Twelve of my best songs in each of several categories. Best because they’re popular, my favourites, most performed, most listened to.
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Twelve Of The Best: Songs for Mixed Voices
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Twelve songs from what is a huge category of my choral music: I’ve gone with the most successful so far – songs that have been performed multiple times by multiple choirs or songs that have received the most positive feedback from singers and listeners.
Twelve Of The Best: Songs For High Voices
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There are so many more than twelve quality songs for high voices in my catalogue of choral pieces, that this has been the hardest of all these “Twelve Of The Best” lists to select, but I have picked out the most popular in terms of performances and listeners.
Twelve Of The Best: Songs For Low Voices
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Here are twelve characterful songs for male voice choir in a variety of styles, some in three parts, some in four. The choirs you hear are from all around the world – school choirs, amateur choirs, professional choirs.
Twelve Of The Best: Songs Inspired by Visual Arts
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It has been my delight and privilege to frequently work with visual arts as a composer, most notably in recent years, at the Hepworth Wakefield in “Musical Sculptures” workshops. Art works have inspired composing both by myself and by those attending the workshops. Here are twelve of the best – most performed, most popular, my […]
Twelve Of The Best: Songs Of Nature
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It has often fallen happily to my lot to compose songs for children about the natural world: weather, plants and creatures. Here are twelve of the best of them.
Twelve Of The Best: Songs Of Robert Burns
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From the earliest days of my composing career I have always been drawn to the poems and songs of Robert Burns, and have set many of his works to music. In recent times, I’ve also arranged many of the tunes he himself used for choirs and other ensembles.
Twelve Of The Best: Songs Of Action
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Twelve action and dancing songs that are designed to break the ice, warm up the voices and bodies, and get things moving in a cheery and creative way.
Twelve Of The Best: If You’re Good Enough
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All these twelve pieces have been described as “tricky” but all have been performed very successfully and enthusiastically, some on more than one occasion.
Twelve Of The Best: Songs Of The River
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It has been a recurring feature of my composing career to produce music associated with rivers, either as part of a project or just because the fancy took me. These are twelve of the best such pieces of music – the best because they’re the most popular, the most performed, they have beautiful flowing melodies, […]