Search Music:

The Carmina Gadelica, known in Gaelic as Ortha nan Gaidheal, is a six-volume collection of orally-transmitted prayers, poems, blessings and other material, collected by the folklorist Alexander Carmichael in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the second half of the nineteenth century. Carmichael subsequently translated this material, and edited the first two volumes. The death dirge An Tuiream Bais was published in the third volume, edited by Alexander’s grandson, James Carmichael Watson. I have set the first, fourth, fifth and sixth verses in the original Gaelic language.

• Shortis: An Tuiream Bais; computer-set 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $8.00
  • • Quantity:

• Shortis: An Tuiream Bais; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $10.50
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Carol Shortis: An Tuiream Bais; audio 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

The text of this work comes from the 40-part motet of the same name by Alessandro Striggio (c1540-1592). His work was the likely inspiration for the better-known 40-part motet of Thomas Tallis “Spem in alium”. It is believed that Striggio wrote the text himself. Striggio wrote both sacred and secular music, and all his surviving music is vocal (although often with instrumental doublings clearly indicated).

“Ecce beatam lucem” is a hymn of praise to the sun and more generally to all of creation, and by analogy to the power of God shown through his creation.

This piece was written for Choralation (Westlake Girls’ and Westlake Boys’ High Schools) and conductor Rowan Johnston who had requested a ‘fireworks’ piece – something short, bold and dramatic.

• Hamilton: Ecce beatam lucem; computer set  Year: 2012 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• David Hamilton: Ecce Beatam Lucem; video 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

The text for this work is a short poem by Lucille Clifton (1936-) suggesting an intense religious experience and part of the traditional Latin ‘Magnificat’. The choir is accompanied by pre-recorded sounds which are mostly bell-like sounds, some deep and some very high. Holy Night was written for Opus to sing at the 2000 Secondary Schools Choral Festival.

• Hamilton: Holy Night; computer set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  

• Hamilton: Holy Night; computer set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  • Borrow

• David Hamilton: Holy Night; video 

  Media on Demand | External - video
  

• The Treble Voice Choral Music of David Hamilton Vol 1 

  CD
  
  $15.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• The Big Sing Finale 2000  Year: 2000 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

• Sound Barrier  Year: 2006 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

This work was written as a commission for Baroque Voices, with funding from Creative NZ, to be premiered at the Baroque Voices “Alleluia: a newe work!” concert in May 2008. The concept of the performance is to juxtapose Contemporary New Zealand works with Medieval European ones – and in this case, Hoquetus Sanctus pairs well with Hoquetus David (written by Guillaume de Machaut in the 14th Century), as it explores the idea of hocket, where vocal lines are ‘shared’ between different voices, sometimes jumping from one to another and overlapping each other – however, it can equally well be performed in any choral concert.

Hoquetus Sanctus is a setting of the Latin Sanctus text for a capella chamber choir or small vocal ensemble.

• Becker: Hoquetus Sanctus; computer-set 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $16.50
  • • Quantity:

• Becker: Hoquetus Sanctus; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $20.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Pepe Becker: Hoquetus Sanctus; audio 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

• NZ Premieres 2008 Vol. 1 

  CD
  
  • Borrow

• Ritchie J.: Lord when the sense of thy sweet grace; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $9.50
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow
  • Hire

• John Ritchie: Lord, When The Sense of Thy Sweet Grace; video 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

• Choral Works (NZ Composer Edition) 

  Vinyl (LP or EP)
  

• Southern Youth Choir in Concert 

  Cassette
  
  • Borrow

• New Zealand Choral Music  Year: 1998 

  CD
  
  $25.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• A Sound Came from Heaven  Year: 2007 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• The Jubilate Singers: Southern Landscapes  Year: 2011 

  CD
  
  $30.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

O Vos Omnes was written for the choir in mid-2006 in the first year of the composer’s residency at the Cathedral, and is scored for SSATBB choir with soprano soloist creating a rich harmonic texture, and evoking a solemn mood. Hallmarks of the composer’s style are evident here: the use of the floating soprano solo; the doubling of the melodic material in soprano and tenor or alto and bass; the six part texture; the deft use of dark keys; the rather long musical phrases and paragraphs; modal harmonies with added tones; and an always palpable emotion in the music.

• Baldwin: O vos omnes; computer-set 

  Full score | Pdf - computer set
  
  $6.50
  • • Quantity:

• Baldwin: O Vos Omnes; computer-set 

  Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
  
  $9.00
  • • Quantity:
  • Borrow

• Andrew Baldwin: O vos omnes; audio 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

• David Griffiths: Praise the Lord; audio 

  Media on Demand | Embedded
  

• Lyell Cresswell: Seven Shaker Songs; audio 

  Media on Demand | Embedded