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Suite of pieces with poems that can be read between movements or omitted.

• Jagger: A Nursery of Pain; facsimile 

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This composition is a setting of a poem by the Australian philosopher, poet and musician Melvyn Cann. The first part describes a spiritual journey through suffering to transcendence and peace. The second part describes a state of consciousness where both thought and time cease, and only feeling remains.

• Cowdell: A Place of Quiet; facsimile 

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• de Castro-Robinson: A Resonance of Emerald; facsimile 

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• de Castro-Robinson: A Resonance of Emerald; facsimile 

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• de Castro Robinson: Works 1 

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• Buchanan: A Suite of Melodies - Themes for Friends; facsimile 

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• Utting: Apocalypse; facsimile 

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• Utting: Apocalypse; facsimile 

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This work is a cantata for soprano and tenor soloists, SATB choir, flute, cello and organ. The texts are drawn from Psalm 22, verses 1 to 11, and Psalm 31, verses 9 to 14 interspersed with two poems by Hone Tuwhare, Nocturne and A Disciple Dreams. The work closes with a gentle setting of the prayer Our Father.

• Hulford: Cantata: A Disciple Dreams; facsimile 

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• Hulford: Cantata: A Disciple Dreams; facsimile 

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Commissioned by the Schola Cantorum of Dunedin to celebrate its 125th Jubilee in 1988, this work for for soprano soloist, mixed choir and orchestra sets the first part of S. Francesco d’Assisi’s Canticle of Brother Sun.

The Canticle is an expression of the medieval belief in the beauty, goodness and intelligibility of the created world. It is also an expression of Francis’s own idea of all creation living in a spirit of fraternity and community. This vision of the total reconciliation of humanity with the universe is symbolized in a number of ways. One such is the ordering of the elements in pairs, which combine the masculine and feminine: sun-moon, wind-water, fire-earth.

In this setting, the soprano soloist represents the feminine principle, and the choir the masculine. A version of the work has been arranged for a smaller orchestra, with organ replacing the strings. The work has been described by one critic as “one of the most exciting and satisfying works for choir and orchestra by a New Zealander”, and by another as a work which “will undoubtedly continue to be performed regularly on account of its accessibility and performability”.

• Speirs: Cantico del Sole; facsimile 

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• Speirs: Cantico del sole; facsimile 

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• Speirs: Cantico del Sole; facsimile 

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• Cantico del Sole 

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• Norton: Carol Jazz; computer-set 

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First performed in a concert of the Swiss Computer Music Center with soloist Franziska Staeheli. Later performances in Bern (with a short lecture about it by me) and in Schaffhausen. Bruno Spoerri also played the tape abroad, in a demonstration of our work here.

Preparation for the work involved analysis of several Chinese instruments; Ch’in (a zither), gong and wood block. The wave analysis was done with a computer program and my imitations were realized on the Computer Music Center’s DMX. There are two sets of texts: from the Tao Te Ching (Lao Tse) and from the I Ching. The Lao Tse texts were chosen by me and set with traditional notation. The I Ching texts were chosen by chance (with the computer) and set with a computer generated graphic notation. Proportions within the piece were also made with a computer program using chance and units of Golden Section. (More details in the introduction to the score).

This piece could be performed with two singers: one singing the Tao texts, the other singing the I Ching texts.

• Powell: Chinese Songs; computer-set 

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• Powell: Prepared Tape  Year: 1994 

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• Barclay: Circular Concerto; facsimile 

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• Barclay: Circular Concerto; facsimile 

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