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Pieces by Stephen Leek, Michael Knopf, Kent Farbach, Robert Davidson and Mary Mageau on Australian themes. Publication was sponsored by the Australian National Choral Association.

A delightful set of rounds for students in lower primary grades and upwards. These can be interpreted in the traditional way but Chris suggests many contemporary possibilities for each round. This publication includes a licensing agreement for copying within a single institution.

New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link.

An energetic rhythmic Gloria with alternative texts for Christmas and general use.

Demonstration Recording:
Gloria In Excelsis, Mark Puddy: Gulf Coast Youth Choir, Florida, Conducted by Lynne Gackle, 2001

Arrangement for SAB choir. For SA arrangement, contact admin@mortonmusic.com.

Uses the traditional text in a new and exciting setting for four-part chorus. Brass parts are available from the distributor.

The third and final piece in Ancient Cries, this “pelican dance” has caught the imagination of young and adult treble choirs the world over. Wonderfully rhythmic with stunning climaxes and interesting vocal sounds. It is also not very difficult. A “must perform.”

The recording is by Young Voices of Melbourne, directed by Mark O’Leary.

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New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

Stanhope’s piece was written 1999. The text by Michael Dransfield, partly autobiographical, explores personal change and the inevitability of things being forgotten. Aimed at a top treble choir (children or women) although the individual parts themselves are not difficult.

Listen to Ground Zero here!

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High Places draws on the well-known text by Australian poet legend, Dorothea McKeller. In three different voicings SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella and TTBB a cappella. This beautiful setting captures in a homophonic way the exquisite colours of the Australian hills and valleys.

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High Places draws on the well-known text by Australian poet legend, Dorothea McKeller. In three different voicings SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella and TTBB a cappella. This beautiful setting captures in a homophonic way the exquisite colours of the Australian hills and valleys.

New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details.

High Places draws on the well-known text by Australian poet legend, Dorothea McKeller. In three different voicings SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella and TTBB a cappella. This beautiful setting captures in a homophonic way the exquisite colours of the Australian hills and valleys.

A lively rhythmic Hodie in a mild twentieth-century style. Would suit high school college or church choirs in Christmas presentations or carol services. The recording is by Collegium Musicum directed by Margaret Pride.

The third of Joseph Twist’s “Victoria Triptych”. Suitable for concert use, and liturgically especially at Christmas.

The recording (below) is by the Choir of St James Church, King Street, Sydney. A pronunciation guide is also here.

Victory, mankind! Because against all of hell, The crying of a tender child ensures our glory.

Available in the set of Three Motets after Victoria, found here – not available singly.

Simple voice parts, yet a powerful piece with a powerful message surely more necessary now than ever before. This piece brings together many cultural influences from the “earth tribes” – Native American, African, Celtic, Aboriginal and Mongolian as well as the music of nature herself – birdcalls and flowing streams.SA divisi a cappella or accompanied.

An ideal song for Festivals & whole school performances including massed choirs. SA divisi a cappella or accompanied (by Small Ensemble or Concert Band, Orchestra, String Orchestra or Cello Ensemble).

Demonstration Recording: Montclair State University Singers directed by Dr. Heather J. Buchanan from the 2012 ACDA Eastern Division Conference.

Simple voice parts, yet a powerful piece with a powerful message surely more necessary now than ever before. This piece brings together many cultural influences from the “earth tribes” – Native American, African, Celtic, Aboriginal and Mongolian as well as the music of nature herself – birdcalls and flowing streams.SATB divisi a cappella or accompanied.

An ideal song for Festivals & whole school performances including massed choirs. SATB divisi a cappella or accompanied (by Small Ensemble or Concert Band, Orchestra, String Orchestra or Cello Ensemble).

Also available in SA voicing here.

Honour The Earth As Your Mother is very atmospheric and is one of Sarah Hopkins most well known works.

Hullayha (pronounced ‘Hull-ay-ha’) for SA divisi choir a cappella or accompanied (by optional percussion, String Orchestra or Full Orchestra). The soulful opening gradually transforms into abundant joy. All the melodies are very ‘singable’ & supported by sustained drones which ‘birth’ out of the melody line.

Available in SATB voicing here.

