Joseph Horovitz: Captain Noah And His Floating Zoo (Unison Version)

Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz. This popular work for unison or two-part voices and piano with optional bass and drums opens with a splendid storm, above which God can be heard muttering about the irritations he finds with mankind. Following the Old Testament story God then instructs Noah how to build the ark and select animals. In a profusion of fine solos and lively choruses we learn about the difficulty of living under hatches and the eventual drying-out of the world. Suggestions for vocal solos given in the score. Ideas for semi-dramatic effects or stagings suggest themselves. 26 mins.

Aulis Sallinen: Introduction And Tango Overture Op.74 (Score/Parts)

Piano quintet with small string orchestra or string quintet.

Simon Bainbridge: Diptych (Full Score)

Commissioned for the BBC.Piccolo/Alto FluteFlutes 1 & 2Alto Flute/Bass Flute2 OboesCor Anglais3 ClarinetsBass Clarinet2 BassoonsContrabassoon4 Horns4 Trumpets3 TrombonesPianoHarpAccordionMandolinStrings (16.14.12.10.8) 4 Percussion:IMarimbaCrotales (with bow) Small suspended cymbalAntique cymbalGlockenspielSmall triangleIISmall suspended cymbalMedium suspended cymbalVibraphone (with bow) Triangles (small and medium)IIIMedium suspended cymbalMaracasBoobamsVibraphoneSizzle cymbalLarge triangleIVBass DrumTam-tamWater gongs (small and large) Tubular bellsBurmese gongs (medium and large)

Kenneth Leighton: Violin Concerto Opus 12

Concerto for violin and small orchestra, arranged by the composer for violin and piano. Duration: c. 25 minutes.

Schurmann: Variants For Small Orchestra (Study Score)

Giles Swayne: Symphony For Small Orchestra Op. 37

Facsimile study score.

Herbert Howells: Levavi Oculos Meos (Aubade For A Wedding)

Anthem for Solo Soprano, or small group of Sopranos and Organ. Edition published in 2000 include's Howells' subsequent revisions realised by Paul Spicer.

Michael Hurd: Adam-In-Eden

Adam-In-Eden is a popular style cantata telling the story of Adam and Eve. The scoring is for unison voices (with divisions) with a small part for narrator. The accompaniment for Piano, with Guitar Chord Symbols would suit the addition of Drums and Double Bass if available. 21mins

Five Seventeenth Century Pieces

Denis Bloodworth. These anonymous pieces have been transcribed from a small manuscript book of music for virginals in the British Library. Each piece may be performed in four versions: a) descant solo, b) descant and treble duet, c) descant treble and tenor trio and d) descant, treble, tenor and bass quartet.

Louis Couperin: Six Pieces for Guitar (arr. Duarte)

The six pieces in this book are drawn from the Pieces de Clavecin (the Bauyn manuscript) lodged in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. They should be accessbile to guitarists at some time in their third year of study, and make some small acknowledgement of the curious neglect of the Couperin family by guitar arrangers.

J. S. Bach: Chorales For Piano

This Collection of Chorales harmonized by Bach contains, it is believed, all those that he arranged for four voices, excluding, of course, the elaborate settings for Chorus and Orchestra. There are also included two for five voices, and some to which it has been necessary, in order to complete the harmony, to add a few small notes representing instrumental parts.

Herbert Howells: A Near Minuet (Clarinet And Piano)

Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was an English composer and teacher, who is perhaps best known for his choral music in the Anglican tradition. A Near Minuet , however, was written for Clarinet and Piano, and is one of Howells’ most charming small-scale works. It was composed in 1946, while Howells was Director of Music at St Paul’s Girls’ School, for one of his pupils there.

Joseph Horovitz: Summer Sunday

A challenging comical-tragical-ecological Pastoral for SATB and piano. Although this work has a serious message about the preservation of the countryside, it also has a great sense of fun which will be enjoyed by audiences and choirs alike. Indications like ?solo? or ?small group? should be distributed according to talents available and any solo which bears a ?character-name? like ?cow? or ?crow? may be sung by any type of voice regardless of pitch.A Double Bass part is available seperately - Catalogue No. NOV200174-01

Jenkyns: Teddy's Lullaby for Unison Voices and Piano

Teddy's Lullaby is a charming little work for Unison Voices and Piano accompaniment, intended for small children. It is also suitable for solo performance. English singer, composer, conductor and musical director Peter Jenkyns (1921-1996) wrote many of his well-known songs with children in mind, for the choirs of the schools he was headmaster of, to perform at the annual St. Albans Schools' Music Festival. The excellent pieces by this writer of little art songs for the under 12s are well received and much anticipated by audiences and performers alike.

