Catalogue of works

orchestral
chamber
keyboard
vocal
choral
stage works

You may view a pdf of the score by clicking on this link (courtesy of the
British Music Information Centre)

Orchestral Music

Eph-phatha (1989)
2.1.1.1-1.1.1.0-perc-hp-pno-str
13'
score and parts on hire

Glad Day (1994)
2(or recorders).0.0.0-0.2.0.0-hp(or theorbo)-chamber organ-str (min 4.4.2.2(or bass violins).0)
13'
score and parts on hire

Plain Harmony (1993)
unspecified orchestral ensemble
12'
score and parts on hire

Red Earth (1988)
3(III=picc).3.0.3-0.3.3.0-2didjeridus-4perc.2timp-2hp-str (min 10.10.8.6.7)
19'
score and parts on hire

Speak its Name! (1996)
2.2.2.2-2.2.1.0-2vibraphones.timp-harp-¼ tone keyboard-strings (min 8.8.6.6.3)
22'
score and parts on hire

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Chamber & Instrumental Music

Bright Future ignoring Dark Past (2000)
violin, cello, piano
3'30"
performance materials on sale from the British Music Information Centre

Ének (1990)
solo violin
9'
performing score on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-356441-6

Greatest Hits of all time (2003)
oboe solo, picc.cl-pno-1perc-vla.vlc.cb
13'
performing materials on hire

In stiller nacht (1990, rev. 1997)
Independence Quadrilles (1995)
violin, cello, and piano
7' & 5'
performance materials on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-372641-6

Kulamen Dilan (1990)
soprano saxophone [or oboe, or any clarinet] and percussion
10'
on sale 0-19-356442-4

Mars + Venus (1993)
fl.ob.cl.bn-hn.tpt.tbn-perc-pno-2vn.va.vc.cb
15'
score and parts on hire

Molly-House (2004)
unspecified instrumental ensemble (players choose from a set of conventionally, and partially, notated parts alongside 17 'transcribed' Handel arias)
variable duration
set of performing parts on sale 0-19-356466-1

Nowhere else to go (1989, rev. 2003)
fl(+picc).cl(+bcl)-pno-vn.vc-tape
30'
score and parts on hire

Obrecht Motetten I (1989)
fl.cl.bn-tpt.tbn-perc-vn.va.vc
5'
score and parts on hire

Obrecht Motetten II (1989)
mandolin, guitar, and harp
10'
score and parts on hire

Obrecht Motetten III (1989-93)
viola solo or viola with ensemble:
fl.cl.bn-2tpt.tbn-mandolin.gtr-hp
5'
score and parts on hire

Obrecht Motetten IV (1990)
brass quintet
14'
score an parts on hire

Obrecht Motetten V (1992)
fl(+picc).3ssax-hn.3tpt.3tbn-pno-cb
18'
score and parts on hire

Plain Harmony (1993)
string quartet
8'
score and parts on hire

Post-Christian Survival Kit (2005)
unspecified instruments or instrumental components, unspecified percussion, physical actions which inadvertently produce a sound
c. 10'
score and parts on hire
Contact Repertoire Promotion Department for details

Recent Britain (1998)
clarinet, bassoon, cello, and piano
25'
on sale 0-19-356450-5

Seterjentens fridag (2003)
hardanger fiddle or violin (either solo or with accompaniment for reed organ and piano, or either one (live or pre-recorded) and instrumental quartet)
7'
set of performing parts on sale 0-19-356469-6

Traum des Sängers (1994)
clarinet, guitar, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello, and double bass
13'
score and parts on hire

Two Scenes from "Shameful Vice" (1995)
solo harp
6'
not yet published

Various Nations (1992)
narrator and chamber ensemble:
fl(+picc).cl-hn-perc-gtr-vn.vc
10'
score and parts on hire

WAM (1991)
piano and two unspecified treble instruments
15'
set of performing parts on sale 0-19-356461-0

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Keyboard Music

Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Volume 1
solo piano
Mazurka Op 142 No 2 - Two Pasodobles - Autumnall - Freightrain Bruise - Kemp’s Morris - Short but... - GFH - BS - Taja - Lylyly li - Pimmel - Strauss-Walzer
score on sale 0-19-372640-8

Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Volume 2
solo piano
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man - Romeo and Juliet are Drowning - Mazurka Op 142 No 1- Vieux Noël - Svatovac - Terekkeme - Australian Sea Shanties (Second Set) - William Billings - Liz - Rossini - John Cage - There never was such hard times before - Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sind - Cibavit eos - Cozy Fanny’s Tootsies - My love is like a red, red, rose - De toutes flours - How Dear to Me - Stanley Stokes, East Street 1836 – Note on Stanley Stokes - Sometimes I... – French Piano - New Perspectives on Old Complexity - ...desde que naçe... – Yvaroperas 1-4
score on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-372543-2

Folklore (1993-4)
solo piano
I: 12', II: 25', III: 20', IV: 16'
score on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-372642-4

Gershwin Arrangements (1975-88)
based on melodies by George Gershwin
solo piano
How long has this been going on? - Things are looking up - A foggy day in London town - Love is here to stay - They can’t take that away from me - Shall we dance? - They’re writing songs of love, but not for me - Fidgety feet - Embraceable you - Waiting for the sun to come out - Innocent ingenue baby - Blah, blah, blah - Boy wanted
score on sale 0-19-372639-4
for copyright reasons, this score is not available for sale or performance in the USA

