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Number of matching records: 38 
Fools Holiday

1988

Category: 
Music Theatre
First Performance: 
Chudleigh Community College, 1988
Orchestration: 
Saxophones, Brass and Percussion
Duration: 
circa 60 minutes
Notation: 
Adapted Standard Notation
Music/theatre for Theatre of Public Works. toured North and South Devon and featured at the BritEsch Festival, Luxembourg (1988-89) 
Landscape Music

1990

Category: 
Small Ensemble
First Performance: 
Lynton and Lynmouth Festival of the Arts, 1990
Orchestration: 
Pre-recorded sounds, live percussion, keyboards
Duration: 
20 minutes
Notation: 
Adapted Standard Notation
This is a very easy piece to perform. Keyboard and percussion parts are simple and flexible 
Influence

1990

Category: 
General
First Performance: 
Plymouth Barbican Theatre 1990
Orchestration: 
Any ensemble large or small, including solo
Duration: 
Variable
Notation: 
Standard, graphic, text
28 pages of mixed score styles. Complete performances or extracts, including single pages, are all possible. 
Pictorial Improvisation

1990

Category: 
General
First Performance: 
Plymouth Barbican Theatre 1990
Orchestration: 
Free - large,small or solo
Duration: 
Free but generally no more than 15 minutes
Notation: 
Pictorial
Four pages of small pictorial images with some words. For any group of improvisers. Could be used as a workshop piece. 
Heroic Journey

1990

Category: 
Chamber Works
First Performance: 
Orchestration: 
Soprano saxophone with small group
Duration: 
c. 10 minutes maximum
Notation: 
Standard and graphic
Soprano saxophone plays a notated solo which "collides" with graphically scored "moments" in which an ensemble creates obstacles to the soloists progress. 
Nature Studies

1992

Category: 
General
First Performance: 
Recording issued 1993
Orchestration: 
Various
Duration: 
c. 50 mins.
Notation: 
Various
Although scores are available for most of the pieces, Nature Studies was originally intended as a recorded project. It is still available as a recording. Cost £10. 
Erratic Movements of the Year

1994

Category: 
Large Ensemble
First Performance: 
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
Orchestration: 
Any large group
Duration: 
c.70'
Notation: 
Various
 
Blackborough Music

1992

Category: 
Piano Pieces
First Performance: 
Orchestration: 
Two pianos
Duration: 
10 minutes
Notation: 
Standard time-space notation
The piano parts are written in time-space notation, and are of only moderate difficulty. 
Piano Piece (For Patrick Heron)

1992

Category: 
Piano Pieces
First Performance: 
Orchestration: 
Solo piano
Duration: 
Variable - c.7 minutes
Notation: 
Standard -Time-space
 
Drake's Drum

1992

Category: 
Small Ensemble
First Performance: 
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
Orchestration: 
Two small ensembles plus two speakers
Duration: 
c.10 minutes
Notation: 
Adapted standard notation
Two speakers recite written text. Instrumental interludes between each passage of text. 
 
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