Work

Programme Note

This lively and rhythmic Christmas piece sets the well-known text by Isaac Watts. The music adopts a gospel style with much use of syncopation. Towards the end of the piece a fragment of the well-known setting of this text briefly appears in both the accompaniment and the soloist’s parts. The work was commissioned for the staff and parents’ choir, directed by David Gordon, to sing at the annual carol service of Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland.

Text Note:

Text by Isaac Watts

Commissioned:

Commissioned by Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Influences:

• Christmas

Performance History

	04 Dec 2010	Performed by the staff and parents’ choir of Diocesan School for Girls at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, in Auckland