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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 Song | 2002 | Nymet Music | Soprano & Piano | Words by Christina Rossetti. Transposed for mezzo-soprano in Four Songs by Women Poets | 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 | Nymet Music | SATB, Organ | Translated from 5th Century Latin | All and Some Choral | 1961 | OUP | SATB | Published by Novello in their Book of Carols 1963 | All and Some Choral | SSAATTBB |
pencil score | Allie (Robert Graves) Other | Augus | voices "recorders, percussion, piano" |
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 |
pencil full score | Apple Blossom Choral | SATB piano |
ink MS fair copy full score | As they departed Choral | 2 voices piano |
pencil score | 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 | 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 | 1966 | SATB | Traditional, arr. JCB. Published 1971 | Dashing away with the smoothing iron Choral | March | 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 Choral | "score, parts, etc" | 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 | Chris | voice piano |
photocopy MS score | Four Duets for Two Clarinets Instrumental | June | 2 clarinets | MS fair copy | Four part songs (Polytonal Songs) Choral | SATB |
photocopy ink fair copy score | Four part songs (Polytonal Songs) Choral | SATB |
photocopy ink fair copy score - original with some alternatives from December 2000 | Four songs to poems by women poets Song | voice piano |
printed score | Greensleeves Choral | OUP | SATB |
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 | SATB |
photocopy MS scores - for East Devon Choral Society | Hereford Carol (Come, all you faithful Christians) Choral | 1983 | SATB |
fair copy score and pencil draft | Herod and the Cock Carol | SSA | Score available here as a PDF | I Sing of a Maiden Carol | SATB |
photocopy MS scores | I will give my love an apple Choral | 1981 | SATB |
MS fair copy | I will give my love an apple Instrumental | recorders | MS parts | 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 | March | voice & piano? | MS fair copy | Lullaby and come afloat Choral | OUP | SATB |
printed & MS scores & drafts | Madrigal Suite Choral | Nymet | SATB |
printed scores, drafts, etc | 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 | Nymet | 8 recorders | printed & MS scores & printed parts | 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" | 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 | 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, arise! Carol | 1997 | SATB |
photocopy MS score | Shepherds, rejoice! Carol | 1999 | SATB optional piano/organ |
printed scores | 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 | SATB |
photocopy MS scores | 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 | Nymet | voice piano |
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 | Nymet | voice piano |
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 Other | pencil MS - part | The Beginning and the End Choral | "score, parts, etc" | The Beginning and the End Other | ink & pencil sketches | The darkling thrush Choral | SSA? |
MS ink score | The Double Shame Other | 1972 | MS fair copy | The Keel Row Choral | SATB |
printed & MS scores & drafts | The Keel Row, Never weather-beaten sail, A Quodlibet of Graces, Come, love we God, etc Choral | SATB etc instruments |
pencil & ink sketches | 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 | MS & photocopy scores & drafts. John's last composition | The Oxen Carol | 2002 | Typeset Score (by Howard Williams) | SATB/SSA |
MS and scores | The Story of Zacchaeus Choral | ink & pencil full score & draft - sketches - letter | The Sun Song | voice string ensemble?` |
The Sunlight on the Garden Song | voice piano |
MS draft score - incomplete? | The True Lover (The Turtle Dove) Choral | TBarBarB piano |
photocopy (spirit duplicator) score | Three madrigals Song | Nymet | voice piano |
printed & MS scores | Three Part-Songs Choral | Augus | SATB |
Polytonal Songs - MS fair copy | 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 | voice piano |
photocopy 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 | Wind Quintet Instrumental | wind quintet | draft/copy score |
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