PDF for immediate download. Published and typeset by the Erik Chisholm Trust.

Three volumes of Children’s Pieces by Erik Chisholm, containing 22 short works ranging from Easy to Moderately Difficult. Possibly written in the 1940s.

Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Erik Chisholm: Music for Piano, Vol. 1 ℗ 2013 Diversions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuMrlmMEsZ8&list=OLAK5uy_nRVKBCRTMNBPRpC6Y4ym5FjhIzl-QaPy0&index=4

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For 13 Clarinets.

For SATB Choir

Computer typeset score (8p) composed in 2026, saved as a .pdf file for immediate download.

Warm was composed for Orkney International Science Festival to commemorate Professor Hans Kosterlitz (1903-1996), a biochemist from University of Aberdeen who pioneered the discovery of endorphins. Lyrics were written by Gemma McGregor with contributions

from Orkney Chamber Choir who answered the question, what makes you feel happy? The composition was funded by the Hope Scott Trust.

Computer typeset score (15pp) written in 2026, saved as a PDF file for immediate download.

For SA choir and piano

1. The Twa Corbies
2. The Dowie Dens O Yarrow

3. Get Up And Bar The Door

Composed, adapted and arranged John Gourlay

Computer typeset score (8pp) written in 2026, saved as a PDF file for immediate download.

For SA choir and piano

Taken from Three Scots Ballads

Composed, adapted and arranged John Gourlay

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For SA choir and piano

Taken from Three Scots Ballads

Composed, adapted and arranged John Gourlay

Computer typeset score (4pp) written in 2026, saved as a PDF file for immediate download.

For SA choir and piano

Taken from Three Scots Ballads

Composed, adapted and arranged John Gourlay

for medium voice and piano [29pp scanned to PDF for immediate download]

1. Aince upon a day (William Soutar)

2. Auld Mrs. Murdy (Albert D. Mackie)

3. One-Man Band (William Landles)

4. Munebrunt (William Soutar)

5. Shy Geordie (Helen B. Cruickshank)

6. The Boy in the Train (M. C. Smith)

For Solo Cello and Tape

Computer typeset score (10p) and tape part (wav)

Programme Notes

In this work, a cellist performs a duet with their past self; the musical and ensemble possibilities and constraints have already been largely decided when the cellist records themselves. This is, of course, a metaphor for the duet we must all do as we grow and change over time.

For String Orchestra

Computer typeset score (38p) and parts VnI (7p+7p+7p+5p) VnII (7+7+7+5) Va (5p+5p+5p+5p) Vc (5p+4p+5p+4p) Db (5p+5p) composed in 2026, saved as a .pdf file for immediate download.

Inheritance was forged in the magical liminality of grief and midlife. It explores the feelings and questions which arose when I realised that I had become the lone keeper of my inheritance, and that I should decide what I will pass on.When faced with the big questions I go to the sea; this work draws on the metaphors of the shore - an inherited place; of tides and change; of before and after; of single grains and the unity of the sand; Of looking out at a thousand glimmering mirrors chattering to the sun.

The Silent Chapel composed 2026 for string quartet.

Computer typeset score (10p)

Typeset PDF score scanned for immediate download. Full Score [27pp] and Violin Solo part [7pp].

Commissioned by Peter Mountain and Angela Dale

Typeset score published by Alfred Lengnick & Co. (1952). Scanned to PDF for immediate download [2 pp]

Typeset score published by Alfred Lengnick & Co. (1952). Scanned to PDF for immediate download [3 pp]

Typeset score published by Alfred Lengnick & Co. (1952). Scanned to PDF for immediate download [1 pp]

Typeset score published by Alfred Lengnick & Co. (1952). Scanned to PDF for immediate download [1 pp]

Typeset score published by Alfred Lengnick & Co. (1948). Scanned to PDF for immediate download [14 pp]

1. Nicht so traurig

2. Saffron Walden

3. Westminster

Typeset score published by Alfred Lengnik & Co. [1952]. Scanned to PDF for immediate download. [3 pp]

Handwritten score, scanned to PDF for immediate download. [5pp]

Typeset score, scanned to PDF for immediate download. [3 pp]

Typeset score, scanned to PDF for immediate download. [8pp]

Very short, easy pieces with lyrics.

