Oxford University Press

For two to six groups of instruments en trio. The piece is itself a cabinet of curiosities: musical excerpts from Vigany's time plus material from Hook, Lawes, Mozart, anonymous dance-tunes from mitta...

For soprano, clarinet, and piano. A Beuk o'Newcassel Sangs is the title of a nineteenth-century folk-song collection. Finnissy uses the folk-song texts, with numerous alterations, as a starting point...

Bar, V, Vc, Klav - Sing- und Spielpartitur

For soprano and tape. Same as We is a 'scena', a 'theatrical monologue', rather than a 'song'. Using text from Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Promise of May, it is intended that the piece be both dramatic...

For soprano saxophone (or oboe) and percussion (1 player). Kulamen Dilan is evocative of Khurdish love songs, exploring the 'methodology' of folk music, creating a mosaic from tiny motifs of pitch and...

For up to four musicians with (optional) assistant and pre-recorded tape(s). Recent Britain confronts several of the preoccupations of the media in Britain in the late 1990s: immigration, paedophilia...

For flute, bass clarinet, and piano. WAM is an investigation of Mozart - it uses hundreds of slightly altered fragments of, or parodies of, his music - and, instead of assembling them as he might if h...

For unspecified instrumentation. Molly-House contains two parallel streams of music. One consists of pages, some in conventional notation, others intentionally lacking determinacy with respect to dura...

For hardanger fiddle, either solo or accompanied by reed-organ and/or piano (live or pre-recorded) and instrumental quartet. The piece is a 'cut-up' of passages quoted from, or composed in imitation o...

For clarinet (and bass clarinet), and cello. Towards the end of his life the Spanish painter Goya completed a series of works now known as 'The Black Paintings'. 'Saturno' is the most horrifying of th...

This album contains nine pieces from ABRSM's 2015 & 2016 Grade 1 Piano syllabus, including three pieces from each of Lists A, B and C.

Guitar Star offers beginner guitarists a refreshing and inspirational choice of pieces to help build confidence and musical skills. These original compositions and arrangements by Gary Ryan are imagin...

For chamber ensemble (2Cl, Vla, Vc, Pno, Perc(Marimba, Bodhrssn)). On Claudy Banks is a quiet response to the musical and lyrical content of a traditional folk song of the same name about a woman mour...

For trumpet in B flat and soprano. A setting of Walt Whitman's The Mystic Trumpeter (1872), in which the trumpeter (positioned off stage, or otherwise out of sight) imitates and echoes the soprano's m...

Fifty-five short pieces, the earliest of which dates from 1967, the most recent from 1993. Taken as a whole, this selection of pieces (chosen by the composer) provides a rich overview of the keyboard...

Featured on pianist William Howard's album Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs, this evocative miniature is simple but rewarding, with a repeating eight-bar chord progression that produces a kaleidoscopic...

For solo piano. This quiet and spacious miniature challenges the performer's ability to play within the lowest dynamic range of the piano. The gently sonorous opening bars return after a lightly anima...

Easy pieces (about Grades 1-3 standard)

25 pieces

For narrator, children's choir, Orff instruments and piano or orchestra. A setting of specially-written texts by children, the subject matter is the sun, the moon, and the stars. The songs are linked...

A one movement work in three sections for clarinet, violin, and piano. The title refers to the use of both jazz and boogie slang and twentieth-century 'new music' slang throughout the composition.