SHORT CHORAL WORKS
We have noticed much activity from schools on this website recently. Looking for New Zealand repertoire for your choir?
Maybe for the Big Sing? Check out these short Ritchie choral works:
For mixed voices:
Matariki theme:
Ururangi and Waipunarangi for 8-part unaccompanied mixed choir (2024)
4 minutes for each song.
Anzac Day theme:
Ataturk Memorial for 4-part unaccompanied mixed choir
(from Gallipoli to the Somme, an oratorio for choir, soloists and orchestra, 2016)
3 minutes.
Mid-Winter Christmas theme:
Es ist ein Ros Entsprungen for 4-6 part unaccompanied mixed choir
3.5 minutes
Theme from Te Ao Māori:
Carving for 4-part mixed choir with woodblocks
5 minutes
Neo-baroque theme:
Olinda for 4-part unaccompanied mixed choir
3 minutes
Christian theme:
Magnificat for 4-part unaccompanied mixed choir
4 minutes
Heroic theme:
Song of Hope for 4-part unaccompanied mixed choir
4 minutes
For female voices:
He Moemoea
(A dream) for 4-part mixed choir or 2-part female choir
3 minutes 30.
Song
in versions for 2-part female choir and piano, 2-part male choir and organ, SATB choir and piano, SATB choir, violin cello, flute and piano – 3 minutes 30.
Hine e Hine
for S.A. voices and piano
3 minutes
A poem Just for me
for S.A. voices and piano
3 minutes
What shall we Do with a Drunken Sailor
for S.A. voices and piano
2 minutes
Three Images
for S.A. choir and piano (with alternate version with horn added)
1. the heavenly miracle (poem by Apirana Taylor) - 3 minutes
2. High Country Weather (poem by James K. Baxter)
2 minutes 40 (unaccompanied)
3. a great seamstress (poem by Apirana Taylor) - 2 minutes 45
Four e.e. cummings poems
for female voices unaccompanied, and published by Wai-te-ata Press in Wellington. This set of songs is more challenging in standard.
Songs from Moa Music, for primary schools
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Moa Music was a school resource published in 1995 by Trio Publications.
All songs were written by Anthony Ritchie or Suzanne Court.
The book and sound track on cassette tape were produced by Suzanne Court and Paul Wheeler,
with illustrations by Maria Mackay.
The book is now long out of print but people are still asking for access to the songs.
- The Kea
- Three Little Kiwis
- The Sandfly
- The Shark
- Penguins Go!
The Hanging Bulb
Cheryl Cam has written a study guide to Hanging Bulb for Years 11 to 13 (Form 5 to 7) with accompanying CD. It is part of the SOUNZwrite series.
SOUNZwrite is a series of study guides to works by New Zealand composers written especially for use in NZ schools. They are produced by the Centre for New Zealand Music and are written by composer and educator Cheryl Camm.
The guides contain:
- background material on the composer
- composition and analysis material
- imaginative ideas for activities
- information about related topics
- a free CD of the works (with most)
- graded task sheets ... and more
- Class sets of scores also available containing original and orchestrated version.
Melancholia
Ears Wide Open : Taringa Areare
This SOUNZwrite Resource supports the music discipline in the new arts curriculum from levels 1 to 4. Researched and trialled by Cheryl Camm, it consists of:
- Teacher Guide
- Student Activity Book
- a book of scores for performance and study
- an accompanying CD with 23 different tracks of NZ music. Ears Wide Open : Taringa Areare has many activities which link to other arts disciplines - drama, dance and visual arts - and other areas of the curriculum including science, social studies and English. Each activity has suggested learning outcomes and assessment ideas. Learning experiences include:
- rhythm and performance with Gareth Farr's Ruaumoko
- how to play a guitar with Split Enz
- musical texture with Clouds Over Pirongia by John Rimmer
- the music of Tokelau through the Te Vaka Jigsaw
- how music makes you feel with Melancholia by Anthony Ritchie
- note reading with Other Echoes by Eve de Castro-Robinson
- how your body responds to music with Judy Bailey's Now I'm Walkin'
- Taonga Puoru with Tumatakokiri by Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns
- ... and many other musical styles from pop and rock to Pacific, Maori, jazz, brass band, guitar, choir, percussion, orchestra and more...