Alan Thomas -- Compositions

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. If you're interested in playing a piece that doesn't yet have a score download facility, just email me and I can arrange to send you the score.

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 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]


Neat Little Things! [work in progress]
       Sneakin' Home
       Snapshot


Preludes [work in progress]
       Prelude No. 1 (C major)


Etudes, Book 2 for guitar and live computer processing (2008- )  [work in progress]
      7. Pour les accords (Berceuse) 
      8. Loops for Sam (Discourse on the relative lengths of dinosaurs) 
      9. Barcarolle (Alice moving under skies) 
    10. Pour les notes répetées (fractal echoes)
     11. Regelmatige vlakverdeling (Homage to Escher) 
    12. 


Etudes, Book 3 [work in progress]
    13. Glas
    14. Uncle Hermann's Marches (some as good as Sousa, and 
                   Aunt Bird used to play them on the organ)  
    15. Lucy Waltzes



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



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"


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"


Snapshot (2007)
for guitar ensemble or fretted orchestra
duration: 3'30"



Works for Voice and Guitar
Sorrow, Stay (Mr. Dowland's Blues) (2007)
for voice and guitar
duration: 7'


Silly and Sorrowful Songs [work in progress]
for voice and guitar
       Doublets 
       Whorls
       I often wondered


The Wind Among the Reeds [work in progress]
song cycle on poems by William Butler Yeats, for voice and guitar
       The Song of the Happy Shepherd
       Brown Penny
       Lavender
       He Wishes He Were Anything Else But a Rhymer
       A Lullaby
       Down by the Salley Gardens
       The Tower



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