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| Title | Date | Publisher | Performers | Notes | [Dives and Lazarus] Other | narrator & instruments | First six pages of handwritten score. For narrator, various wind, brass and percussion instruments. | 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 | Adagio and Allegro for cor anglais and piano Instrumental | 1978 | Cor Anglais & Piano | 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 | 2008 | 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 | SATB Organ |
Typeset score | March and Calypso Instrumental | descant recorders & piano | Ink fair copy score. For recorders and piano | Menagerie Choral | SSA |
Typeset score. Settings of three texts: King Herod and the Cock (?anon) The Nightingale, by Sir Philip Sidney The Ant and the Grasshopper, anon | Menagerie Choral | SSA |
Handwritten manuscript. Includes some comments and corrections by John King Herod and the Cock. The Nightingale, by Sir Philip Sidney The Ant and the Grasshopper, anon | Missa Brevis Choral | 1992 | SATB Organ |
pencil draft score and photocopy fair copy | Missa Brevis Choral | 1992 | SATB Organ |
Typeset 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 | Movement for Horn, Violin and Piano Instrumental | 2008 | 0 | Horn Violin Piano | Written for Dr Hugh Savill (and family) | Naaman Choral | Childrens\' voices Piano |
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 for Recorders & Viols Instrumental | 1992 | recorders viols | MS fair copy score | Phillida & Coridon Song | voice piano |
photocopy fair copy score | Pickers and stealers Instrumental | Piano | Printed score - for Simon, Matthew, and Meredith. Intended for young pianists. The title comes from Hamlet | Portents Choral | 1969 | Tenor, choir Organ & bell |
Manuscript score | Potents Choral | April | "tenor soloist, choir" "organ, bell" |
ink fair copy score | Prelude for Piano Instrumental | 1973 | Piano | For Margaret Bunting - MS fair copy & photocopy | Psalm-Fantasy Choral | 1973 | mezzo-soprano & unison choir Sundry |
For solo, choir, piano & sundry instruments. First seven pages. 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, two clarinets trumpet and cello | House competition - written for friends. John would have played a clarinet part | Reflections Instrumental | 2003 | SATB SATB recorder octet |
Printed Score. For recorders, two-choir. Three movements, Floating, Nightfall, and Cascades. | Resonemus laudibus Choral | STT? |
"ink MS score, numerous copies" | Rondo for Wind Quintet Instrumental | 1974 | wind quintet | MS fair copy score & phocopy.For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon | 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 | SSA |
MS fair copy score. For Ida Prins Buttle | Sing we to this Merry Company Choral | 2009 | Score (PDF) | SATB Voices |
Manuscript score | Skye Boat Song Instrumental | 4 recorders (AATT) | Photocopy MS score | Soliloquy Instrumental | "flute, piano" | MS ink score | Sonata Instrumental | cor anglais & piano | MS ink score/piano part | Sonatina for Clarinet & Piano Instrumental | 1974 | Clarinet & piano | MS fair copy & photocopy | Song of Spring and Winter Choral | SATB Piano |
Possibly composed while John was at St John's College, Oxfore | 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 | 2003 | Piano Duet | Manuscript. Variations on a 12th century Orkney theme | St Magnus Variations Instrumental | 2003 | Piano Duet | Typeset score | Stay, O sweet, do not depart Song | voice piano |
photocopy fair copy score | Suite for Violin Instrumental | 1975 | violin & piano | photocopy score (2 copies) covering letter 1981 | Suite for Violin & Piano Instrumental | 1973 | Violin & Piano | Photocopy MS score. (Prelude, Scherzo, Blues) | 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 | Mezzo-soprano & choir |
Score, parts, etc, handwritten. Words from T. S. Eliot’s The Rock. (This had 2 performances after it was written, all that was allowed at the time) | 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 Double Shame Song | voice piano |
Typeset by Gwydion Rhys | 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 Other | Narrator Piano, recorders |
ink & pencil full score & draft - sketches | The Sun Song | voice string ensemble?` |
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 Polytonal Songs Choral | 1972 | SATB |
Fair copy score | Three Polytonal Songs Choral | 1972 | SATB |
Letter about meaning of words in poem "This worldes joie", one of Polytonal Songs | Three Polytonal Songs Song | 1972 | SATB |
Typeset Score set by Geoffrey Bass | Three Polytonal Songs | SATB |
Keyboard reduction. MSS. See also typeset version and letter about it. | Three songs from Yeats Song | B orchestra |
printed and photocopy scores & orchestral parts | Title | Date | Voices Instruments |
Notes | To Mrs Reynold's Cat Choral | Three voices | 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? | Twelve Variations on Angelus ad Virginem | Two violas | Typeset score | Twelve Variations on Searching for Lambs | 2006 | Two cellos | 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 Puccini's Che Gelida Manina Instrumental | 1997 | Piano | Written for Dave Regester. It was commissioned by his wife, Chris Tully, as birthday present. | Variations on Schubert's 'Mein' Instrumental | 1987 | Oboe & Piano | MSS | 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 |
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