Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089365 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #693563. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089365). This is the second in a set of three piano miniatures, which, as part of the compositional process, originally derived melodic material by setting lines from Shakespeare's Sonnets to music. In this ternary form piece, the initial section builds harmonies from a simple two-note rocking idea. Then follows a middle part based on a sequence of semiquaver arpeggio figures, before returning to a variation of the opening section, developing into a 6/8 coda. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from the Sonnet cycle, as well as the complete set, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1471118 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary,Religious,Spiritual. 17 pages. Robert A. Howard #1048771. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1471118). In Memoriam, for chamber orchestra, is a short but powerful work. It was specifically composed in memory of the composer's father, but the work can be used to the reflect any loss, or similar sentiment. The point of departure is the pounding repeated tones (the note D, for Death) at the start of the Lacrymosa of Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem; a work which mourned the death of both its composer's parents. Throughout my In Memoriam, the repeated pedal note D is literally ever-present and obsessive, like the looming of death itself, and the percussion take a somewhat military role. The main melodic idea is a twelve-note theme stated at the beginning, though the music is not strictly serial. This theme undergoes various transformations and orchestrations, depicting the many facets of a character who essentially remains themself. More optimistic interludes feature woodwind solos, but the note D always remains. A passage of stark two-part counterpoint is followed by the disintegration of the main theme before a varied return of previous material. Then follows the inevitable dominance of the note D, in crescendo, before the work abruptly ends, frozen still. The work is highly accessible for both performers and audience. The attached document is the score only, with audio for reference. Note that the 3rd & 4th horn parts are optional, or they could be played on 2 trombones.Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1401695 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 31 pages. Robert A. Howard #984878. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1401695). This First Piano Sonata is in three movements. The work is subtitled 'Bells', as each movement explores a different aspect of ringing bell-tones, whilst avoiding any direct reference to, for example, the change-ringing of church bells, or otherwise. The first movement (Chimes) suggests aspects of sonata form, with a ricochet-rhythm first theme based on fifths, and a lyrical second subject. In the ternary form second movement (Requiescat), funereal bells toll and peal in cycles of textural thickening and thinning. The final movement is a relentless perpetual movement of parallel chords and hemiolas, passing through a giant circle of fifths, in the vague manner of a carillon.Duration: 24 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1404787 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Advent,Chamber,Christmas,Praise & Worship. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #987851. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1404787). This Carol deliberately references early music in its style and character. A catchy, rocking, folk-like melody in compound time is harmonised with alternating minor/major tonality, false relations, and a striding bass line. The anonymous text is from the 15th century. This flexible version is for solo or unison voices, with piano/organ/keyboard and 4 instrumental parts. This document is the score only.Duration: 2 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Horn - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998773 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Contemporary,Holiday. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #5868817. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998773). This piece is an arrangement of a short work for handbells (also available in a one hand piano version), 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 higher standard horn players, including students and the more advanced. The handbell, and the one hand piano versions of this work are available for purchase via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998883 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 9 pages. Robert A. Howard #6486865. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998883). Porthleven is based on the 1951 painting, of the same name, by Cornish artist Peter Lanyon, which is held in the collection of Tate St. Ives. The artwork is a haphazard abstract representation of the coastal town of Porthleven, near Helston, on the fringe of the Lizard Peninsula. The painting depicts the town's unusual feature of three inter-connected harbours, as well as a cross on a tower, which likely refers to the church. The work is formed in three sections, as a relation to the three harbours. It explores the notion of bell-tones, and even of change-ringing, in reference to the aforementioned church bell tower. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for more advanced pianists, including students and professionals. Duration: 8 minutes 00 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998858 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Instructional,Religious. Score. 6 pages. Robert A. Howard #6235333. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998858). This is the extended piano version of an abridged work (The Lantern Tower (Chorales I)), by the same composer, also available via Sheet Music Plus. The title of the piece reflects its inspiration: the Lantern Tower of Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King (1966-67). The tower's sixteen sides contain panels of stained glass, designed by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens. Their effect is to bathe the cathedral in radiant colour, with three plain panels projecting shafts of brilliant white light through the multi-coloured spectrum. The Lantern Tower (Chorales II) aims to illustrate the intermingling light patterns in a series of chorale-like variations, which, like the tower itself, eventually comes full circle. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for more advanced pianists, including students and professionals.Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Digital Download SKU: A0.1471488 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary,Halloween,Thriller. 30 pages. Robert A. Howard #1049261. