Organ - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.534661 Composed by Claude Debussy/Robert Orledge. 20th Century,Concert,Halloween. Score. 16 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #5739561. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.534661). Over the years 1908–16, Debussy had produced a viable scenario for Usher on his third attempt. But when he came to making a complete draft of the music, he seems to have lost interest during Roderick Usher’s long monologue, even though he was setting his own text. As in No-ja-li he jumped to the next passage that interested him, in this case the exciting final melodrama and the collapse of the Usher house itself.In the process of completing the missing half of the score, I discovered that by reusing Debussy’s material for similar psychological situations across the opera, and by metamorphosing existing ideas (as Debussy does with Mélisande’s theme in his opera Pelléas et Mélisande), the only things I really needed to add were linking material and any passages where fast music was required. So the ‘nightmare scherzo’, and Lady Madeline’s escape from her coffin and her final bloody revenge on her brother are all mine, but most of the rest is existing Debussy in changing contexts (in which the Russian technique of ‘changing backgrounds’, both harmonic and textural, proved extremely useful, as it did to Debussy in his Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune). Eventually, both my completed ballet No-ja-li and the House of Usher were successfully premiered in 2006 and the latter soon began to find its way into the established repertoire in Europe and the US. To further support this, I transcribed some of the highlights of Debussy’s score as A Night in the House of Usher for organ, and subsequently piano—with a focus on Scene 2 and the final, horrific and maca-bre melodrama. This climaxes in the double deaths of Roderick Usher and his Sister Madeline, together with the disintegration of the ill-fated House of Usher into the stagnant lake-all beneath a blood-red moon.In this form it was first performed by Ian Buckle in the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds in 2010.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.503545 Composed by William H. Doane. Arranged by Doug Little. Instructional,Sacred,Traditional. Score. 39 pages. Published by Robert D Little (A0.503545). Nine intermediate-level piano solos of favorite hymn tunes composed by Wm. H. Doane. Arrangement use various technical and interpretive skill-developing means for the growing pianist. Performance-worthy for church, school, recital, and other public settings.

Choral Choir,Choral (SSA) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998806 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Christian,Contemporary,Praise & Worship,Sacred. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #6064405. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998806). This piece is the 'Glory Be' section only, devised as a stand-alone item, from Howard's 2011 setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (also available via Sheet Music Plus). The 'Glory Be' is based on the Magnificat's opening organ material, and aptly features varied harmonisations of the phrase 'world without end'. The text is in English. The piece is appropriate for 3-part choirs of any size and most standards, including school, student, community, church and cathedral choirs. The original 4-part SATB version of this Gloria Patri is also available via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 1 minute.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998805 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Contemporary,Jazz,Praise & Worship,Sacred. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #6064399. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998805). This piece is the 'Glory Be' section only, devised as a stand-alone item, from Howard's 2011 setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (also available via Sheet Music Plus). The 'Glory Be' is based on the Magnificat's opening organ material, and aptly features varied harmonisations of the phrase 'world without end'. The text is in English. The piece is appropriate for 4-part choirs of any size and most standards, including schools, students, community, church and cathedral choirs. The work is also available in a version for SSA choir, from Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 1 minute.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Trio - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998838 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. 17 pages. Robert A. Howard #6139329. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998838). This piano trio is a single 9-minute movement. The title, Trinity, refers to various uses of the number 3 within the piece. This includes 3 instruments, 3 main sections, the rhythmic interplay of the dotted crotchet pulse (of 3 quavers) in the prevailing 12/8 time signature (with hemiolas), and the use of 3 (and its multiples) in the creation of core material. The work creates memorable motifs which are used in various other melodic and harmonic permutations, as well as in cycles of layered texturing. Trinity's overall structure actually refers to a palindromic form, as earlier sections return towards the end, truncated and in reverse order, thus bringing the piece full circle. The religious symbolism implied in the title may be said to have influenced some rather 'mystical' and 'otherworldly' harmonies and textures. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for higher standard musicians, including students and the more advanced. Duration: 8 minute 55 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998774 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Contemporary,Holiday. Score. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #5868827. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998774). This one handed piano piece is an arrangement of a short work for handbells (also available in a version for four horns), originally written as a centenary tribute to the great American composer Aaron Copland (born 1900). The work makes a brief reference to Copland's famous 'Fanfare for the Common Man' before developing its own sense of line. Harmonies are created by sustaining melodic notes in the manner of bells. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for virtually any standard of pianist, including early grade players. The handbell, and the four horns versions of this work are available for purchase via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Handbell - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998775 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Contemporary,Holiday. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #5868829. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998775). This short work for handbells was originally written as a centenary tribute to the great American composer Aaron Copland (born 1900). The work makes a brief reference to Copland's famous 'Fanfare for the Common Man' before developing its own sense of line. Harmonies are created by sustaining melodic notes in the manner of bells. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for virtually any standard of handbell player. The piano one hand, and the four horns versions of this work are available for purchase via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 2 minutes 00 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Bassoon,Cello,Flute,Piano,Trumpet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998837 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Standards. 6 pages. Robert A. Howard #6134583. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998837). This chamber work is loosely influenced by the sound world of Debussy, using the whole tone scale and an unusual combination of instruments. Essentially, it is a ritualistic and rather hypnotic memorial piece, based on reorchestrations and 'colouring' of the opening theme. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards, including students and the more advanced. Duration: 4 minutes 00 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Brass Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1399327 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Patriotic. 6 pages. Robert A. Howard #982611. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1399327). This short fanfare was written at the time of the Coronation of King Charles III in 2023. It is scored for a brass quartet of two Bb trumpets, one French horn in F, and one trombone. As the title suggests, the piece explores a series of fanfare-like musical canons, within a simple ternary form shape. The pitch material is based exclusively on the notes of the extended triad (or arpeggio). The work is highly accessible, and can be performed by more advanced players.Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998731 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contest,Festival,Instructional,Jazz. Score. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #5318249. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998731). This stark, ternary form piece develops a small amount of material in order to depict the title. Slow and bare outer sections contrast with the faster, jazz-like ascending middle section. The piece is fairly accessible and appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players.Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

String Quartet String Quartet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998853 Composed by Robert A. Howard. Contemporary,Standards. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #6205913. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998853). 'Klee's Sketchbook' is based on the work of the Swiss-born artist Paul Klee. The piece is graphically notated throughout, referring explicitly to Klee's various notions of taking a 'line on a walk'. In this work, lines are presented in a variety of labelled forms and combinations, including the active, static (passive), angular and shadowing. The score indicates the basic outline of instrumental contours on staves, thus always implying certain pitches. However, many elements, such as dynamics and durations (and exact pitches), are left for the performer to determine. The work remains accessible for the listener and is appropriate for most standards of string player, including students and professionals.Variable durationRegistered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998808 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #6072423. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998808). This piece is concerned with memories and reminiscences. It uses a harmonic sequence of jazz-like chords, only heard fully in the final passage. The work is characterised by material recurring out of sequence throughout the piece, with only subtle changes (mainly of context). This helps to establish the 'reminiscence' aspect of the work. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players.Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Instrumental Duet,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1503126 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival. 45 pages. Robert A. Howard #1078708. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1503126). This piece is an extended, three movement Violin Sonata for violin and piano. The work explores the subtitle concept of 'circling'. This is pursued through a wide variety of musical elements. These include: circling melodies, repetitive chains of (modulating) chord sequences, motoric cross-rhythms and syncopation, heterophonic canonic textures, and large-scale concentric structures. The fast, first movement is in a loose symmetrical sonata form in D (modal) minor. The resolute and scalic first subject, based on the opening core motif, is followed by a transition to a more lyrical and repetitive, cantabile second theme. The ensuing development section passes through various keys, with a new, modal third theme at its centre, featuring parallel motion, syncopation, and an ostinato in the accompaniment. The varied recapitulation presents the opening two themes in reverse order (thus giving overall structural symmetry to the movement). The heart of the work as a whole is the slow romanza-like second movement, centred on G. In ternary form, the outer sections present a highly memorable lyrical theme in a series of modulating and canonic textural variations. The contrasting middle section is much more unsettled in its three varied statements of a new theme accompanied by uncertain minor sevenths chords. The rondo-like finale in D is the most minimalist in style and rhythm. A circling, motivic and scalic main theme appears between highly contrasting episodes. The first of these is a folk-like rustic theme, while the second is a sentimental melody, played over an arpeggio and descending bass line accompaniment. Heard 3 times, in 3 different keys and registers, this idea leads to an recap of the main rondo theme, signalling the end of the work. Overall, the piece is genuinely melodic and is accessible to the listener. The work is suitable for performance by higher grade or professional violinists and pianists. Please note that the document provided is the full score only (also serves as the piano part), with reference audio.Duration: 22 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089746 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #693953. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089746). This is the fourth in a set of seven pieces that each elaborate upon ideas previously left dormant in sketch form. This cumulative four-section piece gradually descends in pitch by alternating hands in a minimalist build up of motifs, each followed by a chordal refrain. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from the Sketch cycle, as well as the complete set, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk