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Operas and Theatre Music
Operas
| The Beggar's Opera
(Theatre / Concert score) |
1952 |
| Publisher: Novello |
Duration: unknown |
| Instrumentation: Ms, T, Bar, chorus, 2+2 2 2 2, 2 2 3 1, timp, 2 perc (sd, td,
bd, cyms, glock, xyl, tub. bells, low bell in F, tamb, gong,
chains, iron bar), hp, cel (ad lib), strings (doubling unchecked) |
| For sets of songs from opera visit
Songs:
For film score visit Music
for film and radio |
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| The Olympians
(Three acts) |
1948 |
| Publisher: Novello |
Duration: unknown |
| Instrumentation: 2d2
2 2 2d1, 4 2 3 1, timp, 3 perc (sd, bd, cym, tri, glock,
xyl, tam-tam, tub. belss, tamb. drum, sl. bells), cel, 2 hps
(unison), strings, (+6 off stage tpts in 2 parts) |
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| Tobias and the angel
(Two acts for Television) |
1960 |
| Publisher: Novello |
Duration: 45,40 mins resp. |
| Instrumentation: 2d1
2 2 2, 4 2 3 1, timp, 2 perc (sd, td, bd, cym, tri, glock, xyl,
gong, 2 tambs (different pitch), hp, strings |
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Ballets
| Adam Zero
(One scene) |
1946 |
| Publisher: Novello |
Duration: 40-45 mins |
| Instrumentation: 2d2
2d1 2d1 (ten. sax.) 2, 4 2 3 1, timp, 4 perc (2
sd, td, cym, tri, glock, xyl, 2 metal bars, tub. bells, vibra,
sl. bells, tamb, cow bells, gong, temple block, wind machine),
cel, guitar, piano, harp, strings |
| For concert suite visit
Orchestral Music: For arr. piano solo
visit Piano Music |
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| Checkmate
(Complete ballet) |
1937 |
| Publisher: Novello |
Duration: 44-50 mins |
| Instrumentation: 21
2d1 2 2, 4 2 3 0, timp, 2 perc (sd, td, bd, cym, tri,
glock, xyl, tam-tam, bell, cast, tamb), hp, strings |
| For concert suite visit
Orchestral Music: For arr. piano solo
visit Piano Music |
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| Diversions |
(music material from) 1935 |
| Publisher: ? |
Duration: 24:30 mins |
| Instrumentation: ? |
| Additional: music material
from Music for Strings |
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| Frontier
(Three sections) |
(music material from) 1927 |
| Publisher: ? |
Duration: 20 mins |
| Instrumentation: ? |
| Additional: music material
from Quintet for oboe and string 4tet |
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| The Lady of Shallot
(One act) |
1958 |
| Publisher: Novello (h) |
Duration: 35-40 mins |
| Instrumentation: 2d1
2 2 2, 2 2 1 0, timp, perc 9sd, td, bd, cym, tri, glock, tamb,
2 tub. belss, hp, 1 cel, piano, strings |
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| Melee Fantasque |
1921 (rev. 1937, 1965) |
| Publisher: Faber |
Duration: 11:30-12 mins |
| Instrumentation: 2+1 2+1
2+1 2+1, 4 3 3 1, timp, 3 perc (sd, bd, cym, glock, xyl, gong,
tamb), stringd |
| Additional: never staged
but described as first ballet score by Bliss |
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| Miracle in the Gorbals |
1944 |
| Ballet in one scene |
Publisher: Novello |
Duration: 35 mins |
| Instrumentation: 2d1
2d1 2d1 2, 4 2 3 0, timp, perc (sd, bd, cym, tri,
glock, xyl, tam-tam, tub.bells, tom-tom), harp, strings and
a ship's hooter |
| For concert suite visit
Orchestral Music: For arr. piano solo
visit Piano Music |
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| Narcissus and Echo
(One act) |
1931? |
| Publisher: ? |
Duration: ? |
| Instrumentation: two voices
and small orchestra |
| Additional: music material
prob. from 'Rhapsody' |
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| Rout (One
scene) |
1920 |
| Publisher: Curwen/Faber |
Duration: 7 mins
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| Instrumentation: soprano
and ensemble and arr. piano duet |
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| Royal Offering
(Four movements) |
(music material from) 1921 |
| Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes |
Duration: 30 mins |
| Instrumentation: 3+3
3+1 3+1 3+1, 4 3 3 1, 6 timp (2 players), cym, 2 hps, strings |
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Incidental music for plays
| As you like it (music arr. from Elizabethan sources) |
1919 |
| Publisher: unpublished, location unknown |
Duration: unknown |
| Instrumentation: solo voices,
chorus, string 4tet |
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| King Solomon
(for a play by Ira Remsen) |
1924 |
| Publisher: unpublished, location unknown |
Duration: unknown |
| Instrumentation: unknow |
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| The Tempest
(Overture, interlude and incidental music |
1921 |
| Publisher: Novello (withdrawn) |
Duration: 5-6 mins |
| Instrumentation: Tenor,
Bass, pf, tpt, trb, 4 timp (4 players), 3 or 4 perc (sd, td,
bd, cym, gong, clapper) |
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