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Graham Parsons

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2010
for small to medium sized SSA choir with optional accompaniment

Programme Note

Twice a year we alter the clocks for daylight saving, so twice a year we have to battle with our digital clocks, each having its own particular method of adjustment.
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- Parsons: Changing the Clocks - Trials of the Digital Age; computer-set
  
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Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1989
for two part choir and piano

Duration: 03' 45" Year: 2006
New Zealand folk song arranged for SSA and piano

Programme Note

This version of the folk song Darling Johnny O is based on the unaccompanied mixed-voice choir arrangement found in my Four New Zealand Folk Songs arranged in 1999. The original version is found in Neil Colquhon’s collection Song of a Young Country: New Zealand Folksongs published by A.H. and A.W. Reed. Both the words and music are by ‘Anon.’! New Zealand is too young a country to have a true ‘folk’ tradition and much folk music is really variants of earlier British songs, often with local names and places substituted for the originals.

This version was made at the request of conductor Kieth Stubley who was seeking a folk song arrangement for a competition. Specifically he was keen to have something using a slower tempo.

In this version the choral parts have been simplified and a piano accompaniment added (often taking the role of the lower voices in the original arrangement).

Darling Johnny O is in the tradition of love ballads. A young woman sings of her love who, having signed onto a ship, has not been heard from for a long time. She sings proudly of her lost love and vows to travel wherever necessary to find him.

The song begins:
My Johnny signed on board the Dragon,
Bound for some place I don’t know,
But true it is I have had no letter,
From my darling Johnny O.
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- Hamilton: Darling Johnny O; computer-set
  
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Duration: 03' 30" Year: 2008
for SSAA choir and piano

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1997
for soloist and/ or 4 part womens choir and melody instrument

Instrumentation
For any available melody instrument such as flute, oboe, violin, recorder, keyboard. The melody part can be sung by group or soloist. The four accompanying parts can be sung (SSAA) or played on tuned metallic percussion instruments (chime bars, glock vibraphone...) or both. Accompanying parts range from easyto tricky and can be omitted with others composed by the performers added. Triangles or finger cymbals required at end.
Programme Note

A lullaby for SSAA choir with soprano soloist and melody instrument. This song uses melodic and rhythmic patterns from a Javanese Gamelan piece, also about golden rain.
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- Camm: Golden Rain Baby; computer-set
  
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Year: 1988
for SSA choir, flute, cello and piano

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1990
for SSAA choir and piano or organ

Programme Note

Set to a poem by Alistair Campbell, this piece has a grand accompaniment. It has been performed by many choirs worldwide, and is one of the Five Campbell Songs.
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- Utting: Monument; computer set
  
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- Utting: Monument; computer-set
  
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- Craig Utting: Monument; audio
  
  Media on Demand | Embedded
- The Big Sing Finale 2002 Year: 2002
  
  CD
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