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Eric Biddington  

A Suite of Psalms

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1984
for choir

Christopher Small  

Actions for Chorus - Some Maori Place Names.

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1974
for large chorus

Ronald Dellow  

All Saints Mass

Duration: 10' 00"
for unison or SATB with optional piano or organ

• Instrumentation
  SATB settings for: Kyrie, Lord's Prayer, Dismissal
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Neville Hall  

And saw the waves taking form as crystal

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2002, r. 2003
for mixed choir

• Instrumentation
  for either 12 solo voices (SATB) or 36 voice SATB choir
• Programme Note

  This is the fifth consecutive piece for which I have taken the title from Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”. “And saw the waves taking form as crysta” struck me as being particularly musical, purely in metrical and phonetic terms. Initially, it was the phonetic content that was of particular interest to me, because I intended to break the line of poetry into its phonetic components and use these sounds as the basic material for the composition. As the listener will hear, this is, in fact, what I did. The complete line of text, with only a slight modification, can be heard towards the end of the work, but in “slow motion”, spread over some 60 seconds. What precedes this “exposition” is its own detailed deconstruction into some 88 “variations”, which simultaneously break down and develop its material. These 88 events are often layered and interact in a rather complex way, so are not heard as distinct or self-contained sound objects. Although I was originally more interested in the text for its sonic qualities, while working with it I became intrigued by the image of waves “taking form as crystal”. It seemed like an apt metaphor for the compositional process itself, with the fluid and mobile potential of sonic material gradually crystallising into a specific gestalt, interacting and connecting with surrounding material. The water image also encouraged me to follow through with an idea that I had been thinking about for some time – the notion of rhythmic fields radiating outwards from specific points in time, like ripples on the surface of a pond. The composition contains hundreds of these “ripple” structures, which overlap and interact with one another. The resulting rhythms were used to determing subdivisions of glissandi, timbral profiles and other features within the web of “events” that make up the composition. “And saw the waves taking form as crystal” was commissioned by the Radio Slovenia Chamber Choir. It is dedicated to Uros Rojko, with thanks for his support and encouragement during my first ten years in Slovenia.

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Dorothy Ker  

and the rain...

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1991
for double SATB choir

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Anthony Ritchie  

as long as time

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1991
for unaccompanied SSAATBB

• Programme Note

  This work was commissioned by The Southern Consort of Voices in 1991, with funding from Creative NZ. It sets three NZ poems to music, with a fourth song being wordless: Timepiece to a poem by Cilla McQueen; Before the Fall to a poem by Rachel McAlpine; I lie, I watch the ceiling (wordless); and We could just disappear to a poem by Sam Hunt.

  In 2001 Auckland choir Viva Voce recorded this work on their CD entitled Snapshots – A Cappella Choral Favourites. Conductor John Rosser writes of the work – “Anthony has a wonderful knack of writing for voice. Timepiece portrays a woman struggling to break free of suburban neurosis and the tyranny of time. Before the Fall alludes to lost childhood innocence, and We Could just Disappear depicts the future as an endless tunnel of the mind.”

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  • Change Change Change... IAMIC Concert 2008 

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  • Music by Anthony Ritchie 

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  • Snapshots: A cappella choral favourites  Year: 2001 

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Jack Body  

Carol to St. Stephen

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1975
for soprano, alto and tenor soloists and SATB choir

• Programme Note

  A “deconstruction/recomposition” of a fifteenth century carol for 3 soloists and choir on the martyrdom of St Stephen. This dramatic work has become a standard text for study in schools through New Zealand. It has been recorded by the New Zealand National Youth Choir.

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  • Visions: New Zealand Choral Music 

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  • New Zealand National Youth Choir: Te Roopu Rangatahi Waiata o Aotea Roa  Year: 1992 

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Jenny McLeod  

Childhood

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 1981
ten short songs for unaccompanied SATB choir

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  • McLeod: Childhood; facsimile  Year: 1988 

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  • Prisms - The Bach Choir 

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  • NZ Flora Series Vol 4  Year: 1985 

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  • Prisms - The Bach Choir  Year: 1985 

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  • NZ National Youth Choir on Tour North America  Year: 1994 

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  • Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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Craig Utting  

Confessio of St. Patrick

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1985
for choir

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Clare Maclean  

Et Misericordia

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1986
for unaccompanied choir

• Instrumentation
  SSS AAA TTT BBB
• Programme Note

  The book of Job, Chapter 38, is the basis of the text from which ‘Et Misericordia’ makes a series of pictures. The title is from a phrase of the Magnificat: ‘and his mercy is on those that fear him, from generation to generation’. ‘Et Misericordia’ was written for the Sydney Chamber Choir.

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  • Clare Maclean: Complete Choral Music 

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