Oxford University Press Sheet Music

By turns charming, tender, and ironic, these songs make an excellent concert suite and wonderful encores. They are scored for voice and violin.

Comic Book Fanfares is a fantasy for horn, by turns elegiac and broadly comedic. It expands upon ideas from the composer's comic opera, Craig's Progress, weaving them into a portrait of fond reminisce...

for unison trebles and chamber group This is the first known publication of Faure's original instrumentation (oboe, harp, organ, 2 cellos, double bass). It may be successfully performed using a string...

for B flat clarinet and piano 15 arrangements of Gershwin's most popular songs arranged for clarinettists of around grades 1 to 5 and arranged in order of difficulty.

One of Mathias's earliest pieces (written whilst he was still a student at the Royal Academy of Music in 1956), the Sonatina for clarinet and piano still displays many of the composer's inimitable fin...

These delightful little classical sonatas - almost sonatinas - appeared in Lefevre's Methode de Clarinette (1802). They are technically undemanding, but they are winning in their unaffected lyric char...

Field Notes is a compact, one-movement chamber work for oboe, violin, viola, and cello. The work is full of harmonic interest with chromatic and melodic passages shared equally between the parts.

This work is based on the traditional modes/scales of Armenia. 'Duduk' is the name of the Armenian oboe that is normally accompanied by drones. Erkoreka cleverly creates the illusion of the drone's pr...

Oboe and keyboard. 16 pages.

March - Elegy - Waltz - Slow Air - Limerick - Chinese Tune - Galop

A capricious, lyrical, and nostalgic work, it is often considered to be Vaughan Williams' most successful work in this form. The first movement is pastoral in feeling. The second movement begins with...

Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 8 between 1953 and 1955, when he was in his eighties. It is his shortest symphony, and is considered by many to be his least serious. Aside from a few sombre mo...

for solo soprano, SATB, and orchestra Spring Rounds is a significant work that is rich in variety and orchestral colours. Jackson has selected texts by a multiplicity of authors, from the seventeenth-...

This scholarly edition replaces the original 1958 edition, and includes detailed preliminary matter comprising a preface, sources and editorial method, and detailed textual notes. Orchestral material...

Solo violin part for Michael Berkeley's Violin Concerto, premiered at the BBC Proms in 2016.

for SATB and orchestra. Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerfu...

for SATB and orchestra. Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerfu...

In this joyous and colourful piano concerto, John Rutter both reflects, and reflects upon, the many soundworlds and styles that have inspired him. The 40-minute work, in four movements, is virtuosic f...

Written as the test piece for the CAVATINA Intercollegiate String Quartet Competition held at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, this short piece gives ensembles an opportunity to display their creativity b...

Finnissy's Second String Quartet was written for the Kreutzer String Quartet. It is based on a Haydn quartet, and traces of the older work can be discerned within Finnissy's distinctive musical style....

Finnissy's Third String Quartet is the composer's response to the natural world and man's place in it. The work incorporates birdsong, both transcribed and recorded, and the instruments gradually fade...

for string quintet. A response to Schubert's String Quintet in C (D956), this work highlights the added bass sonority provided by the second cello. It is a single movement work and explores ideas of f...

Berkeley's second string quartet uses a free, random presentation of thematic material. There is a sharp contrast between the tight and rhythmic central section and the final passage which dispenses w...

for string quintet. Sentinels was written for the Brodsky Quartet and John Metcalfe. The piece is really a long, unrelenting march whose pulse never slackens or quickens, and in which slightly quirky...