Mccabe John A Cat Medium Voice & Guitar Book
Composed in 1979
John McCabe 's The Lord Is My Shepherd is scored for Unison Upper Voices with Organ Accompaniment. A setting of Psalm 23 from the King James Version of The Bible, a full performance lasts aroudn 2 and...
Upon The High Midnight contains three nativity carols for unaccompanied SATB Soli and Chorus. An optional organ accompaniment is provided for No. 3 Duration c. 7 minutes. A piano part is included for...
Arranged for SSAATTBB Choir(unaccompanied)
John McCabe, one of Britain's best known contemporary composers, was specially commissioned in 1976 to compose this work by the Northampton Philharmonic Choir to celebrate its 80th Season.
First performed at the Festival of Saint Cecilia Service on 19th November 2003 in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Written for SATB soloists, with SATB chorus, Brass Quintet and Organ, this setting was inspired by the illustrations of 18th Century Japanese artist Utamaro. McCabe has selected a group of texts that...
Originally written in 1967 for the Aeolian Singers, who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in that year, this Cantata was revised in 1969. The text is taken from the chapt...
Work for Mixed Voice Choir and Organ setting the text of Robert Southwell. The work was composed in 1975 for the 250th anniversary of Trinity Parish Church, Southport, Connecticut.
This little tribute to William Ferris and the William Ferris Chorale consists of two sections, the first slow and the second quick. The text is simply the two words of the title, the Amen being the fi...
John McCabe's Psalm-Cantata (Orchestral Version). Vocal score for Soprano, Baritone and SATB choir. This work was commissioned by the English Baroque Choir and their music director Jeremy Jackman, who...
Peace Carol (2006), with text adapted from the Scottish Psalter by Monica and John McCabe, is for SATB choir. Peace Carol (2006) received its first performance on 15th May 2014, at St John's College,...
Christ's Nativity is a work composed by the late, great John McCabe, arranged for SATB double choir and Organ Accompaniment. This is the vocal score for this glorious work, commissioned by the Hallé C...
Scenes in America Deserta was originally commissioned by the King’s Singers who gave the first performance in Houston, Texas in 1987. This version is for SSATTB.
The 1964 setting for mixed chorus by John McCabe.
For SATB soli or semi-chorus and SATB chorus a cappella. I sing of a Maiden by John McCabe was commissioned by Liverpool Cathedral and first performed by the Choir of Liverpool Cathedral directed by D...
Arranged for SSSAAATTTBBB, the lyrics are from an anonymous writer of the fourteenth century and have been adapted by the composer. The composer says: Woefully arrayed is a supreme choral setting by...
Written for SATB chorus, this is John McCabe's setting of a text by Thomas Hardy, celebrating the songbirds of England and the birth/rebirth of life itself. A Piano accompaniment is provided for rehea...
Mccabe John Cartography Complete Aatbarbarb Choral
Commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge, the first performance of John McCabe's The last and greatest Herald took place at St. John's College, Cambridge, on 29th November 2008 by the combined Cho...
Arranged for AATBarBarB unaccompanied. Written for the King's Singers.
Arranged for SATB unaccompanied.
Canto is an adventurous work for solo Guitar by John McCabe.
This impressionistic three-minute piece was inspired by a visit to Jerusalem the composer made to research his orchestral work The Chagall Windows. Sustained chords are contrasted with an agile melody...
These Five Bagatelles For Piano by contemporary English composer John McCabe, are varied in their technical difficulty. They are suitable for the high intermediate to advanced student and would make p...
An arrangement of the theme tune from the 1973 Granada Television series ‘Sam’, set in 1930s Yorkshire. Suitable for any treble instrument, this attractive and memorable tune is ideal as a short conce...
This work was commissioned by the Verdehr Trio and funded by Michigan State University. Includes score and parts, (the score in C). Duration: c. 18 minutes.
For Baritone and String Quartet. Commissioned by Jo Boosey in memory of her husband Simon. First performance: 17th March 2012 at St. Mary's Church, Pembridge, Herefordshire, by Marcus Farnsworth (Bar...