Typeset score published by Forsyth Bros. Ltd. [1924], scanned to PDF for immediate download. [6pp]

1. A Lazy Piece

2. A Jolly Tune

3. A Creepy Piece

4. Chopsticks

Typeset score, scanned to PDF for immediate download [4 pp].

Typeset Score [published by Augener Ltd. 1922], scanned to PDF for immediate download. [17 pp]

1. By the Burnside

2. On the Loch

3. Harvest Dance

arr. for Organ by Norman Strafford

Printed score, published by Murdoch, Murdoch and Co. Scanned to PDF for immediate download. [15pp]

Six Short pieces for Pianoforte:

1. The Spirit of the City

2. The Call of Nature

3. Friendship

4. Visions of Holyrood

5. Mad Frolic

6. The Composer to Pet Marjorie

Composition for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello, written in 2019.

Computer typeset score (19p) and set of instrumental parts.

Composition for clarinet, violin, viola and cello, written in 2019.

Computer typeset score (19p) and set of instrumental parts.

Work for alto flute and bass clarinet composed 2013. Computer typeset score (7pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for piano and percussion composed 2016. Computer typeset score (12pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for clarinet and accordion composed 2023. Computer typeset score (10pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for violin and bassoon composed 2021. Computer typeset score (10pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for piano composed 2024. Computer typeset score (7pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for solo viola composed 2023. Computer typeset score (7pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for piano composed 2020. Computer typeset score (9pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for piano composed 2016. Computer typeset score (7pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Work for organ composed 2019. Computer typeset score (15pp) saved as PDF for immediate download.

Arranged for solo piano.

Published by Boosey & Co. 1923. Scanned to PDF for immediate download. [14pp]

1. The Birlinn of Clanranald

2. Island Sheiling Song

3. Hebridean Sea Reivers Song

4. An Eriskay Love Lilt

5. The Cockle Gatherer

6. A Fairy Love Song

7. The Road to the Isles

Score published by Augener Ltd. 1924. Scanned to PDF for immediate download. [16pp]

1. Fantastic Dance

2. A Plaintive Song

3. In the Style of a Folk Song

4. Jig

5. A Grim Old Legend

6. Theme with Variations

Six short medium-level pieces for solo piano by composer William Whittaker.

Work for piccolo, c flute, bass flute, organ and electronics, composed May 2023

Duration 15 30”

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Four works for Solo Organ, composed in 2025.

I. Dragon

II. Vulcan

III. Sith

IV. Typhon

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Work for Solo Organ, composed in 2025.

Part of the Mythical Beasts suite.

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Work for Solo Organ, composed in 2025.

Part of the Mythical Beasts suite.

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Work for Solo Organ, composed in 2025.

Part of the Mythical Beasts suite.

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Work for Solo Organ, composed in 2016.

Part of the Mythical Beasts suite.

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Work for Tenor Saxophone and Piano , composed 2016

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Work in two parts for Solo Organ, composed 2023

I The Station

II The Project

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Work for Soprano Saxophone and Piano , composed 2016

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Work for Carillion, composed 16
Duration 8:40”.

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Work for 10 Handbells, composed 2017
Duration 9”.

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Work for solo organ, composed March 2023
Duration 4”.

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Work for amplified soprano, live electronics & organ, composed May 2024
Duration 10”.

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Work for solo organ, composed June 2024
Duration 13”.

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For oboe and piano. Computer typeset score (14p) saved as pdf for immediate download.

Kestrel's are easily identified by their unique (and impressive) hunting strategy, giving rise to it's Old English name 'Windhover'. Recent research ('Steady as they hover: kinematics of kestrel wing and tail morphing during hovering flights') involving wind tunnels and motion tracking cameras has revealed just how remarkable the birds technique is. While adjusting for changes in wind speed/gusts, turbulance and sheer, the little falcon maintains it's head position in space with remarkable precision.

