Piano. A set of contrasted pieces for children of all ages. Duration: 15 minutes. Grades 3-5 technical level. Composed in 1974, and left unprinted for 27 years, it was published to great acclaim by Gonzaga Music in 2002. The first performance of the complete set was on 9th November 2003, in a recital by Giles Swayne at Abbey Road Concerts, London.

1. Flea-bites
2. The band
3. Mysterious lake
4. Posh Lady dancing
5. Posh Lady walking
6. Posh Lady swimming
7. Mousetrap (a sad tail)
8. Frosty morning
9. Smelly old cat
10. Nasty little dog
11. Ice-cream van
12. Wet Sunday afternoon
13. Big fat policeman
14. Dodo’s lullaby
15. Ophelia’s lullaby

Ice-cream van (no. 11 of  Scrap-book) is a Grade 3 exam piece in the Associated Board syllabus (List C), and appears in the Grade 3 album published by ABRSM Publishing

Piano. 12 pieces for children of all ages. Duration: 12 minutes. Grades 2-4 technical level. Each piece is a musical picture inspired by postage stamps (and a pillar box) from various countries around the world. Commissioned by Gonzaga Music to celebrate the company’s formation in 2002. First performed by Giles Swayne on 9th November 2003, in a recital at Abbey Road Concerts, London.

1. ICELAND: Snow dance
2. SUDAN: Desert caravan
3. AUSTRIA: Wonky Waltz
4. LUNDY: Sea mists
5. UKRAINE: Rustic wedding
6. GREECE: The Acropolis
7. LILLIPUT: First day cover
8. AUSTRALIA: The lyre-bird
9. MEXICO: Jumping beans
10. RUSSIA: Bolshoi drama
11. GREAT BRITAIN: Hurrah! Mr. Trollope invents the Pillar-box
12. SICILY: Tarantella mafiosa

Stamp-album has been chosen as a set book
by the 2006 Glasgow Music Festival

Piano. Ten contrasting pieces which encourage the young pianist to express moods and characters of many kinds. Although technically easier (Grades 2-4) they are similar in approach to the same composer’s collection Scrap-book. The sixth piece, Whistling Tune, is included in Spectrum 4, an international collection of miniatures for piano, compiled by Thalia Myers and published by the Associated Board under licence from Gonzaga Music.

1. Catchy Tune
2. Silly Tune
3. Scary Tune
4. Ring Tune
5. Posh Tune
6. Whistling Tune
7. Pop Tune
8. Hymn Tune
9. Sleepy Tune
10. Cheeky Tune

Piano Grade 1. Ten pieces depicting a basket of fresh and varied vegetables, including a downcast cabbage, an elegant French bean out for a Sunday stroll, two chirpy Spanish onions, and even an exploding turnip. This rewarding and picturesque collection forms an excellent introduction to the same composer’s Stamp-album GZ 002

1. THE MIGHTY CARROT:
   Stomp dance
2. VERY SAD PETITS POIS:
   Doleful dance
3. THE RUNNER BEAN:
   Early morning jog
4. HAPPY SPANISH ONIONS:
   Holiday fiesta
5. THE LONELY CABBAGE:
   Green lament
6. A SWEDE’S NORWEGIAN WEDDING:
   Fjord dance
7. THE FRENCH BEAN:
   Sunday promenade
8. PERKY PARSNIPS:
   A jaunty jape
9. THE EXPLODING TURNIP:
   A sorry scene
10. THAT’S SHALLOT FOLKS:
    Can-can

Harpsichord. Duration: 23 minutes. Grade 6-8 technical level. An instrumental drama which portrays the events, settings and characters of the Shakespeare play. In ten contrasted pieces which skilfully exploit the harpsichord’s varied registers, we hear Macbeth’s encounter with the witches, his dark broodings, and Lady Macbeth’s wily powers of persuasion – an increasingly manic Valse diabolique. The growing mayhem eventually leads to the appearance of Banquo’s ghost, and Macbeth’s defeat at the hands of Macduff. Vivid, spooky and exciting.

Oboe and Piano. Duration: 7 minutes. Technical level: Grades 6-7. Three contrasting movements: a vigorous Allegro deciso, a lyrical Andante espressivo containing a passionate central section, and a rustic Vivace e giocoso dance for the finale. Written in 1983, and dedicated to Tina Cumming, it has been frequently used by students as an end-of-term concert piece.

Flute & Piano. Eight wry and witty pieces for flute, Grades 1-2, which, while putting the young player through a series of useful and exciting technical and musical challenges, bid an impudent farewell to the high-risk, low-nutrition craze for fast food. Flute part edited by Philippa Davies.

