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Voice(s)
and guitar

Title

 

Score

Sample

page

Audio (mp3)

 

 

Other (incl video)

Als e gitarr

  (alto, guitar and spoken voice)

 

 

 

 

 

Als e gitarr page

An Exmas Carol

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

An Exmas Carol (original version for alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

An Exmas Carol (original version for alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

An Exmas Carol (original version for alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

An Exmas Carol (1984 camcorder video) on YouTube

April

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

April (1984 camcorder video) on YouTube

Ariette Oubliée No 4

   (alto voice and guitar)

 

Video on YouTube

As gleams the Rosebud

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

As gleams the Rosebud - MyScoreStore

As gleams the Rosebud - MyScoreStore

To Cassandra (As gleams the Rosebud) mp3

As Gleams the Rosebud (to Cassandra) - on YouTube

Asexual Blues

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

To a bee with no sense of direction

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

To a Bee - on YouTube

Beetle’s Wings

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Beetle's Wings - MyScoreStore

Beetle's Wings - MyScoreStore

Beetle's Wings - MyScoreStore

Beetle's Wings - on YouTube

Byrd’s Cradle song (arr DWS)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Byrd's Cradle Song MyScoreStore

Byrd's Cradle Song MyScoreStore

Byrd's Cradle Song MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

To Cassandra

    (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

To Cassandra (As gleams the Rosebud) mp3

Come into the Garden, Maud (Balfe arr dwsolo)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Come into the Garden, Maud - alto and guitar - MyScoreStore

Come into the Garden, Maud - alto and guitar - MyScoreStore

Come into the Garden, Maud - alto and guitar - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

Dans l’interminable ennui de la plaine (after Verlaine)

 (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Dans l'interminable - MyScoreStore

Dans l'interminable - MyScoreStore

Dans l'interminable - MyScoreStore

 

Dawn in the Room (original version)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Dawn in the Room - MyScoreStore

Dawn in the Room - MyScoreStore

Dawn in the Room - MyScoreStore

 

Drift

  (alto and guitar)

 

Score not yet available

 

 

Video on YouTube

Early evening in Camden Town

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Early evening in Camden Town - MyScoreStore

Early evening in Camden Town - MyScoreStore

Early evening in Camden Town - MyScoreStore

Early evening in Camden Town -  on YouTube

Elégie de Marie

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Elégie de Marie - MyScoreStore

Elégie de Marie - MyScoreStore

Elégie de Marie - MyScoreStore

 

Exprompt (Armenian song of farewell)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Exprompt - MyScoreStore

Exprompt - MyScoreStore

Exprompt - MyScoreStore

Falling is Painless

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Feuer und Wasser

 

   (alto voice and guitar)  (free score)

 

 

 

The Finding of St Anthony

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Youtube video

Haikus by Basho

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Recital video

Here in nomansland

  (alto (with optional alto 2) and guitar)

 

 

 

Here in nomansland - MyScoreStore

Here in nomansland - MyScoreStore

Here in nomansland - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

Heureux qui comme Ulysse a fait un beau voyage

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Heureux qui comme Ulysse - MyScoreStore

Heureux qui comme Ulysse - MyScoreStore

Heureux qui comme Ulysse - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

Incantation for Pamela

  (2 altos and guitar ostinato)

 

 

 

 

 

It wasa lover and his lass (modern madrigal) free download from MyScoreStore

It wasa lover and his lass (modern madrigal) free download from MyScoreStore

It wasa lover and his lass (modern madrigal) free download from MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

Illusions

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Illusions - MyScoreStore

Illusions - MyScoreStore

Illusions - MyScoreStore

 

Invitation to the journey (after Baudelaire)

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

John Brown (based on the mock inscription by Ogden Nash)

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Ludhe Sing Tishu

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

Ludhe Sing Tishu on YouTube

Lull

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Lull - MyScoreStore

Lull - MyScoreStore

 

 

L’Enfance Lointaine (after Marie Keyser)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

L'Enfance lointaine - MyScoreStore

L'Enfance lointaine - MyScoreStore

L'Enfance lointaine - MyScoreStore

 

Mandoline and Colloque Sentimental

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Marie, for shame you keep your bed too long

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melissanthi - Five poems

  (alto, guitar)

  

      The Capital 1980

  

      The Houses where we have lived

 

 

      We have cast anchor at midnight

 

     The Outside and the Inside

 

      Hour Zero

 

 

 

Melissanthi 5 poems - Musik Fabrik

Melissanthi - score samples, spoken poems and sung songs

Melissanthi - score samples, spoken poems and sung songs

Recital videos including some of these songs

Messe Miniature de Marie

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Messe Miniature de Marie - MyScoreStore

Messe Miniature de Marie - MyScoreStore

Messe Miniature de Marie - MyScoreStore

Messe Miniature de Marie - on YouTube

Moonlight on sea

   (mezzo soprano, alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

Motor Bus

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Motor Bus - MyScoreStore

Motor Bus - MyScoreStore

Motor Bus - MyScoreStore

 

My Gentle Words

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

My Gentle Words - alto and guitar - Musik Fabrik

 

 

 

My Love

   (three altos with guitar ostinato)

 

 

 

 

My Love - MyScoreStore

My Love - MyScoreStore

My Love - MyScoreStore

My Love on YouTube

Ten Nursery Rhymes (very simple arrangements)

 

  (voice and guitar chord-names - each arranged for high, medium and low voice)

 

  (The nursery rhymes are: Here we go gathering nuts in May (also known as Here we go round the mulberry bush), Hot cross buns, hey diddle diddle, Lavender's blue, The North Wind doth blow, Tom Tom the piper's son, Johnny's so long at the fair, Tom he was a piper's son (different song!), Humpty Dumpty and Pop goes the weasel.)

