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Original works 
for mixed choir
(SATB, SAB etc) 
- Secular

A Madrigal of Naivety

 (AATB)



The Bell Ringing (based on a Devon folksong)

 (SAATBB choir cappella)


Bring us in good ale

  (SSAB or AATB singing group)

  (Based on a mediaeval drinking song)



British folk song arrangements for SAB choir and piano:

The Ash Grove

Men of Harlech

The King’s joy

The girl I left behind me

Donkey riding

I’ll tell my ma (The Belle of Belfast City)

Come live with me

Blow away the morning dew

Scotland the brave

Llwyn Onn (Welsh original of The Ash Grove)

Rhyfelgyrch Gwyr Harlech (Welsh original of Men of Harlech)



Ding Dong Merrily on High

(a “refreshingly contemporary” reworking of the old carol)

 (SAATBB or ATTBarBB choir a cappella)



The Elves (after Leconte de Lisle)

 (alto/baritone solos, A/T chorus, A/T recorders, guitar, cello(s))




An Eriskay Love Lilt

  (Vair Mi O - Bheir Mi O)

  (women’s choir: 2 sopranos and 1 alto a cappella

  [in Gaelic with additional words in English by the composer])




In the Summer Time (based on Chris Benson’s Summertime Rag)

 (SATB choir, cello and guitar)



It was a lover and his lass (modern madrigal)

 (ATTB or SATB)




Les Cloches by Debussy - choral arrangement   (SSSATBB, organ)




Les Eléphants (The Elephants)

  (poem by Leconte de Lisle)

  (spoken voice (or choir or solo voice), clarinet, flute and string quartet)




My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home (based on the song and on Dowland’s lute duet)

 (double choir SATB-SATB)



Nora Lee

  (small singing group or choir:

   Men’s voices AATBB

   or  mixed: SATBarB)




Order of the Day

  (male voices or low mixed choir - AATB)




Praise to the Vine

 (Choir SATB)




Robin Adair (arr. DWS)

 (SATB)




Rupert The Chocolate Angel

  (An antidote to Rudolph the red nosed reindeer)

 (Unison choir with jazz ensemble)



Saturnalia Song

 (voices, percussion, wind, brass)




Song to Idleness

  (choir and guitar version)




The 12 days of Christmas - a conductor’s nightmare

 (SATB version)




The Ballad of Green Broom

 (men's choir (tenor, baritone, bass)

or

  ladies' choir (soprano, mezzo, alto))




The Choir in the rain

 (ATTB or SATB)



The Hubbard Saga

 (choir with piano reduction)


The Hubbard Saga

 (SATB choir, children’s choir, orchestra)

          Rental of parts




The Park on Sunday

 (AABarBB or SSATB)



The Swan (based on “Sonnet” by Mallarmé)

  (four altos a-cappella)



Voyelles by Rimbaud

  (2 alto solos and male voice backing group)



Wine and Water

 (alto, tenor and bass)