Catalogue of works

For a catalogue of all John Gardner's music please visit John Gardner's website

orchestral
chamber/instrumental
christmas music
choral
church music
vocal
stage

Orchestral

English Dance Suite
picc.2fl.2ob.Ebcl.3Bbcl.Ebacl.bcl.Ebcbcl.2asax.tsax.bsax.2bn-hn.3tpt.3corn.3tbn. euph.tba-timp.3-5perc-cb
23 minutes
score and parts on hire

Overture 'Midsummer Ale'
3.3.3.asax.3-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-pno-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Piano Concerto No.1
2(II+picc).2(II+ca).2(II+bcl).2-4(2opt).2.0.0-timp.perc-str
25 minutes
score and parts on hire

A Scots Overture
1.picc.1.ca.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc-cel-hp-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Symphony No.1
3.3.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-cel-hp-str
45 minutes
score on sale 0 19 363435 X, score and parts on hire

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Oboe Sonata No.2
oboe and piano
15 minutes
performing score on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-356710-5

Partita (1969)
solo cello
15 minutes
performing score on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-356711-3

Sinfonia Piccola
strings
15 minutes
score and parts on hire

Sonata da Chiesa
2 trumpets and organ
15 minutes
performing score on sale from Allegro Music 0 19 356713 X

Theme and Variations
2 trumpets, horn, and trombone
score and parts on hire

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Cantata for Christmas
mixed voices and ob.bn-hn-strings
24 minutes
vocal score on sale 0 19 336210 4, score and parts on hire

Four Carols
solo soprano, mixed or upper voices, organ, and percussion (opt)
vocal scores for individual carols available separately:
1. Chanticleer's Carol (Available through Choral Archive Service)
2. Balulalow on sale 0 19 3430185
3. Remember (Available through Choral Archive Service)
4. Gallery Carol score on sale from Banks Music Publications 0 19 3430207
score and parts on hire

The Holly and the Ivy
mixed or equal voices (3 or more parts), and piano or orchestra: 3.3.3.2-4.2.3.1-timp.dance band drummer-pno-str
vocal score on sale 0 19 353154 2, score and parts on hire

Room in the Inn
mixed chorus, audience, flute, piano, bass, and kit-drummer
5 minutes
score and parts 0 19 3362422
vocal score on sale from Banks Music Publications 0 19 3362430

Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day
mixed, equal, or unison voices, piano and percussion (opt), or strings and percussion
vocal score on sale 0 19 3531569, score and parts on hire

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A Cappella
Edited by John Gardner and Simon Harris
A collection of thirty a cappella songs by some of the greatest composers since the Renaissance
performing score on sale 0 19 336199 X

The Argument of His Book
text by Robert Herrick
mixed voices, with or without soloists, and orchestra:
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.3perc-hp(or piano)-str
4 minutes
score and parts on hire

A Burns Sequence
text by Robert Burns
mixed chorus and orchestra:
2(II+picc).2.2(II+bcl).2-2.1.3.0-timp.1perc-str
25 minutes
vocal score on sale 0 19 3362074, score and parts on hire
Movements available separately:
O Whistle an' I'll come to you
score on sale from Banks Music 0 19 3860171
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?
score on sale from Banks Music 0 19 386018 X

Cantata for Christmas
(see Christmas Music)

Cantata for Easter
(see Church Music)

Cantiones Sacrae
solo soprano, mixed voices, and orchestra:
2(II+picc).2(II+ca).2(II+bcl).2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-hp-str
32 minutes
score and parts on hire

Five Hymns in the Popular Style
(see Church Music)

Five Part-Songs to Poems by Wallace Stevens
mixed voices
8 minutes
vocal score on sale from Banks Music 0 19 3856719

Five Philanders
mixed voices
vocal score on hire

Four Wanton Ballads
unaccompanied mixed voices
1. Pleasant New Court Song
2. Godly Girzie
3. The Sandgate Girl’s Lamentation
4. The Old Man and Young Wife
vocal score available from Choral Archive Service

A Latter Day Athenian Speaks
text by C H O Scaife
mixed voices
13 minutes
vocal score on hire

Mass in D
contralto solo, mixed voices, and orchestra:
2.2.2.asax.2-4.3.3.1-timp.perc-pno-str
28 minutes
vocal score on sale 0 19 3362317, score and parts on hire

The Noble Heart
soprano and bass soloists, chamber chorus, full chorus, and orchestra:
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.2perc-str
35 minutes
score and parts on hire

Seven Songs
texts by Shakespeare, Herrick, Johnson, and Wotten
mixed chorus and piano duet or small orchestra:
1(+picc).1.1.1-hn-1perc-str
18 minutes
vocal score on sale from Banks Music 0 19 3362503
score and parts on hire

A Shakespeare Sequence
women's voices, piano duet, and percussion (opt)
15 minutes
vocal score on sale 0 19 3362600, score and parts on hire

Two Seasonal Songs
mixed voices and brass: 4tpt.3tbn.tba-perc
5 minutes
vocal score on sale from Allegro Music 0 19 336264 3
score and parts on hire

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Cantata for Christmas
(see Christmas Music)

Cantata for Easter
soprano, alto, tenor, bass soli, semi-chorus, full chorus, organ, and percussion (5 players)
30 minutes
vocal score on sale 0 19 3362147, score and parts on hire

Five Hymns in Popular Style
1. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
on sale from Banks Music 0 19 353132 1 (SATB)
2. Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise
on sale from Banks Music 0 19 353134 8 (SATB)
3. Nearer, my God, to thee
on sale from Banks Music 0 19 353136 4 (SATB)
4. Abide with me
on sale from Banks Music 0 19 353138 0 (SATB)
5. Fight the good fight with all thy might
on sale from Banks Music 0 19 353140 2 (SATB)
(a) piano solo (from SATB voice vocal score) with optional percussion
(b) piano duet (on hire) with optional percussion
(c) orchestra (on hire) cl-timp(opt).perc(opt)-gtr(opt)-2piano.organ (opt)-str
SSA vocal score on sale 0 19 3531445

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The Entertainment of the Senses
five singers: 2 soprano, counter-tenor or contralto, tenor, baritone, and six players: fl.cl.asax-pno-vc.cb
22 minutes
score and parts on hire

It's this Island
(from the opera The Moon and Sixpence)
text by Patrick Terry
bass voice and orchestra: 2.1.ca.2.2.cbn-4.0.3.1-hp-str
3 minutes
score and parts on hire

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Bel and the Dragon
libretto by Timothy Kraemer
A school opera for 2 sopranos or tenors, mezzo-soprano or baritone, contralto, two speaking parts, SA or SATB semi-chorus, SA or SATB acting chorus, piano duet, organ, 3 percussion, and strings
60 minutes
vocal score on sale from Banks Music 0 19 3362023
audience part on sale from Banks Music 0 19 3362031
chorus part on sale from Banks Music 0 19 3362058
score and parts on hire

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