Nigel Morgan - Worklist, 2015

Nigel MorganWorklist, August 2015Nigel Morgan is a composer working at the heart ofcontemporary concert music in the UK. His currentwork-list of some 90 compositions includes manycommissioned works in orchestral, chamber, vocaland digital media categories.In the 1980s as the Arts Council's Music Animateurfor the East of England he began an association withnew technologies that has become a continuous threadin his creative output, most recently in project work for the BBC NationalOrchestra of Wales and the ILIOS Festival.Orchestra and Large Ensemble ……………………………………………Chamber .………………………………………………………………………Choral . ………………………………………………………………………Solo Voice ……………………………………………………………………Piano and Keyboard …………………………………………………………Guitar …………………………………………………………………………1246810His music consistently reflects innovative and original approaches tocomposition often enabling performers to make a deeper contribution tointerpretation than is the norm in contemporary scores. His musiccelebrates and re-invents many of the aspects of Renaissance and Baroquemusic whilst integrating novel features of open-form and computer-aidedalgorithmic composition.Since 1990 he has been a co-developer of the Symbolic Composersoftware for Macintosh and is part of the research team of the FutureMusic Lab at Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre forComputer Music.This worklist is supported by a series of NewMusic Guides, which introduce key areas of NigelMorgan’s repertoire. Click here to access them.Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass ……………………………………………Wind and Brass Instruments ………………………………………………Variable Instrumentation ……………………………………………………Music for Young Musicians …………………………………………………Radiophonic ………………………………………………………………….1113151617Nigel MorganPrudential Buildings55 WestgateWakefieldWest YorkshireWF1 1BWTel: 01924 383017e-mail: tonalitysystems@mac.comweb: www.nigel-morgan.co.uk

Orchestra and Large EnsembleSounding the Deepfor bass voice and orchestraBass voice, solo piano, as 3.3.3.3-4.2.3.1-elpno/samplersolodb-perc1:vibes/marimba-perc2:3susp.cym/ 2gongs/4hidrums/claves/maracas/triangle-strings(12,10,8,8,4)Commissioned by Hull Philharmonic Orchestra for the CulturalOlympiad 2012. Words by Phil Legard and Nigel Morgan afterthe book Half Mile Down by William Beebe30 minMigrationsstudy for orchestra3.3.3.3-4.2.3.1-elpno-solodb-perc1:vibes/marimbaperc2:3susp.cym/2gongs/4hi-drums/claves/maracas/trianglestrings (12,10,8,8,4)8 minSchizophoniamusic for three ensembles in three locationsFour solo voices and choir (SATB), wind orchestra, and stringorchestra with electric continuo and digital media.Words by Sean Cubitt, Walt Whitman and Esther Dyson50 min“Has sound now parted company from the naturalcircumstances it once evolved from?”Conversations in Colourmusic for three ensembles and digital media in threelocationsinstrumental quintet, percussion quartet, chamber choir withelectric continuo and digital media (by Joseph Hyde)Words by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley and Margaret Morgan(after Lucretius)25 min“Listen to the voice of colour. . .”Six Concertosfor (self-directed) orchestra2.2.2.2-2.2.3-elpno(opt.elgtr)-solo db-perc1:vibes/marimbaperc2:3susp.cym/2gongs/4hi-drums/claves/maracas/triangle-strings15-20 min each“The concertos celebrate a similarity of spirit and practicebetween instrumental music-making of theBaroque era and jazz and improvised music oftoday.”Metanoiamusic for variable ensembleorchestra20min“Metanoia turns around contemporary preoccupationswith instrumental timbre and dynamic effect towards aconcentration on and celebration of the elements ofmelody, rhythm and the polyphony of voices.”Objects of Curiosity Istring orchestra (4.4.2.2.1 minimum)12 min“Will Alsop’s objects encourage dreams ofwhat could be, and most importantly,encourage us to ask ‘what if . . .?’”Objects of Curiosity IIsolo double bass and string orchestra20 min“This score follows the first episode of The Prisoner but inno way attempts to describe the action as 'musicto picture. It takes the play and interaction of itsmain characters against its eccentric yet beautifullocation as symbolic elements for an extendedmusical work.”1

