God Defend New Zealand (National Anthem) - Concert Band Score and Parts PDF (arr. Brendan Elliget MAGA 537) by John Joseph Woods 1876 Sheet Music for Full Orchestra at Sheet Music Direct
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God Defend New Zealand (National Anthem) - Concert Band Score and Parts PDF (arr. Brendan Elliget MAGA 537)
by John Joseph Woods 1876 Full Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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"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 Tasmanian-born John Joseph Woods of Lawrence, New Zealand who composed the melody in a single sitting the evening after finding out about the competition. The song was first performed at the Queens Theatre, Princes Street, Dunedin, on Christmas Day, 1876. [Wikipedia]

This arrangement is for Concert Band and with optional Strings and Piano parts included (but not shown on the score) - Lower Key of F (Original in G) If singing the words for more than one verse, the accompaniment can be varied eg. Woodwind only for one verse as in the MP3 recording with was recorded with NotePerformer. Also available MARCH CARD format...

Duration = 2:00 mins Grade 2-3  [*Melody corrected Bar 2 -1st note - up a third -28/03/2022]

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