This Sonata, by John McCabe, was commissioned by Simon Debruslais, and derives its underlying material from William Byrd's motet 'Haec Dies' from his 1591 collection of Cantiones Sacrae. An outline of...
Bagatelles is a work for two Bb Clarinets, composed in 1965 by John McCabe. There are eight in total, each lasting around a minute: Con fuoco, ma non troppo allegro - Andante - Allegro giocoso -Fugati...
Erinnerung ('Remembering', or 'A Remembrance') was commissioned with the aid of funds provided by the RVW Trust for the Evelyn Barbirolli Memorial Concert at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on 6th J...
Mccabe John Spielend For 2 Violins 2Vln Book
A Piano Quintet by John McCabe, in full score and parts.
This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. A Score is also available for sale.
Commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts Limited, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Wales, for premiere in August 2012 by the Carducci String Quartet in St. Andrew's Chur...
This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. Parts for this work are also available for sale.
This work was first performed at the 1989 Fishguard Festival with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council. The work has roughly the overall shape of a substantial slow movement, followed by a double...
Written in 1989.
Arranged for String Quartet.
Fantasy For Brass Quartet Op. 35 is a work by John McCabe, composed in 1965. This is the Full Score, a performance of which lasts around 8-9 minutes.
Postcards was written in 1991 for the Vega Wind Quintet, who first performed it at the Huddersfield Festival in the same year. It is a reworking of a set of eight Bagatelles written in 1965: each move...
Sonata for Violoncello And Piano. Includes score and part.
April Sonatina is a work composed by John McCabe for Solo Violoncello in 2011/2. The piece lasts around 3 minutes, and was dedicated to David Matthews on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
A collection of pieces by John McCabe aimed towards the intermediate Flautist around Grade 5. Each of the pieces is in some way a character study, or a portrait of some musical style. The Gymnopedie i...
For solo Flute. Composer's Programme Note 'March Sonatina is the third in a series of short sonatina-like pieces for solo instruments, and it was commissioned by the 25th Presteigne Festival of Music...
Floraison (literally, 'flowering' or 'blossoming') depicts the flower maiden and love goddess Blodeuwedd (which means 'bloom maiden'), who is also an owl goddess. She was made up of nine kinds of flow...
The Goddess Trilogy was inspired by the Welsh medieval legend of the goddess Cerridwen who was both destroyer and creator, a shape-changing being who appeared various as a white sow, a screaming black...
These three pieces for clarinet and piano were first performed at Cheltenham Festival, 1964, by Keith Puddy and Vivian Troon. Duration c. 8 minutes.
John McCabe's Pueblo for solo Double Bass. Duration: approx. 7 minutes. Pueblo is an off-shoot of a series of compositions inspired by desert country, and it wascommissioned by Leon Bosch with the a...
Designed to ease the transition between learning an instrument and playing 'real' music, these dances by John McCabe have been given a grading between grades 5 and 6 ABRSM standard, and cover a variet...
This was first performed by Martin Milner with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Maurice Handford in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in March 1963, being broadcast some months later. The work and its...
Commissioned by Jo Boosey in memory of her husband Simon. First performed by Marcus Farnsworth (Baritone) and the Alberni String Quartet, on 17th March 2012 at St Mary's Church, Pembridge, Herefordshi...
Mezzo-soprano and Piano.
This work was written in 1971. The text is derived from the Latin Requiem Mass, treated as a kind of sacred poem rather than a liturgical text, and the order of sections is much altered. The work deri...
John McCabe's Psalm-Cantata (Orchestral Version). Full score for Soprano, Baritone, SATB choir and small Orchestra. This work was commissioned by the English Baroque Choir and their music director Jer...
John McCabe's Trumpet Concerto ('La Primavera') was first performed on 15 June 2012 at the Civic Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, with soloist Simon Desbruslais and the Orchestra of the Swan conducted b Ken...
Two pieces from the score of the full-length ballet Edward II. The ballet iteslf was commissioned by the Stuttgart Ballet, and completed in 1995. The first performance took place in Stuttgart in April...
This work was commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts Ltd. with theaid of funds provided by the John S. Cohen Foundation and the PRS Foundation. The firstperformance was given by...