Accompanied Recording from CD ‘Childers Shining’ ~ music by Sarah Hopkins performed by massed community choir with the Bundaberg Youth Orchestra conducted by Robert Rotar.

Hullayha (pronounced ‘Hull-ay-ha’) for SATB divisi choir a cappella or accompanied (by optional percussion, String Orchestra or Full Orchestra). The soulful opening gradually transforms into abundant joy. All the melodies are very ‘singable’ & supported by sustained drones which ‘birth’ out of the melody line.

This secular piece laments the loss caused to both western and indigenous cultures when white miners arrive to mine for gold.

Graeme Morton’s piece “In Flanders Fields” is a poignant setting of the poem by John McCrae. The touching piece swells emotionally, with moments of word painting and an overall sense of serenity. A highly recommended addition for memorial events.

The recording above features the University of Queensland Chamber Singers (2018).

New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link.

This Antiphon is from the Catholic Requiem Mass at the time when the body is carried out of the Church.

The English translation is:
May the angels lead thee into paradise: may the martyrs receive thee at thy coming, and lead thee into the holy city of Jerusalem.
May the choir of angels receive thee, and mayest thou have eternal rest with Lazarus, who once was poor.
(From the Saint Andrew Daily Missal, Bruges, 1957)

This In Paradisum was first sung at the funeral of my twin brother, Peter. I began writing the music the day Peter died. The Geelong, St Mary’s Choir sang this work at Peter’s funeral some days later.

For this composer, the ‘angels’ are all those who assist the dying person and their families at these times of sorrow, anguish and loss. © 2017

The five songs of this suite are the perfect simple introduction to modern techniques of vocal writing for high school, college or community choir. The work constitutes a gradual progression from the cicada chorus of late afternoon through the gathering darkness to a night fishing excursion and finally sleep. The score is presented in easy-to-read manuscript.

A humorous look at the monkey and turtle who go looking for bananas and get shot! Suitable for children of all ages! Only available within the collection of Island Songs (available in SATB and SA voicings).

The SATB version is for unaccompanied choir. The treble version  has a piano accompaniment.

(The musical example is for mixed voices, from Great Southern Spirits by The Australian Voices. Released: 1994.)

An easy but effective strophic song emphasizing community. “Come my brother, come my friend, wait, wait in the deep”.

This piece is available as a part of the Island Songs set (available in SATB and SA voicings). The SATB version is for unaccompanied choir. The treble version  has a piano accompaniment.

(The musical example is for mixed voices)

A beautiful song of travel and love. This is a lovely arrangement of a Torres Strait Island song. Only available within the collection of Island Songs.

This piece is available as a part of the Island Songs set (available in both SATB and SA voicings). The SATB version is for unaccompanied choir. The treble version  has a piano accompaniment.

(The musical example is for mixed voices, from Great Southern Spirits by The Australian Voices. Released: 1994.)

Three songs from the Torres Strait Islands to the north of Australia. Comprises Monkey and Turtle, Trade Winds and Morning Tide. Good for use in classrooms or with choirs at elementary or high school level.

The SATB version is for unaccompanied choir. The treble version  has a piano accompaniment.

(The musical examples are for mixed voices, from Great Southern Spirits by The Australian Voices. Released: 1994.)

Monkey and Turtle:

Trade Winds:

Morning Tide:

An SATB version can be found here.

Three songs from the Torres Strait Islands to the north of Australia. Comprises Monkey and Turtle, Trade Winds and Morning Tide. Good for use in classrooms or with choirs at elementary or high school level.

The SATB version is for unaccompanied choir. The treble version (SA) has a piano accompaniment.

Monkey and Turtle:

Trade Winds:

Recordings are from Great Southern Spirits (1994) by The Australian Voices.

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Add to your Christmas Carolling with this light-hearted arrangement.

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Kondalilla is a popular and iconic choral offering that brings the Australian bush to the concert hall in a very original way. Kondalilla is the name of a waterfall in a small pocket of Australian rainforest where the water falls from a very great height into rock pools below. The work is voiced for SATB a cappella and SSAA a cappella.

