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* OPERA OMNIA *

Secular Choral Music


Shakespeare’s Song of Winter
(When icicles hang by the wall)
(2003)
SATB.
Words: Shakespeare.
First performed by the Giltspur Singers in Newham General Hospital.
Published by Recital Music


Three Pastoral Partsongs
(2004)
  1  Over the Hill (Keats)
  2  Requiescat (Tennyson)
  3  Great Things (Hardy)
SATB (Bar solo in Great Things).
First performed by The Giltspur Singers.
Published on Score Exchange

The Oxen
(Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock)
(2005)
SATB.
Words: Thomas Hardy.
First performed by The Giltspur Singers in The Temple Church, London.
Note: this piece is also listed under Christmas Music.
Published by Recital Music

Thank you, Simon, for the cake/
Riddle Canon
(It's in the church but not in the steeple​)
​(2010)
Perpetual canon 4-in-1.
​First sung at a Scott Plummer singing afternoon.
Published on Score Exchange
​

2012 And All That
​(FASTER! HIGHER! STRONGER! I can't go on any longer!)
(2012)
Perpetual canon 6-in-1.
​A satirical piece about the London Olympics, first sung at a Scott Plummer singing afternoon.
Published on Score Exchange
​

Songs of Gods and Mortals
(2014)
 1 Hymn to Pan (Fletcher)
 2 Mistress Margery Wentworth (Skelton)
 3 Hymn to Bacchus (Herrick)
 4 Jenny kissed me (Hunt)
 5 Hymn to Venus (Sappho/Philips)
 6 Mad Tom (Anon.)
SATB (with many divisions).
Composed for the 10th anniversary of the Giltspur Singers who gave the première performance at St John's Holland Road on 12th July 2014.
Published on Score Exchange

Arrangement of 'White Christmas' by Irving Berlin
​(2015)
SATB (with divisions).
Composed for the Giltspur Singers 2015 Christmas Concert.
Available from the composer

The Drum
(I hate that drum's discordant sound)
(2017)
SSATB.
​Words: John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783).
Published on Score Exchange

Two Doves
​(2018)
SATB (with divisions) / 
SATB (with divisions) & wind quintet.
​Commissioned for  and premiered at the wedding of Mr Jonathan Stoneman and Miss Antonia Mott in August 2018.
Published on Score Exchange
Published on Score Exchange

Six Jingles for the BBC Music Magazine
(2018)
SATB.
​
Featured in the monthly Podcasts from April 2018

Dr Swift's Riddle
(We are very little creatures​)
​(2019)
Perpetual canon 4-in-1.
Published on Score Exchange
​

Five Shakespeare Fragments
(2020)
   1 Be not afeard
​   2 What harmony is this?
   3 You nymphs, call'd Naiads
   4 You sun-burn'd sicklemen
   5 The cloud-capp'd towers
SATB.
Words from The Tempest
Published on Score Exchange

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