This musicial work, short and focused, tries to capture the feel and imagery of the Kestrel's hovering behavior; the music suspends itself/hovers; harmonically, gesturally, rhythmically.

Fun fact: in Scotland, (and rest of the UK) there is only one Kestrel species, and so the name Kestrel refers solely to the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).

Kestrel was written for oboeist Serol Yapici.

Performance Notes:
The work should be light, energetic and expressive.

Computer typeset (pp17) in pdf format for immediate download.

no. 4 Edvard’s Butterfly

no. 5 Echoes of D.960

no. 6 Just a Minute!

Duration c. 11 minutes

A Collection of Classical inspired compositions, inflicting various emotions throughout for open interpretation. Originally released in 2017, rearranged and perfected in 2024, making it both simplistic and challenging for orchestras. Concerto Suite tells a story, but that story is what you make of it.

Overture
Concert Waltzo
Concerto Reincarnazione
Tranquillo
Commenciare a Finire

Released in 2024 by D.R.A Music

‘After Luis de Narvaez (fl. 1538)’.

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For solo flute, composed for Benjamin MacDougall 2001.

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1. Mrs de Ruyg’s Delight

2. Waltz

3. Hornpipe

For piano, violin and cello, composed 1939.

A Sheet music collection of solo works for the piano composed by Nicky Hind.

Scroll bound. 46 pages. 9" x 12" page size.

Released in 2025.

Score (2p) scanned to pdf.

Score (2p) scanned to pdf.

Solo works written for the piano

Released in 2024 by Listen to the wind.

A setting of a poem by C Ethel Evans for voice and piano (or harp) by Marie Dare (1902-78).

Handwritten pencil score (6p) scanned to pdf.

Composed 1934. Prelude - Rhapsody - Scherzo.

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Arrangement of 'Jock MacNeil's Reel' and 'The Mason's Apron' for strings.

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Printed score of the solo viola part (5 pages) scanned to pdf for immediate download.

Dreaming of Islands features settings of two of the greatest of Gaelic poets, Ian Crichton Smith and Sorley MacLean. In addition, two of the pieces are based on pìobaireachd, a form of Gaelic pipe music which is both musically and technically demanding. Pìobaireachd moves with the rhythms of nature, and these also dictate the music of the Clavier Sonata and Skyelines, though they are in a different idiom.

“An hour’s worth of absolutely gorgeous music in the most seductive instrumental and vocal settings, all magically played and sung by the listed artists.”

“This is a fantastic orchestral tone poem cum symphonic suite that can stand with the best.”

Three very different works on the theme of warfare. Bannockburn for full symphony orchestra celebrates the Scots victory over the English in 1314. Throat, for soprano, 2000-year-old Celtic war trumpet (the carnyx), and percussion, is a visceral exploration of an ancient sound world. Carrier Strike for piccolo, harpsichord and timpani is a playful but disturbing ‘domestic’ war game composed for Ian Hamilton Finlay’s provocative concept.

A mixture of classically inspired works including the Suite for Solo Violin performed by Rachel Barton Pine.The Old Composer Remembers for solo lute played by Ronn Macfarlane and a flute sonata and solo recorded by Alexa Still. The title piece is a light-hearted piano duet with a strong French flavour.

“I was impressed with the beautiful and intense ‘Suite’ for solo violin.”

An arrangement of the traditional Catalan song made famous by Pablo Casals.

For two cellos.

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For voice and piano.

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For voice, viola and piano.

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‘The International Poet’ is “a melting pot of creativity” by guitar and flute duo, The JKL Duo, presenting “Robert Burns as you've never heard him before.”

Released in 2023 by JKL Duo.

Trio for flute, viola and guitar.

No full score available, just parts.

35 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

Arranged for flute, viola and guitar for Trio Ecossaise by Phillip Thorne.

No full score available, just parts.

Geddes’s brass quintet Dances of the Scottish Court is based upon melodies from the Scene Manuscript (1630) and other sources.