Richard Rodney Bennett: A Song At Evening (SA/Ensemble) - Full Score

Richard Rodney Bennett?s A Song at Evening for voices and small orchestra was commissioned by Jesus College Cambridge, in gratitude for the work of Robert and Margaret Mair, and first performed at St John's Smith Square by the Choirs of Jesus College Cambridge and Britten Sinfonia, directed by Mark Williams, on 26th June 2011.The corresponding vocal score to this version of A Song at Evening has the order code NOV170654.It will not work with the version for unison (SA) of solo voice and Piano, which is NOV170621.

Hurd: Captain Coram's Kids

Written for narrator, unison voices and piano, this enjoyable 18th-century pop cantata can be performed as a concert piece or staged production. Celebrating the good deeds of Captain Coram, the work is based on information from a variety of sources, most notably from The Story Of The Founding Hospital by Maureen Boyd. It makes an excellent production and can also provide the basis for historical and sociological studies in the classroom. Parts for small instrumental ensemble or string orchestra available on hire. Woodwind and String parts on hire. 19 mins.

Giles Swayne: Magnificat

The Magnificat was written in 1982 in response to a commission from Christ Church College, Oxford, whose choir first performed it under their conductor Francis Grier in July of that year. At that time the composer was influenced by his belated discovery of African music. During a period of research in Senegal and The Gambia he recorded a working-song in a small village called Badem Karantaba, about thirty miles south-east of Ziguinchor in the Casamance region of southern Senegal. Swayne used the opening call of this song to begin the Magnificat; it returns as a refrain towards the end.

Josef Rheinberger: Sonatas 4 And 5 For Organ

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) was a prolific composer in almost every field, but he found in the organ the medium best fitted to his genius and temperament. This seems to be proved by the fact that his reputation as an organ composer has grown and is now firmly established, whereas his position in other branches has declined.His twenty sonatas and numerous other short pieces make up one of the most important contributions to the organ repertory. It may indeed be claimed that in the maintainance of a high level of quality and interest throughout a long series of works of both large and small scale, his position as an organ composer is second only to that of Bach.

Josef Rheinberger: Sonatas 8 And 9 For Organ

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) was a prolific composer in almost every field, but he found in the organ the medium best fitted to his genius and temperament. This seems to be proved by the fact that his reputation as an organ composer has grown and is now firmly established, whereas his position in other branches has declined.His twenty sonatas and numerous other short pieces make up one of the most important contributions to the organ repertory. It may indeed be claimed that in the maintainance of a high level of quality and interest throughout a long series of works of both large and small scale, his position as an organ composer is second only to that of Bach.

Gustav Holst: The Splendour Falls for SSA

The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls’ School in London, where Holst taught. The song is scored for Female Voices SA with a small echo choir, unaccompanied, and is full of recognizably Holstian shifting harmonies and Vocal effects. In 1847, Alfred Tennyson – later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom – published a narrative poem, The Princess, that concerned the education of women. In The Princess, set at a summer fete, a new college for women is created by Princess Ida. A Prince and his friends infiltrate, dressed as women. A love story ensues. The Princess was also the source material for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida.

Harrison Birtwistle: Music In Sleep

Music for Sleep is designed to be played by children, and performed by the following voices and instruments: a) Children?s voices, unison, two and three parts b) Piano c) Three wind instruments (any one from each list) 1. piccolo, flute, sopranino recorder, descant recorder 2. flute, descant recorder 3. treble recorder, clarinet in B flat d) Three percussion players 1. Three suspended cymbals (S,M,L). For preference, the largest cymbal should be 22 inches and the smallest not less than 8 inches, to be played with felt sticks. 2. Two small drums of different sizes, without snares (not Bongos), to be played with felt sticks. 3. Claves, one maraca, tambourine (skin downwards), played by tapping on the edge with the fingers.

Peter Warlock: Five Lesser Joys Of Mary

The Five Lesser Joys of Mary begins with a conventional Nativity scene - the ox and the ass for warmth, the star, the Wise Men - to verses attributed by Warlock to one Daniel Lawrence Kelleher, editor of Christmas Carols (No. 18 in the second series of Augustan Books of English Poetry) where the anonymous verses were published. The fourth stanza recounts Jesus "Confounding the doctors, the poor little Child," while the fifth carries us to Calvary and a singularly lame conclusion as Mary "Saw Jesus droop over and lie very still, She thought of the good times they had long ago When He'd droop in her arms and she'd sing husheenlo."Strophically composed, with small variations, Warlock's tenderness seems generic. eltine.