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Number of matching records: 40 
Fools Holiday (1988)

1988

Category: 
Music Theatre
First Performance: 
Chudleigh Community College, 1988
Orchestration: 
Saxophones, Brass and Percussion
Duration: 
circa 60 minutes
Notation: 
Adapted Standard Notation
Music/theatre for Theatre of Public Works. toured North and South Devon and featured at the BritEsch Festival, Luxembourg (1988-89) 
Landscape Music

1990

Category: 
Small Ensemble
First Performance: 
Lynton and Lynmouth Festival of the Arts, 1990
Orchestration: 
Pre-recorded sounds, live percussion, keyboards
Duration: 
20 minutes
Notation: 
Adapted Standard Notation
 
Influence

1990

Category: 
General
First Performance: 
Plymouth Barbican Theatre 1990
Orchestration: 
Any ensemble large or small, including solo
Duration: 
Variable
Notation: 
Standard, graphic, text
Uses a variety of types of scoring for free interpretation. 
Pictorial Improvisation

1990

Category: 
General
First Performance: 
Plymouth Barbican Theatre 1990
Orchestration: 
Free - large,small or solo
Duration: 
Free but generally no more than 15 minutes
Notation: 
Pictorial
Pictorial stimuli for improving musicians. 
Heroic Journey

1990

Category: 
Chamber Works
First Performance: 
Orchestration: 
Soprano saxophone with small group
Duration: 
c. 10 minutes maximum
Notation: 
Standard and graphic
Standard and graphic score. 
Nature Studies

1992

Category: 
General
First Performance: 
Recording issued 1993
Orchestration: 
Various
Duration: 
c. 50 mins.
Notation: 
Various
A series of pieces using a variety of scoring methods. Each piece was derived from a particular landscape in Devon. 
Erratic Movements of the Year

1994

Category: 
Large Ensemble
First Performance: 
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
Orchestration: 
Any large group
Duration: 
c.70'
Notation: 
Various
Large scale piece for any instruments, although some are specified. Uses various notations from standard to graphic. Soloists on flute, cello and string quartet required. 
Blackborough Music

1992

Category: 
Piano Pieces
First Performance: 
Orchestration: 
Two pianos
Duration: 
10 minutes
Notation: 
Standard time-space notation
Duo for Two Pianos 
Piano Piece (For Patrick Heron)

1992

Category: 
Piano Pieces
First Performance: 
Orchestration: 
Solo piano
Duration: 
Variable - c.7 minutes
Notation: 
Standard -Time-space
Piano solo 
Drake's Drum

1992

Category: 
Small Ensemble
First Performance: 
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
Orchestration: 
Two small ensembles plus two speakers
Duration: 
c.10 minutes
Notation: 
Adapted standard notation
For two small ensembles with two speakers. 
 
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