thank two other Classicists with regard to the selection of these poems for setting: Andrew Barker who put me onto Iain’s poetry, and Gail Tatham who recommended Bernadette’s poems to me.

Anthony Ritchie

• Ritchie A.: Five Dunedin Songs; Computer Set 

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• Ritchie A : Five Dunedin Songs; computer set 

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• Shulz: Five New Zealand Songs; facsimile 

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• Schulz: Five New Zealand Songs; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Fragments and Letters; computer-set 

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• Buchanan: Fragments and letters; computer-set 

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What thing is love? for, well I wot love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal, Whose flame creeps in at every hole; And as my wit doth best devise, Love’s dwelling is in ladies’ eyes: From whence do glance love’s piercing darts That make such holes into our hearts; And all the world herein accord Love is a great and mighty lord, And when he list to mount so high, With Venus he in heaven doth lie, And evermore hath been a god Since Mars and she played even and odd. - George Peele (1558-1596)

• Palmer: Love is a thing; facsimile 

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• Music by Juliet Palmer  Year: 1990 

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In 1995 a volume of New Zealand love poetry was published under the title My Heart Goes Swimming. Instead of using one of the more conventional orderings of the poems, the editors arranged the poems chronologically according to when they believed the poets had written them. My selection of poems retained this organisation, although during composition of the cycle I substituted my original choice for the final poem with Robin Hyde’s Road’s End. The poets represented in the cycle are A.R.D. Fairburn, Mary Stanley, Brian Turner, Denis Glover and Robin Hyde.

There is no real common thread which links the poems, other than their subject of love. All except the first speak directly to another person, whereas the first is descriptive of a loved one. The second poem speaks of the intimacy of love. It provides the cycle’s title in its last two lines: “I seek no other heav’n beyond your mortal face”. The third poem has the poet offering to give the reasons why love has flourished: to “…invite me to speak of the secrets I never knew I wanted to tell you”. The fourth poem uses the recurring line “I am bright with the wonder of you” to describe the various attractions of the loved one. The final song is a re-working of a piece which originally appeared as part of my Three Robin Hyde Impressions of 1993 for choir and piano. It seemed to fit here as a bittersweet farewell to love : “you have made summer golden, now you go”.

No Other Heaven was commissioned by New Zealand guitarist Tony Donaldson with funding from Creative New Zealand whose assistance is gratefully acknowledged.

• Hamilton: No Other Heaven; computer set 

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• Hamilton: No Other Heaven; computer set 

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1.
When Bells stop ringing – Church – begins –
The Positive – of Bells –
Then Cogs – stop – that’s Circumference –
The Ultimate – of Wheels.

2.
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

3.
Drab Habitation of Whom?
Tabernacle or Tomb –
Or Dome of Worm –
Or Porch of Gnome –
Or some Elf’s Catacomb?

4.
I’ve seen a Dying Eye
Run round and round a Room –
In search of Something – as it seemed –
Then Cloudier become –
And then – obscure with Fog –
And then – be soldered down
Without disclosing what it be
‘Twere blessed to have seen –

5.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – Too?
Then there’s a pair of us?
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

6.
Ample make this Bed –
Make this Bed with Awe –
In it wait till Judgement break
Excellent and Fair.

Be its Mattress straight –
Be its Pillow round –
Let no Sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this Ground –

7.
Over and over, like a Tune –
The Recollection plays –
Drums off the Phantom Battlements
Cornets of Paradise –
Snatches, from Baptizes Generations –
Cadences too grand
But for the Justified Processions
At the Lord’s Right hand.

8.
There is a pain – so utter –
It swallows substance up –
Then covers the Abyss with Trance –
So Memory can step
Around – across – upon it –
As one within a Swoon –
Goes safely – where an open eye –
Would drop Him – Bone by Bone.

9.
“Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see –
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.

10.
Too few the mornings be,
Too scant the nights.
No lodging can be had
For the delights
That come to earth to stay,
But no apartment find
And ride away.

11.
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile – the Winds –
To a Heart in port –
Done with the Compass –
Done with the Chart!

Rowing in Eden –
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor – Tonight –
In Thee!

• Cresswell: Snatches, from Baptized Generations; computer-set 

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flute doubles piccolo and sop ocarina;B flat clarinet doubles bass clarinet; sop sax doubles bass clarinet and sop ocarina; fretless bass; amplified cello and percussion (large suspended cymbal, 6 rototoms, 3 timpani, tamtam)

• Bowater: The Frivolous Cake; facsimile 

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• Helen Bowater: The Frivolous Cake; audio 

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