17 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

Arranged for two guitars by Phillip Thorne.

Geddes’s brass quintet Dances of the Scottish Court is based upon melodies from the Scene Manuscript (1630) and other sources.

11 pages.

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Work for flute, clarinet and bassoon, composed 2005. Duration: 14 mins approx.

Introduction - Scherzo - Air - March and Reel -Coda

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For flute and piano, composed 1956.

Handwritten score (12p) scanned to pdf for immediate download. No separate flute part.

For two pianos, composed 1979. Commissioned by Richard McGregor and Ian Williamson with funds from the Mersey Arts Council. First performed by them in May 1979 in Liverpool University.

Subsequent revisions were completed in January 1981 and with Jack and Jean Keaney performing it was recorded by Radio Clyde for a Scottish Society of Composers disc.

Handwritten score (25p) scanned to pdf.

For soloist and pre-recorded stereo tape. First performed by John Lunn at Spectra arts centre Newcastle in December 1980. Three or more ‘live’ pianos may also perform the piece.

Composed Stockholm, January 1971, revised 2000.

Handwritten score (5p) and parts for six pianos scanned to pdf.

For 2 pianos, 4 players. Composed 2016. Commissioned by Richard Deering and first performed by Grimoire at the University of Glasgow, 10 March 2016.

Computer typeset score (58p) saved as pdf.

For solo piano, composed 2023. In memoriam Morris Pert. Commissioned by Mark Spalding.

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For solo piano, in memory of Tom McGrath. Written for John Harris, 2009.

Handwritten score (2p) scanned to pdf.

For solo piano, composed 2000. Commissioned by Invergordon Arts Society.

Handwritten score (11p) scanned to pdf.

Solo piano piece, composed in 1999, revised 2001.

Handwritten score (9p) scanned to pdf.

Audio CD released 2017 by the Scottish flautist Kimberley Boyle and Swedish guitarist Nils Klöfver.

New Works for Solo Cello.

Audio CD, released Delphian DCD34173.

All profits from the sale of this recording will be donated to UNICEF.

Photocopy of handwritten score (56p) and part (16p) scanned to pdf.

For clarinet and piano, composed 1988. Written for and first performed by Duncan Prescott Mitchell at the Purcell Room in the RAM Westmorland. Concert Series on 18th ay 1988. Duration: around 7 minutes.

Refrains V in a series of similarly titled works comprising two chamber duos, a ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio, a string quartet, a work for the London Jazz Composers’ Orchestra and a work for chamber orchestra.

They are all one movement pieces in which the overall structure is clarified by the recurrence of a characteristic ‘refrain’. The distinction from a rondo design lies in the fact that the refrain, while retaining its essential feature, whatever that is in a particular work, is subjected to varying degrees of transformation and development.

Here, the refrain is characterised by its irregular metre, heard at the outset in its simplest, direct form. Three short contrasting episodes in regular metre are sandwiched between the opening refrain and its three further, more complex, recurrences.

Computer typeset score (19p) and clarinet part (8p) saved as pdf files.

For clarinet, viola and piano, composed 1971. Written for Julian Farrel, Eileen Engelbrecht and Roger Vignoles to be a companion to the Mozart ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio. Duration: around 12 minutes.

The ‘Refrains’ of the title are those sections in which the basic material of the work is stated in deliberately explicit form and in various symmetrically related arrangements. These Refrains are predominantly slow and reflective, but between the three short cadenzas for each instrument which form the central part of the design, they take the form of brief, very condensed interjections in fast tempi. The work is in one continuous movement.

Computer typeset score (32p) and parts (12p and 8p) saved as pdf files.

‘A Tour-de-force for solo voice’ composed 1978. ‘A Domestic Legend of the Reign of Queen Anne by the Rev. E. H. Barha (from The Ingoldsby Legends).

Commissioned and first performed by Mary King, at the Purcell Room, London, 11 January 1979. Duration: 20 minutes.

Typeset score (26p) saved as pdf.

