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This is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic lines, rich harmonies, and a fluttering strings ac...

With a text by the composer, this is beautiful piece about optimism, companionship, and the belief that 'all will be well'. Todd's gentle melodies are supported by delicate, pulsing piano, energetic,...

Setting a variety of texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, this four-movement work is in Skempton's inimitable minimalist aesthetic. The first three movements move in strict four-part homophony before the fin...

for SATB unaccompanied

for SATB unaccompanied

This set of three brief vocalises comprises a Prelude, Scherzo, and Quasi menuetto. They were composed during the final year of the composer's life in 1958.

A more serious central shanty, Demons, is framed by two light-hearted settings, Enticement and Drunken Sailor. The ending is extrovert and rumbustious and almost guaranteed to bring the house down.

With exuberantly rhythmic textures skilfully wrought within a septuple metre, John Rutter's Toccata in Seven offers a lively new take on the toccata. The music moves from a jubilant opening to a more...

Originally published in Jazz in Autumn, this is an energetic original piece with lively melodies and jazzy harmonies, and is sure to get listeners foot-tapping along to the music.

The Siciliano from Bach's Flute Sonata (BWV 1031) is beautifully transcribed here for piano by Edward Krish. Offprinted from OUP's collection Bach Transcriptions for Piano.

This charming transcription of Bach's Pastorella VWV 590 for organ was made by the accomplished composer, conductor and publisher William Gillies Whittaker (1876-1944) in 1929. Offprinted from OUP's c...

Marked 'light and flowing', Quartel's setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'Peace' features slow, sustained vocal writing over a piano part with continual moving quavers. The harmonic palette is rich and w...

Five Bagatelles were written for Julian Bream and dedicated to Malcolm Arnold 'with admiration and affection for his 50th birthday'. They were given their first performance in Bath on 27th May 1972.

Road to Refuge contrasts pure harmonies with dissonant passages as Wallen draws comparisons between the nativity story and modern refugees. The rippling piano accompaniment and sudden changes in the v...

Shining Brass is an exciting series of graded repertoire pieces and studies that can be played by any brass instrument. This series features two volumes catering for Grades 1-3 and Grades 4 & 5, each...

Shining Brass is an exciting series of graded repertoire pieces and studies that can be played by any brass instrument. This series features two volumes catering for Grades 1-3 and Grades 4 & 5, each...

This is a major collection of organ music for students, players, and church musicians of all abilities. Pieces are grouped according to service needs into Preludes, Interludes, Processionals, and Post...

This is a major collection of organ music for students, players, and church musicians of all abilities. Pieces are grouped according to service needs into Preludes, Interludes, Processionals, and Post...

This is a major collection of organ music for students, players, and church musicians of all abilities. Pieces are grouped according to service needs into Preludes, Interludes, Processionals, and Post...

« Pianoworks : Meditations » est un magnifique recueil de morceaux apaisants et propices à la réflexion, destiné aux débutants d'âge mûr. Composées dans un souci de plaisir de jeu, ces 24 pièces origi...

> accommodates one-to-one or group teaching > over 70 pieces in a range of styles, including originals plus arrangements of well-known tunes > supporting creative activities covering improvisation, pl...

for wind orchestra

This is a collection of 36 piano pieces dating from 1995 to 2002. At times enigmatic, at others direct, the writing captures and reflects a myriad of moods, revealing Skempton's highly original voice....

David's lament at the death of Absalom may have been composed to mark the death of Prince Henry, heir to the English throne, in 1612.

An anthology of 24 stunning show-stoppers guaranteed to bring the house down. Full of choral pieces arranged for SATB choir in an amazing variety of styles and moods - humorous, comforting, dazzling,...