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In this section you can find info about my compositions and listen to short samples. Enjoy!

Selected compositions

Scored Music

  • The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward (opera) Anthem for Peace (eight-part chorus and brass ensemble)
  • Soya Susie and the Gene Dictators (opera)
  • Song of Children's Rights (four-part chorus and instrumental ensemble)
  • Trident, a British War Crime, (oratorio for four-part chorus)
  • Children's Band Pieces
  • Miscellaneous rounds and easy instrumentals for marches and protests
  • Towards Flowering (semi-scored/improvised, solo voice and piano)
  • Piano Duets for Beginners
  • Two Duos for violin and piano
  • Spring Peeper ( four - eight part chorus)
  • In Memory of Abir ( trio for violin, cello and piano)
  • Do Not Weep (four-part chorus )

Recordings

  • Time Changes (solo piano improvisation)
  • Meeting Point (piano improvisation with Neela Bhagwat, voice)
  • Time and Again (solo piano improvisation)
  • Trident, a British War Crime
  • Songs for Interesting Times (including extracts from Soya Susie)

Sheet music and/or recordings available for most of the above - please email camilla[atnospam]littleweed-music.org

Music and text of Trident, a British War Crime can be downloaded at http://www.tridentploughshares.org/IMG/pdf/OratorioSheetMusic.pdf.



Listen...

Below are a selection of audio files for your listening pleasure. To play them you will need some kind of audio-player such as RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Zinf, CoolPlayer, QuickTime, etc.

Each file is between 40 seconds and one minute long and around 1Mb in size.

28 November 2011 Extract from Spring Peeper Composed for the Brighton Festival with singers from the Brighton and South East London Choirs.Spring Peeper is a frog.
28 June 2010 We're the Creatures of the Planet Creatures unite! and save the world from the disastrous humans....
28 June 2010 Song of the Woodlouse the life of a small invertebrate...
12 May 2010 Giant Tortoise This is International Year of Biodiversity..time to listen to the animals
02 May 2010 Carbon Chronicles After many millions of light-years the elements become part of Earth, for a while...
02 May 2010 Carbon Chronicles Carbon sings of how it sinks into the earth..
02 May 2010 Carbon Chronicles Raging Bacteria put humans in their place
02 May 2010 Carbon Chronicles Carbon wonders what will happen to us all?
02 May 2010 Carbon Chronicles Song of Cecil Rhodes
02 May 2010 Carbon Chronicles Plankton lament their fate
02 May 2010 le Gateau Afrique Leopold of Belgium drools over the cake of Africa
30 April 2010 Diamond Polisher's song from Carbon Chronicles
04 November 2009 Carbon Chronicles Song of the Combustion Engine The combustion engine surveys its career and relationships with humans
04 November 2009 Washing Line Put off the washing and save the planet
03 November 2009 Carbon Chronicles Opening song of Gold
03 November 2009 Carbon Chronicles Song of Henry the Navigator
03 November 2009 Carbon Chronicles Naturalist's Song - The Age of Loneliness
22 March 2009 Terminator Song of the Suicide Seed - from Soya Susie and the Gene Dictators
22 March 2009 Resist Short extract from chorus sung by Susie and the Soya Beans, with vegetable friends - in 'Soya Susie and the Gene Dictators'
16 November 2005 Time and Again sample from track 5
16 November 2005 Time and Again extract from track 6
03 November 2005 Oratorio (1) Short sample from opening chorus of Trident - a British War Crime (an oratorio)
03 November 2005 Oratorio (2) Second short sample ' This is our world' from Trident - a British War Crime (an oratorio)
03 November 2005 Time and Again excerpt from track 4

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