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These stylish and passionate songs present technical challenges for even accomplished singers, though their cumulative effect is worthwhile. Twentieth century English composer, singer and actress Made...

Madeleine Dring's settings of seven songs from the plays and poems of Shakespeare, written for medium voice with Piano.

Madeleine Dring (1923-1977) was an English composer and actress. She studied Violin, Voice, and Composition at the Royal College of Music, where her teachers included Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert H...

Dring herself had perfect pitch and these songs make technical demands upon the singer, to good effect. Twentieth century English composer, singer and actress Madeleine Dring wrote songs that frequent...

This is the final volume in this wonderful collection of Madeleine Dring's songs. Volume 6 features 6 songs to poems by Sidney, Otway, moore, Ellison, Daniel and Drayton, arranged for High Voice and P...

Many of the occasional pieces Bridge wrote in the early part of his career were published in versions for violin and piano, or cello and piano. Bridge was himself a fine viola player and so it is ther...

Geoffrey Bush's Tributes is a suite of five respectful pieces for B Flat Clarinet and Piano accompaniment. These varied pieces, encompassing Jazz, Blues and Rhumba styles were completed in 1986, and h...

Fourteen compositions that showcase Lehmann's very personal harmonic style and rich harmonic language. This songbook includes her own personal favourite Magdalen At Michael's Gate and her strangely pr...

A glorious collection of character pieces for high voice and Piano by Geoffrey Bush. Archy is a cockroach who borrows Don Marquis typewriter by night to write about life as seen by himself and his fr...

This is the full script to Pardon Our Rubbish, a musical play with music by Betty Roe and words by Marian Lines.

Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations had it's first performance in 1899. This authoritative book was written to celebrate the centenary of this much-loved work and takes a refreshing look at the circumstances...

James Day presents his examination of what is meant when a piece of music is described as being 'very English', and the musical elements that might combine to create such a response. Day investigates...

These arrangements of British and American folk-songs have been been put in a sequence to make a balanced concert group, offering a mixture of sentiment, humour and passionate intensity. They can also...

Two wonderful English Folksongs; I will Give My Love An Apple and The Brisk Young Widow, beautifully arranged for Medium Voice and Piano accompaniment by Herbert Howells.

The Miracle Masque is a morality play with music, set in mediaeval Italy, and follows in the tradition of Morality plays stretching back to the Middle Ages when they were a much need mixture of satire...

A Musical play with words by John Oliver and music by Betty Roe. This is the script containing all song lyrics, stage directions and dialogue. Set in the late 18th century, this fictional play is abo...

This mini-musical beagn life as a workshop project commissioned by June Keyte for late-teenage children at Kingsmead School, Enfield. The three main characters are a contented boy, an uncertain girl a...

Nine Songs by Bush for high voice and piano to poems by Chalres Causley.

Merry Be Man is a Christmas sequence scored for 3 Soloists, and SSA Chorus a cappella. It is an excellent piece for any Christmas concert.

A fantastic choral piece by Betty Roe, based on a classic Metaphysical poet John Donne. This romantic and expressive piece is scored for unaccompanied Solo Soprano and SATB mixed choir.

Shadwell Stair is a setting of Wilfred Owen's shadowy poem by Betty Roe. It is scored for Solo Soprano and SATB Chorus a cappella.

A glorious setting by Betty Roe, of this 15th Century text for unaccompanied SATB Choir. Piano line is inlcuded for practice purposes only.

The title piece and fourth movement of Betty Roe's Music's Empire for unaccompanied SATB chorus with solos. Based on a Poem by Andrew Marvell.

Sweet Thames, Flow Softly is a tremendous unaccompanied part-song for SATB choir by Betty Roe with words by Ewan MacColl. A brisk, flowing pace accentuates the meandering of the river through London t...