Accompanied Voice

Birds: 3 Songs

Fry, Bridget

Sop. voc. & recorder/flute. Three delightful songs depicting nightingales, doves and robins. The accompaniment is equally suited to recorder or flute.

Price: £5.50

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Ref: PJT173

The Birds

Marshall, Nicholas

High voice, recorder & keyboard. The seven pieces are inspired by the poems of famous poets: 1. Proud Songsters - Thomas Hardy; 2. The Birds - Hilaire Belloc; 3. Leda and the Swan - W B Yeats; 4. Boys Then and Now - Thomas Hardy; 5. Snow - Edward Thomas; 6. The Owl - Tennyson; 7. The Swan - James Reeves. The recorder, as might be expected, often takes on the role of the bird.
"The Birds" is available on CD and on Youtube.

Price: £10.50

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Ref: PJT200

Pied Piper

Marshall, Steve

Narrator, 1 A + 4 SATB. I have taken the latter part of Robert Browning's famous poem of The Pied Piper (starting with the mayor's refusal to pay the Piper) and provided fairly straightforward music to go with it. A performance (which takes about 5 minutes) is hence rather in the manner of a story told with incidental music on the radio. It makes an unusual, but successful item at recorder playing sessions, as apart from anything else people enjoy the unusual discipline of coordinating their playing to the telling of a story. The storytelling can conveniently be done by the conductor.

Price: £5.50

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Ref: MHE80608

Out of the Wood of Thoughts

Marshall, Steve

4 SATB & narrator. This 15 minute piece is a sequence of eight poems by Edward Thomas, in and around which is woven music for recorder quartet. The music is often quite slow, and the notes are not difficult, but the piece is nevertheless a challenge in terms of obtaining excellent tuning and a beautiful sound.

Price: £10.00

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Ref: MHE10404A

Barthram's Dirge

Marshall, Steve

Choir & SATTBGb/BCb. This is quite a dramatic setting of an ancient story of love and murder, using the same forces as Calm Is The Morn Without A Sound. Again all vocal material is doubled within the recorder group. Also available for recorders only as MHE 11007a.

Price: £13.00

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Ref: MHE11007

Spirituals in Words and Music

Marshall, Steve

Voc + SATTB. A piece in the form of a short history of the development of Spirituals, illustrated by six musical examples performed by voice and recorder quintet. The range of the voice is from A below the stave to G above. Written for use at meetings of the Society of Recorder Players, where the music (all quite easy) can be rehearsed, and then finished off with a 'concert performance' including the narrative.

Price: £9.00

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Ref: MHE30204

Three French Nursery Thymes

Marshall, Steve

3 ATB & voc. Cheerful, fun and easy arrangements of nursery rhymes which are very well-known in France. The voice part has a large range (from an F to the G over two octaves higher), but two people could share the line with a little ingenuity. The words are in French, but a translation is included.

Price: £7.50

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Ref: MHE30205

Night Wind, The

Marshall, Steve

Voc & ATTBB. This piece is a setting of a poem by Emily Bronte, and is for voice and recorder quintet. The poem is rather dark and mysterious, and I hope the setting reflects that. The range of the voice is from middle C to F#, and hence would suit a mezzo-soprano or a tenor.

Price: £8.50

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Ref: MHE61008

Calm Is The Morn Without A Sound

Marshall, Steve

Choir + 7 SATTBGb/BCb. This fairly easy setting of the poem by Alfred Tennyson is dedicated to Ann Lyall, who has done so much to popularise the combination of voices and recorders. The voices are soprano, mezzo, contralto and baritone; all vocal material is doubled within the recorder group.

Price: £9.50

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Ref: MHE10906

Wind in the Pine Tree

Marshall, Steve

Narrator, 6 SATTBB/Cb & koto. A beautiful traditional Japanese fairy tale, for narrator and recorder orchestra. The music has a strongly Japanese flavour, and is generally quite easy to play, although the (to our ears) unusual scales may lead to some tuning problems at first.

