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ANTHONY GILBERT (b. 1934)

COMPOSITIONS IN TITLE ORDER: CLICK ON TITLES FOR FULL DETAILS

Unless otherwise indicated, all works written between 1962 and 1994 are available from SCHOTT & Co. Ltd., 48 Great Marlborough St., London W1V 2BN, info@schott-music.com Works marked (uymp) are available from THE UNIVERSITY of YORK MUSIC PRESS, YO10 5DD, philip@uymp.co.uk Works for recorder with or without piano are available from FORSYTH MUSIC PUBLISHING DIVISION, 126 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2GR, U.K. recordermusic@forsyths.co.uk For information on works in manuscript, marked (MS), contact gilbert@halifenu.demon.co.uk

NOTES ON WHAT FOLLOWS

*These little piano pieces now form part of People Pieces, 2003

**These little recorder pieces now form part of Farings, 2000

Titles beginning with the word 'The' will be found under the next word

Indicated durations are rounded up to the nearest minute

A Piece of Cake for treble recorder and piano (2006) (MS) 80"

Another Dream Carousel for string orchestra (uymp) 8’

Assonants 1 for SATB soli + clarinet & horn (MS) 3'

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Beastly Jingles for soprano and instrumental ensemble 11’

Bendigo Match for wind band (MS) 3'

Brighton Piece for 8 players 13’

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Calls around Chungmori for chamber ensemble and participating audience 15’

Cantata: the man who tried to hijack an airliner 16’ (withdrawn)

Canticle I (Rock-Song) for wind instruments 9’

Canticle I (Rock-Song) version 2, for woodwind, horns, harp & piano 9'

Canticle II (Anger) for 6 male voices 6’

Catercorny 4 pieces for clarinet and piano (contains Litany above) (uymp) 6'

Certain Lights Reflecting song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (to poems of Sarah Day) 19’

The Chakravaka-Bird radio opera (libretto trans. from Indian sources by A. K. Ramanujan, Daniel H. H. Ingalls and the composer) 77’

Chant of Cockeye Bob for children’s voices and instruments 14’

Chant-au-clair sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)**

Concert Fanfare for Strathfieldsaye for 5 brass and 2 perc. (MS) 1'

Crow-Cry for chamber orchestra 20’

Crow Undersongs for solo viola 11’

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Dancing to the Tune for 4-8 oboes, 2-4 cors anglais, 1-2 heckelphones (MS) 4'

Dark singing, Dancing Light (2005), bassoon & string quintet (2vln. vla. vc. d.bass) 8-10'

Dawnfaring for viola and piano 15’

Dream Carousels for orchestra of wind 13’

Duo, violin and viola (MS) 15’

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ecco Eco for flute, clarinet & vibraphone (Cincuentas 4) 50"

Echo for solo trumpet (Cincuentas 5) 4'

Elegy for piano (MS) 6’

En Bateau, d'après Watteau for soprano + recorder, oboe, violin & cello 9'

Encantos for soprano or mezzo-soprano and small ensemble 14'

Even in flames,/the Thames/can’t hold a candle/to the Wandle for variable orchestra (uymp) 6’

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Fanfarings for 6 and 8 brass instruments (MS) 5 x 1’

Fanfaring V for brass (MS) 1’

Farings for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth) (the published compilation of all double-asterisked items) 15’

Flame Robin for sopranino recorder solo (Forsyth) 1’

Four Seasons for Josca’s for young players (variable ens.) (uymp) 3’

Four small Farings for sopranino recorder/piccolo and piano (Forsyth)**

Funtoons children’s pieces for piano (MS) 8’

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Ghost and Dream Dancing for orchestra 19’

Gioco dei Pari for violin & viola (reworking of Duo of 1962) 10'

Groove, Perchants (2005-6), dance-concerto for orchestra 19'

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Handles to the Invisible for a-capella choir (to poems of Sarah Day) (rev. 2003) (uymp) 15’

Halifenu Vine Dance for organ and pre-recorded organ 9'

HumDance for string trio 20'

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Igórochki for solo recorder player and chamber ensemble 22’

The Incredible Flute Music for flute and piano (Peal I) 11’

Inscapes for soprano, speaking voice and small ensemble 30’

...into the Gyre of a Madder Dance for orchestral wind (uymp) 7’

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Jugalbandi Blues for bass clarinet solo 60"

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Kauri for solo Tuba (uymp) 11’

Koonapippi for youth orchestra 6’

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Litany for clarinet and piano (Associated Board Spectrum series) 1’

Little Cycle for Elizabeth Yeoman for soprano, cello and piano (MS) 7’

Little Dance of Barrenjoey for chamber ensemble (MS) 2’

Little Fantasy on Gold-digger Melodies for flute and string quartet (MS) 4'

Little Piano Pieces (from String Qtet with Pno Pces, performable as a separate work) 8’