Heartstonewind, brass, percussion and piano (16 players)25 minObjects of Curiosity (The Prisoner)double bass and piano20 min“The notion of traditional associations between stone,earth and direction found in Chinesephilosophy formed the backdrop for imaginaryjourneys with new tonality schemes derivedfrom melodic, rhythmic,and dynamic material.”La Serenissimaconcerto for violin and strings8 min“In La Serenissima sixteen white-noise generated chordobjects are ‘in play’, arranged and ordered indifferent ways throughout each movement ofthe piece. The challenge was to fashion fromsuch objects solo violin figures that couldresonate with Vivaldi’s own.”Chamber MusicObjects of Curiosity (SuperCity)string quartet (with optional digital media)9 min“The music is punctuated by ‘objects of curiosity’– to beplayed as a distant musical presence, literally abackdrop, against digital images andelectroacoustic sound.”“The scenario of The Prisoner provides the composer witha rich collection of source material, notably a set ofprincipal characters known only by numbers.”Axiomssaxophone quartet with optional keyboard, bass andpercussion15-20 min“The I Ching is an excellent example of an axiomaticsystem: a set of rules, which cannot, by definition, bereduced to a system with less rules.”Le Jardin Secstring quartet7 min"The music is imagined as four walks around a garden.During each 'walk' the musical material undergoes ametamorphosis . . ."Treenessviola and chamber organ9 min“L-Systems speak of the Gestalt of tree, a treeness moreintense and exact than the living object, and able, becauseof this exactness to play in the musical imagination - withor without sounds.”2

Allegoriesstring quartet10 minFifteen Images (Le Jardin Pluvieux)tenor instrument and piano (with Active Notationsystem)20 - 45 min“G.K. Chesterton maintained that many of ourmemories take on in later life the stuff on allegory: theyget thoroughly transformed and veil our originalchildhood visions.”After Hindemithviolin, cello and piano12 minL'Esquisse d'un Sourirevioloncello and pianoFor Tim Lowe and Stephen Gutman.5 minDanse Carêmeviola and piano8 min“Paul Hindemith, as far as we know,never wrote a piano trio . . .”“The title Danse Carême (Lenten Dance) reflectssomething of the background. A work written duringLent and Easter 2005, the music is by turns troubled,reflective, impassioned. . .”Fifteen Images (Le Jardin Pluvieux)Harmony music for wind octet20 minFour Commentariespiano and violoncello10 min“… the hint of a smile.”“Each commentary looks at the melodic material ofConcerto 1 for orchestra, focusing in turn on a differentmusical element: melody (rising falling hovering),rhythm (rate of change), harmony (what happenstogether) and movement (where things come from).”Every Picture Tells a Storyvioloncello and piano6 min“… imagined for outdoor performance in the 'drowned'garden of the title the music is meticulously orchestratedto produce a spectrum of musical colour as vivid as thecolours of the garden it describes.”"‘If your house caught fire and you could only save onepossession what would it be?’ Many peopleanswer without hesitation, ‘My photo album’"3

Flightsviolin and percussion12 min"On the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales model gliderenthusiasts fly their remote-controlledsailplanes off the mountain and over the highsea cliffs looking out across the Irish Seatowards the island of Bardsey, one of the greatcentres of pilgrimage in Celtic times."Imperativesstring quartet18 min“Imperatives are ‘doing words’ that carry with them atask, a situation, a request, a dream. Creativepractitioners are keen on such words and often use themto initiate a starting point, an emotional state, acharacteristic”TOUCHED BY MACHINE?A concert of four digital-mediated compositionsDUObass trombone and percussion(version for horn and percussion available)10 minTRIOviolin, clarinet, and piano12 minQUARTETstring quartet25 minEDGEwind quartet (and optional drum machine)15 min"How have new technologieschanged the process ofcomposition and performance?What new possibilities areaesthetically and artisticallyrelevant? How do the new toolsallow us to use musicalmaterial differently?"A World of Miracles: 12 Reflections onChildhood and Memoryviolin and piano22 min“Kinderszenen and Dicterliebe have provided both ascaffolding and a starting point, embodying as they doreflections about innocence and the loss of what hasonce been loved.”ChoralNine Figures on a Hill (from Family of Man)choral songs for double choir (SSAATTBB)Words by Margaret Morgan17 min“I can see the horizon through your eye.I see winter and summer in equal measure.You are the sum of lines stretchedto all possible opposites.”Five Studies after Josef Albers(from Conversations in Colour)choir (SATB) and pianoWords by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley and MargaretMorgan (after Lucretius)15 minVocalism (from Schizophonia)choir (SATB) and electric pianoWords by Walt Whitman12 min“Seeing of ears invites to speakknowing of eyes invites to know.”“Vocalism, measure, concentration,determination, and the divinepower to speak words;Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? fromvigorous practice? from physique?”4

Esther Dyson's 12 Design Rules(from Schizophonia)choir (SATB) and keyboard, with optional double bassand vibraphoneWords by Esther Dyson“Go beyond choosing10 min and start creating;exactly what you dowith all thisis up to you.”The Present Moment is the Only Real Time(from Family of Man)girls’ voices and electric pianoWords by Dame Barbara Hepworth10 min “The present moment is the only real time.Tradition no longer a day-dreamand things that have been madeseem like the unfolding of one idea,the growth of some great tree”.The Text is a Star (from Epiphaneia)soloists (ATB), choir (SSATB) and chamber organWords by Margaret Morgan (after the sermon by LancelotAndrewes)20-25 min “The text is a star, and wemay make all run on a starso that the text and the daymay be suitable, and Heavenand earth hold a correspondence.”Under Attermire Scarchamber choir (SATB)Words by Nigel Morgan8 Min“To walk the still snow covered heights above this littlemarket town: an experiment to test the technique ofprocessing a journey as a linear sequence of images orvisual moments. . .”Settings of the CollectsAdvent Collectschoir (SATB)Words from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer12 minChristmas Collectschoir (SATB) and chamber organWords from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer8 minGloria à tre corivoices (SSSAAATTTBBB) and chamber organ4 mins“This new work for triple choir takes its title from acomposition by Giovanni Gabrieli written in 1597,although with rhythm and harmonic presence vastlydifferent from its Venetian predecessor.”The Heavens are TellingThree Spiritual Madrigals for choir (SSATB)Words from Psalms 8, 18 and 28, reintrepreted byMargaret Morgan12 min“The Word overflows from one day to the nextAnd understanding passes from night to night.”In Finem Psalmus David4 solo singers (SATB)7 min“Creation is an open book that speaks of God´s beauty.”5

