This page needs a lot of updating – in the meantime, please see the pages for each type of choir as follows:
Easy SATB
Medium SATB
Difficult SATB
SATB accompanied
Children’s choirs or unison voices
SABar
Upper voices
Lower voices
or by type of music:
Liturgical
Secular
Christmas
Chamber music and solo works
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When you order music, I prefer to supply a personalised electronic copy (PDF) of the full piece, allowing you to print as many copies as you like – these start from £10. To place an order, just contact me by email – I’ll send you a PDF and invoice by email, or post copies to you along with an invoice. Payment can be made by Paypal, cheque or direct bank transfer. If you prefer to order printed copies, these start from 50p per piece, plus postage – prices below.
The scores linked below are watermarked – please email me to order full copies. You are welcome to print off a single copy for perusal if you wish. All files are in PDF format – Adobe Acrobat’s free PDF reader can be downloaded here.
If you would like a recording of a part for practice, I’m happy to supply these on request (email me). You can hear recordings of many pieces at my SoundCloud page.
Latest pieces
- Choirs For Climate pieces – eight new works for mixed choir, available under Creative Commons licenses
- Be Thou A Bright Flame Before Me – SATB, no divisi, suitable for most sacred occasions. View the score here (2 pages), listen on SoundCloud, or watch a score follower video.
- Keep Watch, Dear Lord – SATB choir, short soprano solo at end, written in memory of victims of the Covid pandemic. Order from MusicSpoke. Hear a recording on SoundCloud.
- Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life – SATB with no divisi. Hear it performed at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
- Statue Songs – SABar and piano, secular
- Anna, Surprised – SATB with some divisi, for Candlemas
- O Clavis David – for SSAATTBB (could be done by 8 soloists, but would work much better with a larger choir). Quite challenging but rewarding. A setting of one of the O Antiphons. Commissioned by the Quodlibet Chorale and premiered in Edinburgh, November 2015 (alongside settings by Gjeilo, Esenvalds, MacMillan, Rubbra and Lukaszewski). PDF £25, single copies £2.
- 3 Churches Communion Setting – can be performed by unison choir and organ, the SATB parts are optional. Commissioned by 3 churches in Edinburgh. Single copies £2.50, PDF £40 – a congregation-only version (4 pages) is also available, £1 per copy or free with the PDF of the full version.
- Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep – SATB (no divisi), medium difficulty, 3′, ideal for a memorial event but would also make a lovely concert piece. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- Drop, drop, slow tears for SSA trio or small choir, difficult, 3′. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- Responses – for SATB choir, medium difficulty. For use in church services, especially Anglican evensong or similar. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
- A Mother’s Blessing – SATB choir, easy, 3′. Lyrics are an ancient Celtic prayer from “Carmina Gadelica”. A beautiful piece for a baptism or christening. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
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- Nunc Dimittis – available for SATB, ATBarB or TTBB. Single copies £1.50, PDF £20. Buy the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis together for £3/copy or £40/PDF.
- As The Rain Hides The Stars – for SATB choir (some divisi, min. 2 singers per part). Medium difficulty. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
Secular choir pieces
- As The Rain Hides The Stars – for SATB choir (some divisi, min. 2 singers per part). Medium difficulty. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- O Mare! SATB or SSATBB, needs at least 4 people to a part but fairly easy. 5′. Latin. Secular. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- After Culloden – 5′, SATB choir a cappella, mostly easy. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- The Water Cycle – 6′, children’s choir (SA with some optional divisi and solos), piano, vibraphone, xylophone and marimba (percussion instruments can easily be changed), and optional rainsticks. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- Under The Wide and Starry Sky – (2′, unison choir and piano, very easy – words by Robert Louis Stevenson). Single copies £1, PDF £20.
- Come Away, Death (3′, SATB, fairly easy, words by Shakespeare). Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- Sleep (5′, SATB, difficult) Words by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649). Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- The Toads’ Chorus (4′, six-part choir, difficult). English. Secular. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
For more secular choir pieces, also check out my free arrangements on this page – many of these are for three-part or two-part choir.
Sacred music for any time of year
- Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life – medium difficulty, SATB, sacred
- Be Thou A Bright Flame – short, easy, SATB, sacred
- Keep Watch, Dear Lord – medium, easy, SATB, sacred
- God To Enfold Me – for three part choir. Lyrics from “Carmina Gadelica”, a translation of an ancient Gaelic song. Hear a recording on SoundCloud. SABar (baritone range is low A to upper E) or also available for ATB (would suit mens’ voices with male altos). Quite easy. Premiere available. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
- Come I This Day To The Father – for three part choir. Lyrics from “Carmina Gadelica”, translated from an ancient Gaelic hymn. Hear a recording on SoundCloud. SABar – also available for ATB. Medium difficulty. Premiere available. Single copies £1, PDF £20. (Order with “God To Enfold Me” / “The Peace of God”, below, and get £10 off – or £20 off if you order all three!)
- The Peace of God – for three-part choir. Lyrics from “Carmina Gadelica”. ATB version also available. Hear a recording on SoundCloud. Medium difficulty. Premiere available. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
- The Lord’s Prayer – for SATB soloists and small SATB choir (could be done by two SATB solo quartets). Professional difficulty. Part of a Compline setting commissioned by St Mary’s Schola, Arlington, Virginia, which will be premiered in June 2014, Washington DC.
- “O Praise The Lord, Ye Angels of His” – SSATB choir (with divisi) and organ, 6′, quite difficult organ part and moderately difficult choir parts. Commissioned by the Friends of St Giles’ Cathedral, and premiered September 29th – hear a recording from the premiere. Single copies £2.50, PDF £35.
- O Sing Unto The Lord – SATB choir and organ, fairly easy, 5′. Copies £2, PDF £30.
- Regis Regum Rectissimi – SSAATTBB choir, moderate difficulty, 5′. Latin. Winner of the Temple Church Composition Prize. Hear a recording. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- Requiem – for SATB choir, SATB soli, and organ. Medium difficulty. 45-50 minutes long, would make a good half of a concert. Text entirely in English. Click here for full libretto and score previews. You can hear recordings at my SoundCloud page. Copies £10 (93 pages), PDF £120.
- Missa Brevis – includes “Lord, have mercy”, “Sanctus & Hosanna”, “Benedictus & Hosanna” and “O Lamb Of God”. For SATB choir (with divisi up to SSAATTBB) and organ. Some added second chords but not too difficult. PDF £40, single copies £3.
- I Heard A Voice From Heaven – for bass/baritone soloist, SATB choir (no divisi needed) and organ. Choir parts are mostly doubled by organ and quite easy; soloist needs a range of bottom F# to top E. PDF £25, single copies £2.
- Rest Eternal / O Saviour Of The World – for SATB choir (no divisi) and optional organ. Requires accurate tuning of semitones for ATB parts. PDF £25, single copies £2.
- Thou Knowest, Lord – for SSAA choir, no further divisi (ideally this could be sung by a choir of unbroken voices, girls and/or boy trebles, but would also suit a female voice choir or four good soloists). Quite difficult unaccompanied, but could be performed with organ accompaniment. PDF £25, single copies £2.
- Speravi in Te – SATB choir with divisi, challenging, 5′. Latin. Version with piano reduction also available. Commissioned by Choir and Organ Magazine for their New Music series. Winner of the New London Singers Composition Prize, June 2012 – hear a recording here. Single copies £2, PDF £25.
Christmas specials!
- Balulalow – choir only version or with a piano reduction. For SATB choir with soprano and baritone soli, fairly easy, 6′. Text in Scots – a pronunciation guide is provided. Hear a recording. Single copies £2/$3, PDF £30/$45.
- Good King Wenceslas, arranged for three-part choir (soprano, alto, and bass/baritone). Hear a demo recording (made with woodwind sounds but will give you the idea). Moderate difficulty, 2’30”. Text in English. Single copies £1.50/$2.50, PDF £25/$40.
- Patapan – for SA choir (occasional divisi to SSAA), moderate difficulty, 3′. Text in English. Single copies £1.50/$2.50, PDF £25/$40.
- In The Bleak Midwinter (a new setting, not an arrangement) – for SATB choir, fairly easy, 4′. SAABar version (or SSAT, SAAT, SSABar etc.) also available. Hear Glasgow University Madrigirls (SSAB version) – or watch the Edinburgh Singers perform it (SATB version). Single copies £1.50/$2.50, PDF £25/$40.
- We Three Kings (arrangement) – for SATB choir, medium difficulty, 2’30”. Hear a recording on this page. Single copies £1/$2, PDF £20/$30.
- Rorate Coeli De Super Double SATB choir and organ, quite difficult, 8′. Text is mainly in old Scots with some Latin. Hear a recording. Single copies £2.50, PDF £30.
For chamber groups and soloists
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci. 7′, four solo sopranos and harp, professional difficulty. Words by John Keats. Hear a recording. £50 for printed scores and parts, or for PDFs.
- New! Seeds for brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba), string quintet (2 violins, 1 viola, 2 ‘cellos), or string orchestra. 4’, medium difficulty. Hear a recording. £40 for printed score and parts, or for PDFs.
- The Windhover. 8′, SATB soloists, string quartet and two pianos, moderate difficulty. Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hear a recording. £50 for printed scores and parts, or for PDFs.
- Prometheus (5′, piano solo, professional difficulty). £10 (PDF or printed).
- Actaeon And Diana (8′, piano, horn, clarinet, violin and cello – professional difficulty). Hear a recording. £50 for printed scores and parts, or for PDFs.
The items below do not have an online preview yet, please email me if interested:
- New! Martyrs (string quartet, quite difficult). Hear a recording (MIDI realisation). Scores and parts £50, PDF or printed.
- Song of Solomon. SATB and organ, medium difficulty, 3′. English text, biblical. Very suitable for weddings! Hear a recording. Sample PDF available, please email. Copies £2, PDF £25.
- New! Ave Maria Gratia Plena (4′, soprano solo and piano, words by Oscar Wilde, professional difficulty). PDF or printed copies £20.
- Wilderness (c.15′, baritone, marimba, percussion, professional difficulty). Score is handwritten at present, copies £30.
Choir pieces for Easter
- Crux Fidelis – SATB choir, mostly easy, 1′. Latin. Also available: Crux Fidelis – unison version with organ. Hear a recording at SoundCloud. Single copies 50p, PDF £10.
- O Vos Omnes – SSATTB or SAATBB choir, mostly easy, 2′. Latin. Hear a recording. Single copies £1.50, PDF £20.
- Solus ad Victimam (English text, 5′, SATB with divisi, medium difficulty). Single copies £2, PDF £25.