CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF DEREK HOLMAN: CHRONOLOGICAL, CLASSIFIED, AND
ALPHABETICAL LISTS
compiled by Alastair Boyd
Revised edition ©2017 A. Boyd
CONTENTS
Part 1: Chronological List of Works
A. Original Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. Arrangements, Realizations, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
C. Juvenilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D. Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Part 2: Classified List of Original Works
Instrumental Music
Ensembles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keyboard Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vocal Music
Dramatic Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Secular Choral Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Songs for Solo Voice or Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Children’s Songs and Part-songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Church Music
Services and Canticles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cantatas, Hymns, Anthems, Motets, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sacred Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Carols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part 3: Alphabetical Index of Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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PART 1: CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS
A. Original works
1. The song of soldiers.
For unison voices and piano.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1961 (Series: School songs)
1 score (4 p.)
Words by Walter De La Mare
Composed 1949
2. When June is come.
For high voice and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), 1949.
Words by Robert Bridges.
3. Prelude and fugue for recorder and piano.
1 ms score ([6] p.), [1951?]
Revised version published 1963 as Prelude, air and fugue: for organ.
3a. Prelude, air and fugue: for organ
Published: London: Novello, 1963.
14 p. of music.
Revised version of Prelude and fugue for recorder and piano, composed ca. 1951.
4. Song: [Look, stranger, at this island]
For baritone and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), [1951?]
Words by W.H. Auden.
“Entered for Hubert Kiver Prize.”
5. A song of enchantment.
For medium voice and piano.
1 ms score ([4] p.) [1951?]
Words by Walter de la Mare.
6. Country days: four easy pieces for piano
[7] ms. p. of music), 1952.
Contents: Breezy day — April fancy — Dance of the willow trees — Donkey’s frolic.
7. Fairest Lord Jesus.
For S or SS chorus and organ.
1 ms score ([4] p.), 1952.
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8. Song: [My true love hath my heart and I have his].
For medium voice and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), 1952.
Words by Sir Philip Sidney.
9. Ye holy angels bright: anthem for S.A.T.B.
For SATB chorus with organ.
Published: England: Novello, 1953 (Series: Musical Times; M.T. 1325).
1 score (7 p.)
Words by Richard Baxter.
10. Christ, who knows all his sheep: anthem for S.A.T.B.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1953 (Series: Octavo anthems)
1 score (4 p.)
11. Coridon’s song: unison song.
For voices and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), ca. 1954.
Words by Izaak Walton.
12. Christ, my beloved: for four-part chorus of mixed voices a cappella.
Published: [New York]: G. Schirmer, 1962.
1 score (8 p.)
Words by William Baldwin
Composed 1953-4.
13. My God and King: anthem for S.A.T.B.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1955 (Series: Octavo anthems)
1 score (8 p.)
Words by George Herbert.
14. Prevent us, O Lord: anthem for treble voices.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1956 (Chorister series)
1 score (3 p.)
Words from the Book of Common Prayer.
15. Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in F minor.
For SATB and organ.
Published: [Croydon]: Royal School of Church Music, 1957.
1 score (7 p.)
16. Six songs for SSA and piano.
1 ms unbound score (26 p.), undated (ca. 1957).
Contents: Worship ye that lovers bene this May / James I of Scotland — It was a lover and his lass /
William Shakespeare — My true love hath my heart and I have his / Sir Philip Sidney — Crabbed age
and youth cannot live together / William Shakespeare — Weep you no more sad fountains / anon. —
Whether men do laugh or weep / Thomas Campion.
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17. Sweet was the song: a carol for treble voices. In Two carols.
For unison chorus with organ or piano.
Published: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1957.
1 score (4 p.)
18. Heigh ho!
For voice and piano.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1959 (Series: School songs)
1 score (4 p.)
Words by M. Ashworth.
19. The passionate man’s pilgrimage: SATB unaccompanied.
1 ms score ([6] p.), [1959?]
Words by Sir Walter Raleigh.
“To the members of the Banstead Musical Society.”
20. O God, my heart is ready: anthem for treble voices and organ.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1960 (Chorister series)
1 score (4 p.)
21. O my dear heart: a Christmas carol for S.A.T.B.( unaccompanied)
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1960 (Series: Musical times)
1 score (4 p.)
Words by John Wedderburn.
22. Windy nights: for unison voices and piano (with optional second part)
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1960 (Series: School songs)
1 score (4 p.)
Words by Robert Louis Stevenson.
23. East away O!: song for unison voices.
For unison voices and piano.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1961 (Series: School songs)
1 score (4 p.)
Words by C. Fox Smith.
24. Eight French folk-tunes: arranged for piano solo.
Published: London : Novello, 1961.
8 p. of music
Contents: J'ai du bon tabac — Au clair de la lune — Dame Tartine — La bonne venture — Frere Jacques
— Le rat de ville et le rat des champs — Ratapataplan — Tremp' ton pain, Marie.
25. Lady day: for unison voices and piano.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1961 (Series: School songs)
1 score (3 p.)
Words by G. James.
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26. Away with gloom: Easter anthem for four-part chorus of mixed voices a cappella.
Published: [New York]: G. Schirmer, 1962.
1 score (7 p.)
Words by Edward Shillito.
27. Christ hath a garden.
For four-part chorus of mixed voices a cappella.
Published: New York : G. Schirmer, [1962]
1 score (7 p.)
Words by Isaac Watts.
28. Dame Trot, and other songs: unison voices and piano
Published: London: Novello, 1962 (Series: School song book; 385)
1 score (15 p.)
Contents: Browny bee — Dame Trot and her cat — Six little mice — A dis, a dis — Away, away — Sing ivy
— He haw hum
29. Blessed be the Lord for his land.
For SATB chorus and organ.
Published in the anthology Harvest Festival music: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1964
(republished 1984)
1 score (40 p.)
30. Jesus Christ the apple tree.
For treble voices or solo and organ
Published: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, [1964?]
1 score (4 p.)
31. Make we joy now in this feast: carol for SATB (unaccompanied)
Published: London: Novello, 1964.
1 score (4 p.)
32. Mary is a lady bright: carol for SATB (unaccompanied)
Published: London: Novello, 1964.
1 score (4 p.)
33. The flower of Jesse: carol for SATB (unaccompanied)
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1964.
1 score (3 p.)
Words by John Awdley.
34. Heart's music: anthem for unaccompanied voices (SATB)
1 ms score (3 p.), ©2006.
Words by Thomas Campion.
Composed 1965.
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35. Thee we adore: trebles and organ.
Published: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1965.
1 score (4 p.)
36. Advent responsory.
For unaccompanied SATB chorus, with soprano and bass (or baritone) solos.
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1996.
1 score (7 p.)
Composed 1965 for Grace Church on-the-Hill.
37. Four Elizabethan love-songs.
For voice and piano.
1 ms score (17 p.), [1965-1967], rev. 1990.
Contents: Shall I come, sweet love, to thee ; Cherry-ripe / Thomas Campion — Care-charmer sleep /
Samuel Daniel — Would God that it were holiday / Thomas Deloney.
38. Symphony in D minor (1961-1967)
1 ms score (218 p.)
Unbound.
39. Let this mind be in you.
Anthem for S.A.T.B. (divisi) and organ.
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 1967 (Series: Oxford choral music).
1 score (12 p.)
Words from Philippians, chapter II verses 5-11.
40. [Two songs]: The challenge; Nightingales.
For SSA and piano.
1 ms score (11 p.), 1967.
For the choir of the Bishop Strachan School.
41. A hymn [“The shepherds sing”]
For unacc. SATB chorus
1 ms score (13 p.), 1968, rev. 1993.
Words by George Herbert.
42. A hymn to St. John Baptist.
For SATB chorus, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, and organ.
1 ms score (13 p.) + 1 organ part ([2] p.), 1969.
Composed for the Centenary Patronal Festival of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Croydon, England,
June 24th 1970.