Instantis Adventum Deifemale voices (SA) and chamber organ4 min“Now is the time of the coming of God.Let us be earnest and ardent in prayerand wrapped about in songs of celebration.”Te Joseph Celebrentchoir (SA) and chamber organ4 min“Other saints receive their beatitude after deathThey receive their glory when they have won the palm:But thou, by a strangely happy lot, hadst even during life,What the blessed have in heaven—the sweet society of thy God.”Ut Queant Laxischoir (SA) and chamber organ4 min“Guido d’Arezzo observed that the first syllable of eachline of the hymn formed one of the sol-fa syllables of thescale as we know it. . .”Dominus Possedit Mesoloist (S), choir (SATB) and chamber organ4 min“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways. . .I was set up from eternity. . .and I was already conceived . .When he prepared the heavens, I was present.”A Year of ColourTwelve songs for Chamber Choir (SATB)Words by Nigel Morgan40 minStudy of the Objectfor voices (SATB)15 min“In pigeon lightthis damp daysettles itselfinto lamp-room gray.”“I discovered the poem Study of the Object by the Polishpoet Zbigniew Herbert as a teenager and have over theyears set its words several times. It continues to lay acurious spell on my imagination and recently I’ve becometo understand its oblique and ironic world more fully andcompletely.”Solo VoiceStone and FlowerA cycle of poems for mezzo-soprano and electric pianoWords by Kathleen Raine40 min“My silver stag is fallen--on the grassUnder the birch-trees he lies, my king of the woods,That I followed on the mountain, over the swift streams,He is gone under the leaves, under the past.”The Man with the Golden Key12 songs for baritone voice and piano(version available for voice and piano trio)Words by Margaret Morgan20 min“When a man loses his keyHe cannot see to seek it.”6

Heart of The Rock (recital version)A song sequence for mezzo-soprano voice, flute and pianoWords by Ray Howard-Jones20 min“I am the heart of The Rock,my hand bone of its shedding.Tracing the ARTARUS frontiersGrown before time.”Improving SilenceThree Quaker texts for soprano voice and guitar10 minDeep Sea DiverSong for bass voice and pianoWords by Robert Francis6 min“For each and all.We need silence and stillness.For each for all,that atmosphere of waiting souls.”Travelling Songsmedium voice and small ensemble(piccolo, alto saxophone, double bass)Words by Simon Armitage10 minMaking a Namemedium voice keyboardWords by Simon Armitage5 min“String and Pigeon and Sugar-Bag Light,Lichen and Powder Blue.I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow,sing a rainbow too.”“Here is a name - it is your name for life.Loop it around your ears and toes - it workslike puppet strings, like radio control.Try it for sound - slide it between your teeth.”Many Years and No Turningmale voice, viola and percussionWords by Gerry Loose10 min“Diver go downDown through the greenInverted dawn…”Pleasing MyselfSix songs for soprano and piano, after the textile imagesof Janet BoltonWords by Nigel Morgan20 Min“I was smitten by the simplicity and charm of her textile‘stories’, miniature quilts that played on and with myimagination. . .”“Sometimes you will hear a songrise from a woman’s lips.Then, whatever time of day, it is morning.”Sonnances Book 1A song cycle for medium voice and pianoWords by Ralph Ullmann15 min“His eyes will not roamacross the laketo the hills beyond.So age reduces the world.”7

Origami LettersNine songs for tenor voice and piano/string quartet.20 minThe Goethe Trianglepiano (with optional amplification and processing)15 min“In the Spring of 2009 I received a packet of letterswritten on sheets of coloured and patterned Origamipaper. I returned this gift with a sequence of poemsmeaning to set them to music for tenor voice and stringquartet.”Piano and KeyboardTouching the Distancepiano15 min“Touching the Distance is imagined as a privateintroduction to a pianist or keyboard duo who wouldmake from this written music an extendedimprovisation”The White Light of Wonder: Scenes fromChildhoodpiano22 min“An ambition in this collection is to provide music thatcan be played by both the enterprising young person andthe inquisitive older person.”Fifteen Images (Le Jardin Pluvieux)piano20 min“Goethe believed that his triangle was a diagram of thehuman mind and he linked each colour with certainemotions. For example, he associated blue withunderstanding and believed it evoked a quiet mood. . .”Rising, Falling, Hoveringpiano5 min“This is the first of a series of works that respond to newdescriptions of the core elements of music devised bySam Richards as reference points for his uniqueensemble compositions.”Toccatapiano5 min“The idea of music that was ‘touched’ but not sustainedis something that continues to appeal to my thoughtsabout how musical performance might deliver particularkinds of musical content.”Seven Nuptial Blessingspiano (4 hands)9 min“This is music all about the qualities of the individualmoment in which chords are sonic objects to be touchedwith care and their resonance and decay significant.”“The music in this score unashamedly makes referenceto bell-like chords in Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces”8

