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• Ker: and the rain...; facsimile 

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• Ker: and the rain...; facsimile 

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• Powell: Dies Irae; computer set 

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Choir: Sopranos, altos, men. Orch: treble wind, treble strings (vlns and vlas), bass instrs, opt brass, 4perc(classroom instrs), pf duet.

• Ritchie A.: Dogwobble and other songs; facsimile 

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• Ritchie A.: Dogwobble and other songs; facsimile 

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Flute 1 choir, Flute 2 choir, 2 ob., 5 cl., bsn; 2 hn/bar., 4 tpt., 2 tbn, tba/dbl. bass; perc. timp.; strings; girls choir; piano

• Buchanan: Hinemoa and Tutanekai; facsimile 

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• Buchanan: Hinemoa and Tutanekai; facsimile 

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I was Composer-in-residence at Elmwood Normal School and and in mind to write a cantata for the massed choirs there. I was searching for a subject that would capture both my imagination and that of the children for whom it was to be written. My father is a scientist and the conversation he mentioned that pulsars (rapidly spinning, extremely dense stars) emit electromagnetic waves. When these waves are fed through a household radio set, part of the wave reproduces as an audible tone. A PhD research student working with pulsars, who also had an interest in music, wrote out the tones of various pulsars. I found this intriguing and promptly decided to use the theme of astronomy for the proposed work. To my amazement, when my father showed me the pulsar music written out on a treble and bass stave, the audible tones were clustered around an E major chord with some additional notes added. Thus Psalm of Stars came into being. These 13 notes became the germinal idea on which the whole work was based.

• Williams, F.: Psalm of Stars (vocal part); computer-set 

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• Williams, F.: The Psalm of Stars; computer set 

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• Contemporary Canterbury 

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• Ritchie A.: Songs Just For You; facsimile 

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• The Big Sing Finale 2001   Year: 2001 

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(1)2*,3,0,3; 4331; timp., perc. (2), hp; children's choir; strings

• Castro-Robinson: These arms to hold you; computer set 

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• De Castro-Robinson: These arms to hold you; computer-set 

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• de Castro-Robinson: These arms to hold you 

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• Eve de Castro-Robinson: Releasing the Angel  Year: 2011 

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Descant, treble, tenor and bass recorders; flutes,oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, alto and tenor saxophones; percussion (xylophone, glock, chimes, triangle, woodblock, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals), timpani; strings

• Grenfell: Voyage: Antarctica; facsimile 

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The basis of this work is the chorale which concludes JS Bach’s cantata No. 99 Was Gott tut, das is wohlgetan (“What God does, is done well”). The idea for the work grew out of the piece composed jointly by the composers at the 1985 Cambridge Summer Music School – a piece using the same chorale. My contribution had been the final section, based on the concluding seven crotchet beats of the original chorale, and it is these ideas which reappear most clearly in this work (particularly in the last section). The complete chorale is only presented at the end of the work, although elements of it are heard throughout.

Well Done, Mister Bach falls into four main sections: fast, fast, slow, fast, and derives its stylistic features from the minimalist ‘school’ of composition – a piece built from small musical motives repeated many times and often only gradually changing or developing. The harmonic material is all derived from the original Bach, with the work being essentially a ‘stretched’ statement of the chorale. Subsequent works of mine to use this include One More Time, Mister Couperin (1986).

The scoring features the leaders of each section as a concertante group, and throughout, the remaining strings (except double basses) are divided into two parts each. In addition to the string orchestra is a small percussion section.

I would like to thank my fellow composers from Cambridge, for although I have not quoted anyone else’s musical ideas directly, something of the spirit of our work (entitled Bach Has Eight Friends to Tea) survives. It is also fitting that the work was composed in 1985 – the tercentenary of the birth of Bach.

The piece was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, the Auckland Youth Orchestra and their conductor at the time, Michael McLellan.

• Hamilton: Well Done, Mr Bach; computer-set 

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• Hamilton: Well Done, Mister Bach; computer-set 

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• David Hamilton: Well done Mister Bach 

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