43. Prayer for Pentecostal fire.
Anthem for SATB chorus and organ.
Words by Audrey Beecham.
Published in Festival service book four (p. 8-11)
Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1970.
52 p.
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44. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.
For SATB and organ.
1 ms score (16 p.), 1971.
Revised in 2008 as The Christchurch canticles.
44a. The Christchurch canticles: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.
For SATB and organ.
1 score (15 p.), 2008, ©1971.
45. Christ keep us all.
For 2 trebles and SATB chorus.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1971.
1 score (7 p.)
46. Versicles, responses and the Lord's prayer: for treble voices.
Published: Croydon: Lengnick, 1971.
1 score (7 p.)
47. Six hymns from The hymn book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada.
For SATB.
Published: [Toronto]: The Anglican and United Churches of Canada, 1971.
No. 8. O all ye far-spreading lakes — No. 20. How shall I sing that majesty — No. 22. Praise to the living
God — No. 127. Lord, when thou didst thyself undress — No. 158. God who stretched the spangled
heavens — No. 211. God of the farmlands.
48. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A: for treble voices and organ.
Published: South Croydon: A. Lengnick, 1973.
1 score (13 p.)
49. Weatherscapes: for SATB choir and optional brass quintet.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1973.
1 score (3 v.)
Includes piano reduction of brass quintet.
Contents: Snow anthology/ Arthur Bourinot — Father Point in August / Leo Cox — Miramichi lightning /
Alfred G. Bailey.
Commissioned by the Ontario Choral Federation (Canada Council).
50. Festival Te Deum: choir, brass & organ.
1 ms score (14 p.), 1974.
Commissioned by Grace Church on-the-Hill.
51. The mass of Saint Thomas.
For SATB chorus and organ.
Published: Waterloo, Ont.: Waterloo Music, 1974.
1 score (8 p.)
Written to commemorate the centenary of St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, Toronto.
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52. Four fanfares.
For 3 trumpets.
1 ms score ([5] p.), undated [ca. 1975?]
Written for St. Paul’s Bloor Street Anglican Church, Toronto.
53. The beatitudes: S.A.T.B.
For SATB chorus and organ.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1975.
1 score (8 p.)
Rev. ed. (11 p.): Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, ©1996.
Commissioned by the Royal Canadian College of Organists (Canada Council).
54. Homage to John Aubrey.
For SATB soli and chorus with instrumental ensemble (recorders, krummhorns, sackbut, viola da gamba,
harpsichord, percussion)
1 ms score (69 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (40 p.), 1975.
Texts selected from Aubrey’s Brief Lives by Robertson Davies, who also wrote the Prologue and Epilogue.
Commissioned by Massey College, University of Toronto (Ontario Arts Council).
Contents: Prologue — Thomas Tyndall: a lament — Ghost story — Round — Sir Everard Digby — An old
song marred — A Christmas pye — Thomas Hobbes: lovesong — Folklore — Epilogue
55. Four Herrick songs.
For unaccompanied SATB chorus.
1 score (30 p.), 1975.
Commissioned by the Cantata Singers of Ottawa.
Contents: Night piece to Julia — To music: to becalm his fever — The mad maid's song — Cherry-ripe.
56. The Niagara Mass.
For unison chorus (congregation) and optional descant with organ or piano.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1975.
1 score (12 p.)
Commissioned by the Diocese of Niagara (Ontario Arts Council).
57. Prelude on "My dancing day" (Cornish melody)
Published in volume 3 of The Bristol collection of contemporary hymn tune preludes for organ / edited by
Lee Hastings Bristol.
[Delaware Water Gap, Pa.] : H. Flammer, ©1973-1975.
3 v. of music.
58. Samuel Pepys and his musick: a cantata for choir, solo voices, instruments and a reader
1 ms score (87 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (59 p.), 1976.
(Vocal score has title: Mr. Pepys and his musick).
Commissioned by Massey College, University of Toronto (Ontario Arts Council). Premiere: December 18,
1976.
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59. Songs of darkness.
For SATB chorus, brass quintet and percussion.
1 ms score (73 p.), 1976, rev. 1980.
Commissioned by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Ontario Arts Council).
Contents: I hear an army / James Joyce — Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish — Do not
go gentle / Dylan Thomas.
60. Four folk-songs from Canada: for counter-tenor, flute, viola & violoncello.
1 ms score (29 p.) + 3 parts, 1977.
Commissioned by the Galliard Ensemble.
Contents: Jack the cowboy — Où vas-tu mon p'tit garçon? — The dawning of the day — Crockery-ware.
61. Ponteach and the Green Man: incidental music by Derek Holman for the collaborative play by Major Robert
Rogers and Robertson Davies.
For orchestra.
1 ms score (96 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (49 p.), 1977.
Written for the Sesquicentennial celebrations of the University of Toronto, 1977.
Withdrawn.
62. Homage to Robert Herrick: a cantata.
For SATB soli and chorus, reader, oboe, bassoon, string quartet and harpsichord.
1 ms score (79 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (43 p.), 1978.
Texts by Herrick, Robertson Davies, and others.
Commissioned by Massey College, University of Toronto (Ontario Arts Council). Premiere: December 16,
1978.
63. The north wind.
For children's chorus (SS) and piano.
Published: Waterloo, Ont.: Waterloo Music, 1978.
1 score (7 p.)
64. Weathers.
For children's chorus (SS) and piano.
Published: Waterloo, Ont.: Waterloo Music, 1978.
1 score (7 p.)
Words by Thomas Hardy.
65. Antiphons of the Venerable Bede: for counter-tenor and organ.
1 ms score (15 p.), 1979.
Commissioned by the CBC.
66. Three carols.
For SATB unaccompanied.
1 ms score, 1979.
Commissioned by William Wright and the Choir of Deer Park United Church, Toronto.
Contents: Adam our father was in bliss — The Virgin's cradle hymn — A carol of the kings.
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Adam our father was in bliss: S.A.T.B. a cappella: [mediaeval carol]
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: G.V. Thompson Music, 1996 (Thompson sacred choral series)
1 score (5 p.)
The Virgin's cradle hymn: S.A.T.B. a cappella.
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: G.V. Thompson Music, 1996 (Thompson sacred choral series)
1 score (7 p.)
Words by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
67. A brighter dawn is breaking: anthem for treble voices in two parts and organ.
1 ms score (6 p.), 1980.
68. Fanfare: two trumpets, horn and trombone.
1 ms close score ([1] p.), 1980.
69. Carol of the stork: S.A.T.B. (with divisi S.T.B.)
1 score (6 p.), undated (ca. 198-?)
Anon. 16th century text.
70. Out of the blossom sprang a thorn: carol for S.S.A. (or T.T.B.), unaccompanied.
1 ms score ([2] p.), undated (ca. 198-?)
Words adapted from a 15th century text.
71. A Christmas carol.
For unaccompanied SATB chorus.
1 ms unbound score ([3] p.), 1981.
1 score (5 p.)
Words by Robert Finch.
72. A hymn of celebration: “cantemus cuncti melodium”.
For SATB chorus and organ.
1 ms score (12 p.), 1981.
Words translated by J.M. Neale from B. Notker.
For the Singers’ Workshop, London.
Published as “The Strain Upraise” in:
Two from Toronto: anthems of praise / by Derek Holman and Catherine Palmer.
Croydon, England: Royal School of Church Music, 1984.
1 score (19 pages)
Contents: The strain upraise / D. Holman ; words by B. Notker — All praise and thanks to God / C. Palmer
; words by F.N. Palmer.
73. In the bleak midwinter: for mezzo soprano and organ.
1 ms score (17 p.), 1981.
Words by Christina Rossetti.
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74. Missa Sancti Marci.
For unaccompanied SATB with rehearsal keyboard reduction.
1 ms score (10 p.), 1981.
75. Prelude on “Ave virgo virginum”. In: Sursum corda: a book of organ voluntaries in memory of Charles Peaker.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1981.