Piece d’Orgueorgan12 minForms in Movementpiano10 min“The whole notion of the plein-jeu is a fascinatingchallenge for the contemporary composer. It not onlyrefers to a registration but the content of the music and astyle of performance.”Every Picture Tells a Storyharpsichord5-6 min“This music brings together a sequence of scenes thattake their inspiration from a personal collection ofphotos, paintings, children's drawings, and imaginedimages.”An Invention for Mr. Kkeyboard instrument8 min“Roland took a sideways step that took everybody elseby surprise; they released two digital harpsichordswhich, in addition to a wide range of authenticharpsichord sounds, produced the tones of a lute,strings, and two pipe organs . . .”Interactionspiano (left hand) and optional interactive system10 min“With Cypher the computer listens simultaneously forsix different features of the performer's musicalexecution: register, speed, dynamics,duration, harmony, density.”“Each of these five pieces explore modes of composingonly viable with the assistance of computerprogramming.”Gifts from the Pavement32 miniatures for solo keyboards (with optionalensemble)20-30 minSlonimsky Studies (Set 1)piano10 min“Slonimsky described his thesaurus as providing ‘acomprehensive vocabulary of melodic phraseology formodern composers and performers’. Its contents aredesigned to provide ‘ample material for improvisationand actual composition’.”Signature Momentspiano15 minEach ‘signature moment’ is a musical miniaturereflecting a section of the libretto for Sounding theDeep, after pioneering naturalist William Beebe’s bookon his undersea adventures: Half Mile Down.9

ARRAY: CompassMIDI keyboard and interactive system10 min“The aim of this ARRAY is to open up new directions ininteractive performance, primarily through interactionof the performer with the musical material itself, butalso by technological means.”Projects2 pianos7 min“Alexander Goehr said in an interview when askedabout composing with intervals: intervals are suchcolourless things. Do you agree?”Hexagrams I-IIIpiano duo15-20 min“The description 'for piano duo' rather than 'two pianos'further suggests that additional or different instruments(and players) may also be used alongside 2 pianos. Thismight include tuned percussion, or electric keyboardinstruments able to trigger sampled or synthesizedsounds.”Rilievo Schiacciatofour studies for Disklavier6 min“The title means 'flattened relief', a finely graded lowrelief where the transitions are compressed and the truerelationships of the overlapping parts are to some extentfalsified so as to suggest three dimensional effects.”GuitarDreaming Aloudguitar12 min“The intention was, in the making of the work, to mimiccertain aspects of free improvisation through theapplication of particular algorithmic routines.”System Studiesguitar10 min“Systems Studies for solo guitar grew out of exploringsome of the ‘systems’ repertoire and from a realisationthat few solo works (for any instrument) existed thatcelebrated Minimalism in this distinctly purist fashion.”Sense of Placefour seasons for solo guitar40 min“The core ideas of the work come from investigatingpossible dialogues between known and unknown(inside and outside).”Four Preludeselectric guitar and computer-driven synthesisers10 min“It is written as a kind of upbeat to Steve Reich'scelebrated Electric Counterpoint, a work Alan Thomascplays with a rare artistry.”10

