Edmond Dede

Three songs and scenes linked by instrumental transitions make up this exciting story about a robbery with a car chase! Scope for a large group of children to be involved. The copiable parts book cont...

The story concerns a space-struck child who sets out on a journey through time and space. Topical links with science, environment, language, movement and dance. The flexible orchestra of classroom ins...

Peter Maxwell Davies. Sent on a shopping errand by Mum and Dad, Pat encounters both wickedness and kindness. The events can inspire ideas for topic work including animals, families, shopping, witches...

Peter Maxwell Davies. Six lively songs for group and solo singing with photocopiable parts for percussion and recorders. Colourful tunes and lyrics explore different moods and musical ideas and stimul...

This work was first performed in June 1984 by Rosemary Furniss (violin) and Gregory Knowles (cimbalom). Set of parts. Duration c. 12mins.

Composed in homage to William Glock, this single movement has something of the character of a slow fugue, on a theme deeply imbued with minor thirds. The woodwinds and strings are considered as pairs,...

The two-part setting of the Agnus Dei in Davies's austere, modal 'carol style' is introduced and underpinned, or even contradicted, by a duet for viola and cello that ripples out to four parts for muc...

A Mediterranean, erotic postlude to a time when Davies had been much occupied with setting the Orkney poetry of George Mackay Brown. The voice, though, is the same. The mezzo part is wide-ranging and...

A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope...

Adagio from Concerto for Oboe * Affetuoso from Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 * Air on a G String * Aria from Goldberg Variations * Arioso in G Major * Bouree * Bouree from Overture in French Style * Bran...

Expecting The Main Things From You is a work by Nico Muhly for SATB Choir, String Quartet, Percussion and Organ. Commissioned by the Gabe Wiener Foundation and first performed in May 2005 at Central S...

Written for SATB choir, string quartet, percussion and organ. Percussion and string quartet parts.

By All Means is a work for Large Ensemble by Nico Muhly. Commissioned by the Juilliard School, New York and the Royal Academy of Music, London, a full performance lasts around 9 minutes.

Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who, at 32, is the youngest composer ever to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His oeuvre includ...

For a piece with such a strong electronic component, 'It Goes Without Saying' is surprisingly organic. While the electronics include chillier, metallic noisesﾗsamples ranging from a kitchen whisk to a...

Nico Muhly 's A Long Line for solo Violin and Electronics. ' A Long Line, for solo Violin and Electronics, was written for violinist Erik Carlson and was originally meant for performance as part of Vi...

Radiant Music was written for flautist Alice K. Dade at her request for a short recital piece. The tape part is made up of several episodes of shimmering music for flutes, dulcimers organs, and sample...

Written for percussion and piano. The percussion consists of a 5-octave marimba and a table of assorted junk. This could include frying-pans, metal bowls, plastic tape dispenser, CD case and a cowbell...

Honest Music has, in the composer's words, 'a makeshift nature... the sad beauty of things coming together and things falling apart'. There are long, expressive gestures with Romantic moments, sputter...

Written for cello, harp and celeste.

In the composer's own words, ' Keep in Touch is a lament, a sort of chaconne divided up into sections by more freely-composed cadenzas for the Viola. ' The electronic CD supplied with the sheet music...

I Know Where Everything Is is a cycle of chords in a pile. Each chord has a series of possible voicings, and a series of possible quick ornamentations. The piece starts with the most moderate of these...

I Know Where Everything Is is a cycle of chords in a pile. Each chord has a series of possible voicings, and a series of possible quick ornamentations. The piece starts with the most moderate of these...

How About Now is a composition by Nico Muhly for an Ensemble of Flute, B Flat Clarinet, Electric Guitar, Double Bass and Piano. A full performance of this work lasts around 7 minutes, this is the scor...

For mixed SATB chorus and Brass Ensemble. Commissioned by Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Premiered on December 15, 2008 by the Vox Vocal Ensemble and the Graham Ashton Brass En...