For mezzo-soprano and string quartet, composed 1996.

Ae Fond Kiss - The De’ils Awa’ wi’ th’ Exciseman.

First performed by Anne Sofie Otter and the Brodsky Quartet, Cite de la Musique, Paris, 1996.

Handwritten score (12p) and parts (16p) scanned to pdf,

For solo oboe, composed 2006 for Beryl Calver-Jones on the occasion of her 80th birthday, and first performed by Gregor Zubicky in Orebro Konzerthus, Sweden, in September 2006.

The piece is based on a poem written by Sally Beamish for Beryl in October 2002.

Computer typeset score (3p) in pdf format.

Composition for seven bassoons and one contrabassoon, written in 2017.

Computer typeset score (14p) and set of instrumental parts.

Composition for lever harp and digital sound, composed 2014.

Computer typeset score (5p) and .mp3 file.

Composition for baritone and digital sound, written in 2013.

Computer typeset score (14p) and 24 .wav files with cues.

Composition for bandoneón and fixed media, written in 2018.

Computer typeset score (14p) and thirteen .wav files.

Written for Eliseo Tapía.

Composition for organ and digital sound.

Computer typeset score (9p) and five .wav files.

Composition for organ and fixed media, written in 2021.

Computer typeset score (7p) and .wav file.

Composition for contrabass flute and digital sound, written in 2013.

Computer typeset score (6p) as pdf plus six .wav files.

for alto saxophone and digital sound

composed 2014, commissioned by Richard Ingham

computer typeset score (4p) with .wav file

Released in 2006 by Listen to the wind.

Electro-acoustic music from 1991-2000.

Released in 2006 by Listen to the wind.

For SATB choir.

A computer typed score.

2 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

Crossings (2000)

For solo guitar with live electronics. Crossings uses a single type of electronic sound processings: a live sampling/loop playback. The following equipment will be required:

• Stereo sampling and loop device (or 2 mono units) - must be controllable live by the guitarist

• Stereo delay device (or 2 mono units) - must have controllable feedback and delay time of up to 624ms

• Microphone and/or guitar pick-up

• Microphone stand

• Small mixing board (minimum 4 channels)

• Amplification system.

A computer typed score with performance directions.

14 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

For solo guitar with live electronics. Crossings uses a single type of electronic sound processings: a live sampling/loop playback. The following equipment will be required:

• Stereo delay device (or 2 mono units) - must have controllable feedback and delay time of up to 715ms

• Microphone and/or guitar pick-up

• Microphone stand

• Small mixing board (minimum 4 channels)

• Amplification system.

A computer typed score with performance directions.

9 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

Harpers Ferry

For solo harp

A computer typed score.

9 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

For solo guitar with live electronics. Lamentations uses a single type of electronic sound processings: a live sampling/loop playback. The following equipment will be required:

• Stereo sampling and loop device (or 2 mono units) - must be controllable live by the guitarist

• Microphone and/or guitar pick-up

• Microphone stand

• Small mixing board (minimum 4 channels)

• Amplification system.

A computer typed score with performance directions.

15 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

For solo piano

A computer typed score.

10 pages.

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For solo guitar with live electronics. Reflections uses a single type of electronic sound processings: a variable stereo delay. The following equipment will be required:

• Stereo delay device (or 2 mono units) - must have controllable feedback and delay time of up to 841ms.

• Microphone and/or guitar pick-up

• Microphone stand

• Small mixing board (minimum 4 channels)

• Amplification system.

A computer typed score with performance directions.

16 pages.

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For congas and bongos with live electronics. A set of two conga drums and two bongo drums is required. Each drum should be tuned for optimal differentiation with its respective counterpart.

A computer typed score.

9 pages.

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For three female voices and vibraphone

A computer typed score.

12 pages.

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For three female voices and electronics.

A computer typed score for voice accompanied by backing track

12 pages.

Saved in PDF form for immediate download.

Scan of bound photocopy of original printed edition (Boston Music Company). Five movements: Sarabande - Minuet - Air - Gavotte - Rigaudon

19 pages. In pdf format for immediate download.

