Secular Choral
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Absence op 13
Words: Sylvia Grafton.
Parts: SATB.
Date of composition: 1986.
Duration: 4 minutes.
First public performance: 19th May 1989. Cantores, Sandhurst, Berkshire
Score Extract: ADG013
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Dark Eyes op 36
Words: Anon Russian folk song in English.
Parts: SATB.
Date of composition: 1994.
Duration: 2 minutes.
First performance: 24th September 1994, P Tanton, A lock, J Hall and A Grafton, Sandhurst.
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de musica op 84
Words: camina cantabrigiae.
Parts: SATB and brass quintet.
Date of composition: 2017.
Duration: 6 minutes.
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Guardian Angel op 90d
Words: anon French 19th century.
Parts: SATB and piano/organ
Date of composition: 2019
Duration: 6 minutes
First performance: 26th September 2021, the church choir, St Michael's church, Sandhurst Berkshire.
Note: In English with only one phrase in French.
Score Extract: ADG090D
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Immortality op 78
Words. The Bible, the requiem service, Virgil and Horace.
Parts: SAB soloists, SATB and organ.
Date of composition: 2013.
Duration: 20 minutes.
First performance: 16th November 2013, Thames Voyces, Crowthorne, Berkshire.
Score Extract: ADG078
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Lenten is come with love to town op 85
Words. anon 14th century.
Parts: TTB and piano.
Date of composition: 2017.
Duration: 4 minutes.
Score Extract: ADG085
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Now Welcome Summer op 19a
Words: Geoffrey Chaucer.
Parts: SATB and piano.
Date of composition: 1988.
Duration: 3 minutes.
First performance: 1st July 1988, School Choir, Eagle House School, Sandhurst, Berkshire.
Note. Highly commended in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Competition organised by Harrogate Vocalis, 2008.
Score Extract: ADG019A
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Songs of the Sea op 92
Words: Christina Rossetti.
Parts: SATB and piano
Date of composition: 2025
Duration: 35 minutes.
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Sosban Fach op 22
Words: Traditional Welsh.
Parts: SATB.
Date of composition: 1990.
Duration: 4 minutes.
First performance:17th December 1993, Cantores, Waltham St Lawrence.
Score Extract: ADG022
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The Hazel Tree op 68
Words. Marjorie Wheeler.
Parts: Tenor solo, SATB and brass quintet.
Date of composition: 2007.
Duration: 9 minutes.
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The Owl and the Pussycat op 17a
Words: Edward Lear.
Parts: SSA and piano.
Date of composition: 1987.
Duration: 4 minutes.
First performance: 18th February 1988. Staff, Eagle House School, Sandhurst, Berkshire.
Score Extract: ADG017A
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The Owl and the Pussycat op 17b
Words: Edward Lear.
Parts: SATB and piano.
Date of composition: 1987.
Duration: 4 minutes.
First performance: 9th March 1991, Cantores, Barkham.
Score Extract: ADG017B
