Name: New Zealand National Anthem for String Orchestra (arr. Keith Terrett) by Keith Terrett Orchestra Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Keith Terrett
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New Zealand National Anthem for String Orchestra (arr. Keith Terrett)
by Keith Terrett String Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title New Zealand National Anthem for String Orchestra (arr. Keith Terrett)

Artist Keith Terrett

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Thomas Bracken

Arranger Keith Terrett

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 9

Arrangement Orchestra

Publisher Keith Terrett

Level 3

Product ID 1696054

Genre Traditional World Instructional Holiday Multicultural Patriotic

Performance Group String Orchestra

Product Description

"God Defend New Zealand" was written as a poem in the 1870s by Irish-born, Victorian-raised immigrant Thomas Bracken of Dunedin.

A competition to compose music for the poem was held in 1876 by The Saturday Advertiser and judged by three prominent Melbourne musicians, with a prize of ten guineas. The winner of the competition was the Vandemonian-born John Joseph Woods of Lawrence, Otago, who composed the melody in a single sitting the evening after finding out about the competition. The song was first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Princes Street in Dunedin, on Christmas Day, 1876. In February 1878, sheet music was published.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.