38 p. of music.
76. Angularis fundamentum: motet for double SATB choir and organ.
1 ms score (29 p.), 1982.
Words translated from an ancient Office hymn by J.M. Neale.
Commissioned by the Choir of Christ Church Deer Park (Ontario Arts Council).
77. Doctor Canon's cure: an opera for young people.
1 ms score (131 p.), 1982.
Libretto by Robertson Davies.
Commissioned by the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus.
78. Partita for organ and oboe on the tune ‘Mount pleasant’
1 ms score (19 p.), 1982.
Contents: Mount pleasant —Pastorale — March — Sarabande — Toccatina — Envoy.
Commissioned by Music at Sharon.
79. Three Canadian folksongs.
For SATB chorus and piano.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1982.
1 score (3 v.).
Contents: The Greenland whale — The false bride — The bluebird.
Composed 1980 (1 ms score, 11, 10, 10 p.). Commissioned by David Stocks.
Three Canadian folk songs. No. 3, The bluebird: a song of the Miramachi.
Arranged for SATB chorus and orchestra.
1 score (18 p.) + parts, [1982?] (computer typeset)
80. Te Deum.
For SATB chorus and orchestra
1 ms score (66 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (45 p.), 1983.
Commissioned by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council).
81. Trinity Mass.
For SATB chorus, organ and congregation.
1 ms score (11 p.), 1983.
Commissioned by The Association of Anglican Musicians.
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82. Academic processional.
For SATB chorus, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, tuba and organ.
1 ms score (20 p.) + 1 ms chorus score (6 p.), 1984.
Text selected from Horace’ Odes.
Composed for the University of Toronto 1984 Convocation on the occasion of the awarding of an Honorary
Doctorate to Yehudi Menuhin.
83. O come, let us sing to the Lord: anthem for choir (SATB, optional solo or junior choir), brass quintet (optional)
and organ.
1 ms score (27 p.), 1984.
Commissioned by the Church of St. John the Evangelist, London, Ontario (Ontario Arts Council).
84. Homage to Handel: concerto grosso for strings.
For 2 violins, cello, and string orchestra.
1 ms score (37 p.), 1985.
Commissioned by Thirteen Strings (Ottawa).
85. Night music: three songs for chorus (SATB) and string orchestra.
1 ms score (39 p.), 1985 (©1986)
Contents: The witches' charm — Lullaby — What hath night to do with sleep?
85a. Night music.
For SATB chorus and piano.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1986.
1 score (3 v., 24, 8, 22 p.)
Commissioned by David Stocks for the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir.
Contents: The witches' charm — Lullaby — What hath night to do with sleep?
86. Missa brevis for Canterbury (Rite “A”).
For SSATB chorus, unaccompanied.
1 ms score (22 p.), 1986.
“For Allan Wicks and the Choir of Canterbury Cathedral.”
87. Prelude and fugue for organ on a theme of Purcell.
15 ms p. of music, 1985.
Commissioned by the Toronto Branch of the Royal School of Church Music.
88. Songs of youth.
For SATB and piano.
1 ms score (35 p.), 1985.
Published: Toronto, Ont: G.V. Thompson, 1990
1 score (4 v.: 12, 16, 12, 12 p.)
Contents: A madrigal / Shakespeare — Song / John Dryden — Love unfeigned / Chaucer —Fair and fair /
George Peele.
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89. The centred passion: a song cycle for baritone and piano: six poems from Tennyson's “In memoriam A.H.H.”
1 score (31 p.), 1986 (computer typeset)
1 ms score (25 p.)
Commissioned by Mark Pedrotti (Ontario Arts Council).
Contents: Old yew, which graspest at the stones — Tonight the winds begin to rise — The path by which we
twain did go — The time draws near the birth of Christ — Now fades the last long streak of snow — Thy
voice is on the rolling air.
90. Laudes creationis: cantata for soprano, chorus and instrumental ensemble.
1 ms score (134 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (57 p.) + parts for percussion and 2 pianos, 1987.
Commissioned by Chamber Concerts Canada (Laidlaw Foundation). Premiere: April 6, 1987.
Contents: Domine, dominus noster (Psalm 8) — Bring me the sunset / Emily Dickinson — Man / George
Herbert — I thank you God for most this amazing / e.e. cummings — Canticle of the sun / St. Francis
of Assisi.
91. Sir Christëmas: a sequence of carols for treble or soprano voices and instrumental ensemble or piano.
With flute, violoncello, harp, piano and percussion, or piano alone.
1 ms score (128 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (55 p.), 1987.
1 vocal score (57 p.) (printed).
Published: [U.K.]: Novello, 1990.
Commissioned by the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus (Ontario Arts Council).
Contents: Proface, welcome! — Sir Christëmas — The Wassail — Omnes gentes plaudite — Here comes
holly — Ivy, chief of trees — Nay, ivy nay — Now have good day!
92. Nicholas Knock: a story-cantata for treble, soprano, tenor and piano duet.
1 ms score (55 p.), 1988.
Commissioned by The Aldeburgh Connection.
93. Food for thought.
For unaccompanied men's voices (AATTBB).
1 ms score (25), 1989.
Commissioned by The Gents.
Contents: A serving-men's song / John Lyly — The maid of the moor / Anon. — A bone in the throat /
Anon. — The epicure / Thomas Jordan.
94. Serenade for clarinet and string orchestra.
1 ms score (48 p.), 1989.
Commissioned by the Thirteen Strings, Ottawa (Ontario Arts Council).
Contents: Con moto, grazioso — Nocturne — Rondo.
95. Tapestry: five mediaeval lyrics for chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (111 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (67 p.), 1989.
Commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in honour of Elmer Iseler.
Contents: Aubade — Plaint — The Abbott of Angers — Love in Winter — Sequence for St. Michael.
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96. La Romance du vin.
For SATB chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (79 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (39 p.), 1990.
Commissioned by the Ottawa Choral Society. Premiere: February 4, 1991.
97. Contrasts: five Canadian songs.
For soprano, contralto, tenor and bass with piano, 4 hands.
1 ms score (47 p.), 1991.
Commissioned by the Aldeburgh Connection (Canada Council). Premiere: May 3, 1992.
Contents: Oh! Can you leave your native land — My jolly shanty boy — Le cloître noir — Autumn — I am
a Canadian.
98. Four Shakespeare songs: for baritone and string orchestra.
1 ms score (27 p.) + 5 parts, 1991.
Commissioned by Thirteen Strings (Ottawa).
Contents: When icicles hang by the wall — A bridal song — Sonnet 4 — When that I was and a little tiny
boy.
98a. Four Shakespeare songs: for baritone and piano.
1 ms score (17 p.), 1991.
Contents: When icicles hang by the wall — A bridal song — Sonnet 4 — When that I was and a little tiny
boy.
99. Missa brevis in die natalis: A little birthday Mass.
For SSA chorus and harp or piano.
1 ms score (22 p.), 1991.
Commissioned by Ann Cooper-Gay and the University of Toronto Women’s Chorus.
A little birthday mass: Missa brevis in die natalis.
Published: New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1994 (corrected ed. 1995)
1 score (28 p.)
100. Jezebel: an oratorio in two parts, for chorus, soloists and orchestra.
1 ms score (2 v., 347 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (158 p.), 1992.
1 vocal score (2 v. 179 p.) (computer typeset)
Libretto by Robertson Davies.
Commissioned by the Toronto International Choral Festival (Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council).
Premiere: June 3, 1993.
101. The present time: [five songs for SATB chorus and piano].
1 ms score (32 p.), 1992.
Commissioned by the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors for the National Youth Choir.
Contents: It was a lover and his lass — O mistress mine — Love and time — Weep you no more, sad
fountains — Hey nonny nonny noe.
The present time. No. 4, Weep you no more, sad fountains.
1 score
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, ©1994.
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102. A song to David.
For chorus, optional children's chorus, mezzo-soprano, baritone, timpani, organ and strings.
