Oxford University Press Sheet Music

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...

Novello's original orchestral accompaniment for his arrangement of this well-loved Christmas hymn. Full score and set of parts are sold together.

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...

for string quartet. This is a version for string quartet of Erkoreka's saxophone quartet, Duduk II. It is the last of the four Duduk pieces which are based on the traditional modes/scales of Armenia.

This four-movement work represents the composer's desire 'to write a piece of real chamber music, intimate and conversational in tone, drawing the listener into its worlds'. The result, he writes, 'is...

Commissioned by Cardiff University School of Music and dedicated to their resident string quartet, this work is in one unbroken span that is formed from four linked movements. The work features sharpl...

for string quartet. Written for the Smith Quartet, the title refers to some of the many different meanings of the word 'catch' - fishing, tricks, rounds. The result is a twelve-minute piece played con...

for string quartet. Tendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art.' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout, the impu...

Moving On is a single movement work for string quartet. Skempton masterfully combines classical string quartet textures with luxuriant harmonies and a fluid approach to tonality, resulting in an appea...

Moving On is a single movement work for string quartet. Skempton masterfully combines classical string quartet textures with luxuriant harmonies and a fluid approach to tonality, resulting in an appea...

This intense work is inspired by a photograph of Zhou Long's wife Chen Yi face to face with a hawk that had landed near their house. The music is filled with eerie slides and dynamic changes, with a f...

for string orchestra with piccolo and flute Toward Dusk is an arrangement of the last movement of Tann's Water's Edge (for piano duet). Echoes of the material of the other two movements are heard duri...

for SATB and organ or string orchestra The string accompaniment is available on hire and for sale.

This is a joyful work for organ and trumpet. Jackson employs a sectional structure, contrasting celebratory clamorous writing with moments of intimacy and reflection.

Causton explores the various timbres of the violin in this unaccompanied work. The improvisatory fantasy of the opening gives way to a virtuosic Double and then a lyrical, pensive Air which closes the...

Sounding heaven and earth is an organ piece inspired by Prayer, a sonnet by the metaphysical poet, George Herbert.

This four-volume anthology contains a sparkling selection of pieces and represents all the major composers of the period. With extended historical information and a wonderful array of varied pieces ca...

This superb volume comprises a selection of 20 pieces by Charles Villiers Stanford, the hugely influential composer, conductor, and teacher from the late-Victorian and Edwardian age. It provides the r...