Price: £10.00

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Ref: MHE40204A

Wind in the Pine Tree

Marshall, Steve

Narrator + SoSSAATTBBGbCb. A beautiful traditional Japanese fairy tale, for narrator and recorder orchestra. The music has a strongly Japanese flavour, and is generally quite easy to play, although the (to our ears) unusual scales may lead to some tuning problems at first. The piece is also available (MHE 40204b)
for recorder orchestra and koto, with additional music.

Price: £8.50

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Ref: MHE40204

Spirituals You Might Not Know

Marshall, Steve

4 SATB & voc. Most people know Deep River and Down By The Riverside (and very good they are too), but this set contains three less-known but excellent spirituals, which may be new to you - Great Day, The Hammer Song and Hebrew Children. All bursting with rhythmic vitality (there are no soulful ballads in this set!). Not difficult to play. The range of the voice part is middle C to the G above the stave.

Price: £7.50

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Ref: MHE10903A

Three Lyrics from the Country

Marshall, Steve; poems by Judy Kendall

Countertenor & 3 ATB. These are settings of three poems by Judy Kendall, which are included in her book 'The Drier The Brighter'. The pieces were written at the request of the recorder trio Polyphonica, who were performing with a countertenor. Although the sound of a countertenor is unique, the voice part (from A to C, a 10th higher) fits most other voice types, and the pieces would work satisfactorily with them. Total performance time is about seven minutes.

Price: £9.00

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Ref: MHE10709

Hansel & Gretel in words and music

Marshall, Steve

4 SATB & narrator. The House at the Edge of the Forest - Gathering White Pebbles - Moonlight Through the Trees - Locked in the House - The Beautiful Cottage - The Wicked Witch - Be He Fat or Be He Lean - They Lived Happily Ever After . Steve says: 'I was delighted when Helen Hooker asked me to write a piece for her ensemble at the 2012 Recorder Summer School, and I tried to produce something rather out of the ordinary. This ‘piece’ tells the famous story of Hansel and Gretel. The story is read out, and there are nine musical interludes (only eight can fit on this website!) that illustrate key parts of the story. This music is quite unusual in places, but is not difficult to play. It takes about five minutes to read the text, and the music takes about nine minutes, so a complete performance makes an interesting quarter of an hour for players and audience alike. The relationship of this publication to my 'Four Scenes from Hansel and Gretel' (MHE 50303) is that some of the musical ideas from that earlier piece have been reworked here.'

Price: £9.50

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Ref: MHE10212

In the Silent West

Marshall, Steve - words Emily Dickinson

Alto voc, 3 TTB. 'The sun just touched the morning / As imperceptibly as grief /She sweeps with many-colored brooms / On this wondrous sea .' Steve says: 'I wrote these settings of four poems by Emily Dickinson for the recorder trio Polyphonica and the countertenor Robert Cross. Although the sound of a countertenor is unique, the voice part (from A to C, a 10th higher) is ideal for a contralto, and indeed works with most other voice types as well. The poems concern the passing of time, a common subject in the work of Emily Dickinson. They may be performed singly or in groups. Total playing time is about eight minutes. See MHE 11110a for a much larger-scale version of this piece..'

Price: £11.00

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Ref: MHE11110

Flauto e voce XIII

Misc. arr. Hofmann & Thalheimer

Sop voc, recorder & bc. Pieces by Scarlatti, Telemann, Bach, Draghi, Schürmann, Campra & Badia.

Price: £22.00

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Ref: EW1040

Flauto e Voce 17

Misc. arr by K Hofmann and P Thalheimer

1 sop or tenor voice, recorder & bc. Works by Badia, Campra, Dubourg, Fischietti, Keiser, Scarlatti and Telemann.

Price: £24.50

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Ref: EW1146

Mary Anning at Lyme Regis

Stansfield, Graham arr Jane Minns

Sop voc & SATB recorders. This piece tells the story of Mary Anning who was a fossil collector on the Jurassic cliffs in Dorset.