1 ms score (89 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (50 p.), 1992, ©1994.
1 vocal score (55 p.) (computer typeset)
Commissioned by The Cellar Singers (Orillia).
Contents: A song to David — The Divine image — Exaltabo te.
103. Postlude on a melody by Melchior Vulpius.
For organ.
Published: London, Ont.: Jaymar, 1993.
11 p. of music.
Published with Carol prelude on “Away in a manger”.
104. Carol prelude on “Away in a manger”.
For organ.
Published: London, Ont.: Jaymar, 1993.
11 p. of music.
Published with Postlude on a melody by Melchior Vulpius.
105. Ash roses: a cycle of six songs for soprano and piano.
1 ms score (31 p.), 1994.
Commissioned for and premiered by Karina Gauvin.
Contents: Geology — Maze — Sweet breath at night — Arabesque — Amor mi fai danzar — Alchemy.
106. I wake and feel the fell of dark.
For unacc. SSAATTBB chorus.
1 ms score (10 p.), 1994.
Words by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Commissioned by the Elora Festival Singers.
107. Songs of Sion: three psalm settings for chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (71 p.) + 1 ms vocal score, 1995.
Commissioned by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
Contents: By the waters of Babylon — When the Lord turned again — Great is the Lord and highly to be
praised.
108. Creatures great and small.
For treble voices and piano.
1 ms score (27 p.), 1996.
Published: New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1996.
1 score (5 v.: 6, 6, 10, 4, 6 p.)
Commissioned by the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus.
Contents: The wonderful Derby ram – Unicorn/ Anne Corkett – The ballad of red fox/ Melvin Walker –
The snail / William Cowper – Rattlesnake skipping song / Dennis Lee.
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109. Justorum animae.
For unacc SATB chorus.
Published: Don Mills, Ont: G.V. Thompson, 1996.
1 score (5 p.)
“In memoriam Robertson Davies.”
110. Sleep, holy babe: a carol.
For unacc SATB chorus.
Published: Don Mills, Ont: G.V. Thompson, 1996.
1 score (9 p.)
111. Two poems for chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (62 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (41 p.), 1996.
Contents: Dejection / Robert Bridges — Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon.
112. You are old, Father William.
For voice and piano.
Words by Lewis Carroll.
1 ms score (7 p.), [1996?]
113. Magnificat.
For soloists, chorus and orchestra.
1 score (121 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (75 p.), 1997.
Commissioned by the Mississauga Choral Society (Ontario Arts Council, Mississauga Arts Council).
114. Sweet content: a madrigal.
For SSA chorus, unaccompanied.
1 ms score (5 p.), 1997.
Words by Thomas Dekker.
For the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus.
115. Airs and echoes upon a ground: for two pianos.
1 ms score (11 p.), 1998.
1 score (12 p.), 1998 (computer typeset)
Based on the ground bass and various melodic fragments from Dido's lament by Purcell together with the
Scottish melody Ae fond kiss. Commissioned by the Aldeburgh Connection (Laidlaw Foundation). In
memory of Lois Marshall.
116. Two poems of Émile Nelligan: for unaccompanied chorus.
For SATB chorus.
1 ms score (20 p.), 1998.
Contents: Nuit d'été — Le mai d'amour.
117. This rose is railëd on a ryse: a carol for male voices.
For unacc. TTBB chorus.
1 ms score (4 p.), 1999.
Words ca. 1450.
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118. The invisible reality: an oratorio for soprano, mezzo-soprano and tenor soli, chorus, children's chorus and
orchestra.
Text by P.K. Page.
1 score (2 v, 249 p.), ©2000 + 1 vocal score (154 p.) ©1999.
Commissioned by Music Canada Musique 2000.
119. Variations on a melody by Doctor Arne: for two pianos.
1 score (26 p.), 1999.
Commissioned by the Aldeburgh Connection (Ontario Arts Council).
120. The labyrinth of love: song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano.
1 score (27 p.), 2000.
Revised 2011.
Commissioned by Jean Stilwell.
Contents: Strange labyrinth / words by Lady Mary Wroth — To her friend Lucasia ; Upon the death of her
son / words by Katherine Philips — Fidelity / Anon. [text from Dowland’s 1st book of Airs, 1547] — A
farewell to her husband / “Eliza” — Love’s brave court / words by Lady Mary Wroth.
121. Venus and Pomona.
For tenor and piano.
1 score (6 p.), 2000.
Commissioned by The Aldeburgh Connection.
122. Largo, Réjouissance, Largo..
For 2 trumpets and organ.
1 ms score (6 p.), 2001.
“For St. Timothy’s Church, Agincourt, on the occasion of their 90th anniversary.”
Duration: ca. 3:45.
123. Leipzig preludes.
For organ (manuals only).
[2] p. of music, 2001.
Contents: Prelude on Liebster Immanuel — Prelude on Innsbrück.
124. Requiem, for chorus, orchestra and S.A.T.B. soloists
1 score (150 p.) + 1 vocal score (92 p.), 2001.
Commissioned by the Mississauga Choral Society (Ontario Arts Council, Laidlaw Foundation) to mark
Chrys Bentley's twenty-fifth season as its Artistic Director.
125. Carol of the shepherds: treble voices, 1, 2 or 3 part, with piano or organ.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 2002.
1 score (6 p.)
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126. Five motets.
For unacc. SATB chorus.
1 score (52 p.), 2002.
Commissioned by the Toronto International Choral Festival for the Elmer Iseler Singers.
Contents: 1. O magnum mysterium — 2.Quem vidisti pastores — 3. O vos omnes — 4. Regina coeli laetere
— 5. Coelos ascendit hodie.
126a. Two motets on Latin and German texts.
For unacc. SATB chorus.
1 score (11 p.), 2005.
Contents: O magnum mysterium — O vos omnes.
Revised version extracted from Five motets (2002).
127. The heart mislaid: four songs for tenor and piano.
1 score (18 p.), 2002.
Poems by Douglas LePan.
Commissioned by the Aldeburgh Connection (Laidlaw Foundation)
Contents: Sonnet — No music is abroad — In a Spring night — The double.
128. The swete sesoun = The sweet season: five songs for choirs and piano.
For various choruses and piano.
1 score (29 p.), 2002.
Commissioned by the Exultate Singers (Canada Council).
Contents: Sumer is icumen in / Anon. and King James I of Scotland — Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman
— The moment / William Blake — Counsel to girls / Robert Herrick — The happy heart / Thomas
Dekker.
128a. Loveliest of trees.
For high voice and piano; arrangement of the 2nd song from The swete sesoun.
1 score (4 p.), 2011.
Words by A.E. Housman.
128b. Loveliest of trees.
For high voice and harp; arrangement of the 2nd song from The swete sesoun.
1 score (4 p.), 2011.
Words by A.E. Housman.
129. Two old songs.
For soprano and steel pan.
1 ms score (4 p.), 2002.
Contents: A sprig of May — Fain would I change that note.
130. Come ye faithful, raise the strain: anthem for S.A.T.B. choir, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 4 timpani: on the melody
Ave virgo virginum.
1 ms score (13 p.) + 5 parts, 2003.
Commissioned by Glenview Presbyterian Church for Chrys Bentley and the choir of the church.
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131. Verbum caro factum est = The Word was made flesh: a Christmas cantata.
For SATB chorus and children's chorus with tenor solo and brass band.
1 ms score (77 p.) + 1 vocal score (36 p.), 2004.
“The words from the Bible and from a variety of carols.”
Commissioned by the Hannaford Street Silver Band.
Contents: 1. Recitative — 2. Verbum caro factum est — 3. Chanticleer's song — 4. Recitative — 5.
Coverdale's carol — 6. In excelsis Deo — 7. Recitative — 8. Reges de Saba — 9. Hark! the herald angels
sing.
132. A lasting spring: three songs for high voice and piano.
1 score (11 p.), 2005.
In memory of Nicholas Goldschmidt.
Contents: Lament(Fear no more the heat o’ the sun); Orpheus with his lute / Shakespeare — To music /
Robert Herrick.
133. Prelude and fugue in stile antico on the name GE*A*D BA*E*.
For organ.
7 ms p. of music, 2005.
Published in Te Deum laudamus: A volume of organ music in memory of Gerald Bales, Vol. II: Toronto:
Royal Canadian College of Organists, ©2005.
134. Sweet William: four portraits; for chorus SATB, soli ST, and instrumental ensemble.
1 vocal score (53 p.), 2005.
Commissioned by the Orpheus Choir of Toronto.
Contents: Twangdillo / Anonymous — Jankin / Anonymous ca. 14th C. — Gascoigne's Lullaby / George
Gascoigne — Sweet William / Anonymous ca. 17th C.
135. The death of Orpheus.
For tenor and piano.
1 score (20 p.), 2005.
Texts from Ovid and Shakespeare.
Commissioned by The Aldeburgh Connection.
Contents: Invocation to Pluto and Proserpine — Sonnet 3 — The Elysian fields.
136. Missa Pax Christi: Mass for unaccompanied voices (SATB with divisi)
1 score (35 p.) 2006.
Commissioned by Calvin Church Choir for the Pax Christi Chorale..
137. Jubilate Deo: for high voices (SS) and organ.
1 score (5 p.), 2007.
Commissioned by St. George’s College, Toronto.
138. O Lord, support us all the day long: anthem for SATB with divisi (unaccompanied).
1 score (4 p.), 2007.
139. Now sleeps the crimson petal: duet for soprano and tenor.
For soprano, tenor and piano.
1 score (5 p.), 2007.
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140. Such sweet sorrow: song cycle for baritone and piano.
1 score (19 p.), 2007.
Contents: Sonnet ; Dirge / Shakespeare — Say nay! / Wyatt — Love's farewell / Drayton.
141. Daybreak and a candle end: for baritone and string quintet.
1 score (43 p.), [2007], ©2008.
Words by W.B. Yeats.
Commissioned by the Talisker Players.
Contents: Like the waters — Wandering Aengus — Running to Paradise — The Lake Isle of Innisfree —
Sailing to Byzantium.
141a. Daybreak and a candle end: for baritone and piano.
1 score (26 p.), 2007.
An adaptation for voice and piano by the composer, based on the original version for baritone and string
quintet.
141b. The Lake Isle of Innisfree: song for high voice and piano.
1 score (4 p.), 2007.
Transposed version of the 4th song from Daybreak and a candle end.
142. To everything there is a season: for high voices (S.S.A.) and piano.
1 score (16 p.), 2007.
Words by P.K. Page after Ecclesiastes.
Commissioned by the Toronto Children’s Chorus to mark the retirement of their founder Jean Ashworth
Bartle.
143. O Nata lux: motet for unaccompanied choir, SATB with divisi.
1 score (4 p.), 2008.
144. Rondo, Sarabande, Hornpipe.
For 2 cornettos, 2 sackbuts, bass sackbut/curtal.
1 score (4, 2, 3 p.), 2008-2009.
145. Bruce's clavier-book: fourteen keyboard pieces in various styles.
32 ms p. of music, 2009.
For Bruce Ubukata.
146. Et iterum gaudete!: a little Christmas rondo for organ.
3 p. of music, 2009.
147. The four seasons: song cycle for tenor and piano.
1 score (34 p.), 2009.
Commisioned by the Canadian Opera Company in memory of Richard Bradshaw.
Contents: Blow, blow thou winter wind — Christmas eve — The hounds of spring — Fair daffodils —
Summer thirst — August — Towered Camelot — The west wind.
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148. A parish Mass: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus and Agnus Dei.
For congregation and optional SATB choir with keyboard accompaniment.
1 score (7 p.), 2009.
149. A canticle, a prayer and a psalm: for unaccompanied choir, S.A.T.B. with divisi.
1 score (22 p.), 2010.
Commissioned by the Exultate Singers.
Contents: Magnificat — Dominus illuminatio mea — Exultate Deo.
150. Steam, sweeps and semi-circles: four songs for tenor and harp.
1 score (17 p.), 2011.
Original version; withdrawn.
Contents: Midnight on the Great Western / Thomas Hardy — Ha’nacker Mill / Hilaire Beloc — Adlestrop /
E.H. Thomas — On Westwell Downs / William Strode.
150b. Three songs for tenor and harp.
1 score (3, 4, 4 p.), 2011.
Final version.
Contents: Midnight on the Great Western / Thomas Hardy — Adlestrop / E.H. Thomas — Loveliest of trees
/ A.E. Housman [see no. 128b].
151. Two out of three: a voluntary for Elizabeth.
For organ left hand and pedals.
[3] ms p. of music, [2011].
152. A play of passion: a cycle of five songs for tenor and piano.
1 score (27 p.), 2012-13.
For Colin Ainsworth.
Contents: A play of passion/ Walter Raleigh — I hear an army / James Joyce — Care-charmer sleepe /
Samuel Daniel — The burning of the leaves / Laurence Binyon — Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon.
153. Revelations of Julian of Norwich: a cycle of six songs for organ and soprano.
1 score (25 p.), 2013.
For Anne Harley.
Contents: The blessed teaching of Our Lord — A little thing — I it am — Our Blessed Lady — Love — All
things shall be well.
154. O Lord increase my faith..
For SATB with piano reduction for rehearsal.
1 score (4 p.), 2014.
Commissioned by St. Thomas’s Anglican Church to mark the 25th anniversary of John Tuttle as organist
and choirmaster.
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B. Arrangements, realizations, etc.
A1. James Nares. Rejoice in the Lord O ye righteous: anthem for treble voices and organ.
Edited and the accompaniment realised from the figured bass by Derek Holman.
Published: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1960.
1 score (8 p.)
A2. Joseph Corfe. My voice shalt thou hear: anthem for boys' voices and piano or organ.
Edited and the figured bass realized by Derek Holman.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1961.
1 score (4 p.)
A3. Jonathan Battishill. How long wilt Thou forget me: anthem for unison voices.
Edited by Derek Holman.
Published: New York: G. Schirmer, 1962. (Series: G. Schirmer's choral church music)
1 score (7 p.)
A4. James Nares. By the waters of Babylon: for two-part choir of treble voices.
Edited and the figured bass realized for organ or piano by Derek Holman.
Published: New York: G. Schirmer, 1962. (Series: G. Schirmer's choral church music)
1 score (7 p.)
A5. Nine harmonisations and descants from The hymn book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United
Church of Canada.
Published: [Toronto]: The Anglican and United Churches of Canada, 1971.
No. 1. All creatures of our God and King — No. 7. Ye watchers and ye holy ones — No. 8. O all ye far-
spreading lakes — No. 58. Blest are the pure in heart [descant] — No. 310. A little child the Saviour came
— No. 386. Praise to God, immortal praise — No. 465. Jesus Christ is risen today [descant] — No. 489.
Father most holy — No. 506. Christ, the fair glory.
A6. God save the Queen, O Canada: the Vice-regal salute.
Arranged and orchestrated by Derek Holman for the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa.
1 ms score ([6] p.), 1973.
A7. Jesus Ahatonia: the Huron carol.
Arranged for unacc. SATB chorus by Derek Holman.
1 ms score ([4] p.), 1975.
A8. J.L. Tulou. Troisième grand solo pour flûte: op. 74.
Arranged for flute, violin, viola and violoncello by Derek Holman.
1 ms score ( p.), 1980.
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A9. Five Christmas carols.
Arranged by Derek Holman for SATB chorus and audience with piano, or organ, or orchestra or brass
quintet.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1982.
1 score (5 v. (8, 4, 8, 4, 8 p.))
Contents: Il est né le divin enfant — O come all ye faithful — God rest you merry, gentlemen — Hark! The
herald angels sing — Deck the halls.
