This is a work in progress !! Much of the information is fragmentary, and hopefully will be improved in time.
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If you are interested in any of these pieces, please contact celia@byrt.org.uk.
| Title | Date | Publisher | Performers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. A Prayer for Vengeance (Psalm 44) Choral | SATB piano |
ink MS score | ||
| 3. A Prayer of Reconciliation (Thomas More) Song | T solo piano |
ink MS score | ||
| 4. A Prayer of Resignation (Thomas Nashe) Choral | S[ATB] piano |
ink MS score | ||
| 6. On the God to whom we pray (William Blake) Song | T solo piano |
ink MS score | ||
| 7. A Prayer for Leniency (George Herbert) Choral | SATB piano |
ink MS score | ||
| 8. A Prayer for Forgiveness (Gerard Manley Hopkins) Song | T solo piano |
ink MS score & sketch | ||
| 9. A Prayer for Death (Thomas Campion) Choral | SATB piano |
ink MS score | ||
| A birthday (from songs of women poets) Song | voice piano |
MS score | ||
| A Solis Ortus Cardine (Carol – From Farthest Lands of Rosy Dawn) Choral | 2001 | Score (PDF) | SATB Voices, Organ |
Translated from 5th Century Latin |
| All and Some Choral | 1961 | Printed Score | SATB | Published by Novello in their Book of Carols 1963 |
| All and Some Choral | SSAATTBB |
pencil score | ||
| Allie (Robert Graves) Other | 1971 | voices Various instruments |
Voices, recorders, glockenspiel, chime bars, side-drum, tambourine and triangle | |
| Among the Leaves so Green-O Part Song | 1978 | OUP | Trad., arr. JCB. First published 1966. Included in Folk Songs for Choirs Vol.1 ed. Rutter | |
| Among the leaves so green-o Choral | SATB |
Handwritten full score. Trad., arr. JCB. First published 1966. Included in Folk Songs for Choirs Vol.1 ed. Rutter | ||
| Apple Blossom Choral | SATB piano |
ink MS fair copy full score | ||
| As they departed Choral | 2 voices piano |
Pencil score. For choir of St John’s College, Oxford | ||
| Bagpipe Music Song | voice piano |
ink MS full score | ||
| Battle Hymn Instrumental | "organ, [brass], drum" | ink MS draft arrangement | ||
| Birth of the piano Song | voice piano? |
ink draft score | ||
| Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind Song | Tenor & Piano | |||
| Blow, blow, thous winter wind Instrumental | tenor & orchestra | pencil score | ||
| Blow, blow, thous winter wind Song | voice piano |
pencil score | ||
| Camino Real Instrumental | instruments | instrumental parts - MS fair copy | ||
| Canal Music Instrumental | oboe & piano? | earlier version of The Lake? | ||
| Cello duet (allegretto commodo) Instrumental | Nymet | 2 cellos | pencil score & sketch | |
| Clarinet Sonata Instrumental | 1974 | clarinet & piano | photocopy fair copy score | |
| Clarinet sonata Instrumental | clarinet & piano | pbotocopy MS score | ||
| Come love we God Choral | unison voices? |
ink MS fair copy score - tracing paper | ||
| Come, O come (Campion) Song | mezzo-soprano & baritone piano |
Handwritten draft score - incomplete | ||
| Croon Instrumental | Nymet | guitar | photocopy score and photocopy printed score - for David Cotton | |
| Da pacem, Domine Other | ink MS | |||
| Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron Choral | 1971 | SATB | Traditional, arr. JCB. | |
| Dashing away with the smoothing iron Choral | 1971 | SATB |
Photocopy MS score - for Andrew Parrott and the Schola Cantorum of Oxford | |
| Dives and Lazarus - A Folk Ballad Choral | 1980 | Choir & Orchestra | "MS & photocopy scores, parts, notes, etc" | |
| Epitaph on a hare Choral | SSA? |
MS ink score | ||
| Exaudi, Domine (rev 2001) Choral | 1986 | Handwritten Score | ||
| Faithful Johnny Choral | 1983 | OUP | SATB | Trad., arr. JCB. Published in Folk Songs for Choirs Vol 2 ed. Rutter |
| Fear no more the heat of the sun Song | 1957 | voice piano |
Photocopy MS score | |
| Four Duets for Two Clarinets Instrumental | June | 2 clarinets | MS fair copy | |
| Four songs to poems by women poets Song | 1994 | Mezzo-soprano piano |
Printed score. Titles: Song; A Song; A Birthday; Song from the North. Could possibly be sung by other voices. | |
| Greensleeves Choral | SATB |
Arrangement for voices. Printed & MS scores & drafts | ||
