JOHN
BUCKLEY

Compositions

This page provides a complete listing of compositions by John Buckley. It is subdivided into categories including, opera, orchestral, chamber, solo instrumental, choral, vocal, band, film scores, educational, and arrangements. Full details of instrumentation and durations are provided along with samples of recordings of the music.

Opera

The Words Upon the Window Pane

  • Instrumentation: s/mz/ct/t/bar/fl(afl)/cl(bcl)/hn/vc/pf/perc
  • Duration: 21'
  • Year: 1991
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Orchestral

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

  • Instrumentation: vn/picc/2332/cbn/4330/timp/4 perc/hp/cel/str
  • Duration: 25'
  • Year: 2008
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In Winter Light – Concerto for Flute / Alto Flute and Orchestra

  • Instrumentation: fl(afl)/hp/perc/str
  • Duration: 18'
  • Year: 2006
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Campane in Aria

  • Instrumentation: 2/picc/332/cbn/4331/timp/4 perc/str
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 2006
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Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra

  • Instrumentation: bn-solo/2222/2220/ timp/4 perc/cel/hp/str
  • Duration: 22'
  • Year: 2001
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Strings in the Earth and Air

  • Instrumentation: str
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 2000
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A Mirror Into the Light

  • Instrumentation: 2222/2200/timp/str
  • Duration: 6'
  • Year: 1999
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Quattuor

  • Instrumentation: 4 orchestras: str; 2221/1210/timp/perc/str; 222/2331/timp/perc/str; 2222/4331/timp/perc
  • Duration: 20'
  • Year: 1999
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Concerto for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra

  • Instrumentation: asax-solo/str (min: 54331)
  • Duration: 18'
  • Year: 1997
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Maynooth Te Deum

  • Instrumentation: satb soli/satb chorus/satb chamber choir/tb choir/3(2picc)333(cbn)/4331/timp/5 perc/org (ad lib)/str
  • Duration: 35'
  • Year: 1995
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Rivers of Paradise

  • Instrumentation: 2 speakers/3(2picc)332 cbn/4331/ timp/3 perc/pf/str
  • Duration: 15'
  • Year: 1993
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De Profundis

  • Instrumentation: sa soli/satb chorus/opt unison children’s choir/2(picc)222/2200/timp/str
  • Duration: 25'
  • Year: 1993
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Concerto for Organ and Orchestra

  • Instrumentation: org/3(2picc)332/cbn/4331/2timp/4 perc/str
  • Duration: 29'
  • Year: 1992
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A Thin Halo of Blue

  • Instrumentation: satb chorus/2(2picc)222/4330/3 perc/cel/hp/pf/str/ speaker/tape
  • Duration: 17'
  • Year: 1990
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Symphony No. 1

  • Instrumentation: 3(2picc, 2afl)33(bcl)3(cbn)/4331/timp/5 perc/hp/str
  • Duration: 37'
  • Year: 1988
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Concerto for Chamber Orchestra

  • Instrumentation: 1202/2000/str [4.4.3.2.1]
  • Duration: 23'
  • Year: 1981
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Fornocht do Chonnac Thú

  • Instrumentation: 22(ca)22/4330/timp/2perc/pf/str
  • Duration: 15'
  • Year: 1980
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Taller than Roman Spears

  • Instrumentation: 3(picc)3(ca)3(bcl)3(cbn)/4331/timp/2perc/str
  • Duration: 22'
  • Year: (1977 rev. 1986)
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Chamber

For Helen

  • Instrumentation: vc/pf
  • Duration: 5
  • Year: 2021
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Three Études for Two Violins (Book 2 Nos. 4-6)

  • Instrumentation: 2 vn
  • Duration:
  • Year: 2020
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Three Louth Legends

  • Instrumentation: asax, bsax live, pre-recorded multiple saxophones
  • Duration: 9'
  • Year: 2020
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Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder

  • Instrumentation: fl/afl, cl/bcl, vn/vc/pf
  • Duration: 9' 30''
  • Year: 2019
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Fantasia on ‘My Lagan Love’

  • Instrumentation: Flute Ensemble
  • Duration: : 7'
  • Year: 2015
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Wind Quintet No 2

  • Instrumentation: fl (alfl, picc) /ob (ob d’amore)/cl (E flat cl, bcl)/ hn/bsn
  • Duration: 13'
  • Year: 2015
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To Lands Beyond Time

  • Instrumentation: fl/va/hp
  • Duration: 18'
  • Year: 2013
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From the Liffey to the Mississippi

  • Instrumentation: Flute Ensemble
  • Duration: 9'
  • Year: 2013
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Piano Trio

  • Instrumentation: vn/vc/pf
  • Duration: 14' 30''
  • Year: 2013
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Fantasia and Variations

  • Instrumentation: Flute ensemble
  • Duration: 9'
  • Year: 2012
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les oiseaux rêvent dans les arbres

  • Instrumentation: fl
  • Duration: 4' 30''
  • Year: 2011
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Dialogue

  • Instrumentation: vc
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 2010
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Three Preludes for Two Violins

  • Instrumentation: 2vn
  • Duration: 9'
  • Year: 2009
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Constellations

  • Instrumentation: multiple flutes
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 2009
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As far as the eye can see

  • Instrumentation: asax/ob/hn/pf
  • Duration:
  • Year: 2008
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In Winter Light

  • Instrumentation: afl/gtr
  • Duration: 14'
  • Year: 2004
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Ragamuffin

  • Instrumentation: drec/pf
  • Duration: 7'
  • Year: 2000
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Tidal Erotics

  • Instrumentation: fl/hn/vc/perc/pf
  • Duration: 1'
  • Year: 1999
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Saxophone Quartet

  • Instrumentation: ssax/asax/tsax/barsax
  • Duration: 14'
  • Year: 1996
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In Lines of Dazzling Light

  • Instrumentation: cl/bn/hn/vn/pf
  • Duration: 20'
  • Year: 1995
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Brass Quintet No. 2

  • Instrumentation: hn/2tr/tbn/tu
  • Duration: 12'
  • Year: 1986
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Boireann

  • Instrumentation: fl/pf
  • Duration: 13'
  • Year: 1983
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Horns and Pipes

  • Instrumentation: 2fl(picc)/2ob/3cl/eflatcl/bcl/2bn/cbn /4hn
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 1982
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Time Piece

  • Instrumentation: fl/cl/vc/pf
  • Duration: 12'
  • Year: 1982
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Five Epigrams for Flute and Oboe

  • Instrumentation: fl/ob
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 1980
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“Why not?” Mr. Berio

  • Instrumentation: tbn/pf
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 1977
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Wind Quintet No. 1

  • Instrumentation: fl/ob(ca)/cl/bn/hn
  • Duration: 13'
  • Year: 1976 rev. 1985
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Keoghal

  • Instrumentation: srec/drec/trrec/trec/brec
  • Duration: 9'
  • Year: 1975 rev. 1997
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Sequence

  • Instrumentation: cl/bn/pf
  • Duration: 12'
  • Year: 1974
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Brass Quintet No.1

  • Instrumentation: hn/2tr/tbn/tu
  • Duration: 11'
  • Year: 1974
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Sonata for Cor Anglais and Piano

  • Instrumentation: ca/pf
  • Duration: 9'
  • Year: 1973
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Solo Works

Piano Études 4-5

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 2021
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A Few Minutes for Michal Hrubý

  • Instrumentation: cl
  • Duration: 3
  • Year: 2020
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Three Études for Piano

  • Instrumentation: vc
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 2017
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October in the Wicklow Hills

  • Instrumentation: hp
  • Duration: 4
  • Year: 2016
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Two Haiku for Kannel

  • Instrumentation: kannel
  • Duration: 10
  • Year: 2015
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Alla Luna

