Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1405126 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Thriller. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #988154. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1405126). This work derives material from the first 'Alla Campana' piece, also available via SMP. Alla Campana II is flexibly scored in up to 5 instrumental parts and consists of a sequence of related bell-like tones. It was originally conceived for outdoor performance and can serve as a fanfare-type work. There is further flexibility in the number of repetitions performers choose to make, and whether to be spatially separated or not. There is also choice concerning whether to follow the suggested procedure of varying cumulative combinations of parts, on each repeat, thus resulting in a textural increase throughout the performance. The document provided is the full score only.Duration: Variable.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998871 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Halloween,Instructional,Thriller. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #6348475. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998871). This work evokes the unsettling atmosphere of haunted woods. The juxtaposition of (unrelated) parallel triads and fifths, often over a pedal point, provides the key musical material. The piece develops over an arch form. The introductory parallel chordal motifs, with answering phrases, return alone at the end as the work turns full circle. A main second section (returning slightly modified as the penultimate passage) explores turning motifs of semitones and tones over an ostinato of parallel fifths. The apex central section is a series of textural variations of parallel major chords and arpeggios over a theme based mainly on a pedal point. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players.Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998874 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #6383275. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998874). The Fragment series of short piano pieces was conceived for pianists of almost any standard. As suggested in the title, each piece is based on a single compositional fragment or sketch that had otherwise remained incomplete and dormant. Fragment III is in a simple ternary shape. The outer sections focus on multiple unrelated arpeggiated reharmonisations of an initial four note motif. The opening section does this via an exploration of flat keys, while the final section does so through a sequence of sharp keys. A contrasting middle section is more chordal but continues to develop the key motif, building to a climax on quartal harmony. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for almost all standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from the Fragment cycle are also available via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1477352 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival. 17 pages. Robert A. Howard #1054775. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1477352). This grandiose, ceremonial piece is for a wind ensemble of woodwind and brass, with piano and 2 percussionists. The work takes a fragment from a theme by Bela Bartok, from his 1911 one-act opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, and is a set of free variations, like a fantasy, upon this theme, within a vague ternary structure. The whole ensemble is often treated quite percussively, exploring angular snap rhythms, as well as inversions and symmetry of pitch. One percussionist plays marimba, while the other plays snare drum. The piece takes Bartok's motif as a starting point, before developing beyond this idiom. The work remains accessible to audiences, and can be played by more advanced performers. Please note that the attached document is the full score only, with audio provided.Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998884 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Children,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 4 pages. Robert A. Howard #6486867. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998884). Berceuse is a short lullaby for piano. The piece quietly explores hypnotic minimalist repetitions in cycles. Berceuse begins and ends in E major, and is based on a ten bar ground bass (and its harmonies). This sequence is repeated a tone lower each time, until returning to the home key. Over this pattern, fairly static melodic material is introduced, which adds a further layer of added-tone harmony on each cycle. Variation in this piece is extremely subtle. The work is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Duration: 4 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998826 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Celtic,Classical,Contemporary,Folk,Irish. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #6115517. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998826). Strathspey is a ternary form piano piece. The outer sections are based on a repeated main theme, featuring the 'scotch snap' rhythm in the aeolian mode transposed to D. The middle section focuses on the dominant and texturally varies repetitions of a contrasting chord sequence. The work makes passing use of other 'scottishisms' such as drones and parallel triads, all within a modal context. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students, more advanced players and professionals.Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

String Trio Cello,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998834 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Folk,Standards. 4 pages. Robert A. Howard #6134577. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998834). This miniature for string trio is a study in line and unison writing, across the three string parts. Its title comes from the character and form of the piece. Scherzetto explores the use of the octatonic scale in the manner of Bela Bartok, developing small motifs based on the semitone-tone scale. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of string player, including students and the more advanced. Duration: 1 minute 15 secondsRegistered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998732 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Christian,Contest,Festival,Instructional,Jazz. Score. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #5318265. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998732). This chorale-like piano miniature from 1998 alludes to the harmonies and religious symbolism of works by Olivier Messiaen, who died in 1992. The work is loosely in ternary form, with a clear melody supported by added-note chords and, at times, jazz-like harmonies. 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

Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1408422 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,New Age. 4 pages. Robert A. Howard #991006. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1408422). Promenade II a flexibly scored, open form, improvisatory version of the original Promenade piece for full orchestra, based on the same musical material. This second piece features 21 separate musical 'blocks' (labelled A-U). These are to be allocated to the available musical instruments. The blocks can be freely stated and repeated, in an improvisatory manner, as players sensitively respond to the changing texture during the course of a performance. Full playing instructions are given on the score. Note: the document provided is the full score (with indicated transpositions). No audio track is provided due to the considerably flexibility and variability of performances. The original version is available via a search of the COMA Music Library.Duration: Variable.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998875 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #6383269. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998875). The Fragment series of short piano pieces was conceived for pianists of almost any standard. As suggested in the title, each piece is based on a single compositional fragment or sketch that had otherwise remained incomplete and dormant. Fragment II initially builds up the notes of a major chord with added augmented fourth, in a brief introduction. The main section of the piece features the simple device of alternating added note harmonies, rocking back and forth like a pendulum. These include an upper pedal on the note A in each chord, landing on A minor around the mid-point. Meanwhile, a slightly unsettling off-beat lower pedal ostinato rings on throughout. Towards the end, the opening chords are alluded to, before settling on reiteration of a resolution on A major. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for almost all standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from the Fragment cycle are also available via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds.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

String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998835 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Folk,Standards. 7 pages. Robert A. Howard #6134575. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998835). This work is influenced by the folk-inspired works of Bartok, particularly his use of alternative scales (such as the octatonic), and the textures created in his string quartets. This piece's title refers to its two main 'axes' on C and F sharp (almost as tonic and dominant poles) in the work's employment of the octatonic scale. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of string player, including students and the more advanced. Duration: 2 minute 30 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

Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1405132 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,New Age. 12 pages. Robert A. Howard #988170. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1405132). This work is flexibly scored in four parts, using the ranges roughly equivalent to that of a string quartet (though any suitable instruments can be used). Players can make necessary adaptions to the music, including those of octave transpositions, any instrumental doublings, or otherwise. The piece aims to depict a non-specific journey, through aspects of stasis and minimalism. Gradual, long-term harmonic change is juxtaposed alongside rhythmic interplay, especially through the use of cross rhythms and hemiolas. Note: this document is the full score only.Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, PRS).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Bassoon Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998889 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Individual part. 7 pages. Robert A. Howard #6496061. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998889). This is a set of three solo bassoon works. The first piece, Pierrot, develops the notion of 'line'. It explores various facets of the instrument (as in the more complex nature of Pierrot's Commedia Dell'Arte character). The piece features a serial 'note-row' procedure but in a relaxed manner, more akin to Berg than either Schoenberg or Webern. The second piece, Folk Lament, alludes to a folk idiom by using modality (characterised by the flattened seventh degree of the scale) within a sonata form structure. The two main themes give a broad feel of being improvised and, particularly in the case of the second subject, includes composed-out forms of folk-like ornamentation. The final piece, The Clown, employs bluesy inflections, an irregular time signature (5/4) and a clear rondo structure. Varied repetitions of the main, jaunty theme, alternate with contrasting episodes in related keys, one of which is even a derivation of the 12-bar Blues. The set is highly accessible and suitable for more advanced bassoonists including students and professionals. Each movement within this set is also available to purchase individually via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk