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Solo Voice
and guitar

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A latter day Ronsard

  (alto voice, guitar)

(based on Raymond Queneau’s poem “Si tu timagines”

 

 

 

 

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

A North Country Maid (The Oak and the Ash)

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

April

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ballad of Green Broom

  (simple arrangement for alto or tenor and 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

Being but Men (poem by Dylan Thomas)

  (alto voice, guitar)

 

 

 

Believe me if all those endearing young charms (Thomas Moore)

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

Après un Rêve (Gabriel Fauré) - MyScoreStore

Après un Rêve - MyScoreStore

Video on Youtube

Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster)

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

Brennan on the Moor

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

The Bringers of Beethoven

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video 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

 

Dashing away with the smoothing iron

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

Après un Rêve (Gabriel Fauré) - MyScoreStore

Après un Rêve - 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)

 

 

 

Five silly songs

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Finding of St Anthony

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Email me for score if required

 

 

Youtube video

A Forever kind of love

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Haikus by Basho

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Recital video

Harmonie du Soir

(after the poem by Baudelaire)

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

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

I have a bonnet (folk song arrangement)

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Illusions - MyScoreStore

Illusions - MyScoreStore

Illusions - MyScoreStore

 

The Illusion Breaks

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Illusions

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Illusions - MyScoreStore

Illusions - MyScoreStore

Illusions - MyScoreStore

 

Invitation to the journey (after Baudelaire)

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Je Veux! (original French version of “Wrong side of the door” - the cat who is always the wrong side of the door....)

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

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

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Johnny Todd

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

The Legend of the Knight who got lost in the wood

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Let now the harp and voice unite

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Little Laser Lady

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

The Mallow Fling

   (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

Mandoline and Colloque Sentimental

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Marie, for shame you keep your bed too long

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

McQuiddity (a parody of Macavity)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

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

 

 

Melissanthi Page

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

Motor Bus (or how not to fear Latin Grammar)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Motor Bus - MyScoreStore

Motor Bus - MyScoreStore

Motor Bus - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

My Gentle Words

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

My Gentle Words - alto and guitar - Musik Fabrik

 

Video on YouTube

Nevermore

  (voice and guitar (various keys available))

 

and

 

La Plainte du touriste

  (voice and guitar (various keys available))

(parody of Nevermore)

 

 

 

 

 

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

Three Nursery rhyme arrangements

  (alto voice,  recorder and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery Rhymes page

The Flamingo

  (tenor, alto or mezzo, guitar)

 

Video on YouTube

On come the dancers of the mind

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

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

 

Rose - after the poem by Iskan Acikca

  (alto, guitar)

 

(part of Songs of Solomons part 1)

 

 

The Rose page

Rose (after a poem by Iskan Acikca)

  (tenor (or soprano), guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

The Rose Page

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

Ta  Maman

(poem by Paul Maertens)

  (alto, cello and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Chief defect of Henry King

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Lass of Richmond Hill

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

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 Girl in the Cathedral

   (alto voice, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Hebrew Class

   (alto voice, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Learnèd Hippopotamus

   (alto or tenor voice, descant recorder and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Meeting of the Waters

   (voice and guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Mending of Fuses

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

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 Venerable Cat

   (alto voice, guitar and optional additional instrument)

 

 

 

 

 

Video 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

To the Maypole haste away

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Up I arose in verno tempore (arrangement)

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Venus - (or: “Venus has left the building”)

   (alto, recorder, guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Wine and water (two versions)

  (alto, guitar [chord names only] E minor)

 and

  (soprano, guitar [chord names only] B minor)

 

 

 

Wine and water (alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

Wine and water (alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

Wine and water (alto and guitar) - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

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