| Ave Maris Stella |
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| SATB chorus and solo soprano with
organ or string accompaniment
Choral score
Oxford University Press 2008
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'a lovely new setting of Ave Maris Stella, tender in unaffected simplicity.'
The Spectator 2004 (Robin Holloway)
'Other agreeable Presteigne memories? Cecilia McDowall's moving motet Ave Maris Stella, written in 9/11's shadow. And the sun, every day.' The Times 2007 (Geoff Brown) |
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| Christus Natus Est |
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| A Christmas Cantata
SATB chorus, soprano solo and children's choir
Available in three versions:
1) small orchestra; 2) brass quintet, organ and percussion (1 player); 3) organ/piano
choral score
Parts for hire from OUP November 2007
Oxford University Press 2007
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The Christmas cantata, Christus Natus Est is a hit: an absolute delight from start to finish, scored for children's choir, solo soprano, mixed chorus and small orchestra.
International Record Review 2005.
But an excellent reason now in early December to rush out and order this CD is the lovely Christmas Cantata, Christus Natus Est, for choir and children's choir, with soprano and a small orchestra. Its five short movements are extremely imaginative arrangements of two Latin carols from Piae Cantiones, the French carol Entre le boeuf, and a traditional Polish carol Infant holy all linked by a series of clever variants on one of McDowall's own carols, Of a rose. This is a piece which, if I were king, would be done in musical schools every year!
Music and Vision Web Review 2004 |
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| Ave Regina |
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| SATB a cappella
Oxford University Press 2006
NH36
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In 55 bars the compression and economy of Cecilia McDwall's Ave Regina are impressive, but so too is the sense of spaciousness. The structure is underwritten by recurring appoggiaturas - bitter-sweets - supplying also a particularly characteristic flvour. being slightly polytonal, tuning would have to be very accurate, but it would be well worth the effort in this sumptuous music where expressive highlighting of key words gleams like episodes in a Chagall window.
Choir and Organ 2006 |
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| Ave Maria |
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| SSA a cappella
Oxford University Press 2006
NH35
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The Ave Maria, the second of the triptych, is sparer, a little faster, and slightly shorter. Writing for SSA only, McDowall makes a virtue of carefully placed repetitions. In the Ave Regina it is the appoggiaturas that recur; here it is a pair of laddering motifs, the one rising in close harmony quavers, the other cascading down in chains of suspensions. Once again, sensitivity to the words - their passion, their dignity, and their metrical quantities - is faultless.
Choir and Organ 2006 |
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| Regina Caeli |
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| SATB (with divisions) a cappella
Regina Caeli is an exuberant setting of the Marian motet.
Each Alleluia punctuates the linear setting of the
verses which use the footprints of the Regina caeli plainchant.
Oxford University Press 2005
NH23
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| White Fox Woman |
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| Middle to low female voice (or countertenor) and oboe
Hunt Edition 2004
HE54
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| Boosey and Hawkes Song Collection Volume 2 |
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| If there are angels
Voice and piano
35 songs by various composers, 1901-2004
Selected by Eileen Field
Boosey & Hawkes 2005
ISBN: 0851624723
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. . . a volume, which saves the best till last: Cecilia McDowall's If there are angels, genuinely of today both in music and in the poem by Caroline Natzler, deserves to be in every singer's repertoire. This is a beautiful song, exquisitely written.This volume is worth getting for McDowall's song alone.
David Owen Norris, Sheet Music Review, September, 2006 |
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| Fingerprints - edited by Mary Cohen |
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| Sunday on Fifth Avenue
Violin and piano
14 easy contemporary pieces for violin and piano
Faber Music 2006
ISBN 0-571-52258-0
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| Fingerprints - edited by David Campbell |
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| Flights of angels
Clarinet and piano
14 easy contemporary pieces for clarinet and piano
Faber Music 2006
ISBN 0-571-52255-6
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| Unbeaten Tracks |
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| Prairie Song
Oboe and piano
Eight contemporary pieces, edited by Sarah Francis
Faber Music 2005
ISBN 0-571-52374-9
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| Bells in the air |
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| trumpet in Bb and horn in F duet
Brass Wind Publications 2005
EB015
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| Four Piano Solos |
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| Shades of Solace
Vespers in Venice
Pavane
Tapsalteerie
Hunt Edition 2002
HE58
available from Spartan Press
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| What 'tis to love |
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| Four Shakespeare Songs
for soprano and piano
1. What 'tis to love
2. Give me my robe
3. How should I your true love know
4. First rehearse
Gemini Publications 1991
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| The Night Trumpeter |
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| for trumpet in Bb and piano
1. The power of dreams
2. Kirchner's Ear
Both movements reach for historical connections between different uses, in the 16th Century, of the trumpet as a conveyor of information. The first movement is inspired by a novel, Music and Silence by Rose Tremain and the second by a German architect, Kirchner, who designed an early bugging device which was shaped like a huge trumpet, structured on the Fibonacci sequence.
Paul Archibald Trumpet Repertoire
Brass Wind Publications 2004
AR C10
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| The Night Trumpeter |
| trumpet in Bb, violin, cello, clarinet, bassoon and piano
Gemini Publications 2004
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| Radnor Songs |
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| high voice and piano
score
Gemini Publications 2005
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| Fancy of Folksongs |
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| mixed voices and harp/piano
choral score
Gemini Publications 2003
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| St Martin's Canticles |
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| Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
SATB (divisi) and organ
choral score
Gemini Publications 2003
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| Stabat Mater |
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| baritone solo,
SATB chorus and
small orchestra
choral score
Gemini Publications 2004
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| Magnificat |
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| soprano and mezzo-soprano solo,
SATB chorus and
orchestra
choral score
Gemini Publications 2003
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| Six Pastiches |
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| for flute or oboe and piano
Pan Educational Music 1996
PEM 40
available from Pan Educational Music
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| Bass in Space |
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| Blue Giant
double bass and piano
also works by
Tony Osborne, John Alexander, Dalwyn Henshal,
Stephen Dodgson, Reynaldo Young and Daryl Runswick
available from Recital Music
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| Winter Music |
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| wind quintet
Hunt Edition 1992
HE55
available from Spartan Press
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| Soundtracks |
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| flute and piano
Hunt Edition 1998
HE51
available from Spartan Press
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| The Moon Dances |
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| flute and piano
Hunt Edition 2003
HE62
available from Spartan Press
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| Piper's Dream |
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| flute and piano
Hunt Edition 2002
available from Spartan Press
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| Concert Studies for Flute and Piano |
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| Hunt Edition 1994
HE15
available from Spartan Press
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| Hotfoot |
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| Flute Quartet
Hunt Edition 1998
HE45
available from Spartan Press
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