Price: £5.50

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Ref: P622a

Two Flageolet Songs

Stevenson, Sir John & Nicks, George arr Turner

Soprano, 1 S/flageolet & pno - Another discovery of flageolet music suitable for the descant recorder, by two composers well known in their day but long forgotten. The simple tunes are beguiling, and both imitate birdsong.

Price: £7.00

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Ref: PRM011

Facade - Popular Song

Walton, William arr. Jane Minns

8 parts (A, A/So, T, T, B, GB, Male Voice, Percussion)
Description: Challenging music arranged for Recorders. This is a setting of Edith Sitwell’s poem Lily O'Grady, silly and shady, longing to be a lazy lady.

Price: £11.50

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Ref: P251

Facade - Country Dance

Walton, William arr. Jane Minns

6 parts (A, T/S, B, GB, Male and Female Voice). Challenging music arranged for Recorders. This is a setting of Edith Sitwell’s poem That hodnailed goblin, the bob-tailed Hob.

Price: £10.50

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Ref: P252

Facade - Jodelling Song

Walton, William arr. Jane Minns

9 parts (A/So, S, A, T, B, GB, Male & Female Voice, Percussion) Challenging music arranged for Recorders. This is a setting of Edith Sitwell’s poem We bear velvet cream

Price: £10.00

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Ref: P253

Facade - Polka

Walton, William arr .Jane Minns

8 parts (So, S, A, T, B, GB, Male Voice, Percussion) Challenging music arranged for Recorders. This is a setting of Edit Sitwell’s poem Tra la la la la la la la la! See me dance the Polka, said Mr Wagg like a bear.

Price: £10.00

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Ref: P254

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Three Marion Motets (a 3)

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Drunken Sailor

Anon, arr. Rothgarber

Chi sa dove e speranza

Anon, ed. Cedric Lee

Four Duos from the Codex Montpellier (c. 1330)

Anon

Rule Britannia

Arne, Thomas, arr. Phelps

Aria 'Leget euch dem Heiland unter' fr Cta BWV 182

Bach J S

Aria: Komm, du suesses Todesstunde

Bach J S

Jesus dir sei Preis (Monkemeyer)

Bach, J S

Toward thy throne

Bach, J S

Sheep May Safely Graze

Bach, J S

Esurientes Magni

Bach, J S

Leget euch dem Heiland unter, Aria from Cantata 18

Bach, J S

Hochster, was ich habe (Master, All My Living)

Bach, J S

Die Obrigheit ist Gottes Gabe

Bach, J S

Komm, leite mich: aria fr Cta 175: score & 5 parts

Bach, J S

Geistliche Lieder aus dem "Schemellischen Ges.buch"

Bach, J S

A Fancy for the Countess, op. 18

Baker, Andrew

Blue Mosque 1974

Bank, Jacques

The Merry Flageolet

Barnett, John

Start Now - Pop-Ballade with CD

Baumann, Sabine

Ricercare per diversi toni a una e due voci

Bertalotti, Angelo, ed. Bornstein, Andrea

Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell (Bergmann)

Blow, John

And is my cavalier return'd?

Blow, John

Fuori di sua Capanna, Cantata

Bononcini/Greber

Io vi chiedo o selve amene

Bononcini G, ed. Cedric Lee

Garten der Nacht

Braun, Gerhard

Lines from 'In Memoriam'

Brown, Alan

Canonic Proverbs

Bullard, Alan

Three Kipling Songs: Smuggler's Song, Seal Lullaby

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Motet Cantate Domine

Campra, Andre

Behind my Right Shoulder

Clarke, Zana

Rosaluna

Clarke, Zana

Mind Your Step

Clarke, Zana

Swamp

Clarke, Zana

Barytons, voice and mandolins at the Vienna Hofkap

Conti, Francesco Bartolomeo

Cares when they’re over

Conti

Three Flower Songs