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Kondalilla is a popular and iconic choral offering that brings the Australian bush to the concert hall in a very original way. Kondalilla is the name of a waterfall in a small pocket of Australian rainforest where the water falls from a very great height into rock pools below. The work is voiced for SATB a cappella and SSAA a cappella.

One of the easiest and most immediately appealing from Stephen Leek’s In Construction series. It is suitable for singers of all ages and uses indigenous Australian words that are spoken in rhythm at various pitch levels. “Kumbargung” means “night” and other evocative words include “ungi gungi” (grasshopper) and “goolay yali” (pelican). A delight for all ages!

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Kungala takes its name from the small settlement in the north of New South Wales. The name also comes from the local Aboriginal meaning of a place “to sing, shout and listen.” .

La La Land is the third piece in a collection of four pieces for treble voices and piano. It is available in SA and SSA voicings.

Composer Paul Stanhope writes:

Losing the Plot is a collection of songs for children’s voices and piano with texts by Michael Leunig. They were written as a follow up to my earlier cycle of Leunig pieces called Songs of Innocence and Joy for treble voices and chamber orchestra.

The first of these pieces, Talking to My Shoe was commissioned and premiered by the Sydney Children’s Choir as part of their 15th anniversary in 2004. The remaining three songs in the cycle were commissioned by the Network of Treble Ensembles (NoTE) which includes Brisbane Biralee Voices, Gondwana Voices,Young Adelaide Voices and Young Voices of Melbourne. All the songs in this set are tinged with an exuberant sense of the absurd, but as usual with Leunig’s texts, there are many layers of meaning and often twists in the tale.

The songs are written for upper-primary to high-school aged treble voices mostly in unison and two parts. In two songs—Talking to My Shoe and La–La Land—the choir splits into three parts, but only in a couple of short passages. A more difficult version of this piece also exists with the voices divided into three parts.

Permission should be sought from Penguin Books Australia before re-printing any of the texts.

The recordings are by the Australian Boys Choir conducted by Noel Ancell.

La La Land is the third piece in a collection of four pieces by Paul Stanhope. It is available in SA and piano, or SSA and piano.

Composer Paul Stanhope writes:

Losing the Plot is a collection of songs for children’s voices and piano with texts by Michael Leunig. They were written as a follow up to my earlier cycle of Leunig pieces called Songs of Innocence and Joy for treble voices and chamber orchestra.

The first of these pieces, Talking to My Shoe was commissioned and premiered by the Sydney Children’s Choir as part of their 15th anniversary in 2004. The remaining three songs in the cycle were commissioned by the Network of Treble Ensembles (NoTE) which includes Brisbane Biralee Voices, Gondwana Voices,Young Adelaide Voices and Young Voices of Melbourne. All the songs in this set are tinged with an exuberant sense of the absurd, but as usual with Leunig’s texts, there are many layers of meaning and often twists in the tale.

The songs are written for upper-primary to high-school aged treble voices mostly in unison and two parts. In two songs—Talking to My Shoe and La–La Land—the choir splits into three parts, but only in a couple of short passages. A more difficult version of this piece also exists with the voices divided into three parts.

Permission should be sought from Penguin Books Australia before re-printing any of the texts.

New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link.

Lament is a piece for mixed choir and cello. The text comes from the 17th-century oratorio ‘Jephte’ by Giacomo Carissimi. The words are those of anguish, for Jephte promised to sacrifice the first thing he laid eyes upon if he returned victorious from war. He fulfilled this vow, even though this happened to be his only daughter.

The recording is of the Brisbane Chamber Choir, for whom the piece was written. The cellist is Gwyn Roberts.

SATB divisi choir a cappella or accompanied (by optional Tubular bell & String Orchestra). Originally part of a 30 minutes work Childers Shining which helped bring healing to a community after a fire tragedy caused the loss of 15 lives, this work was written to bring healing, transformation and upliftment.

The second of Joseph Twist’s “Victoria Triptych” this piece quotes from Victoria’s Lamentation, adding new modern elements clothed in a rich, plaintive harmonic language. Suitable for concert and liturgical use, and making musical references to Victoria’s Lamentations throughout.

Available in the set of Three Motets after Victoria, linked here – not available singly.

An arrangement of a folk song about sailors and the sea. Simple yet delightful, this piece is written for piano and solo flute accompaniment.