Continuum with Blues (homage a GyörgyLigeti)electric guitar and Active Notation System10 min“Here the notation of work becomes 'active' by a uniqueform of presentation on a laptop computer's visualdisplay, and with no external devices needed by theperformer to control the system.”Nocturnsflute and guitar15 min“In the early hours the psalm tone is a single note. Thewords flow into one another and the acoustics of Pugin'schapel play tricks with the ears. Voices break intoquarter and eighth tone clusters that reform themselvesmiraculously at the end of phrases.”Beowulf Musicguitar and percussion20 min“The music does not 'tell the story' of Beowulf but ratherfocuses on events that recur within the poem but in noparticular order: the extraordinary fight scenes, the seajourneys; the formal dialogues between king and hero,the death of a hero. . .”Violin, Viola, Cello and Double BassArrayviolin15 min“Array seeks to reinvent something of the baroqueinstrumental suite for today. Its seven movementsprovide a sequence of structural archetypes that reflectsome of the musical preoccupations of our time as wellas celebrating more traditional and perennial forms.”Tapisserie: seven studies and chaconneviolin15min“Each day Bridget would work on the piece in a differentlocation within the villa, lending a richtapestry of acoustic qualities to his growing experienceof the music. . .”Rising Fallingversions for solo violin, viola and cello7 min“Rising, Falling is one of four works ‘about melody’ thatshare variations of the same title. In this piece theperformer is asked to play all the rising phrases up-bow,all the falling phrases down-bow.”Studies in Movementvioloncello10 min“The music contained in these Studies in Movementfavours lightness, speed and agility, and that dance-likefleet-of-footness found in the best Baroque performancepractice, and notably in the dance movements of the sixCello Suites of J.S.Bach.”Conversations with Magic Stonesdouble bass10 min“The stone deflects all words,with every plane, line and anglepoints to escape routes.”11

Danse Carêmeviola and piano8 min“The title Danse Carême (Lenten Dance) reflectssomething of the background. A work written duringLent and Easter 2005, the music is by turns troubled,reflective, impassioned. . .”Treenessviola and chamber organ9 minL’Esquisse d’un Souriredouble bass and piano5 min“This short piece is based on a poem by the composerthat speaks of autumn and the quality of light and shadecommon to that season”.Objects of Curiosity (The Prisoner)double bass and piano20 min“L-Systems speak of the Gestalt of tree, a treeness moreintense and exact than the living object, and able,because of this exactness to play in the musicalimagination - with or without sounds.”Four Commentariespiano and violoncello10 min“Each commentary looks at the melodic material ofConcerto 1 for orchestra, focusing in turn on a differentmusical element: melody (rising falling hovering),rhythm (rate of change), harmony (what happenstogether) and movement (where things come from).”Every Picture Tells a Storyvioloncello and piano6 min"‘If your house caught fire and you could only save onepossession what would it be?’ Many people answerwithout hesitation, ‘My photo album’"“The scenario of The Prisoner provides the composerwith a rich collection of source material, notably a setof principal characters known only by numbers.”Flightsviolin and percussion12 min"On the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales model gliderenthusiasts fly their remote-controlled sailplanes off themountain and over the high sea cliffs looking out acrossthe Irish Sea towards the island of Bardsey, one of thegreat centres of pilgrimage in Celtic times."A World of Miracles: 12 Reflections onChildhood and Memoryviolin and piano22 min“Kinderszenen and Dicterliebe have provided both ascaffolding and a starting point, embodying as they doreflections about innocence and the loss of what hasonce been loved.”12

