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

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1398806 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #982079. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1398806). 'Minute Bagatelle' is a light, skittish, solo piano miniature. It features simple textural variations on a jaunty jig-like theme that is stated an octave lower on each statement. Harmonies almost exclusively feature added fourth chords. The piece is exactly one minute long in duration, as a response to Chopin's famous Minute Waltz. It was designed as an educational piece, but can be performed by most standards of pianists, from mid-grade students through to professionals. The work is composed in a highly accessible idiom. The piece could even be used as a carefree encore in recital or concert.Duration: 1 minute.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1408885 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Instructional. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #991486. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1408885). Promenade IV takes its name from the Promenade group of five large sculptures by Anthony Caro (1996). This set of steel constructions is currently on display in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Musical material and structure is derived from the contours and form of the sculptures. Promenade IV is flexibly scored for any instrumental combination in four parts. Note: this document is the full score only. The complete set of parts (transposed playing scores), with the score, is available via a search of the COMA Music Library. 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

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 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1401789 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Praise & Worship. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #984974. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1401789). This work is a solo piano version of the original three-part choral anthem with accompaniment, that set a text by Revd Canon Dr Gordon Giles, and was composed for the 2022 RSCM Harold Smart Anthem Competition. This piano version plays with alternating A minor and A major tonalities, with three verses exploring forms of textural variation. The imitative recurring chorus is also varied on each return. The coda gradually builds in dynamics, texture and pitch, leading to the final A minor climax. This work is also available in versions for three-part choir, for SA choir, and for solo/unison voices, all with accompaniment, from SMP.Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089752 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 21 pages. Robert A. Howard #693959. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089752). This is the complete set of Sketches I-VII, that each elaborate upon ideas previously left dormant in sketch form. The first piece has a slow introductory feel, with a rising added-note chord sequence alongside a descending bass line, in crescendo. The second piece is based on a 7-bar ground bass (rising a minor third each time), that features considerable textural variation on each cycle, and culminates in a 3-part canon. The third piece explores the whole range of the piano in varied statements of a 10-bar semiquaver toccata theme, featuring canons and a superimposed scotch-snap theme. The fourth piece is cumulative, in four sections, and gradually descends in pitch by alternating hands in a minimalist build up of motifs, each followed by a chordal refrain. The fifth piece gradually builds up a right hand melody over various syncopated harmonies and appoggiaturas, before inverting the role of the hands. The sixth piece is a simple cycle of ascending repetitions of a 10-bar added-note chord sequence, with octave bass line, that rise by a perfect fifth each time. The seventh 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 cycle is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Individual pieces from this Sketch cycle are also available separately, via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 18 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089363 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #693561. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089363). This is the first 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 opening section explores sequences of 'chord building'. This is followed by a middle section based on arpeggio figures, before returning to the initial ideas in inversion. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for almost all standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from this Sonnet cycle, as well as the complete set, 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

Instrumental Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1404016 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,New Age. Individual part. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #987185. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1404016). 'Rumblin'-Tum!' was inspired by the noise of stomach rumblings. The piece was conceived in flexible terms, for any solo wind instrument, and is written in graphic notation. The performer is free to interpret the positions of lines, squiggles and shapes that are drawn over a conventional stave. Therefore the work suggests or implies certain pitches, while other parameters remain fully open, such as tempo and dynamics.Duration: Variable.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1471108 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Chamber,Christian,Contemporary,Sacred. Score. 8 pages. Robert A. Howard #1048747. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1471108). 'May You Always Be Joyful' sets a biblical text from the New Testament (Philippians 4:4-9, in the New International Version). This setting is presented here in a version for solo mezzo-soprano voice and piano. The piece aims to give appropriate musicial expression to the text. Several key ideas, motifs and chords recur, and are juxtaposed in a mosaic-like manner. The piece focuses on harmonies with added augmented fourths, reminiscent of Messiaen, in an attempt to express joy or even ecstasy. The influence of Berio (Folksongs) can be seen in the doubling, colouring, and sustaining of the vocal line by the piano, creating an 'accidental' form of harmony, as well as supporting the singer. The piece is appropriate for most standards of singer and pianist. The original version of this work, for solo mezzo soprano, wind quintet and piano, is also available from Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 5 minutes.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

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089744 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #693951. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089744). This is the second in a set of seven pieces that each elaborate upon ideas previously left dormant in sketch form. This particular piece is based on a 7-bar ground bass (rising a minor third each time), that features considerable textural variation on each cycle, and culminates in a 3-part canon. 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 30 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

Cello,Flute,Oboe,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998844 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Standards. 7 pages. Robert A. Howard #6183595. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998844). Preludium II uses material from the composer's original Preludium piece for orchestra. It was composed in response to a call for pieces that stipulated the given chamber instrumentation. The work is an introductory overture-type movement, effective as a brief ternary form concert opener. The piece is clearly in D major, in a fast tempo, with a catchy melody and bell-like accompaniment. It is highy accessible and is appropriate for most standards of musician, including amateurs, students and the more advanced. Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.