David Harvey: Compositions

This is a selective list. All durations are approximate. Please ask for more details and to request copies of unpublished works.

• Guitar solo
• Two or more guitars
• Guitar and other instruments
• Other solo and ensemble works

The list includes whole scores to view, print and play. I'll be putting more selected original compositions and arrangements here just as soon as I input them into my notation software. Some of these will also be uploaded as midi files.

Solo Guitar

Capricci

(1982 - 10m)

and I will sing of the sun

(1985 - 6m)

Prizewinning work in 1985 Yorkshire Arts Association Young Composers' Competition. First performed by Gerald Garcia at the 1995 Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, November 1985.

Extract: first bars (scan of composer's MS)

Prelude, March, Jig

(1995 - 6m)

Three easy pieces composed for the EGTA repertoire initiative. Prelude and Jig published 1997 in Solo Now, book 3 (Editions Chanterelle ECH 2103). March available here for viewing and printing, and as a midi file.

Two or more guitars

The Water's Edge

(1977 - 14m)

Nine easy pieces for guitar duet. Published 1981, Boosey & Hawkes.

Four Sensational Miniatures

(1979 - 10m)

Studies in texture and coordination for two guitars. Published 1985, Boosey & Hawkes.

A Book of Songs, Dances and Other Small Diversions

(2003 - 12m)

• Wintersong (trio)
• Waltz up, doc? (duo)
• Waves (quartet)
• Floating (duo)
• It takes four... (quartet)
• Mr E (trio)
• Wind dance
• Russian dance (duo)
• Three parts run aground (trio)

Music for two, three and four guitars, commissioned by the Associated Board for the Music Medals examination scheme.

Guitar and other instruments

Concerto for guitar and small orchestra

(1979 - 18m)

First performed by the composer with the Dallapiccola Ensemble at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford., February 1980.

Scena I

clarinet, guitar and cello (1980 - 7m).

Awarded Oxford University's Osgood Memorial Prize for composition, 1981 (jointly with Piers Hellawell).

Three Pieces

guitar and piano (1982 - 8m)

First performed by the composer with Robert Keeley, British Music Information Centre, London, November 1982.

Extract: first bars (scan of composer's MS)

Little Suite

flute and guitar (2003 - 5m)

• Wintersong
• Floating
• It takes two...
• Russian dance

Four pieces from A book of songs... arranged for flute and guitar.

Other solo and ensemble works

Silence: a Fable

after a story by Edgar Allan Poe, for cello and piano (1979 - 11m)

First performed by Yuki Konii and Alex Winterson, Holywell Music Room, Oxford, June 1989.

all alone: one

solo clarinet (1981)

First performed by Roger Heaton in Oxford, April 1982, at a concert of the Oxford University New Music Group.

Score (page 1/page 2) and midi performance

Two Poems of Verlaine

soprano and flute (1983/1984 - 6m)

La lune blanche - Sur l'herbe. Comissioned by the Da Rocha Pastorale, and first performed by Margaret Morrell and William Morton at South Hill Park, Bracknell, November 1984.

Extract: La lune blanche (Tempo II) (scan of composer's MS)

Inventions

oboe and cello (1984 - 7m)

First performed by the ensemble Collage as part of a composers masterclass at the 1984 Wilde Festival, Bracknell

Sonata

cello and piano (1996 - 14m)

Allegro giocoso - Largo espressivo - non troppo allegro. Dedicated to my son Paul, and not as consonant as it sounds...

Extract: opening bars, also in midi

Alba

Unaccompanied Double-bass (2001 - 3m)

A wedding-present for Hilary Barton, 8 June 2001

Elegy

Harpsichord solo (2002 - 5m)

First performed by its dedicatee, Chau-Yee Lo, Leeds University, 10 October 2003

Works to view, print and play

For best results when printing, set margins to 0 and cancel header/footer elements. These are screen captures from my notation package - acceptable when printed, but they do look better at 600dpi...

March

Easy piece for guitar. Also available in midi.

Kernow Air

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Guitar duet (pupil + teacher). Also available in midi.

all alone: one

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Monody for clarinet. Also available in midi.