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These songs were in 1979 for the tenor, John Miley. That year he gave their first performance and later recorded them for Radio New Zealand Concert. The Fairburn poems I have selected reflect different aspects of love; infatuation, vulnerability, frustration, whimsy and regret.

David Griffiths

• Griffiths, D.: Five Love Songs; facsimile 

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• Charms & Knots - songs by David Griffiths  Year: 2011 

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• Dellow: Four Serious Songs; facsimile 

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• Hinds: Gardens; facsimile 

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This is the fourth in a series of song cycles written for Richard Phillips and had its performance in a private residence.

The 12 poems reflect personal childhood memories of the composer alternating with later second-hand impressions of events in the ‘80s including the Springbok tour, Queen Street riots, Rogernomics and Auckland’s rampant redevelopment.

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• Emeleus J.: Men who march away; facsimile 

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• Hinds: Nine Mystical Songs; facsimile 

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• Jenny McLeod: Peaks of Cloud - downloadable PDF 

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• Jenny McLeod: Peaks of Cloud - hardcopy score  Year: 2012 

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 12 - Jenny McLeod: Vocal & Choral Works  Year: 2011 

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Harry is a back-country character created by the New Zealand poet Denis Glover in a collection of poems entitled Sings Harry, first published by his Caxton Press in 1951. In 1953 Douglas Lilburn set six of these in what has become one of the most popular and firmly established song cycles in the New Zealand repertoire.

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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!

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• Tremain: 'Lever de rideau' from Three Songs; facsimile 

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