The History of Photography in Sound (1995-2001)

1. Le démon de l'analogie 25'
2. Le réveil de l'intraitable réalité 15'
3. North American Spirituals 20'
4. My parents' generation thought War meant something 40'
5. Alkan - Paganini 12'
6. Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets 40'
7. Eadweard Muybridge - Edvard Munch 25'
8. Kapitalistisch Realisme (met Sizilianische Männerakte en Bachsche Nachdichtungen) 75'
9. Wachtend op de volgende uitbarsting van repressie en censuur 12'
10. Unsere Afrikareise 30'
11. Etched bright with sunlight 25'
piano solo
c. 320'
score on sale in 3 volumes 0-19-372648-3 - contact Repertoire Promotion Department for details

Tangos (1962-99)
a collection of 23 short pieces
solo piano
25 minutes
0-19-372644-0

Wee Saw Footprints (1990)
nine short easy teaching pieces with a supplement solo piano
15'
score on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-372645-9

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Vocal Music

Beuk O’Newcassel Sangs (1988)
soprano, clarinet, and piano
text from traditional Newcastle folksongs collected by Joseph Crawhall
14'
score on sale 0-19-345325-8

Brighton! (2006)
tenor and string quartet
10½'
score on sale 9780193355965

The Cambridge Codex (1991)
mezzo-soprano, flute (+picc), violin, cello, and 2 bells
text from Medieval anonymous sacred poems
18'
score and parts on hire

Le Lay de la Fonteinne (1983, rev. 1990)
based on material by Guillaume de Machaut
soprano, flute (+picc), oboe, vibraphone (or piano)
20'
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept for details - Not yet published

Same as we (1990, rev. 2001), version 1
text from Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Promise of May
soprano and pre-recorded performer's tape
10 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept for details - Not yet published

Same as we (1990), version 2
mezzo-soprano, alto flute, and cimbalom
10'
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept for details - Not yet published

Silver Morning (1995)
tenor, piano, and string quartet
text by A E Housman
14'
score and parts on hire

Two Motets (1991)
countertenor and guitar
Videtis enim interiorem - Deu ti salve Maria
8'
contact Repertoire Promotion Department

Unknown Ground (1990)
baritone, piano, violin, and cello
texts by Esenin, Kluyev, Kuzmin, and NW, SR, P, BT
25'
score on sale 0-19-345326-6

Whitman (2005)
voice and piano
text by Whitman
50'
score on sale 9780193453319

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Choral Music

Anima Christi (1991)
alto and tenor soloists, SATB chorus, and organ
text from Medieval sacred poems
20'
score on sale 0-19-336114-0

Descriptive Jottings of London (2003)
small choir (2 part) and unsynchronised accompaniment (accordion & piano)
text by William McGonagall
5'
vocal score on sale 0-19-335543-4

Favourite Poets (2006)
SATB choir, soprano solo, 2 horns, harp, organ, timps, violin, 2 violas, 2 cellos, double bass
30'
vocal score and parts on hire

Forget-Me-Not (1959, rev. 2003)
mixed chorus, guitar, double bass, piano, suspended cymbals
text by William McGonagall
6'
vocal score and parts on hire

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
SSATB choir or soloists a capella
10'
Vocal score on sale 9781093356016

Maldon (1990)
baritone solo, SATB chorus, 2 trombones, 2 percussion, and organ (pedals only)
text from the Anglo Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon
20'
score and parts on hire

Palm Sunday (1999, rev. 2003)
chorus (SATB), guitar, double bass, vibraphone, and piano
10'
score and parts on hire

Seven Sacred Motets (1991)
four voices or small choir (SATB)
Hymnos sacrae quos virgini - In mense autem sexto - Salve Regina - Et cum factus esset -
Ave regina coelorum - Stabant autem iuxta crucem - O Virga, Floriditatem tuam
38'
score on sale 0-19-353116-X
Ave regina coelorum is also published in Cantica Nova: 18 new motets for choirs 0-19-335536-1

Vertue (1993, rev. 2001)
SA chorus and piano duet
6'
score and parts on hire

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Stage Works

Shameful Vice (1994)
3 sopranos, tenor, baritone, bass
2 clarinets, 2 trumpets, harp, guitar, 2 violins, and double bass
text by the composer, based on the last days of Tchaikovsky’s life
40'
score and parts on hire

Thérèse Raquin (1992-3, revised 2005)
2 counter-tenors, 2 baritones, piano
(orginal version was for soprano, mezzo-soprano, counter-tenor, baritone, and piano)
stage work based on the novel and play by Emile Zola
90'
score and parts on hire

The Undivine Comedy (1986-8)
soprano, counter-tenor, tenor, 2 baritones
2 piccolos, 2 oboes, 2 percussion, violin, viola, and cello
stage work based on the play by Zygmunt Krasinski
110'
score and parts on hire

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for perusal scores, recordings and further information on the works above, contact the Repertoire Promotion Department

a selection of Finnissy's scores (including those not published by OUP) can be viewed online at the website of the British Music Information Centre