In the interest of sharing my music more widely (and after years of spiritually and financially unrewarding deals with various publishers!), I have decided to make my compositions freely available in PDF format. Eventually all the scores below will be available for download--just click on a title to open the relevant page with background info, audio sample, programme note and score download. I'm making the scores available in this way under the guidelines of the Creative Commons by-nc-cd licence. I retain the full copyright in the pieces, and only grant the user the right to print out the PDF files for their own use (not for re-sale or re-publication in any other form without my express permission); I only ask that you please let me know by email of any planned performances of the pieces.
[concerto/concertanti works] [solo guitar] [flute and guitar] [guitar duo] [guitar quartet] [fretted orchestra] [voice and guitar] [guitar with other instruments] [other solo/chamber works] Concerto/concertanti Works Rhapsody on a Spanish Theme (2007) for solo guitar and orchestra Concerto for Flute and Guitar (2009) Belvedere (Homage to Bernard Herrmann) (2008) for solo guitar and string orchestra Works for Solo Guitar "Out of Africa" (2008) 1. Call at Sunrise 2. Morning Dance 3. Zenith 4. Evening Dance 5. Cradle Song Etudes, Book 1 (1997-2009) 1. Milonga del diablo 2. Kleptomaniac 3. Canon for Ella 4. Gears (Tricycle) 5. Indigo Wave Box 6. Ascending and Descending [work in progress] First Performance (incomplete set): Alan Thomas, Bath Guitar Festival, 28th July 2004. Neat Little Things! [work in progress] Sneakin' Home Snapshot Preludes [work in progress] Prelude No. 1 (C major) Etudes, Book 2 for guitar and computer (2008- ) [work in progress] 7. Pour les accords (Berceuse) 8. Pour les notes répetées (fractal echoes) 9. Barcarolle (Alice moving under skies) 10. Loops for Sam (Discourse on the relative lengths of dinosaurs) 11. Regelmatige vlakverdeling (Homage to Escher) 12. Uncle Hermann's Marches (some as good as Sousa, and Aunt Bird used to play them on the organ) Etudes, Book 3 13. Lucy Waltzes Gizmo (Fantasy on a theme by James Brown) [work in progress] Cartoon Fantasia [work in progress] Works for Flute and Guitar Balkan Songbook (2007 - ) [work in progress] for flute and guitar Ajde jano The Shepherd's Dream Sivi grivi Rachenitsa Machine At Sunset commissioned and premiered by the Cavatina Duo Works for Guitar Duo After Escher: pieces for two guitars [work in progress] Regular Division of the Plane Three Worlds Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror "At the Circus" (Sonata for two guitars) (2008) I. Big Top II. Maurice the Clown III. Girl on a Swing IV. Grand Finale (with apotheosis) total duration: 19' Works for Guitar Quartet How One Becomes a Musician (2008) for guitar quartet (guitar trio plus one Speaker) duration: 4'30" First performance: Midlands Fretted Orchestra, 2009. Nocturne (Global Warnings) (2008) for guitar quartet duration: 12' Homages (2008- ) for guitar quartet To Django Reinhardt To Elliott Smith To Erik Satie Works for Guitar Ensemble/Fretted Orchestra How One Becomes a Musician (2008) for Speaker and fretted orchestra duration: 4'30" First performance: Midlands Fretted Orchestra, 2009. Snapshot (2007) for guitar ensemble or fretted orchestra duration: 3'30" commissioned by the Midlands Fretted Orchestra First performance: The Midlands Fretted Orchestra, Hagley, West Midlands, 4th November, 2007. Works for Voice and Guitar Sorrow, Stay (Mr. Dowland's Blues) (2007) for voice and guitar duration: 7' commissioned for a Dowland song programme with soprano Juliet Fraser First performance: Juliet Fraser and Alan Thomas, Soundwaves Festival, Brighton, 27th June, 2008. Silly and Sorrowful Songs [work in progress] for voice and guitar Doublets Whorls I often wondered Ballads, Airs and Foolsongs [work in progress] for voice and guitar Down by the Salley Gardens He Wishes He Were Anything Else But a Rhymer A Lullaby First performance (incomplete set): Juliet Fraser and Alan Thomas, National Portrait Gallery, London, 22nd May, 2009. Works for Guitar with other Instruments Belvedere (Homage to Bernard Herrmann) (2008) for guitar and string quartet Duo for Guitar and Percussion ("Out of Africa" II) [work in progress] for guitar and percussion Ringtone Rhapsody (2004) for clarinet and guitar (also versions for flute/cello/viola and guitar) duration: 4' Other Chamber/Solo Works Ringtone Rhapsody (2004) for cello and piano (also versions for viola or clarinet and piano) duration: 4' Two Pieces for solo banjo (2006) Round Dance Etude commissioned and premiered by Danielle Saxon-Reeves Published by Victoria College of Music