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 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 Brass Band in the Lower Key of F (Original in G) If singing the words for more than one verse, accompaniment can be varied eg. Cornets and Horns only for one verse as in the MP3 recording. There is also an optional piano part included.
Grade = 2.5 Duration = 2:05 mins
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