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Croft, William: Sonata in F major for Two Recorders, Two Violins and Continuo Ref: Y267

Edited by H. Diack Johnstone

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Performing edition corresponding with MB88.

Price: £15.00

Hayes, Morgan: Boaz Ref: Y187

For flexible ensemble
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Written for players of intermediate grade, and an ideal contemporary music 'workshop piece' for Key-Stage Three music or similar educational functions, Boaz is scored for any conceivable line-up of pitched and un-pitched instruments. Improvisation, embellishment and repetition are used to create a strikingly individual movement in contemporary style, which changes uniquely at every performance. The conductor or ensemble-leader determines the length and scoring of individual sections, and the overall form of the piece, chosen from four sections of highly contrasted material. There are parts for C, Bb, Eb and F instruments, and purchase of a set of parts includes permission for additional photocopies to be made to meet the needs of the ensemble.

Price: £10.50

Hayes, Morgan: Dances on a Ground Ref: Y261

Version for Clarinet in A, Violin, Violoncello, Piano and optional Double Bass

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The ground bass, a type of theme-and-variations much favoured by English composers from Purcell to Britten, receives a 21st-century makeover in Morgan Hayes's Dances on a Ground.

The 'ground' in this case is, appropriately, a robotic, march-like tune for cello that asserts itself in unrelenting mechanical repetitions according to the rules of the form. But among the other instruments there is little consensus about the path the music should take. Though the theme resists for a time, increasingly assaulted by their capricious flights of melody and spiky pizzicatos it abandons its stubborn resistance, is turned to fragments, then dissolves in a fierce conclusion, leaving only an outline of its former self.

Premiered in Vilnius, Lithuania, in May 2009 by the Composers Ensemble with pianist Huw Watkins, Dances on a Ground revisits an earlier work written for the Smith Quartet, and presents its material in terms of a carefully chosen instrumentation of clarinet in A, violin, cello, piano and optional double bass. The same performers gave the work's UK premiere last September, at Kings Place, London.

Price: £11.50

Hayes, Morgan: Discolated Chorales Ref: Y180

For eight instrumental groups
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Written for the COMA (Contemporary Music for Amateurs) 2000 residential course, Dislocated Chorales lasts about ten minutes and may involve any number of instrumental players in a flexible orchestration. The score includes aleatoric sections, and offers players of any age or level of experience a vivid introduction to the sounds of contemporary music. Parts for C, Bb, Eb, F and bass-clef instruments are included. A score and 24 parts are supplied. If extra parts are required for performance a licence may be obtained from the Publisher.

Price: £50.00

Hayes, Morgan: Shatner's Bassoon Ref: Y253

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For Clarinet in A, trumpet in C, trombone, piano, viola and double bass.

Satirist Chris Morris persuaded various media figures that Shatner's Bassoon was an area of the brain that controlled time perception, and that it was was targeted by the fictional drug 'cake'. Taking his cue from the musical equivalent of time extended, diminished and reviewed by means of augmentation and recapitulation, Morgan Hayes has written a witty but no insubstantial essay making prominent use of these techniques. The piano part is first among equals in an ensemble of clarinet, trumpet, trombone, viola and double bass.

Shatner's Bassoon was composed at the request of Endymion to celebrate the ensemble's 30th anniversary, and first performed at Kings Place, London, on 5 June 2009. It will feature on a forthcoming CD on the NMC label, to include a selection of new works written for the occasion.

Price: £18.00

Hayes, Morgan: Snapshots for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano Ref: Y141

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Price: £14.25

Hayes, Morgan: Trio for Violin, Bass Clarinet and Piano Ref: AC177

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Price: £18.25

Howells, Herbert: Rhapsodic Quintet, Op31. (1917) Clarinet, Two Violins, Viola and Cello Ref: H411

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Price: £21.00

Ireland, John: Sextet for Clarinet, Horn, two Violins, Viola and Cello Ref: AC84

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Price: £47.75

Jacob, Gordon: Divertimento for Harmonica and String Quartet Ref: AC34

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Price: £40.00

Northcott, Bayan: Of All the Instruments... Ref: AC125

For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Glockenspiel, Viola, Cello and Double Bass.
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Other works by Bayan Northcott

Price: £15.95

Northcott, Bayan: Doubles All Round Ref: AC241

For six players (Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet in A/Bass Clarinet, Horn in F, Piano, Violin, Cello)

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Seventy next year, Bayan Northcott is a leading writer about music, and a composer who has particularly focused on variation forms - hence the 'doubles' of this new work ('doubles' being an alternative term for variations, as found for example in Bach); and hence, in celebratory mode, 'doubles all round' as the title for this sparkling pièce d'occasion composed at the request of Endymion to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

Doubles All Round would indeed make an ideal five-minute introduction to a new-music concert, or a fascinating contemporary excursus in a classical programme that featured the line up of flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano. The work is launched by a vigorous keyboard prelude, which returns after the third double in a brief cadenza, before the piece is rounded off by the fourth double, quasi una coda.

Bayan Northcott's collected critical writings, The Way We Listen Now, were published by Plumbago Books in 2009.

Price: £18.50

Northcott, Bayan: Sextet Ref: AC88

For Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet in A, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion (1 player)
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Price: £34.50

Samuel, Rhian: Through Windows and the Balustrades Beyond for Flute, Harp and Viola Ref: Y167

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Price: £15.00

Samuel, Rhian: Trio: Stepping Out II for Clarinet, Viola and Piano Ref: Y179

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Price: £12.95

Steptoe, Roger: Dance Suite for Oboe, Clarinet and String Quartet Ref: AC24

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Other works by Roger Steptoe

Price: £42.50

Steptoe, Roger: Duo for Oboe and Harp Ref: AC92

Score. Two copies supplied

Price: £15.25

Steptoe, Roger: Oboe Quartet Ref: AC77

Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello
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Price: £29.00

Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Six Studies in English Folk Song for Solo Cor Anglais and String Quartet or String Orchestra Ref: H176

Arranged by Robert Stanton
Includes Score, Cor Anglais, and one of each string part. Extra parts may be made by the customer to use for the String Orchestra version without a fee subject to obtaining authorisation and a licence number which must appear on all copies made. Please contact us for further details.

E flat Saxophone may play in lieu of Cor Anglais. The Saxophone part (H173) is available. (See under Saxophone).

Price: £9.25

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