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This music was notated on my PC using software called Noteworthy Composer. Using this I was able to write and score the music, then save it as MIDI files.

If you are using a computer with a soundcard, which supports MIDI, and are using a fairly recent browser, you should be able to click on the name of the piece and hear it once it has downloaded.

If you have any problems, please let me know.

First, some music from my student days at Royal Holloway College:

In Nomine in four parts, after the style of William Byrd
Sonata in G minor for recorder and continuo, after the style of G.F. Handel
1. Andante
2. Allegro
3. Largo
4. Allegro (Gigue)
Theme and variations in G minor for string quartet, after the style of Franz Schubert
Ostinato on the Dies Irae, for keyboard
The Roman Road for voice and piano, in the style of Gerald Finzi. The words are from the poem by Thomas Hardy:

The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting-line in hair
Across the heath. And thoughtful men
Contrast its days of Now and Then,
And delve, and measure and compare.

Visioning on the vacant air
Helmed legionaries, who proudly rear
The Eagle, as they pace again
The Roman Road.

But no tall brass-helmed legionnaire
Haunts it for me. Uprises there
A mother's form upon my ken
Guiding my infant steps, as when
We walked that ancient thoroughfare
The Roman Road.

Next a couple of slightly more recent pieces:

Chopsticks—This piece was driven out of me by my oldest daughter Isobel's continuous playing of the melody on the piano. Eventually I got so fed up that I made this arrangement.
African Dance—This was written for a local dance school to use for an ad hoc performance in Tavistock. I later reworked it as the Battle in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

And finally, a few pieces by others which I have arranged:

Satie at the Seaside, by Simon Broughton—I was at school with Simon, who wrote this in the late 1970s.
Mimi, an Entr'acte from the incidental music to the play 'The Only Way', by Hamilton Clarke—This was written in 1899 for the first production of Sir John Martin-Harvey's play. Hamilton Clarke was an experienced theatre composer and wrote the Overture to Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado'
The Only Way, a march by the Irish composer J. Vincent Walshe inspired by the play which Sir John Martin-Harvey made his own.