A10. Quittez pasteurs [from] Five Christmas carols [sic].
Arranged by Derek Holman for SATB chorus and piano.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1983.
1 score (10 p.)
A11. Simple gifts: American Shaker words and melody.
Arranged by Derek Holman for voice and piano.
1 ms unbound score ([2] p.), undated.
Published in: Vocal repertoire album 3.
Oakville, Ont.: Frederick Harris, 1991.
1 score (40 p.)
A12. Christmas triptych: for treble voices, S.SA., optional solo, S. or T., with keyboard.
Arranged by Derek Holman.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 1992. (Jean Ashworth Bartle Choral Series)
1 score (28 p.)
Contents: Song of the crib: melody, 15th century German — The Wexford carol: Irish traditional melody —
The garden of Jesus: Dutch melody, 1633.
Orchestrated in 1994: 1 ms score (13, 13, [19] p.)
Incomplete pencil score.
A13. Healey Willan. An apostrophe to the heavenly hosts.
Additional parts for brass [4331] and organ by Derek Holman.
1993.
A14. Harry Somers. Le tambour.
Accompaniment arranged for wind quintet by Derek Holman
1 ms score (12 p.), 1995.
A15. Ernest MacMillan. À Saint Malo.
Arranged for voices and woodwind quintet by Derek Holman.
1 ms score (13 p.), [1995?]
A16. O Canada!
Arranged for piano in the style of Fauré by Derek Holman, for Stephen Ralls in celebration of his Canadian
citizenship.
1 ms score ([1] p.), 1998.
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A17. W.A. Mozart Recitative and aria.
Realization and expansion by Derek Holman of the incomplete sketch for No. 28, The marriage of Figaro.
1 score (8 p.), 2001.
Contents: Recitative “Giunse il momento al fine — Aria (rondo) Non tardar amate bene.
A18. Gaudete!: carol arranged for SATB chorus with organ or piano accompaniment.
1 score (6 p.), 2002.
Commissioned by the CBC.
A18a. Gaudete!: carol arranged for SATB chorus with flute, violoncello, percussion and organ accompaniment.
1 score ([8] p.), 2002.
A19. Three German carols.
For unacc. SSA chorus.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 2002. (Jean Ashworth Bartle Choral Series)
1 score (7 p.)
Contents: In Dulci Jubilo — Behold a rose now springing (Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen) — Shepherds to
Bethlehem hasten (Hirten, er ist geboren)
A20. The twelve days of Christmas.
Arranged for 7 soloists, chorus and orchestra.
1 score, 2003.
For the CBC.
A21. Dans cette étable = Now in the manger: SSA with piano or brass quintet.
Arranged, with English translation, by Derek Holman.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 2004.
1 score (7 p.)
A22. Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris = There twixt the ox and donkey: SSA with piano or brass quintet.
Arranged, with English translation, by Derek Holman.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 2004.
1 score (6 p.)
A23. Quittez pasteurs = Come, shepherds, come: SSA with piano or brass quintet.
Arranged, with English translation, by Derek Holman.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 2004.
1 score (10 p.)
A24. The king of love: Irish melody arranged for high voices (S.S.A.), flute and organ.
1 score (6 p.), 2007.
Words by H.W. Baker after Psalm 23.
For William Brown and the Oriana Women’s Choir of Toronto.
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A25. Angels from the realms of glory
Arranged for SATB chorus and strings.
1 ms score (5 p.), 2008.
A26. [Three carols]: Good King Wenceslas; Ça bergers, assemblons-nous; Hark the herald angels sing.
Arranged for SATB chorus, piano and strings.
1 ms score (8, 15, 4 p.) [2008?]
A27. Widdecombe Fair:[for SS voices and piano].
Arranged by Derek Holman.
1 score (4 p.), 2010
For Kirk Adsett and his Reaching Out Through Music singers.
A28. Jean Sibelius. En etsi valten
Harmonized by Derek Holman, SATB.
1 close score (3 p.), 2014.
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C. Juvenilia
J1. Short peices [sic].
For piano.
[8] ms p. of music, 1943.
Contents: The river — The storm — Allegro — Andante in F major — Scherzando in G — Dance of the
sprites — Andante in D minor — Allegretto in G major — Fairy revels.
J2. Fugue a 4 voci.
For keyboard.
[2] ms p. of music, [1944?]
J3. Quartet: Have mercy upon me, O God.
For SATB and piano.
1 ms score ([11] p.), [1944].
J4. The three holy children.
For soprano, tenor, baritone and bass soloists, SATB chorus and piano.
1 ms score ([22] p.), ca. 1944.
J5. Pianoforte sonata no. 1.
23 ms p. of music, ca. 1945.
“March-August 1944”—Caption (subsequently inserted).
J6. Reflections.
For piano.
3 ms p. of music, 1945.
J7. Full fathom five: a sea dirge.
For SATB unaccompanied.
1 ms score ([4] p.), [1946?]
J8. Agnus Dei.
For SMzATBarB chorus, unaccompanied.
1 ms score ([6] p.), 1947.
J9. A carol: [Blest withouten match]: for small choir.
For SATB unaccompanied.
1 ms score ([4] p.), 1947.
J10. A carol for mixed voices (4 parts): [Angels from the realms of glory].
1 ms score ([7] P.), 1947.
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J11. Dirge.
For piano.
[2] ms p. of music, 1947.
J12. Love’s perjuries.
For soprano and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), [1947?]
Words by William Shakespeare.
J13. Madrigal, for unaccompanied mixed voices: [Tell me where is fancy bred?]
1 ms score ([4] p.), 1947.
Words by William Shakespeare.
J14. Song: [Bells of grey crystal break on each bough].
For voice and piano.
1 ms score (2 p.), 1947.
Words by Edith Sitwell.
J15. What you will.
For piano.
4 ms p. of music, 1947.
“Dedicated to the memory of Maurice Ravel.”
D. Miscellanea
• Arrangements of Happy Birthday in the styles of Mozart, J.S. Bach & Handel, and Wagner, for Nicholas
Goldschmidt:
“To Niki, from Vienna, with love, Wolfgang”
For tenor and piano 4 hands
1 ms score ([2] p.), undated
“To Niki from J.S.B.”
Original version for SATB vocal quartet and 2 pianos, 1985;
Second version for AT voices and 2 pianos, 1998
2 ms scores ([2] p.)
“To Niki from Richard”
For AT voices and piano 4 hands
1 ms score ([2] p.)
Title at end: “Idle Siegfried: ein Albumblatt” D.H. 17.5.87
• Poem, The Tale of Jezebel (Who from an Upper Storey Fell)
©1993.
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PART 2: CLASSIFIED LIST OF ORIGINAL WORKS
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Ensembles
Fanfare: two trumpets, horn and trombone.
1 ms close score ([1] p.), 1980.
Four fanfares.
For three trumpets.
1 ms score ([5] p.), undated [ca. 1975?]
Homage to Handel: concerto grosso for strings. For 2 violins, cello, and string orchestra.
1 ms score (37 p.), 1985.
Largo, Réjouissance, Largo..
For 2 trumpets and organ.
1 ms score (6 p.), 2001.
Partita for organ and oboe on the tune ‘Mount pleasant’.
1 ms score (19 p.), 1982.
Contents: Mount pleasant —Pastorale — March — Sarabande — Toccatina — Envoy.
Prelude, air and fugue: for organ.
Published: London: Novello, 1963.
14 p. of music. Revised version of Prelude and fugue for recorder and piano, composed ca. 1951.
Rondo, Sarabande, Hornpipe. For 2 cornettos, 2 sackbuts, bass sackbut/curtal.
1 score (4, 2, 3 p.), 2008-2009.
Serenade for clarinet and string orchestra.
1 ms score (48 p.), 1989.
Symphony in D minor (1961-1967)
1 ms score (218 p.)
Keyboard music
Airs and echoes upon a ground: for two pianos.