Performed by Murray McLachlan, recorded 1996.

Redbook Records RBCD002.

John McLeod’s Piano Sonata No 1 was commissioned by Peter Evans and first performed by him at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival. It was given its London premiere at the Wigmore Hall by Bryn Turkey in April 1980. Many pianists have since taken it up and in 1996 it was recorded by Murray McLachlan on a complete CD of McLeod’s piano music.

Dr Roger B Williams writes in the CD sleeve note: Like Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy, which in turn inspired Liszt’s great Sonata in B minor, McLeod’s sonata is a compact single movement which contains within its structure the contrasting fast-slow-fast components of classical form.

The dramatic introduction alternates Maestro brillante and Allegro moderato statements, setting out the main ideas of the sonata in fragmented form These are then subjected to extension and development, culminating in a brilliant fugato and a virtuosic coda.

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For trumpet and digital sound.

It was composed for Mark O’Keeffe, who gave the first performance on 12th November 2006 in the atrium of the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. It was commissioned by the sound festival 2006with funds provided by the Scottish Arts Council.

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For flute, viola and tape, composed 2000.

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For four amplified voices and live electronics, composed 1986.

Computer typeset notes and scan of graphic score (20p).

For eight horns and optional ships’ horns, commissioned by sound and first performed in Aberdeen harbour in June 2021. Dedicated to the residents of Aberdeen, coming out of lockdown.

Computer typeset score and parts (in single pdf file) (56pp).

Work for soprano and double bass composed 1979, duration 10 mins. First performed by Jane Manning and Barry Guy, Budapest 1980.

Settings of poems by Sandor Wëores, Miroslav Holy, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Lu Hsun.

The poems I choose 5 poets, who share many common outlooks, dealing with the imagery of the moon in different aspects, from the mysterious light it casts on abandoned human. habitation in the Wëores (this reminded me of the Highland Clearances - the ruins of many derelict farmsteads still stand) through a gradual descent into human society and on to the bitter images of death. The songs are framed by the Wëores, opening with the English translation and ending with the original Hungarian. (Edward McGuire)

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Composition for alto saxophone and tape, written in 1995. Duration: 13 mins.

First performed by Doug Skinner in San Marcos, Texas, April 1995.

Handwritten / typewritten score (10p) saved as pdf, with pre-recorded element as .wav file (120MB).

'A tribute to pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. (November 14, 1934 – April 1, 2020'

Version for viola and piano, composed 2020. Computer typeset score (8p) and part (2p), saved as two pdf files for immediate download.

Original version for alto saxophone, vibraphone and piano available here.

'A tribute to pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. (November 14, 1934 – April 1, 2020'. For alto saxophone, vibraphone and piano, composed 2020.

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Version for viola and piano available here.

10-minute work for cello and piano, composed 1993. Commissioned by Bill Connor.

Iasg, which translates from Gaelic as `fish', was written for Robert, a fine fisherman and cellist, and Graeme, a fluid and fluent pianist.

It describes the journey of a salmon from its hatching in a mountain stream to its spawning and death after the last traumatic series of leaps upstream to its birthplace. The central section depicts the long period of peaceful feeding in the open sea.

Composed 1933, founded on themes from the Straloch Lute Book..

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Composed for piano, 1992. Dedicated to Murray McLachlan.

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Song for voice and harp (or piano) with words by Donald Goodbrand Saunders. Two versions: one in F for mezzo and one in A for soprano.

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Song for voice and harp (or piano) with words by Donald Goodbrand Saunders. Two versions: one in F for mezzo and one in A for soprano.

Bound print-out of computer-typeset score (6p).

Also available as a download.

For solo piccolo, composed for Danielle Eden, 1994. Duration: 5 mins.

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Recording by Nancy Suffer on CD here.

An arrangement of the traditional Catalan song made famous by Pablo Casals. For solo cello.