| Guitar Suite (Fugue, Croon, Curlews, Largo - Allegro) Instrumental | guitar | photocopy MS and printed scores | ||
| Heaven in Devon Instrumental | ? "rhythm & lead guitar, bass guitar, flute" |
full score & libretto | ||
| Hereford Carol Carol | Score (PDF) | SATB Voices |
Manuscript MS score - for East Devon Choral Society | |
| Herod and the Cock Carol | SSA | Score available here as a PDF | ||
| I sing of a maiden Carol | 1983 | Score (PDF) | SATB Voices |
Ink fair copy score |
| I Sing of a Maiden Carol | 1983 | SSSATB Voices |
Photocopy printed score | |
| I will give my love an apple Choral | 1981 | SATB |
MS fair copy | |
| I will give my love an apple Choral | 1981 | SATB |
Typeset score | |
| I will give my love an apple Choral | 1981 | SATB |
Handwritten score with piano accompaniment for rehearsal | |
| I will give my love an apple Instrumental | 1981 | recorders | MS parts currently not found | |
| In Praise of London Choral | SATB |
typeset scores with corrections | ||
| John Smith here (round) Other | 3 voices |
MS draft and fair copy | ||
| King Herod and the Cock; The Nightingale; The Ant and the Grasshopper Choral | SSA |
printed and MS scores | ||
| King of the Universe Choral | voices (chords) |
2 fair copies | ||
| Lollocks Song | 1969 | Two male voices Piano |
MS fair copy | |
| Lullaby and Come Afloat Choral | SATB |
Arrangement. Printed score | ||
| Madrigal Suite Song | 2003 | SSATBB |
Printed score | |
| Madrigal Suite Song | 2003 | 0 | SSATBB |
Manuscript, see also typeset version |
| Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Choral | 1961 | OUP | ink MS fair copy - tracing paper | |
| March and Calypso Instrumental | descant recorders & piano | ink fair copy score | ||
| Modal piece for wind quintet (with tone rows) Instrumental | wind quintet | ;pencil draft score | ||
| Movement Instrumental | 25 Ma | "horn, violin, piano" | MS pencil & ink score & parts | |
| Naaman Choral | voices instuments |
pencil sketches of songs & instrumental music | ||
| Now is the Gentle Season Song | voice & piano | MS fair copy | ||
| Now is the Gentle Season Song | voice piano |
ink fair copy score | ||
| Nowell sing we with mirth Carol | STT? |
set of photocopied MS scores | ||
| O Joyful Light Choral | Augus | SSA |
"Bath, and Ida Prins Buttle - ink fair copy score" | |
| O joyful light, we come far in thee only Other | 17 Ju | pencil & ink sketches (for Ida Prins Buttle) | ||
| Octet for recorders Instrumental | Printed score | 8 recorders | ||
| Pavan and Galliard in 7 parts Other | recorders | MS fair copy score | ||
| Phillida & Coridon Song | voice piano |
photocopy fair copy score | ||
| Pickers and stealers Instrumental | piano | "printed score & Ms drafts - for Simon, Matthew, and Meredith" | ||
| Polytonal Songs Choral | 1972 | SATB |
Fair copy score | |
| Polytonal Songs Choral | 1972 | SATB |
Letter about meaning of words in poem "This worldes joie", one of Polytonal Songs | |
| Potents Choral | April | "tenor soloist, choir" "organ, bell" |
ink fair copy score | |
| Prelude for Piano Instrumental | May 1 | piano | for Margaret Bunting - MS fair copy & photocopy | |
| Prelude for Piano Instrumental | 1973 | piano | photocopy MS score - Bath | |
| Prelude for Piano Instrumental | piano | photocopy ink fair copy score | ||
| Psalm-Fantasy Choral | 1973 | mezzo-soprano & unison choir "recorders, various instruments, piano" |
ink MS fair copy full score | |
| Quick! we have but a second Choral | c 197 | SATB |
MS fair copy score - arrangement in memory of Douglas Fox | |
| Quintet Instrumental | 1957 | "flute, 2 clarinets, trumpet, cello" | house competition | |
| Reflections Instrumental | 2003 | SATB SATB recorder octet |
Printed Score. For recorders, two-choir | |
| Resonemus laudibus Choral | STT? |
"ink MS score, numerous copies" | ||
| Rondo for Wind Quintet Instrumental | 1974 | wind quintet | MS fair copy score & phocopy | |
| Scherzetto for clarinet and string quartet Instrumental | 10 Ju | clarinet & string quartet | 1st performed at Clifton College - MS fair copy score & parts | |
| Scherzo on the letters FBF for organ Instrumental | 1973 | organ | for Freddie [Field] - MS fair copy score - 2 copies | |
| Shepherds Rejoice Carol | 1997 | 0 | SATB Voices |
Manuscript score. For East Devon Choral Society |