1 ms score (11 p.), 1998., + 1 score (12 p.), 1998
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Bruce's clavier-book: fourteen keyboard pieces in various styles.
32 ms p. of music, 2009.
Carol prelude on “Away in a manger”. For organ.
Published: London, Ont.: Jaymar, 1993.
11 p. of music. Published with Postlude on a melody by Melchior Vulpius.
Country days: four easy pieces for piano
[7] ms. p. of music), 1952.
Contents: Breezy day — April fancy — Dance of the willow trees — Donkey’s frolic.
Eight French folk-tunes: arranged for piano solo.
Published: London : Novello, 1961.
8 p. of music.
Contents: J'ai du bon tabac — Au clair de la lune — Dame Tartine — La bonne venture — Frere Jacques — Le rat
de ville et le rat des champs — Ratapataplan — Tremp' ton pain, Marie.
Et iterum gaudete!: a little Christmas rondo for organ.
3 p. of music, 2009.
Leipzig preludes. For organ (manuals only).
[2] p. of music, 2001.
Contents: Prelude on Liebster Immanuel — Prelude on Innsbrück.
Postlude on a melody by Melchior Vulpius. For organ.
Published: London, Ont.: Jaymar, 1993.
11 p. of music. Published with Carol prelude on “Away in a manger”.
Prelude, air and fugue: for organ.
Published: London: Novello, 1963.
14 p. of music.
Prelude and fugue for organ on a theme of Purcell.
15 ms p. of music, 1985.
Prelude and fugue in stile antico on the name GE*A*D BA*E*. For organ.
7 ms p. of music, 2005.
Published in Te Deum laudamus: A volume of organ music in memory of Gerald Bales, Vol. II: Toronto: Royal
Canadian College of Organists, ©2005
Prelude on “Ave virgo virginum”. In: Sursum corda: a book of organ voluntaries in memory of Charles Peaker.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1981.
38 p. of music.
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Prelude on "My dancing day" (Cornish melody). For organ.
Published in volume 3 of The Bristol collection of contemporary hymn tune preludes for organ / edited by Lee
Hastings Bristol ([Delaware Water Gap, Pa.] : H. Flammer, ©1973-1975).
Two out of three: a voluntary for Elizabeth.
For organ left hand and pedals.
[3] ms p. of music, [2011].
Variations on a melody by Doctor Arne: for two pianos.
1 score (26 p.), 1999.
VOCAL MUSIC
Dramatic works
Doctor Canon's cure: an opera for young people.
1 ms score (131 p.), 1982. Libretto by Robertson Davies.
The invisible reality: an oratorio for soprano, mezzo-soprano and tenor soli, chorus, children's chorus and
orchestra.
1 score (2 v, 249 p.), ©2000 + 1 vocal score (154 p.) ©1999. Text by P.K. Page
Jezebel: an oratorio in two parts, for chorus, soloists and orchestra.
1 ms score (2 v., 347 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (158 p.), 1992.
1 vocal score (2 v. 179 p.) (computer typeset)
Libretto by Robertson Davies.
Nicholas Knock: a story-cantata for treble, soprano, tenor and piano duet.
1 ms score (55 p.), 1988.
Ponteach and the Green Man: incidental music for the collaborative play by Major Robert Rogers and Robertson
Davies. For orchestra.
1 ms score (96 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (49 p.), 1977.
(Withdrawn)
Secular Choral works
Academic processional. For SATB chorus, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, tuba and organ.
1 ms score (20 p.) + 1 ms chorus score (6 p.), 1984.
Text selected from Horace’ Odes.
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Food for thought. For unaccompanied men's voices (AATTBB).
1 ms score (25), 1989.
Contents: A serving-men's song / John Lyly — The maid of the moor / Anon. — A bone in the throat / Anon. — The
epicure / Thomas Jordan..
Four Herrick songs. For unaccompanied SATB chorus.
1 score (30 p.), 1975.
Contents: Night piece to Julia — To music: to becalm his fever — The mad maid's song — Cherry-ripe.
Homage to John Aubrey. For SATB soli and chorus with instrumental ensemble (recorders, krummhorns, sackbut,
viola da gamba, harpsichord, percussion)
1 ms score (69 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (40 p.), 1975
Contents: Prologue — Thomas Tyndall: a lament — Ghost story — Round — Sir Everand Digby — An old song
marred — A Christmas pye — Thomas Hobbes: lovesong — Folklore — Epilogue
Homage to Robert Herrick: a cantata. For SATB soli and chorus, reader, oboe, bassoon, string quartet and
harpsichord.
1 ms score (79 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (43 p.), 1978.
I wake and feel the fell of dark. For unacc. SSAATTBB chorus.
1 ms score (10 p.), 1994. Words by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Night music. For SATB chorus and piano.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1986.
1 score (3 v., 24, 8, 22 p.)
Contents: The witches' charm — Lullaby — What hath night to do with sleep?
Night music: three songs for chorus (SATB) and string orchestra.
1 ms score (39 p.), 1985 (©1986)
The passionate man’s pilgrimage: SATB unaccompanied.
1 ms score ([6] p.), [1959?] Words by Sir Walter Raleigh.
The present time: [five songs for SATB chorus and piano].
1 ms score (32 p.), 1992.
Contents: It was a lover and his lass — O mistress mine — Love and time — Weep you no more, sad fountains —
Hey nonny nonny noe.
The present time. No. 4, Weep you no more, sad fountains.
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1994.
La Romance du vin. For SATB chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (79 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (39 p.), 1990.
Samuel Pepys and his musick: a cantata for choir, solo voices, instruments and a reader
1 ms score (87 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (59 p.), 1976. (Vocal score has title: Mr. Pepys and his musick)
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Six songs for SSA and piano.
1 ms unbound score (26 p.), undated (ca. 1957).
Contents: Worship ye that lovers bene this May / James I of Scotland — It was a lover and his lass / William
Shakespeare — My true love hath my heart and I have his / Sir Philip Sidney — Crabbed age and youth cannot
live together / William Shakespeare — Weep you no more sad fountains / anon. — Whether men do laugh or
weep / Thomas Campion.
Songs of darkness. For SATB chorus, brass quintet and percussion
1 ms score (73 p.), 1976, rev. 1980.
Contents: I hear an army / James Joyce — Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish — Do not go gentle /
Dylan Thomas.
Songs of youth. For SATB and piano.
1 ms score (35 p.), 1985.
Published: Toronto, Ont: G.V. Thompson, 1990
1 score (4 v.: 12, 16, 12, 12 p.)
Contents: A madrigal / Shakespeare — Song / John Dryden — Love unfeigned / Chaucer —Fair and fair / George
Peele.
Sweet content: a madrigal. For SSA chorus, unaccompanied.
1 ms score (5 p.), 1997. Words by Thomas Dekker.
The swete sesoun = The sweet season: five songs for choirs and piano.
For various choruses and piano.
1 score (29 p.), 2002.
Contents: Sumer is icumen in / Anon. and King James I of Scotland — Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman — The
moment / William Blake — Counsel to girls / Robert Herrick — The happy heart / Thomas Dekker.
Sweet William: four portraits; for chorus SATB, soli ST, and instrumental ensemble.
1 vocal score (53 p.), 2005.
Contents: Twangdillo / Anonymous — Jankin / Anonymous ca. 14th C. — Gascoigne's Lullaby / George Gascoigne
— Sweet William / Anonymous ca. 17th C.
Tapestry: five mediaeval lyrics for chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (111 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (67 p.), 1989.
Contents: Aubade — Plaint — The Abbott of Angers — Love in Winter — Sequence for St. Michael.
Three Canadian folksongs. For SATB chorus and piano.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1982.
1 score (3 v.).
Contents: The Greenland whale — The false bride — The bluebird.
Three Canadian folk songs. No. 3, The bluebird: a song of the Miramachi. Arranged for SATB chorus and orchestra.
1 score (18 p.) + parts, [1982?]