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Composition for solo viola, composed 2020 for the bicentenary celebrations of the Royal Academy of Music for which 200 composers were invited to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice.

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For solo string instrument. Versions for violin, viola, cello and double bass.

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One of a collection of 200 solo pieces commissioned to celebrate the bicentenary of the Royal Academy of Music in 2022

This work is a re-imagining, for solo instrument, of the last number from my opera An Turus (The Journey) to a libretto in Scots Gaelic by my friend, poet and long-time collaborator Aonghas MacNeacail. It is pronounced, roughly, and in English orthography as "mar raws a chall" (ch as in loch!).

The whole line which the title is taken from translates as "as a rose which has lost its roots", referring to the operatic character of Diarmid, who, like Orpheus, has descended to the underworld to retrieve Grainne, but "looks back", loses her and is himself destroyed (in this re-telling, by a street gang).

Composition for solo violin, composed 1983 (3 mins).

For piano. Computer typeset score (13p) saved as pdf for immediate download.

A tour-de-force of bravura, texture counterpoint and superb chording. The term “Ricecar” means to “research” but is not the meaning here. These are more properly preludes preparing us for the next piece. The first movement is a Prelude, the second an Adagio. The third Ricecar is essentially a three part invention strutting self-confidently, indeed joyously. The final movement announces itself with majesty and proceeds to a subtle toccata-like Allegretto.

Recorded by Murray McLachlan on his Erik Chisholm Piano Music CD.

For piano. Computer typeset score (14p) saved as pdf for immediate download.

Murray McLachlan suggests in his programme notes that this collection of Scottish Airs can be considered as Chisholm’s response to Bartók’s Improvisations on nine Hungarian Peasant Songs. Each movement is strongly characterised by material, which isobviously Scottish in spirit.

The nine Airs strike different moods: playful (scherzando in the third Air), humorous (seventh Air), grandiose (Airs one and six), to wistful (Airs two, five and eight).

They are all a delight to play and to hear.

Recorded by Murray McLachlan on his Erik Chisholm Piano Music CD

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This is an immediately appealing work in which energy, humour and lyricism appear in equal measure. The rhythmic opening of the first movement harnesses some harsh dissonances and contrasts well with the slow florid central section where the influence of Pibroch can be detected. The slow Lament is followed by the last movement which evokes all the excitement and rhythms of a fiddler’s rally.

The styles are emphatically Scottish, yet the originality and craftsmanship of the writing remains unique.

Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Erik Chisholm Piano Music CD.

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This extended work takes its inspiration from an anonymous Gaelic poem. The First Bard is constructed from a tightly knit melodic cell first heard at the bottom of the keyboard. The Second Bard’s opening melodic motif expands into a frightening tone poem. The Third Bard creates strikingly impressionistic effects within a filigree texture. The Fourth Bard is a bravura tone poem calling for much virtuosity and élan. In complete contrast the Fifth Bard makes a transition from stasis to serenity. The Sixth Bard has a striking chromatic motif moving towards a powerful climax. The work concludes with a peaceful epilogue in which the music disappears as though through the mist.

Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Erik Chisholm Piano Music CD.

Twenty-four short pieces for piano. Computer typeset score (26p) saved as pdf for immediate download.

Each of the pieces is given a title, some with quotations from an eclectic gathering of sources showing that Chisholm’s interests were broad ones from the start. The opening piece ‘A Jewel From The Siderial Casket’ is headed by an unsourced quotation “B. (Beta) Cygnus-a drop of blood red with an emerald green companion” which refers to the spectacular double star. Cameos includes an exuberant piece ‘Happiness.’ The offbeat left-hand chords give it a reckless immediacy suggestive of general tomfoolery, in which Chisholm indulged throughout his life.

Eight of the Cameos were recorded by Murray McLachlan on Erik Chisholm Piano Music CD.

Arranged from the music for the film, Another Time, Another Place directed by Michael Radford.

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Twenty-six small piano pieces based on airs from the Patrick Macdonald Collection.

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Performed by Murray McLachlan on Erik Chisholm: Music for Piano, Vol 2.

