Compositions

Doo-doo Dah-dah Dum Dum

This is a piece for mixed ensemble that started life when I was noodling in the mixo-blues scale on a guitar.

My first Christmas carol

This is my first attempt at a Christmas carol and my first attempt at anything choral. It’s a setting of an old poem by Eugene Field.

Attempting my first fugue

I’ve been trying to write a fugue, as an exercise in understanding fugues, counterpoint and the development of all of this stuff. It’s written for recorder, oboe, Bb clarinet and bassoon.

Setting the Cat Among the Pirates

I always struggle to think of names for pieces that I write. This one was the result of desperate grappling: oboes and bassoons often put me in mind of pirate films and the slightly untethered nature of the piece put me in mind of cats, so I named it The Pirates Cat....
My first Christmas carol

My first Christmas carol

This is my first attempt at a Christmas carol and my first attempt at anything choral. It’s a setting of an old poem by Eugene Field.

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Attempting my first fugue

Attempting my first fugue

I’ve been trying to write a fugue, as an exercise in understanding fugues, counterpoint and the development of all of this stuff. It’s written for recorder, oboe, Bb clarinet and bassoon.

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Suite for five parts

Suite for five parts

Here are three things I wrote before I started exploring tonal harmony a bit more seriously. They're numbered one to three because they do sort of tell a story, but it's not one...

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