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Original works for 
small vocal groups
 - Secular

A Madrigal of Naivety

 (AATB)


Alcohol      (poem by Gavin Ewart)

  (4 equal voices alto/tenor range)


Arthropod Duet (Arthropoduet)

    (A centipede was happy quite until a frog in fun said....)

    (2 voices, a cappella - versions in B flat (low voices and D (medium voices))



Austria

(a tongue in cheek language guide for tourists)

  (two altos, one tenor and guitar)



Bring us in good ale

  (SSAB or AATB singing group)

  (Based on a mediaeval drinking song)



Colloque Sentimental (English translation)

 (three altos a cappella)


Double glazing

 (North American Native flute and men's voices)


Fine Knacks for Ladies (John Dowland)

 (men’s voices (AATB or ATTB or ATBarB))



Hair of the Doggerel

 (3 equal voices in canon)


Here in nomansland

 (alto (with optional alto 2) and guitar


Hiawatha

 (four alto voices a cappella)


Incantation for Pamela

 (2 altos and guitar ostinato)


It was a lover and his lass (modern madrigal)

 (ATTB or SATB)



Ode to a Nose (drinking song)

(after Basselin’s “A son nez”)

 (3 (alto or high tenor) voices and guitar


Quartier Libre (Le Képi)

 (2 equal voices a cappella)

  Poem by Jacques Prévert


Malgré Moi

 (2 altos and piano)

 Poem by Jacques Prévert


Malgré Moi

 (2 equal voices and guitar)

  Poem by Jacques Prévert


Moonlight on sea

  (mezzo soprano, alto and guitar)


My Love

  (three altos and guitar ostinato)


Noel di Gautier (Gautier's Noel)

  (two altos and guitar)


Nora Lee

  (small singing group or choir:

    Men’s voices AATBB or  mixed: SATBarB)


Past two o’clock

 (ATBarB)


Planet

  (2 altos, guitar)


Planet (version with piano accompaniment)

 (soprano, alto, piano)



Robin Adair (arr. DWS)

 (SATB choir or single voices)


Rooftops

 (two altos a cappella)


Rupert The Chocolate Angel

  (An antidote to Rudolph the red nosed reindeer)

 (Unison vocals with jazz ensemble)



The Choir in the rain

 (ATTB or SATB)



The fallow deer at the lonely house

 (alto and tenor a cappella)



The Park on Sunday

 (AABarBB or SSATB choir or single voices)



The Recipe

(the three witches from Shakespeare’s Macbeth)

 (three altos, guitar ostinato)



The Swan (based on “Sonnet” by Mallarmé)

  (four altos a-cappella)


The Carnival song

  (children's singing group with guitar chords)


Voyelles by Rimbaud

  (2 alto solos and male voice backing group)



Wine and Water

 (alto, tenor and bass)