  • Instrumentation: kannel
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 2014
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les oiseaux rêvent dans les arbres

  • Instrumentation: fl
  • Duration: 4'.30"
  • Year: 2011
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Dialogue

  • Instrumentation: vc
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 2010
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Sea Echoes

  • Instrumentation: fl with glissando headjoint
  • Duration: 3'30"
  • Year: 2008
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Winter Echoes

  • Instrumentation: fl
  • Duration: 3'.30"
  • Year: 2008
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A Few Notes for Jim

  • Instrumentation: vn
  • Duration: 6'
  • Year: 2005
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endless the white clouds…

  • Instrumentation: hp
  • Duration: 11'
  • Year: 2005
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Two Fantasias for Alto Flute

  • Instrumentation: afl
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 2004
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Carillon

  • Instrumentation: org
  • Duration: 13'
  • Year: 2001
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Toccata

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 4'
  • Year: 1998
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Guitar Sonata No. 2

  • Instrumentation: gtr
  • Duration: 16'
  • Year: 1998
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Airflow

  • Instrumentation: fl
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1998
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Three Preludes for Piano

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 1995
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The Silver Apples of the Moon The Golden Apples of the Sun

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1993
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Sonata for Solo Horn

  • Instrumentation: hn
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 1993
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Jim Singing

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 3'
  • Year: 1992
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Arabesque

  • Instrumentation: asax or cl
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1990
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Three Lullabies for Deirdre

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 7'
  • Year: 1989
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Guitar Sonata No. 1

  • Instrumentation: gtr
  • Duration: 14'
  • Year: 1989
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Winter Music

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 11'
  • Year: 1988
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Fantasia No. 2

  • Instrumentation: trec
  • Duration: 4'
  • Year: 1987
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Sirato

  • Instrumentation: va
  • Duration: 4'
  • Year: 1987
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And Wake the Purple Year

  • Instrumentation: hpsd or pf
  • Duration: 7'
  • Year: 1985
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At the Round Earths Imagin’d Corners

  • Instrumentation: org
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 1985
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Fantasia No 1 on a theme from “Keoghal”

  • Instrumentation: trec
  • Duration: 3'
  • Year: 1984
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Suite for Harpsichord

  • Instrumentation: hpsd
  • Duration: 20'
  • Year: 1983
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Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin

  • Instrumentation: vn
  • Duration: 20'
  • Year: 1983
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Oileáin

  • Instrumentation: pf
  • Duration: 17'
  • Year: 1979
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Three Pieces for Solo Cello

  • Instrumentation: vc
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 1975
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Three Pieces for Solo Flute

  • Instrumentation: fl
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 1973
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Choral

Lux Aeterna

  • Instrumentation: satb chorus sa soloists
  • Duration: 3' 30''
  • Year: 2017
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To the Northeast

  • Instrumentation: satb chorus with divisi
  • Duration: 13'
  • Year: 2016
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There Is a Spot ‘Mid Barren Hills

  • Instrumentation: satb
  • Duration: 4'
  • Year: 1998
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Two Songs

  • Instrumentation: sa
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1997
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Jabberwocky

  • Instrumentation: satb
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1996
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

  • Instrumentation: ssatb
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1995
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The Eagle

  • Instrumentation: s solo/sa/pf
  • Duration: 14'
  • Year: 1988
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Music when Soft Voices Die

  • Instrumentation: saatb
  • Duration: 3'
  • Year: 1984
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To Sleep

  • Instrumentation: satb
  • Duration: 4'
  • Year: 1983
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Scél lem Duíb

  • Instrumentation: ssssaattbb
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 1981
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Pulvis et Umbra

  • Instrumentation: ssssaattbb/pf
  • Duration: 14'
  • Year: 1979
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Missa Brevis

  • Instrumentation: satb or saab
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 1979
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Five Two-Part Songs for Children

  • Instrumentation: sa
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 1978
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Bean Dubh an Ghleanna

  • Instrumentation: satb
  • Duration: 6'
  • Year: 1978
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Auburn Elegy

