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for solo voice

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Score

Sample

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Audio (mp3)

Other (incl video)

A latter day Ronsard

  (alto voice, guitar)

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

 

 

 

 

A Ol (to Olympio poem by Victor Hugo)

  (soprano, piano)

 

 

 

 

 

Al Hanisim - A Chanukah celebration

  (alto voice, clarinet and piano)

 

 

 

 

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

An Imagined Conversation

   (high alto or mezzo and piano)

 

 

Nocturne page

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Away in a manger

   (arranged for alto voice, flute, harp, strings and organ)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

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)

 

 

 

Be not afear’d

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Be not afear'd - MyScoreStore

Be not afear'd - MyScoreStore

Be Not afear'd - mp3

Video on YouTube

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

Christmas Haikus

  (alto and piano)

   (From the “Songs of Solomons”)

 

 

 

Be not afear'd - MyScoreStore

Be not afear'd - MyScoreStore

 

Video on YouTube

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

To Cassandra

    (alto, guitar)

 

To Cassandra (As gleams the Rosebud) mp3

Cupid, shame yourself

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Cupid, Shame yourself - MyScoreStore

Cupid, Shame yourself - MyScoreStore

Cupid, Shame yourself - MyScoreStore

 

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

Video on YouTube

Dawn in the Room (piano and voice)

  (alto or baritone, piano)

 

 

 

 

Dawn in the Room (voice and piano) - MyScoreStore

Dawn in the Room (voice and piano) - MyScoreStore

Dawn in the Room (voice and piano) - MyScoreStore

Video on YouTube

Dawn in the Room (with strings)

  (alto, string orchestra)

 

 

 

 

Dawn in the Room (with strings) - MyScoreStore

Dawn in the Room (with strings) - MyScoreStore

 

Dreaming

  (spoken voice with guitar and orchestra accompaniment)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dawn in the Room (voice and piano) - 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

Recital video

Elégie de Marie

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Elégie de Marie - MyScoreStore

Elégie de Marie - MyScoreStore

Elégie de Marie - MyScoreStore

 

The Elves (after Leconte de Lisle)

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

 

 

 

 

 

The Elves

The Elves

The Elves

Video on YouTube

Erinaki mou

  (Greek folksong)

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greek folksongs page

Exprompt (Armenian song of farewell)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Exprompt - MyScoreStore

Exprompt - MyScoreStore

Exprompt - MyScoreStore

Falling is Painless

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Feuer und Wasser

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Finding of St Anthony

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Email me for score if required

 

 

Youtube video

Five silly songs

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Flamingo

  (tenor, alto or mezzo, guitar)

 

Video on YouTube

A Forever kind of love

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Four Yiddish folksong arrangements

  (alto, guitar)

 

Videos on YouTube

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)

 

 

 

 

 

Let now the harp and voice unite

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Letter to Lydia (modernised version)

  (soprano, electric guitar, keyboard and bass)

 

 

 

 

Letter to Lydia (modernised version) - MyScoreStore

Letter to Lydia (modernised version) - MyScoreStore

 

 

Letter to Lydia (original version)

  (alto, flute, classical guitar, cello)

 

 

 

Letter to Lydia (original version) - MyScoreStore

Letter to Lydia (original version) - MyScoreStore

Letter to Lydia (original version) - MyScoreStore

 

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

Recital video

 

Ludhe Sing Tishu

  (alto, piano)

 

 

 

 

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

 

Ludhe Sing Tishu

  (mezzo soprano, piano)

 

 

 

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

Ludhe sing Tishu - MyScoreStore

 

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

 

Madness of a headmistress

(a mock children’s song poem by Gavin Ewart)

   (alto, recorder, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

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

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

My Gentle Words

  (soprano, flute, piano)

 

 

 

 

My Gentle Words - soprano, flute, piano - Musik Fabrik

My Gentle Words - soprano, flute and piano - sample page

My Gentl;e Words - soprano, flute and piano - mp3 of performance in 1995

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 these songs on YouTube

Three Nursery rhyme arrangements

  (alto voice,  recorder and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery Rhymes page

On come the dancers of the mind

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

The Poohratorio (1976)

   (alto voice(s), narrator  and guitar, with optional additional instruments)

Based on “The Expotition to the North Pole”

 

Note: This composition, lasting 27 minutes, is not currently published because the estate of A A Milne will not give permission. However, it has been disseminated amongst friends for future publication by future generations in or after the year 2031!

