Catalogue of works

orchestral
piano
chamber
vocal
choral
ballet

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

Orchestral Music

Ballade (1997)
saxophone quartet and string orchestra
18 minutes
score and parts on hire

Chorales (1980)
4.3.4.2-4.3.3.1-timp.tub bells-hp-str
11 minutes
score and parts on hire

Concertante (1998)
solo violin and strings
11 minutes
score and parts on hire

Concerto for Hurdy-Gurdy and Percussion (1994)
solo hurdy-gurdy and percussion, 1.2.0.2-2.0.0.0-timp-str
20 minutes
score and parts on hire

Concerto for Oboe, Accordion and Strings (1997)
15 minutes
score and parts on hire

Lento (1991)
3.3.ca.3.3.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp-str
13 minutes
score and parts on hire
score on sale 0 19 3676508

The Light Fantastic (1991)
1.2.0.2-2.0.0.0-str
12 minutes
score and parts on hire

Prelude for Orchestra (1999)
3.3.3.3.-4.2.2.0-timp-str
8 minutes
score and parts on hire

Sarabande (2002)
string orchestra: 6vln, 2vla, 2vlc, db
9 minutes
score and parts on hire

That Music Always Round Me (2003)
SATB chorus and orchestra
see Choral Music below

Piano Works

Collected Piano Pieces
First Prelude (1971), One for Molly (1972), Simple Piano Piece (1972), Intermezzo (1973), Riding the Thermals (1973), Slow Waltz (1973), Quavers (1972), A Humming Song (1967), September Song (1968), Eirenicon (1973), Eirenicon 2 (1977), Eirenicon 3 (1978), Eirenicon 4 (1985), Even Tenor (1988), Piano Piece 1969 (1969), Trace (1980), Air (1979), Saltaire Melody (1977), senza licenza (1974), Invention (1974), passing fancy (1975), Chorale (1976), Rumba (1973), Toccata (1987), Quavers 5 (1984), A Roma (1992), Of Late (1992), Well, well, Cornelius (1982), June ‘77 (1977), Campanella 3 (1982), Campanella (1981), Swedish Caprice (1993), Quavers 3 (1975), una barcarola eccentrica (1989), The Durham Strike (1985), Postlude (1978), Friday’s Child (1979), Resolution (1986), Two Highland Dances (1970), Memento (1978), Tender Melody (1974), One for Martha (1974), Sweet Chariot (1973), Piano Piece for Trevor Clarke (1985), Quavers 2 (1974), Second Gentle Melody (1975), Colonnade (1975), Surface Tension 3 (1976), Seascape (1982), Beginner (1983), Campanella 4 (1985), The Mold Riots (1986), after-image (1990), Maestoso (1990), Ring in the Valiant (1993)

performing score on sale 0 19 3736942

Images (1989)
solo piano
performing score on sale 0 19 3736985

Nocturnes and Reflections
solo piano
Nocturnes 1-3, Horham, Lyric Study, Familiar, Decision Time, Guitar Caprice, Starlight, Memorial Prelude, Zwischenspiel, Monogram, Penumbra, Bolt from the Blue, Gestalt, Leamington Spa, Octaves, Goldsmiths, Ecossaise, Two Pinter Poems, Rameau Variation, Scorrevole, Reflections 1-11, Eighteen Golden Bars for Julian, Liebeslied, Register

performing score on sale 0 19 373697 7

Plain Sailing (1993)
piano duet
2'
performing score available from the Repertoire Promotion Department

Instrumental and Chamber Music

Beguine (2002)
solo guitar
2 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

Ben Somewhen (2005)
flute, clarinet, harp, violin, viola, 2 cellos, double bass
12'
score and parts on hire

Catch (2001)
string quartet
12 minutes
on sale from Goodmusic 9780193588707

Chamber Concerto (1995)
1.1.1.1-1.1.1.0-perc-hp-pno-1.1.1.1.1
8 minutes
score and parts on hire

Clarinet Quintet (1997)
clarinet and string quartet
8 minutes
score and parts on hire

Eternity's Sunrise (2003)
flute, clarinet in A, harp, string quartet
10 minutes
on sale from Goodmusic 9780193588752

Five Nocturnes (2000)
solo guitar, 2 clarinets, viola, cello, double bass
10 minutes
on sale from Goodmusic 9780193359380

Five Preludes (1999)
solo guitar
6 minutes
performing score on sale from Cadenza Music 0-19-358829-3

Garland (2000)
oboe and string trio
2 minutes
score and parts on sale 019 358867 6

Gemini Dances (1994)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano
8 minutes
score and parts on hire

Gleams and Fragments (2003)
oboe, clarinet, viola, and harp
8 minutes
score and parts on sale 0-19-358876-5

Horizons (2001)
oboe and harp
6 minutes
on sale 0 19 358879 X

Lullaby (1995)
clarinet and cello
2 minutes
performing score on sale 0-19-358836-6

Off Limits (2002)
solo tenor saxophone
6 minutes
performing score on sale 0-19-358856-0

Par la bande (2000)
solo lute
4 minutes
score on sale 019 358871 4

Random Girl (2003)
oboe and vibraphone
3 minutes
score and parts on sale 0-19-358877-3

Reminiscence (2001)
solo guitar
1 minute
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

Rest and Recreation (2000)
2 euphoniums, 2 tubas
3 minutes
score and parts on sale 0-19-358878-1

Shiftwork (1994)
percussion quartet (all percussion instruments required are portable)
4 minutes
score and parts on hire

Six Figures (1998)
solo cello
7 minutes
score on sale 0-19-358881-1

Slip-stream (2002)
percussion quartet
glockenspiel, vibraphone,3 suspended cymbals (2 players)
3'
performing score on sale 0-19-358857-9

Spadesbourne Suite (1995)
violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano
5 minutes
performing score on sale from Allegro Music 0-19-358839-0

Suite from Delicate (1999)
2 cellos and percussion
15 minutes
score and parts on hire

Tendrils (2004)
string quartet
20 minutes
score and parts on sale 0-19-358880-3

Three Pieces for Guitar (2003)
solo guitar
2 minutes
performing score on sale 0-19-358868-4

Winter Sunrise (1996)
string trio
8 minutes
score and parts on sale 0-19-358858-7

Vocal

And There was War in Heaven (2006)
5 solo voices ATTBB
5 minutes
score on sale 9780193356085

Colomen (1990)
text by Mary Webb
soprano, clarinet and piano
10 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

Emerson Songs (2003)
texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson
solo soprano and baritone
10 minutes
on sale from Goodmusic 9780193457911

Hot Noon in Malabar (1997)
soprano and piano trio
text by Kamala Das
2½ minutes
score on sale 0-19-358886-2

Into my heart an air that kills (1996)
soprano, piano, 2vn, va, vc
text by A. E. Housman
5 minutes
score and parts on hire

Lamentations (2001)
bass and theorbo
text by John Donne, from The Lamentations of Jeremy
c. 15 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

The Witches' Wood (1990)
text by Mary Coleridge
soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
9 minutes
contact Repertoire Promotion Dept

Choral

The Bridge of Fire (2001)
text by James Elroy Flecker
SATB choir
7 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-346841-7

Five Poems of Mary Webb (1989)
SSA chorus
9 minutes
on sale from Goodmusic 9780193359673

The Flight of Song (1996)
SATB mixed ability voices
text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, embellished in opening section with words by Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Dryden, Milton, Wordsworth, Blake, Burns, and Coleridge
10 minutes
score on sale 0-19-338152-4 (NH27)

Four by the Clock (2001)
SATB choir unaccompanied
3 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343916-6 (NH19)

Four New Poems (2004)
SA chorus & ensemble: 3fl.2cl.asax-2hn.2tpt-gtr-2vln.vlc OR SA chorus & piano
7 minutes
on sale from Goodmusic 9780193359925

He wishes for the cloths of Heaven (1999)
text by W B Yeats
SATB choir unaccompanied
5 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343915-8 (NH20)

Into this world, this day did come (2006)
SSA choir unaccompanied
2 minutes
score on sale in For Him all Stars 978-0-19-335569-9

It was a star (2004)
text by the composer
SATB choir unaccompanied
2 minutes
vocal score on sale in Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs 0-19-353026-0

Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis, The Edinburgh Service (2003)
upper voices & organ
6 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-353418-5

Music (2003)
text by RW Emerson
SATB choir
2 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-344887-4

Murallennium ('Spring all the Graces') (2000)
text by Ben Johnson
SATB choir and symphonic wind band
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Ostende nobis, Domine (2001)
text from the Advent Proper
unaccompanied SATB choir
3 minutes
published in Cantica Nova: 18 new motets for choirs 0-19-335536-1

Rise up, my love (2002)
SATB choir
9½ minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343925-5 (NH 26)

Roundels of the Year (1992)
text by John Drinkwater
SATB choir (with divisions)
6 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-338153-2

The Song of Songs (2000)
text from the Song of Solomon
TTBB voices
6 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343721-X

That Music Always Round Me (2003)
SATB chorus and orchestra
2.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp-str
text by Walt Whitman
7 minutes
score and parts on hire

To Bethlem did they go (1995)
unaccompanied SATB choir
text by William Morris
2 minutes
vocal score on sale from Banks Music Publications 0-19-343204-8

Two Poems of Edward Thomas (1996)
unaccompanied SATB choir
text by Edward Thomas
5 minutes
written for the Council for the Protection of Rural England in celebration of its 70th anniversary
vocal score on sale 0-19-335581-7 (NH 38)

The Voice of the Spirits (1999)
Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley
unaccompanied SATB choir
10 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343251-X

We who with songs (1995)
SATB and organ
text by James Elroy Flecker
6 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343211-0

Ballet

Delicate (1996)
2 cellos and percussion
75 minutes
score and parts on hire

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

a selection of Skempton's scores is available to view online at the website of the
British Music Information Centre. The centre also provides information on the music of Howard Skempton not published by OUP.