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Choral

Music for mixed choir and male choir, with and without instruments in response to words by Les Murray, David Malouf and Gwen Harwood, C.P. Cavafy, Sappho and St John of the Cross.

Please click work titles for more information and resources (audio, sheet music, program note etc.) about individual works in this category.

Chimney-sweepers (2006)

4 minutes
for SATB choir

A version of this work is available for voice and piano. See also videos and resources about the radiophonic work Elegy in a Country Graveyard.

Text: from Act IV of Shakespeare's Cymbeline

First performance by the Gotlands Körförbunds Kör conducted by Ingvar Stagling, St Mary's Cathedral, Visby, Sweden, 27 September 2009

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An die Musik (2005)

20 minutes
for unaccompanied chamber choir

Text: Poems by David Malouf, Thomas Shapcott and Gwen Harwood, together with folk poetry/songs from Malaysia, the Pueblo people of the south-west United States and the Finnish Kanteletar.

Chamber choir SSSSAATTBB (can be sung be 10 solo voices)

Commissioned by the Adelaide Chamber Singers with financial assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Adelaide Chamber Singers conducted by Carl Crossin, St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, 10 December 2005

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Piano Pieces (2005)

5 minutes
for unaccompanied chamber choir

Three songs from An die Musik

Text: Thomas Shapcott

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Three Songs about Singing (2005)

7 minutes
for unaccompanied chamber choir

Songs drawn from An die Musik

Text: Folk poetry from Malaysia, Finland and the Pueblo people of the South-West United States of America

SSSAATTBB

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Piae cantiones (2003)

9 minutes
for unaccompanied male voice choir

1. Puer nobis nascitur
2. Personent hodie
3. Puer natus in Bethlehem
4. Gaudete!

First performance by Melbourne Cappella conducted by Nicholas Cowell, Rippon Lea, Melbourne, 17 August 2014

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Beautiful Dreamer (1997)

3 minutes
for unaccompanied chamber choir

Arrangement of the song by Stephen C. Foster

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In somnia (1992)

20 minutes
for tenor soloist, chorus and large ensemble

Text: Christina Rossetti, Thomas Campion, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, St John of the Cross, A.D. Hope and Sappho

flute (= piccolo), alto flute (= bass flute), oboe (= cor anglais), soprano sax, bass clarinet, bassoon (= contrabassoon), 3 horns, trumpet (= flugelhorn), tuba, percussion (one player), piano, harp, 4 violas and double bass

Commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs with financial assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Gerald English (tenor), Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, Sydney Alpha Ensemble conducted by Antony Walker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 25 September 1994

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The Laughter of Mermaids (1991)

13 minutes
for vocal ensemble

Text: Maria Blakey

six solo voices: SSATBarB

Commissioned by the Song Company with financial assistance from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council

First performance by the Song Company conducted by Roland Peelman, Hope theatre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 16 March 1992

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Wassails and Lullabies (1989)

22 minutes
for SATB choir and percussion (3 players)

Text: Mediaeval English Christmas carols

Commissioned by Wollongong University Singers with funds provided by the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by the University Singers. conducted by David Vance, Performance Space, University of Wollongong, NSW, 6 December 1989

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