Selahviolin and piano, or violoncell and piano3 min“Selah is a difficult word to translate even though itappears over seventy times in the Psalms. […] Selahmay indicate a pause for a musical interlude to enablesingers and congregation to reflect on what had justbeen sung.”La Serenissimareduction for violin and piano8 min“In La Serenissima sixteen white-noise generated chordobjects are ‘in play’, arranged and ordered indifferent ways throughout each movement ofthe piece. The challenge was to fashion fromsuch objects solo violin figures that couldresonate with Vivaldi’s own.”Three Canonic Duosfor two violins, two violas or two cellos5 min“Making a whole composition out of a strict canon isstill a challenge for the composer, and one that it hasbeen fascinating to take up.”String Trioviolin, viola and violoncello5 min“My objective in composing for the string trio was toexplore the potential of the trio as a medium for my ownmusical ideas and to apply two techniques I had recentlydeveloped in composing with algorithmic means."Three Canonic Quartetsfor four violins5 min“The artist Nasreen Mohamedi wasparticularly interested in music, and she often worked tothe accompaniment of Indian Classical Music. Herfavourite raga it seems was the Maya-ki-Todi…”Wind and Brass InstrumentsFifteen Images (Le Jardin Pluvieux)harmony music for wind octet20 min“… imagined for outdoor performance in the 'drowned'garden of the title the music is meticulously orchestrated toproduce a spectrum of musical colour as vivid as thecolours of the garden it describes.”Matinsflute12 min“Matins was composed as an extended introduction toNocturns for flute and guitar. Tempo, dynamics and theapplication of harmonics are left to the discretion andimagination of the performer”.Basiliskbass clarinet10 min“Basilisk, that 'fatal orphan of a deadly serpent’, is aparticularly grotesque invention. Such a character callsout for an equally grotesque and alarming sonicpresentation.”13

Ascending Form (from Music for Sculptures)tenor saxophone in Bb8 minEDGE (from TOUCHED BY MACHINE?)wind quartet (and optional drum machine)15 minFragmentssoprano sax and piano8 min“A shape of inner moment;a bronze, containing wimplethat frames no face.”“The idea of Fragments was to present a short, fullynotatedscore full of potential for extension throughimprovisation. It was to be a piece that could exist ashappily in a 'set' during a jazz club performance as in themore formal programme of an art music concert.”The Terrain of Inferenceoboe and vibraphone5 min“In Riley’s paintings it is the viewer's position in, andmovement across, the pictorial space that appears tomake the image 'move' playfully. TOUCHED BYMACHINE? attempts something of the same, only withsound and the listener.”Axiomssaxophone quartet with optional keyboard,bass and percussion15-20 min“The I Ching is an excellent example of an axiomaticsystem: a set of rules, which cannot, by definition, bereduced to a system with less rules.”Ricercaresbrass sextet12 min“This short study explores how clusters may be used toaccompany a melodic line. The music plays throughtwice: first, in a chromatic tonality; second, remappedonto a traditional Greek scale. Imagine the oboe as theGreek aulos and the vibraphone as a lyre.”DUO (from TOUCHED BY MACHINE?)bass trombone and percussion(version for horn and percussion available)10 min“The four movements of DUO take their titles from agroup of Bridget Riley’s paintings from the mid 1960s:Intake, Shift, Movement in Squares and Hero.”“These four Ricercares look back to those sixteenthcentury Venetian pieces and also to the origin of the word'ricercare' meaning 'research or experiment'.”Quintetpiano and winds12-15 min“… a particularly languorous summer afternoon beside ariver in the Yorkshire Dales … a name, often entreated,rhapsodized upon, repeated like a mantra orincantation…”14

Innocenceflute, bassoon and piano5 min“In the realm of music the composer has been touched bythe innocent intent of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen,who from the mid seventies experienced a vision that hehad come from the star Sirius.”Variable InstrumentationQuatuor Des Timbresfour players (variable instrumentation of diverse timbres)20 min“The objective of Quatuor des Timbres was to investigatedifferent and formal ways an ensemble of instruments ofdifferent timbres might interact with one another. . .”Seven Magical Preludespercussion sextet10 min“The music should be approached 'in the spirit' ofCarmina Burana, like a sonic tableau acted out by sixmusicians. Stylised movements, gestures and othertheatrical presentation are envisaged and welcomed.”Omphaloskeyboard and percussion quartet5 min“. . . an uncompromising toccata for five percussionists,the pianist playing the piano predominantly as apercussion instrument.”Self-Portrait (2002)seven musicians (and optional Active Notation system)8-12 min“The composition is imagined in sections that are not inlinear sequence but exist as autonomous ‘blocks’ havingthe potential for being placed in different orders, orindeed repeated, in part or complete.”Metanoiavariable ensemble20min“The word metanoia means a 'turning around of themind'. The composition Metanoia likewise turns aroundcontemporary preoccupations with instrumental timbreand dynamic effect towards a concentration on andcelebration of the elements of melody, rhythm and thepolyphony of voices.”Heart of The Rock (concert version)A song sequence for mezzo-soprano voiceand three players (melody, harmony, rhythm)Words by Ray Howard-Jones20 minPossible Worldsperformer with MIDI technology15 min“I am the heart of The Rock,my hand bone of its shedding.Tracing the ARTARUS frontiersGrown before time.”“The secret, secretly known, is still secret.The mystery, mysteriously revealed, is still mysterious.....Winged flowers, pinions secretly pinioned,....Lean to the enigma of the motionless bird in flight,....Leap beyond strange triangular islands of golden light.”15

