Martin Butler Sheet Music for Ensemble

for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano These arrangements of two keyboard sonatas by Scarlatti are stylish and approachable. The first sonata is vivacious and dance-like and the second is sl...

for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano. This stylish and approachable arrangement of Scarlatti's Sonata in D (K.119) (originally composed for keyboard) is vivacious and dance-like in charact...

for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano. This arrangement of Scarlatti's Sonata in E (K. 215), which was originally composed for keyboard, is restrained and melodic, as well as being stylish...

for piano, clarinet, and vibraphone

for piano quintet with double bass Each of the four movements of the work concentrates on a tiny amount of highly-characterised musical material derived from the scales, gestures and performing practi...

Spring Rounds is a companion work to American Rounds, which Butler wrote for the Schubert Ensemble in 1998. It consists of the same type of folky material, organised throughout in canonic dialogue bet...

Adapted from the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, Hosanna to the Son of David is a jubilant anthem with a lively, independent piano part. Adams employs dynamics as a word-painting tool, with a jubil...

For piano quartet. This piece, the second written for the Schubert Ensemble, is constructed from a sequence of episodes which gradually expose a central monody. As the title suggests, the music has a...

Setting a text by Elizabeth Barratt Browning, this thoughtful and evocative piece compares a dying relationship with the changing of the seasons from summer to winter. Also available in versions for s...

This haunting carol comprises a sequence of three rounds. It demonstrates the distinctive clarity of Skempton's musical language. It will particularly appeal to good chamber choirs.

This beautiful arrangement of the 17th-century lullaby features subtle jazz inflections and artful imitation. The text seeks to create a calm and comforting atmosphere for sleep, which Parry emulates...

With words by the composer, this mesmerising piece comes from the large-scale work, Snow Angel, and celebrates the coming of winter and the everlasting nature of music. Includes an optional cello part...

Composed for the spnm 'Composing for Kids' initiative, the work consists of settings of poems by pupils from two of the participating schools. The poems are varied in mood and thematic material, yet s...

For chamber ensemble (2Cl, Vla, Vc, Pno, Perc(Marimba, Bodhrssn)). On Claudy Banks is a quiet response to the musical and lyrical content of a traditional folk song of the same name about a woman mour...

For trumpet in B flat and soprano. A setting of Walt Whitman's The Mystic Trumpeter (1872), in which the trumpeter (positioned off stage, or otherwise out of sight) imitates and echoes the soprano's m...