| Shepherds Rejoice ! Carol | 1999 | 0 | Piano/Organ Part | Manuscript score. For East Devon Choral Society. Accompaniment for the choral parts |
| Shepherds, arise! Carol | 1997 | Score (PDF) | SATB Voices |
Manuscript MS score |
| Shepherds, rejoice! Carol | 1999 | SATB Voices |
Printed scores. For East Devon Choral Society. | |
| Sigh no more ladies Choral | SATB organ |
ink MS (individual) parts and draft organ accompaniment | ||
| Sing joyfully (canon) Choral | 2 voices piano |
MS fair copy score | ||
| Sing we to this Merry Company Choral | 2009 | Score (PDF) | SATB Voices |
Manuscript score |
| Skye Boat Song Instrumental | 4 recorders (2 tr 2 tn | photocopy MS score | ||
| Soliloquy Instrumental | "flute, piano" | MS ink score | ||
| Sonata Instrumental | cor anglais & piano | MS ink score/piano part | ||
| Song; A Song; Love from the North; Weep, O Mine Eyes Song | voice & piano | MS fair copy - various copies in different keys | ||
| Songs of the Earth Song | voice piano |
MS Score | ||
| St Magnus variations Instrumental | Nymet | piano duet | ||
| Stay, O sweet, do not depart Song | voice piano |
photocopy fair copy score | ||
| Suite (Prelude, Scherzo, Blues) Instrumental | 1973? | violin & piano | photocopy MS score & violin part | |
| Suite for Violin Instrumental | 1975 | violin & piano | photocopy score (2 copies) covering letter 1981 | |
| Sweet work Song | voice piano |
A cycle of 7 love songs for male & female voice. | ||
| The Ant and the Grasshopper Part Song | SSA | Words by "Anon" . Score available here as a PDF. | ||
| The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Choral | SATB |
ink & photocopy MS parts - names of Lowman Singers on parts | ||
| The Beginning and the End Choral | "score, parts, etc" | |||
| The Beginning and the End Other | ink & pencil sketches | |||
| The Beginning and the End Other | pencil MS - part | |||
| The darkling thrush Choral | SSA? |
MS ink score | ||
| The Double Shame Other | 1972 | Voice Piano |
MS fair copy | |
| The Keel Row Choral | 1981 | SAT(T)B |
Printed score | |
| The Lake Instrumental | oboe & piano | MS fair copy score & phocopies (2) | ||
| The Nightingale Part Song | SSA | Words by Philip Sidney. Score available here as a PDF | ||
| The Offering of the Eastern Kings Carol | 2018 | SATB Voices, Organ |
Printed score (?set by someone in the choir ?). John's last composition, August 2018 | |
| The Oxen Carol | 2002 | Typeset Score (by Howard Williams) | SATB Voices |
Printed score |
| The Oxen Carol | 2002 | 0 | SATB Voices |
Manuscript Score |
| The Oxen Carol | 2002 | 0 | SATB Voices |
Manuscript, parts |
| The Story of Zacchaeus Choral | ink & pencil full score & draft - sketches - letter | |||
| The Sun Song | voice string ensemble?` |
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| The Sunlight on the Garden Song | voice piano |
MS draft score - incomplete? | ||
| The True Lover's Farewell Choral | Solo, TBarB piano |
Typeset score. Solo voice isn't defined, but could be Baritone or Tenor | ||
| Three Madrigals Song | 1974 | Voice Piano |
Revised 1990 | |
| Three Part-Songs Choral | SATB |
"including letter from Ray, Kingswood School, about meaning and pronunciation of words" | ||
| Three songs from Yeats Song | B orchestra |
printed and photocopy scores & orchestral parts | ||
| Title | Date | Voices Instruments |
Notes | |
| Tomorrow shall be my dancing day Choral | SATB & div |
pencil draft & ink MS fair copy | ||
| Trio in perpetuum Instrumental | ink score - instructions for performance - incidental music? | |||
| Two pieces for cello and piano Instrumental | cello & piano | MS ink scores - with note from David Robinson | ||
| Under the greenwood tree Instrumental | tenor & orchestra | pencil score (2 copies) | ||
| Under the greenwood tree Choral | choral1 | instrumental parts | ||
| Under the greenwood tree Song | 1957 | voice piano |
MS score | |
| Variations on the Cherry Tree Carol Instrumental | "cello, oboe, piano" | ink MS piano & instrumental parts | ||
| Weep, O mine eyes Song | voice piano |
photocopy fair copy score | ||
| Widdicombe Fair Other | 1989 | Voice Clarinet, piano |
Handwritten score | |
| Wind Quintet Instrumental | wind quintet | draft/copy score |