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1471488). This work aims to depict a common theme of certain pieces by some classical composers: that of deathly or devilish dances, and the like. This piece is an extended single movement structure for a mixed chamber ensemble that is an octet of oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, piano, viola, cello, and double bass. The form is divided into a series of contrasting dances (labelled as Dance, Folk Lament, Jig, Meditation, and Funeral March), all of which are interspersed with differing statements of an ostinato-based 'chorale' idea on the piano. The whole work is framed by an 'intrada', which builds the germinal motif on which the whole piece is based, characterised by semitones and fourths. Indeed, the 'devil's interval' of the augmented fourth has a particular function and significance. The piece actually ends with an 'epilogue', which features mysterious and ghostly reminiscences of the previous main sections. The title of this work also refers to the episode 'Dance of the Dead' from the 1960s cult TV series 'The Prisoner'. In part, the piece attempts to capture the mystery and atmosphere of the series, and of that specific episode. Indeed, the music's series of related but contrasting sections act almost as an original sequence of dramatic TV incidental music cues. The work is accessible to both performers and audience alike. The attached document is the full score only, with audio provided.Duration: 11 minutes 40 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1408403 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,New Age. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #990982. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1408403). Critical Mass is a sculptural installation by Antony Gormley (1995), which as been displayed at Tate St. Ives, Cornwall. It consists of multiple iron casts of the artist's body, in various poses. These are randomly distributed around the gallery space. This flexibly scored piece is a musical reflection of this artwork, in 6 sections (labelled A-F), for any mixed ensemble, with an untuned percussion part (F). Rhythms and pitch material remain similar throughout. However, following an initial solo statement (A), the texture is continually varied within the context of multiple free canons (B-E). The piece concludes with a conventionally notated and conducted unison section (in octaves), as the work comes full circle (F). Note: this document is the full score (with transpositions indicated). No audio track is provided here due to the considerable flexibility and variability of performances. The original score 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 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998879 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 4 pages. Robert A. Howard #6480941. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998879). 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 VI is the final piece in this six-movement piano cycle (though Fragments may be performed separately). The work's main middle section bears some similarity in tone and mood to the first piece in the cycle, Fragment I. Fragment VI is slightly more technically challenging than the previous movements. It has an arch form whereby the two, slow, initial introductory sections return in reverse order as the conclusion. The extended centrepiece section cumulatively builds in texture, dynamics, and tension, and is a set of modal variations over a 4-bar descending ground bass. 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: 4 minutes 10 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998789 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #6009621. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998789). This work is an extension of the original 'Rocking (sketch)' piece by the same composer (also available via Sheet Music Plus). It is a simple, early grade piano study. The rocking motion is clearly depicted by an undulating right-hand ostinato that acts like a pendulum. A descending scalic melody meanders below this, through a series of harmonic changes. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for almost all standards of pianist.Duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998888 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Standards. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #6487379. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998888). The first of these Two Pastoral Intermezzi portrays a rural scene through much use of parallel secondary seventh chords. Its tone is nostalgic within a simple idiom of clear homophonic textures. The second piece references the parallel chord theme again, as a cyclic secondary idea. It conveys a popular (if not romantic) 'cafe classics' style with liberal use of appoggiaturas, descending sequences, arpeggio accompaniments and a cantabile melody. The pieces are highly accessible and are suitable for most standards of pianist. Both movements within the set are also available to purchase individually, via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds.Registered 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

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1088814 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Christmas,Classical,Folk,Sacred. 8 pages. Robert A. Howard #693026. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1088814). This piece is an original arrangement based on the wistful English folk melody 'Barbara Allen'. It takes the form of a 7-verse Epiphany carol, with introduction and coda, setting a poem by Laurie Twinam. Verse 1 gives the option for a single solo voice. Otherwise vocal lines, for SATB choir, retain the folk tune contour throughout, with fairly simple harmonies and a canon. Around this, the piano accompaniment weaves a set of characterful variations, as a commentary on each differing verse, which is always linked by a 2-bar 'turnaround'. The work explores aspects of both major and minor tonality, as well as modality (with the characteristic flattened seventh), thus working within and around the given folk idiom. This piece is appropriate for virtually any standard and size of SATB choir, including school, student, community, church and cathedral choirs. The accompaniment can be on piano, or for organ if slightly adapted by the player. The solo/unison and 2-part SA versions of this piece, as well as the solo piano version (Variations on 'Barbara Allen') by the same composer, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 4 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089751 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #693958. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089751). This is the seventh in a set of seven pieces that each elaborate upon ideas previously left dormant in sketch form. This particular piece is a varied repetition of the opening movement (thus framing the cycle), with the initial chord sequence now arpeggiated, and with a fuller texture. 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, including the complete set, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk