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• Farquhar: A little Song-Suite; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: A little Song-Suite; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Blues and Pinks; facsimile 

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• Isadora: EN/OF II; facsimile 

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• Alison Isadora: Selected Works 

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• Isadora: EN/OF II  Year: 1995 

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• Dellow: Four Serious Songs; facsimile 

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First published in 1872, the collection of poems Sing-Song by Christina Rossetti stayed popular for over a century. My first introduction to this work was at age 13 with my discovery of the beautiful old edition in the Dorothy Neal White Collection of the National Library of New Zealand, but it was not until five years later that I set four of the poems for voice and piano.

The resulting song-cycle was premiered on July 26, 1995 by Victoria Poole, soprano, and Fiona McCabe, piano in a recital at Ferndale House in Mt. Albert, Auckland.

In December 2008 I revised the song-cycle to its present form, re-writing the two outer songs (although these remain quite close to the originals) and replacing the two inner songs with new material.

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• Hoadley: Four Songs from 'Sing-Song'; facsimile 

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This song for voice and piano is part of the Trinity Singing Syllabus, 2005. It originally appeared in the children’s songbook “Moa Music”.

• Ritchie A. and Court S.: Moa Music; computer-set  Year: 1995 

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• Ritchie A. and Court S.: Moa Music; computer-set  Year: 1995 

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• Ritchie and Court: Two Bird Songs; computer-set  Year: 2004 

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• Anthony Ritchie and Suzanne Court: Moa Music  Year: 1995 

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• Farquhar: Remembrance of things past; facsimile 

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• Farquhar: Remembrance of things past; facsimile 

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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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• Jagger: Soul Flower; facsimile 

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• Ritchie, A.: Tangi; computer-set 

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• Ritchie, A.: Four Songs for Baritone and Piano; computer-set  Year: 2005 

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• New Zealand Poets in Song - Anna and Matthew Leese sing songs by Anthony Ritchie  Year: 2008 

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