Compositions
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Music that is accessible, enjoyable to listen to and play, always with original ideas and the occasional challenge, each piece is inspired by a particular and sometimes quirky idea or scenario.
Atmospheres
A series of painting-with-music meditations on haikus by Japanese masters, one for each season:
Leaves of Ivy - Yamamoto Kakei (1648 - 1716),
for Jasper: Leaves of ivy Every one astir - The autumn wind Snow's Falling! - Masaoka Shiki (1867 – 1902):
Snow's falling! I see it through a hole in the shutter... Octet
Oboe, French horn, cello & percussion
Under the Rainclouds - Uejima Onitsura (1661 – 1738):
Under the rainclouds The plum blossoms seem like stars Despite the daylight The Charcoal Kiln - Hayano Hajin (1676 - 1742):
The charcoal kiln – A deer watches The evening smoke Flute, violin, piano & percussion
Orchestral Suite
Birnbeck Pier - a suite for orchestra, telling the story of the old pier at Weston-super-Mare, its heyday, decline, disaster and rebirth:
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For string quintet and percussion:
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Chamber Music
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Francesca da Rimini is one of Dante's favored but condemned characters in the Divine Comedy. Here is her lament for a lost lover:
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With apologies to Vivaldi and Philip Glass:
Scores and parts can be downloaded from my
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Octet for Wind Band
Dead Cat Bounce:
No cats were hurt in the making of this music.
Bagatelles for Brass Quintet
Whispers of the Garden
Six short pieces inspired by poems of T.S Eliot, Longfellow, Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin and Oscar Wilde:
Rebecca Northway Photography
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Symphony
The Newent: five symphonic scenes:
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The Onion Fayre
More Orchestral Works
Telstar Revisited
For Joe Meek, 'the Telstar Man', whose childhood home and birthplace is just round the corner from my own house:
The Well-Tempered Orchestra
For my local community orchestra:
Arrangements
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There is a wealth of untapped material from the wonderful era of old time music hall. Here's one of a series, a jazz classic by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, that I arranged for string quartet.
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Original 'Overcoat' vocals sung by the fabulous Ruth Etting
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... and a song by Vivian Ellis from 'Bless the Bride':
Although 'Memory Music' is fun, it also has a serious purpose: for the elderly and sufferers of dementia, memory is a vital component in their sense of self. 'Memory Music' is a stimulant for this sense. Here is one of of several arrangements:
Inspired by the Offa's Dyke national trail, featured in Ramblings About Music:
Imagination for solo Violin:
Written for my chamber group, Carnevale: