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Pavan for the Earl of
Salisbury (Byrd) (SnoDTrTB) MHE 10603a
£3.50
Original Version 
Extended
Version
Byrd’s famous Pavan in a new arrangement.
Easy notes, but difficult to make beautiful with Sno and D on top. Works very
well in the version (MHE 10603 £3.50)
an octave lower. Each version includes another piece - strictly for
non-purists! - in which Byrd's piece is lengthened by a newly-composed middle
section.
Lord My God, I Call For
Help By Day (DTrTTB) MHE 61203
£3.00
A reasonably easy setting of Psalm 87. The piece unashamedly uses imitation
in the style of a typical Renaissance motet, but equally unashamedly uses
chords more familiar to fans of Vaughan Williams. Pleasant and interesting.
Star In The East
(SnoDTrTB) MHE 21203 £4.00
An arrangement of this
ancient Christmas melody which preserves the mediaeval feel. Unison voices may
also take part. Easy music, except for the sopranino part.
Full Of Eastern
Promise (Ann Marshall) (DTrTBB) MHE 10606
£5.00
March To The Oasis
Night-Time In The Scented Garden
The Street Market
A suite of three pieces which are full of Ann's trademark good-humoured and
memorable tunes. Great fun. Not difficult, but Middle-Eastern-sounding
augmented seconds abound, which may not fall under the fingers to begin with.
Greensleeves (DDTrTB and DDTrTrTB)
MHE 50603a £4.50
The old war-horse
in modern garb. There’s a lazy summer afternoon jazz feel to this
arrangement. A SEXTET arrangement is also included. Not difficult to play, and
an interesting change for players and audiences alike. Also available for
TrTrTBGtB and TrTrTTBGtB, as MHE 50603
£4.50.
Five Variants For
Recorder Quintet (DTrTTB) MHE 10406
£9.50
The Theme (Ann Marshall)
Fantasia For Ann (Rosemary Robinson)
Blues In The Nursery (Steve Marshall)
Snowfall (Robin Powell)
March (John Hawkes)
Chorale (Andrew Melville)
These five pieces are the result of my suggestion to
four other composers that we could take a very short original theme, and write
a piece based on that theme, completely independently of one another. All of
the pieces would last between two and three minutes and would be for a DTrTTB
quintet. We used an 8 bar tune written by Ann Marshall, which I sent to
everyone unharmonised so that they could treat the melody exactly as they saw
fit. The pieces are fascinatingly different from one another, and they could be
performed as a set, without any feeling of repetition. Of moderate difficulty
only.
Two Blues Canzonettas
(DTrTTB) MHE 30703
£7.50
Canzonetta in G minor
Canzonetta in A
The form is ancient (with much imitation in the parts), but
the musical language is modern (the Blues). These canzonettas are of moderate
difficulty, but are interesting and rewarding for those looking for something
different. Because of the success of these pieces, another is now separately
available, this time with swung quavers: The Wandsworth Swing (DTrTTB)
MHE 10105 £3.50
The Major Pipework Tango
(soloB DTrTB) MHE 20403
£3.00
Fairly easy
music once the tango rhythms are perfected, and a sure-fire winner with
audiences. If the solo part is played on a contrabass, the lucky owner has a
very unusual ‘feature’ piece.
Spirituals In Words And Music
(voice + DTrTTB) MHE 30204 £7.00
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Hebrew Children
Go Down
Moses
Great
Day
Deep River
A piece in the form of a short history of the
development of Spirituals, illustrated by six musical examples performed by
voice and recorder quintet. The range of the voice is from A below the stave to
G above. Written for use at meetings of the Society of Recorder Players, where
the music (all quite easy) can be rehearsed, and then finished off with a
‘concert performance’ including the narrative.
Fantasy No 1 In 5 Parts
(TrTrTTB) MHE 60405 £4.00
Attractive and quite
easy music which unfolds slowly in the manner of a Gibbons Fantasia, while
avoiding pastiche.
Fantasy No 2 In 5 Parts
(TrTrTTB) MHE 20806 £4.00
Similar in approach to Fantasy No 1. This time all of
the basic musical material is heard before the end of the first page, with the
subsequent six minutes gently combining and recombining it.
Fantasy No 3 In 5 Parts
(TrTrTTB) MHE 30307 £5.00
This piece is
largely built on the phrase which starts it off. Rather more difficult than
Fantasies 1 and 2, both technically and musically.
Three Recorder
Blues (DTrTBB) MHE 90303
£5.50
Jazzy Blues
Sleazy Blues
Rocky Blues
Nothing too frightening, although
these pieces will not succeed without accurate rhythm playing, so some work may
be called for! The sleazy blues is also available separately for a bigger group
(Dsolo, DTrTrTTBGtBCtB); this is MHE 80303 £3.50, entitled I Got Them
Chipping Norton Blues.
Counterfeit
Country Dances (DTrTTB) MHE 10403
£9.00
Jumping The Pikestaff
Posy's Pottering
Dance
The Squire's Skirmish
The Rochdale
Stomping Dance
Patrick's Repose
Miss Robinson's Revel
Six contrasting pieces
with the broad feel of traditional country dances, but where the detail is
modern. There are some rhythms and chords which have more to do with the world
of jazz than the village green. Not the easiest pieces ever written - there are
some fairly rapid passages, and confident accurate rhythms are a must. One
dance involves everyone loudly stamping their feet, which may be a first in
recorder music!
Lampeter Rhapsody (D solo, DTrTB)
MHE 11105 £4.50
This piece was written for the group of recorder
players in south-west Wales, centred on the town of Lampeter. I tried to write
something simple but interesting, which might capture some of the peaceful
beauty of that part of the world. The descant solo is moderately hard, but the
accompanying parts are easy. The piece works very well if the solo part is
played on the oboe.
Recorder Quintet No 1 (DTrTTB)
MHE 21206 £8.00
1
2
3
A piece which is not hard to stumble through, but
where a successful performance will need good and confident players. The
problem is the usual one with my music - rhythms, which are here even more
important than usual. The wistful second movement is relatively easy, however,
and could be attempted by an SRP branch on a good day!
Miniature Suite for Harp & Recorders
(Harp, DTrTBCtB) MHE 11206 £9.00
Intrada
Lament
Dance
This short but tuneful suite was written at the
request of Sue Danbury, for use by a recorder group in Clun. The group
regularly plays with a harpist, but unsurprisingly there was (until now!) no
music for harp and recorders together. For those recorder groups not blessed
with a concert harp, the usual stand-by of a synthesiser could be used. I think
that a guitar would work well also; if anyone would like to try this, please
contact me and I will make a suitable arrangement.