 

(Meanwhile, the musical themes are being re-used for a string sextet and a set of Canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) entitled Canticula Ursae Minoris (Canticles of the little bear, which is either Pooh Bear or the Little Dipper whose tail points to the Pole Star!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 (or bass), 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

Rose (after a poem by Iskan Acikca)

  (alto (or bass), strings)

 

 

 

 

 

The Rose Page

Rose (after a poem by Iskan Acikca)

  (tenor (or soprano), strings)

 

 

 

 

 

The Rose Page

Rose (after a poem by Iskan Acikca)

  (tenor (or soprano), piano)

 

 

 

 

 

The Rose Page

Rose (after a poem by Iskan Acikca)

  (alto, piano)

 

(part of Songs of Solomons part 2)

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

 

The Rose Page

Rose (after a poem by Iskan Acikca)

  (bass, piano)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

Rupert The Chocolate Angel

   (An antidote to “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer”)

  (Unison choir (or solo alto) with jazz ensemble)

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

Sagesse

  (alto [medium voice], guitar)

 

 

 

 

Sagess - alto, guitar - sample page pdf

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

Video on YouTube

Saturnalia Song

  (voices, percussion, wind, brass)

 

 

 

 

 

Sagess - alto, guitar - sample page pdf

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

Winter Celebrations CD

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

Recital video

Sing oh daughter of Zion

   (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Sleep wayward thoughts (after John Dowland)

  (alto voice, alto recorder, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Solstice Song

  (flute, alto voice, alto recorder, harp)

 

 

 

 

Solstice Song - Musik Fabrik

 

Solstice Song - mp3

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

 

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

Greek Wassail- on YouTube

Recital videos

Songs of Solomons (part two)

  (alto, piano)

   1 Dawn in the Room

   2 Habirandosan No Haiku

   3 Ludhe Sing Tishu

   4 The Quiet Way You Move Me

   5 Greek Wassail

   6 The Swallows

   7 Rose

   8 Invitation to the Journey

   9 Christmas Haikus

   10 Lookin' Just Lookin'

 

 

 

 

 

 

Songs of Solomons part 2 - MyScoreStore - Da Capo

Songs of Solomons part 2 - MyScoreStore - Da Capo

Songs of Solomons part 2 - CDBaby

Video of “Rose” performed by the composer with David Lawson on piano

 

Video on YouTube of Christmas Haikus

 

Video of Invitation to the journey

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recital video

Ta  Maman

(poem by Paul Maertens)

  (alto, cello and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Chief defect of Henry King

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Face of Love

  (alto voice and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Girl in the Cathedral

   (alto voice, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Grasshopper and the ant

  (flute (or recorder or clarinet),

    alto voice, guitar)

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Hebrew Class

   (alto voice, guitar)

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The learnèd hippopotamus

   (voice (alto or tenor), recorder and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Lass of Richmond Hill

  (simple arrangement for alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

The Meeting of the Waters (arrangement)

   (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 Quiet Way you move me (version for alto and piano)

  (alto, piano)

 

 

 

The Quiet Way you move me - MyScoreStore

The Quiet Way you move me - MyScoreStore

The Quiet Way you move me - MyScoreStore

 

The Stripper

(based on “Their aid I thus disclaim” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida)

  (alto, piano and excitable chorus)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Swallows (after Gourgen Mahari)

  (alto, guitar)

 

 

 

Video of The Swallows for alto and guitar

The Swallows  (after Gourgen Mahari)

   (alto, piano)

(in the collection “Songs of Solomons”)

 

 

 

Songs of Solomons part 2 - MyScoreStore - Da Capo

 

Songs of Solomons part 2 - CDBaby

 

The Swallows  (after Gourgen Mahari)

   (tenor, piano)

 

 

 

The Swallows (tenor, piano) - MyScoreStore

The Swallows (tenor, piano) - MyScoreStore

 

 

The Venerable Cat

   (alto voice, guitar and optional additional instrument)

 

 

 

 

 

Video on YouTube

The Willow Song (anon arr DWS)

   (tenor or alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

Wrong side of the door - YouTube

Three Nursery Rhymes

       I love little pussy

       Baa baa black Sheep

       Hush a bye baby

   (alto voice, recorder, guitar)

 

 

 

Three Nursery Rhymes - Musik Fabrik

Three Nursery Rhymes - sample page - pdf

Nursery Rhymes Page

 

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)

 

 

 

 

 

Tria paidia

 (Greek folksong arrangement)

  (alto and guitar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greek folksongs page

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

 

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