Six pieces for piano.

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Harris Dance - Mermaid’s Song - Skye Dance - Churning Croon - Love of My Youth - Oct o ro u

First five performed by Murray McLachlan on Erik Chisholm: Music for Piano, Vol 2.

Preludes for piano, composed c. 1944.

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1. Ossianic Lay. Lento.

2. Stravaiging. Allegretto.

3. Sea Sorrow.

4. The Hour of the Sluagh. (Harder version and Easier version).

5. Sheiling Lullaby. [sic].

6. Spinning Song.

7. Rudha Bàn.

8. Port-A-Beul.

9. Song of the Mavis.

10. Sea Tangle.

Performed by Murray McLachlan on Erik Chisholm: Music for Piano, Vol 2.

Settings of poems by Lillias Scott, for medium voice and piano, composed in 1962. Published by the Erik Chisholm Trust.

Prayer - Fragment - Johnnie Logie - The White Blood of Innocence - Skreigh o’ Day - Love’s Reward - Hert’s Sang

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See also version for high voice and piano.

Recording available on Songs for a Year and a Day CD.

Settings of poems by Lillias Scott, for high voice and piano, composed in 1962. Published by the Erik Chisholm Trust.

Prayer - Fragment - Johnnie Logie - The White Blood of Innocence - Skreigh o’ Day - Love’s Reward - Hert’s Sang

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See also version for medium voice and piano.

Recording available on Songs for a Year and a Day CD.

Homage à Odilon Redon, for violin, horn and piano. Composed 2003, revised 2012. Duration: 15 mins.

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For violin and piano. Composed 1997.
Commissioned by: Music-Makers.

First Performed: Gusztav Fenyo and Susanne Stanzeleit, Glasgow.

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Third movement of first string quartet, composed 1992. Duration: 4 mins.

First Performed: Bingham String Quartet, Chard International Festival, 24 May 1992.

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For tenor recorder. Composed 1986. Duration: 4 mins.

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For piano and string quartet. Composed 1997-8. Duration: 9 mins.

Commissioned by: Franke Piano Quintet. First Performed: Franke Piano Quintet, University of Durham, 1 Oct 1998.

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For solo clarinet. Composed 1978. Duration: 9 mins.

First performed by David Campbell, SPNM, London, 18 Dec 1979

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For clarinet and piano. Composed 1979. Duration: 10 mins.

First performed by Lawrence Gill and Janet Hamburger, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow 19 May 1982.

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For baritone and piano. Composed 1980. Duration: 15 mins.

Words: Anon 19th Century Shakers.

First Performed: Malcolm Singer; Christine Croshaw, Stroud, 16 Oct 1980.

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Listen to a recording by Roger Wilson (baritone) and Bruce Greenfield (piano) here.

For piano. Composed 1978, revised 1998. Duration: 3 mins.

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For mezzo-soprano and recorder. Composed 1996. Duration: 2 mins (1996).
Words by Arthur S Thomson.

First Performed: Alison Wells and John Turner Wilmslow 1996.

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For piano. Composed 1993. Duration: 4 mins.

First performed by Ananda Sukarlan, Netherlands, 1993.

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For piano. Composed 1985-88. 10 mins.

First performed by Richard Beauchamp, Paris, 1989.

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For clarinet and synthesised sound (1972-3).

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Composed 1929.

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The whole work consists of twenty-three short pieces which have been recorded over 3 later Music for Piano series CDs only one of which has been released. It is devoted to Chisholm’s setting of traditional Scottish Piobaireachd. The word simply means pipe music but has come to be applied to a specific form - a set of variations on a theme called Ceol mor, the “Big Music”. Chisholm’s approach to this remarkable genre is deeply informed by its technical idiosyncrasies.

He had the knowledge and pianism for this but he respects the tradition of pace and embellishment, though treating the drone element with inventive harmonic freedom.

No. 1 Poco Adagio
No. 2 Allegretto scherzandro
No. 3 Allegretto grazioso
No. 4 Allegro moderato

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