1. THE ROYAL DELUXE:
   Regal procession
2. HAGGIS HALF-POUNDER:
   Midnight revel
3. KANGAROO QUARTER-BOUNDER:
   Lazy sun-dance
4. THE MINI, MINI-BURGER:
   Fast food scherzo
5. THE WESTMINSTER SPECIAL:
   Thames nocturne
6. CRUNCHY COCKROACH:
   Scuttle dance
7. THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS:
   Lament
8. CHEF’S WHOPPER:
   Knees-up

Clarinet & Piano. Eight seafaring pieces for clarinet, Grades 2-3, which use the names of knots and hitches (real and invented) to create a sparkling variety of mood and character which will stimulate the musicianship and technical skill of the aspiring clarinettist.

1. THE FISHERMAN’S BEND:
   Hornpipe
2. SPANIARD’S LOOPING KNOT:
   Habañera
3. THE JSB SHEEPSHANK:
   Knotty Invention
4. DOUBLED DOUBLE-DUTCHMAN:
   Bowsprit dance
5. ALPINE BUTTERFLY BEND:
   Summer dream
6. CZERNY’S HITCH:
   Perpetuum mobile
7. CABIN-BOY’S BOWLINE:
   Midnight prayer
8. MERRY MACKEREL TURN:
   Valse burlesque

Flute & Piano. Duration: 9 minutes. Four pieces offering a light-hearted and flautistical view of the Adam and Eve story. Swayne’s mastery of the flute is familiar from his choral work HAVOC, commisioned by the BBC and performed at the Proms in 1999, the haunting Winter Solstice Carol, written for the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and the fearsomely demanding Canto for flute (all published by Novell & Company). He has a close musical partnership with the outstanding British flautist Philippa Davies, who premiered all these pieces, and to whom this new collection is dedicated. Designed for Grades 6-7, these four pieces introduce the player to flutter-tonguing, harmonics and tongue-in-cheek.

1. The Gardener of Eden
2. Adam and Eve and Pinch-me
3. Paradise Stomp
4. Forbidden Flute

2 solo Trumpets. Written in 1982 as a series of short teaching pieces, graded by technical difficulty (Grades 5-8). Ideal for students and teachers, they are entertaining as well as technically instructive.

Trumpet and piano. Duration: 4 minutes.  Technical level: Grades 7-8. Dreamsong is the second movement of Sangre viva (GZ 015). The mood is derived from a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca called Sueño – a poem about time, eternity and oblivion:

My heart rests by the cool fountain.
(fill it with your threads,
Spider of oblivion)

Dreamsong is being published as an independent piece because it is short enough to be performed by trumpeters who may find the parent work Sangre viva too much to handle – and also because it is highly suitable for recital programmes and advanced teaching purposes.

Viola & Piano. Seven pieces for viola, Grades 2-4, which exploit the viola’s wide range of colour and character in portrait-studies of crawling creatures in all their fascinating variety.

1. The ingenious Spider
2. The elegant Snail
3. The obliging Worm
4. The workaholic Ant
5. The mysterious Woodlouse
6. The savage Centipede
7. The insatiable Caterpillar

Guitar. Technical level: Grades 4-6. Sanja Milutinović-Gudurić is a highly respected guitarist who performs in Macedonia, Belarus and Bulgaria, as well as her native Serbia. She teaches the guitar at Zrenjanin Music School in Novi Sad, Serbia, and has composed many pieces for teaching and concert use. These pieces are tuneful and nostalgic without being sentimental, and beautifully written for the guitar. They make excellent recital pieces, as well as being ideal for students. The last two pieces are scored for two guitars.

1. Xena
2. A leaf in the wind
3. The sad clown
4. Bedtime story
5. Dancing doll
6. Prelude for Marija
7. Slavonic folk-dance
8. Portrait of my mother
9. Cherries

Cello and piano. Technical level: Grades 1-3. All manner of astral bodies are visited in this wide-ranging voyage through space. Each piece is in the form of a march, but the eight marches have very different characters, ranging from the chirpy confidence of A Frisky Asteroid to the funeral lament of The Dying Star. This composer being an accomplished cellist, these pieces show an intimate understanding of the problems and possibilities of the instrument at this level.

1. A Frisky Asteroid
2. The Lonely Planet
3. The Eight Moons of Neptune
4. Orion’s Nebula
5. Helios Hyperion – The Jolly Sun God
6. Cygmus X-26 – The Laughing Satellites
7. Giant Black Hole
8. The Dying Star