 

 

 

 

Video of 6 of the songs on YouTube

Noel di Gautier

   (two altos and guitar)

 

Video on YouTube

Ode to a Nose (After Basselin’s “Beau Nez”)

  (2 altos, guitar and various sound effects)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planet (original version)

  (2 altos, guitar)

 

 

 

Planet (original version) - MyScoreStore

Planet (original version) - MyScoreStore

Planet (original version) - MyScoreStore (performance by D W Solomons and Duncan Saunderson)

Prayer to the Virgin (original version)

  (2 altos, guitar)

 

 

 

Prayer to the Virgin (original version) MyScoreStore

Prayer to the Virgin (original version) MyScoreStore

Prayer to the Virgin (original version) - performed by D W Solomons and Duncan Saunderson -  MyScoreStore

Prelude to a Storm

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Prelude to a Storm - MyScoreStore

Prelude to a Storm - MyScoreStore

Prelude to a Storm - MyScoreStore

 

Rêvé-je (Am I dreaming) - by Bataille

 

  (arranged for alto or mezzo soprano and guitar

  with English singing translation)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Romance for Lissie

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Romance for Lissie - MyScoreStore

Romance for Lissie - MyScoreStore

Romance for Lissie - MyScoreStore

 

Rossignol du bois sauvage

  (alto, guitar)

[Note the score and mp3 links refer to the version with added (optional ) flute - as below. The guitar and voice parts are identical]

 

 

 

Rossignol du bois sauvage - on YouTube

Rossignol du bois sauvage

  (flute, alto voice, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Sagesse

  (alto [medium voice], guitar)

 

 

 

Sagess - alto, guitar - sample page pdf

Sagesse - alto and guitar - performed by the composer - mp3

Video on YouTube

Sing oh daughter of Zion

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sentimental song

(based on an Armenian poem by Vahan Teryan translated by James Russell)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Sentimental song - MyScoreStore

Sentimental song - MyScoreStore

Sentimental song - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

Song for Jenny

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Song for Jenny - MyScoreStore

Song for Jenny - MyScoreStore

Song for Jenny - MyScoreStore

 

Song to Idleness

   (alto solo and guitar version)

 

 

 

Song to Idless (alto solo) MyScoreStore

Song to Idless (alto solo) MyScoreStore

Song to Idless (alto solo) MyScoreStore

 

Song to Idleness

   (choir and guitar version)

 

 

 

Song to Idleness (choral) MyScoreStore

Song to Idleness (choral) MyScoreStore

Song to Idleness (choral) MyScoreStore

 

Songs of Solomons  (part one)

  (alto, guitar)

   A Christmas Song  

    Habirando-san no Haiku  

    Ludhe sing tishu

    An Exmas carol

     Lookin' just lookin' in the personal ads  

    Judas    

    Rose     

    Greek Wassail    

    New Troubadour Blues   

    Beetle's wings

 

 

 

Songs of Solomons (part 1) - MyScoreStore

Songs of Solomons (part 1) - MyScoreStore

Songs of Solomons (part 1) - original performances by the composer

 

 

 

Ludhe sing tishu on YouTube

Lookin' just lookin' - on YouTube

Beetle's Wings - on YouTube

Recital videos

Songs of the Auvergne

    (alto voice and classical guitar)

   Featuring the songs:

  Bailero, Ound Onoren, L’aio de rotso

 

Video on YouTube

Song of the Childless

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Street Song

(based on the poem by Vahan Teryan as translated by James Russell)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Chief defect of Henry King

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Swallows (after Gourgen Mahari)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video of The Swallows for alto and guitar

The Face of Love

  (alto voice and guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Hebrew Class

   (alto voice, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Meeting of the Waters

   (voice and guitar)

 

Video on YouTube

The Recipe

(the three witches from Shakespeare’s Macbeth)

  (three altos, guitar ostinato)

 

 

 

The Recipe - MyScoreStore

The Recipe - MyScoreStore

The Recipe - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

The mending of fuses (after The naming of Parts)

 (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

The quiet way you move me

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

The Quiet way you move me - original version - MyScoreStore

The Quiet way you move me - original version - MyScoreStore

The Quiet way you move me - original version - MyScoreStore

The Quiet Way You Move Me - on YouTube

The Willow Song (anon arr DWS)

   (tenor or alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

To Paint the portrait of a bird

 (alto and guitar)

- based on the poem by Jacques Prévert

 

Video on YouTube

Up I arose in verno tempore (arrangement)

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Upon my bed by night

  (choir (SATB), alto and baritone solos, guitar)

 

 

 

Upon my bed by night - song page

 

Wenn der Pott aber nu ein Loch hat (German folk song - ancestor of “There’s a hole in my bucket”)

 

  (alto, bass, guitar

    or soprano, tenor, guitar)

 

 

 

Wenn der Pott -  MyScoreStore

Wenn der Pott -  MyScoreStore

German Folksongs page

 

Video on YouTube

Wine and water

  (alto, guitar [chord names only])

 

 

 

Wine and water (alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

Wine and water (alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

Wine and water (alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

 

Wrong Side of the door

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Wrong SIde of the door - MyScoreStore

Wrong SIde of the door - MyScoreStore

Wrong SIde of the door - MyScoreStore

Wrong side of the door - YouTube