  • Instrumentation: satb /2fl/cl
  • Duration: 12'
  • Year: 1973
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Vocal

Five Early Irish Lyrics

  • Instrumentation: mz or a /pf
  • Duration: 8' 30''
  • Year: 2021
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Prospero’s Dream

  • Instrumentation: Voice/quinton (1 performer)
  • Duration: 4' 30''
  • Year: 2020
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Bardolino

  • Instrumentation: bar/pf
  • Duration: 4' 40"
  • Year: 2017
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Abendlied

  • Instrumentation: s/pf
  • Duration: 11'
  • Year: 1989
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I Am Wind on Sea

  • Instrumentation: mz - 2 crotales
  • Duration: 8'
  • Year: 1987
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The Seasonable Month

  • Instrumentation: s/fl/pf
  • Duration: 20'
  • Year: 1973
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Band

Where the Wind Blows

  • Instrumentation: picc/2fl/2ob/3cl/eflatcl/eflatacl/bcl/2bn/2asax/tsax/barsax/3tr/4hn/3tbn/tu/timp/4perc
  • Duration: 12'
  • Year: 1989
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Millennium Fanfare

  • Instrumentation: brass band
  • Duration: 35'
  • Year: 1988
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Brasspiece

  • Instrumentation: brass band
  • Duration: 4'
  • Year: 1984
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Praise Him with the Sound of the Trumpet

  • Instrumentation: satb chorus/brass band
  • Duration: 3'
  • Year: 1984
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Festive Suite

  • Instrumentation:
  • Duration: 10'
  • Year: 1984
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Fanfare for a City

  • Instrumentation: wind band
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1976
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Film

A Summer Ghost

  • Instrumentation: fl/vc/pf
  • Duration:
  • Year: 1986
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The Woman who Married Clark Gable

  • Instrumentation: cl/vn/va/vc
  • Duration:
  • Year: 1985
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Orpen Mirror to an age

  • Instrumentation:
  • Duration:
  • Year: 1980
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Educational

Drip Drop Drip

  • Instrumentation: voices/perc/pf/tape
  • Duration:
  • Year: 1987
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Arrangement

Four Irish Melodies for Piano Trio

  • Instrumentation: vn/ vc/ pf
  • Duration: 21
  • Year: 2020
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Four Irish Melodies for saxophone and harp

  • Instrumentation: ssax/hp
  • Duration:
  • Year: 2020
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Three Lullabies for Deirdre

  • Instrumentation: asax
  • Duration: 7'
  • Year: 2020
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Six Irish Melodies for Bassoon and Piano

  • Instrumentation: bn/pf
  • Duration: 7'
  • Year: 2020
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Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble

  • Instrumentation:
  • Duration: 18'
  • Year: 2019
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My Lagan Love (Three Irish Folksongs)

  • Instrumentation: sa
  • Duration: 5'29
  • Year: 2018
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Three Irish Folksongs

  • Instrumentation: SATB chorus/ SA soloists
  • Duration: 11
  • Year: 2017
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Four Irish Melodies for Soprano and Ensemble

  • Instrumentation: s/hn/2tp /tbn/tu/vn/va/hp/perc
  • Duration: 21
  • Year: 2017
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Four Irish Folksongs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano/Harp

  • Instrumentation: mz/pf or hp
  • Duration: 14
  • Year: 2014
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Irish Melodies

  • Instrumentation: fl(afl)/2vn/va/vc/hp/Irhp/bar/perc
  • Duration: 60'
  • Year: 2010
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Happy Birthday Dear Doris

  • Instrumentation:
  • Duration: 2'
  • Year: 2010
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Collage

  • Instrumentation: stg
  • Duration: 16'
  • Year: 1996
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The Watchword of Labour

  • Instrumentation: satb chorus/wind ensemble
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1984
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God Rest Ye Merry

  • Instrumentation:
  • Duration: 5'
  • Year: 1983
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