Long White Moonlight for soprano and electric double bass 18’

Love Poems for soprano and instrumental ensemble (2 versions) 10’

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Margareeting for tenor or descant recorder and piano (MS) 2’

Midwales Lightwhistle Automatic for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)**

Miss Carroll her Lullabye for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)**

Missa Brevis for unaccompanied choir 7’

Moon comes up, Pearl Beach (June ‘79) for alto flute, vibraphone and cello (MS) 1’

Moonfaring, for cello and percussion 19'-30’

Mother, for solo cello and ensemble 14’ (withdrawn)

Mozart Sampler with Ground for orchestra 10’

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Nine or Ten Osannas for 5 players 20'-30’

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O alter Duft for piano duet (withdrawn)

O alter Duft for solo piano (withdrawn)

O’Grady Music for clarinet, cello and toy instruments 24’

On beholding a Rainbow concerto for violin and orchestra (uymp) 30’

Ondine - chant au clair de lune, soprano and recorder (Aloysius Bertrand) (MS) 6'

Ondine (version 2, extended), soprano + recorder, cello, hpschd. (uymp) 11’

Os for oboe and vibraphone (revised 2002) (uymp) 16’

Osanna for Lady O for cello and piano (1997, rewritten 2007) (uymp) 8’

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Palace of the Winds for 11 solo strings (uymp) 15’

Paluma for sopranino recorder and piano (arranged from movement IV of Igórochki) (MS) 4’

Passing Bells for piano solo 3'

Peal II for big band 9’

Peal III for piano (MS) 2’

Peal IV for organ (MS) 2’

People Pieces 10 short teaching pieces for piano 12’

Photos found at Hukvaldy, August 1928 for oboe solo (uymp) 5’

Piano Sonata no.1 14’

Piano Sonata no.2 (piano 4-hands) 25’

Piano Sonata no.3 autour des palombes (uymp) 15’

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Quartet of Beasts for 3 wind instruments and piano 13’

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Réflexions, Rose nord for bass clarinet and vibraphone (uymp) 5’

Regions for two orchestras (score published by Central Music Library) 14'

Rose luisante for solo freebass accordion (uymp) 9’

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The Scene-Machine one-act opera, libretto by George MacBeth 50’

Serenade for 6 instruments (lost) 16’

Sheer for string orch. (uymp) 16’

Shepherd Masque for young voices (Novello) 3’

Sinfin for vibraphone solo (uymp) 8’

Sinfin 2 for 4 vibraphones (arrangement of above) (uymp) 8’

Sinfin parados for vibraphone duo (arrangement of Sinfin) (uymp) 8’

Sinfonia for chamber orchestra 10'

Six of the Bestiary for saxophone quartet 12’

Spell Respell for electric basset clarinet and piano 12’

Stars for treble recorder and guitar (rev. 2004) (uymp) 13’

String Quartet with Piano Pieces (also exists in version for string quartet alone as String Quartet I) 17’ / 22’

String Quartet II (revised 2003) 19’

String Quartet III super hoqueto 'David' 7’

String Quartet IV (uymp) 23’

Strophics for violin & piano (MS) 7'

 

Sunrising, for oboe and piano (commissioned and published by Forsyth Bros. Ltd., Manchester) 3'

Swallowtail, for vibraphone solo 2'

 

Symphony (incorporates modified version of Regions) 39’

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This Tree (Frances Horovitz) [no.1 of Love Poems (1970), arr. mezzo and piano] (Schott) 3’

 

Those Fenny Bells (John Clare), treble, c-tenor & vibraphone 3'

 

Three War Poems for chorus (MS)

Tinos for soprano, clarinet and vibraphone (Magdalena Mismareza) (uymp) 3’

Towards Asâvari for piano and chamber orchestra 22’

Treatment of Silence for violin and tape 11’

Tree of Singing Names for chamber orchestra 15’

Trying to make John SLOW DOWN AFTER 50 for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)**

Tulip Tree dances for solo Bass and Treble Recorders (uymp) 15’

Twirlpool for flute & viola 3'

Two Birds by Kuring-Gai for horn and piano (commissioned and published by Forsyth) 6’

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Unrise for ten wind (uymp) 16’

Upstream River Rewa for storyteller and Indo-European ensemble 29’

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Vasanta with Dancing for chamber ensemble (dancer optional) 17’

Vers de Lune soprano plus flute, cello, percussion (Aloysius Bertrand) (incorporates a version of Ondine - chant au clair... above) (uymp) 17’

Victorian Round for any number of voices (MS)

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Welkin for orchestra 11’

Worldwhorls for bass clarinet solo (uymp) 8’

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Ygg-drasill for soprano or mezzo + recorder, ob., cl., bsn, trp., 3 vlns, vc. (Cincuentas 3) 9'

York Surprise for flute, clarinet & bass clarinet 8'

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Ziggurat for bass clarinet and marimba 21’

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