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Songs


Song
(Memory, hither come)
(1988)
Words: Blake.
Premièred by Liz Rugman.
Available from the composer

They have Changed Eyes
(How sweet my love with flaxen hair)
(1989)
Words: Alastair Crammond.
Premièred at the University of Bristol.
Available from the composer

She had No Choice
(How dark and deep the verdant pond)
(1989)
Words: Alastair Crammond.
Premièred at the University of Bristol.
Available from the composer

Song of the Beloved
(My beloved is white and ruddy)
(1990)
Words: the Bible (Authorised Version).
Available from the composer

Night Song
(The heron passes homeward to the mere)
(2000)
Words: Wilde.
Premièred by Chris Goodwin in St George's, Bloomsbury.
Published on Score Exchange

To Mistress Margaret Hussey
(Merry Margaret as midsummer flower)
(2005)
Words: Skelton.
Premièred by Nick Grounds in St Mary's, Wimbledon.
Published on Score Exchange

There is sweet music
(from Song of the Lotos Eaters)
(2007)
Words: Tennyson.
Premièred by Chris Goodwin in St George's, Bloomsbury.
Formerly published by Recital Music
​Now published on Score Exchange
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Fear no more the Heat o’the Sun
(Dirge from Cymbeline)
(2007)
Words: Shakespeare.
Premièred in the 2008 Machynlleth Festival.
Published on Score Exchange

The new house
(Now first, as I shut the door)
(2011)
Words: Edward Thomas.
Premièred by Nick Grounds in St Mary's, Wimbledon.
Published on Score Exchange

To sleep
​(O soft embalmer of the still midnight)
(2013)
Words: Keats.
Published on Score Exchange

Higgledy Piggledy
(2014)
Songs for children (mostly) about animals

1 Higgledy Piggledy, my black hen (Anon.)
2 The Cat and the Mouse (adapted from Chaucer)
3 The Guinea-Pig (Beatrix Potter)
4 The Snail (William Cowper)
5 The Tortoise (Anon.)
6 Sea Shell (Amy Lowell)
7 The Mole (Beatrix Potter)
8 The Lady and the Tiger (attrib. to W. C. Monkhouse)
9 The Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll)
10 Dr Swift's Riddle (Jonathan Swift)
11 Higgledy Piggledy, my black hen (Reprise)
Two of the songs in this collection, Sea Shell and The Little Crocodile, were composed for the Recital Music 60-Second Songs competition.  Both were placed among the six Winners in the competition (the categories were Winners, Highly Commended and Commended).

Published on Score Exchange

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