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Cilla McQueen  

1/2 a minute of song for Five Voices

 Year: 1981
Graphic notation for five voices

Mark Smythe  

A Solis Ortus

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2005
for chamber vocal ensemble

Carol Shortis  

Adam Lay Ibounden

 Year: 2008
for vocal octet unaccompanied

Bryony Jagger  

Ave Verum Corpus

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1977
for counter-tenor, two tenors, baritone and bass

Mark Smythe  

Ave Verum Corpus

 Year: 2006
motet for vocal ensemble

David Farquhar  

Bagpipe Music

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1994
for vocal sextet (SSATBB)

Philip Norman  

Barbershop Quartet Arrangements

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1976
For TTBB vocal quartet

John Psathas  

Baw My Barne

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1995
for an ensemble of eight voices (SSAATTBB)

Robbie Ellis  

Cause I Couldn't Find a Tenor

Duration: 08' 00"
for five-part male barbershop

  • Programme Note

    There is a real cultural difference between the homeland of the Western classical tradition – that is, continental Europe – and New Zealand. This cultural difference is in the willingness to sing, and more to the point, to sing high. Put simply, New Zealand blokes don’t like doing it, and finding willing tenors to
    realise Bach’s or Mozart’s expectations has been a long-standing bane of choir directors, musical directors of shows, and composers. As a composer, I would sometimes like to smack up the head certain men I know who will happily belt out the soaring heights of a Guns’n’Roses vocal line on the karaoke machine after a beer or six, but baulk at singing the D above Middle C in a proper “composition”. This song is dedicated to you, you pricks.

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