MUSIC FOR SCULPTURESfour players (variable instrumentation of diverse timbres)25 minBinham Quartetflute, clarinet, guitar and double bass10 minContrapuntal Forms4 diverse instruments10 minAscending FormSolo instrument and drones7 minQuiet Form3 instruments (alto, contrabass and harmonyinstrument)9 minConversation with Magic Stonessolo contrabass instrumentand optional small ensemble (fl, ob, cl, tpt, tbn)10 minMusic for Young MusiciansPocket Monster Songbook2 part choir and electric pianoWords by Margaret Morgan“I, Satoshi was born in Japan,Where, as a boy, I collected insects.Fanatical, I searched their secrets.”Rhythm of the Stonespercussion ensemble with master drummerBased on the sculpting rhythms of Barbara Hepworthtranscribed by Priaulx Rainier12 minutes“Some of the first sculptures by Hepworth that Rainier sawhad musical titles such as Rhythmic Form. It was probablythis sculpture that began their friendship.”“Music for Sculptures isconceived in such a waythat it can be performed bydifferent instrumentations -but as long as theseinstrumentations celebratedifference!”“. . . written to respond to the remarkable acoustic andatmosphere of Binham Priory. . .”Making WavesFive pieces for chamber orchestra (variableinstrumentation)15 minutes“There is much for students to learn from Making Wavesabout the musical mechanisms composers use to keep theirmusic interesting for the listener.”Heartstonewind, brass, percussion and piano (16 players)25 min“The notion of traditional associations between stone,earth and direction found in Chinese philosophy formedthe backdrop for imaginary journeys with new tonalityschemes derived from melodic, rhythmic, and dynamicmaterial.”Skyscapes for a Spring Stormlarge choir (SATB), large orchestra and digitalsoundscapeWords by Margaret Melicharova15 min“. . . workshopped, performed and recorded by overseventy young musicians and their tutors during the courseof a single day.”16

The Alphabet Bag and theShopping Songvoices and pianoWords by Margaret MorganThe Creation Songvoices and accompanimentWords by Margaret MorganCelebration Conjugationchoir (SA) and keyboardWords by Margaret MorganAfter Haydnbrass quartet and ripieno brass ensemble8 minBeethoven’s Birthdaymusic theatre for jazz orchestra(who dance and sing!)Words by Margaret Morgan after thePeanuts cartoon strip.15 minRadiophonicSpring Manoeuvresmusic documentary60 min“A forty minute montage of recordings and performancesmade entirely on location in Norfolk during March andApril 1986: it contains a vivid record of community musicmakingin its widest sense.”ShoalsA sequence of six pieces for student ensemblescommissioned by Hull Philharmonic Society for theSounding the Deep project 2012.All scores include an optional part for laptop performer.Weird Water LandNever Day & Under Nightwind quinteteight-part cello ensemble6 min 5 minDeep Sea DiverTo the Dark Unseentwo-part junior choir and pianostring dectet5 min 5 minInto the Green Inverted Dawn Blazestring quartetpercussion octet8 min 10 min17