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Two poems for chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (62 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (41 p.), 1996.
Contents: Dejection / Robert Bridges — Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon.
Two poems of Émile Nelligan: for unaccompanied chorus. For SATB chorus.
1 ms score (20 p.), 1998.
Contents: Nuit d'été — Le mai d'amour
[Two songs]: The challenge; Nightingales. For SSA and piano.
1 ms score (11 p.), 1967.
Weatherscapes: for SATB choir and optional brass quintet.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1973.
1 score (3 v.)
Contents: Snow anthology/ Arthur Bourinot — Father Point in August / Leo Cox — Miramichi lightning / Alfred G.
Bailey.
Songs for solo voice or voices
Ash roses: a cycle of six songs for soprano and piano.
1 ms score (31 p.), 1994.
Contents: Geology — Maze — Sweet breath at night — Arabesque — Amor mi fai danzar — Alchemy.
The centred passion: a song cycle for baritone and piano: six poems from Tennyson's “In memoriam A.H.H.”
1 score (31 p.), 1986 (computer typeset); 1 ms score (25 p.)
Contents: Old yew, which graspest at the stones — Tonight the winds begin to rise — The path by which we twain
did go — The time draws near the birth of Christ — Now fades the last long streak of snow — Thy voice is on
the rolling air.
Contrasts: five Canadian songs. For soprano, contralto, tenor and bass with piano, 4 hands.
1 ms score (47 p.), 1991.
Contents: Oh! Can you leave your native land — My jolly shanty boy — Le cloître noir — Autumn — I am a
Canadian.
Daybreak and a candle end: for baritone and string quintet.
1 score (43 p.), [2007], ©2008. Words by W.B. Yeats.
Contents: Like the waters — Wandering Aengus — Running to Paradise — The Lake Isle of Innisfree — Sailing to
Byzantium.
Daybreak and a candle end: for baritone and piano.
1 score (26 p.), 2007.
An adaptation for voice and piano, based on the original version for baritone and string quintet.
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The death of Orpheus. For tenor and piano.
1 score (20 p.), 2005. Texts from Ovid and Shakespeare.
Contents: Invocation to Pluto and Proserpine — Sonnet 3 — The Elysian fields.
Four Elizabethan love-songs. For voice and piano.
1 ms score (17 p.), [1965-1967], rev. 1990.
Contents: Shall I come, sweet love, to thee ; Cherry-ripe / Thomas Campion — Care-charmer sleep / Samuel Daniel
— Would God that it were holiday / Thomas Deloney.
Four folk-songs from Canada: for counter-tenor, flute, viola & violoncello.
1 ms score (29 p.) + 3 parts, 1977.
Contents: Jack the cowboy — Où vas-tu mon p'tit garçon? — The dawning of the day — Crockery-ware.
The four seasons: song cycle for tenor and piano.
1 score (34 p.), 2009.
Contents: Blow, blow thou winter wind — Christmas eve — The hounds of spring — Fair daffodils — Summer thirst
— August — Towered Camelot — The west wind.
Four Shakespeare songs: for baritone and string orchestra
1 ms score (27 p.) + 5 parts, 1991.
Contents: When icicles hang by the wall — A bridal song — Sonnet 4 — When that I was and a little tiny boy
Four Shakespeare songs: for baritone and piano.
1 ms score (17 p.), 1991. Original string orchestra accompaniment arranged for piano.
The heart mislaid: four songs for tenor and piano.
1 score (18 p.), 2002. Poems by Douglas LePan.
Contents: Sonnet — No music is abroad — In a Spring night — The double.
The labyrinth of love: song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano.
1 score (27 p.), 2000. Revised 2011.
Contents: Strange labyrinth / words by Lady Mary Wroth — To her friend Lucasia ; Upon the death of her son /
words by Katherine Philips — Fidelity / Anon. [text from Dowland’s 1st book of Airs, 1547] — A farewell to
her husband / “Eliza” — Love’s brave court / words by Lady Mary Wroth.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree: song for high voice and piano.
1 score (4 p.), 2007.
Transposed version of the 4th song from Daybreak and a candle end.
A lasting spring: three songs for high voice and piano.
1 score (11 p.), 2005.
Contents: Lament(Fear no more the heat o’ the sun); Orpheus with his lute / Shakespeare — To music / Robert
Herrick.
Look, stranger, at this island. For baritone and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), [1951?] Words by W.H. Auden.
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Loveliest of trees. For high voice and piano; arrangement of the 2nd song from The swete sesoun (2002).
1 score (4 p.), 2011. Words by A.E. Housman.
Loveliest of trees. For high voice and harp; arrangement of the 2nd song from The swete sesoun (2002).
1 score (4 p.), 2011. Words by A.E. Housman.
My true love hath my heart and I have his. For medium voice and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), 1952. Words by Sir Philip Sidney.
Now sleeps the crimson petal: duet for soprano and tenor. For soprano, tenor and piano.
1 score (5 p.), 2007.
A play of passion: a cycle of five songs for tenor and piano.
1 score (27 p.), 2010.
Contents: A play of passion/ Walter Raleigh — I hear an army / James Joyce — Care-charmer sleepe / Samuel
Daniel — The burning of the leaves / Laurence Binyon — Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon.
A song of enchantment. For medium voice and piano.
1 ms score ([4] p.) [1951?] Words by Walter de la Mare.
Steam, sweeps and semi-circles: four songs for tenor and harp.
1 score (17 p.), 2011.
Contents: Midnight on the Great Western / Thomas Hardy — Ha’nacker Mill / Hilaire Beloc — Adlestrop / E.H.
Thomas — On Westwell Downs / William Strode.
Original version. Revised as Three songs for tenor and harp.
Such sweet sorrow: song cycle for baritone and piano.
1 score (19 p.), 2007.
Contents: Sonnet ; Dirge / Shakespeare — Say nay! / Wyatt — Love's farewell / Drayton.
Three songs for tenor and harp.
1 score (3, 4, 4 p.), 2011.
Revised version of Steam, sweeps and semi-circles.
Contents: Midnight on the Great Western / Thomas Hardy — Adlestrop / E.H. Thomas — Loveliest of trees / A.E.
Housman.
Two old songs. For soprano and steel pan.
1 ms score (4 p.), 2002.
Contents: A sprig of May — Fain would I change that note.
Venus and Pomona. For tenor and piano.
1 score (6 p.), 2000.
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When June is come. For high voice and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), 1949. Words by Robert Bridges.
You are old, Father William. For voice and piano.
1 ms score (7 p.), [1996?]. Words by Lewis Carroll.
Children’s songs & part-songs
Coridon’s song: unison song. For voices and piano.
1 ms score ([3] p.), ca. 1954. Words by Izaak Walton.
Creatures great and small. For treble voices and piano.
1 ms score (27 p.), 1996.
Published: New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1996.
1 score (5 v.: 6, 6, 10, 4, 6 p.)
Contents: The wonderful Derby ram – Unicorn/ Anne Corkett – The ballad of red fox/ Melvin Walker – The snail /
William Cowper – Rattlesnake skipping song / Dennis Lee.
Dame Trot, and other songs: unison voices and piano
Published: London: Novello, 1962 (Series: School song book; 385)
1 score (15 p.)
Contents: Browny bee — Dame Trot and her cat — Six little mice — A dis, a dis — Away, away — Sing ivy — He
haw hum
East away O!: song for unison voices. For unison voices and piano.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1961 (Series: School songs)
1 score (4 p.) Words by C. Fox Smith.
Heigh ho! For voice and piano. Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1959
1 score (4 p.) Words by M. Ashworth.
Lady day: for unison voices and piano.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1961 (Series: School songs)
1 score (3 p.) Words by G. James.
The north wind For children's chorus (SS) and piano.
Published: Waterloo, Ont.: Waterloo Music, 1978.
1 score (7 p.)
The song of soldiers. Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1961
1 score (4 p.) Words by Walter De La Mare
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Weathers For children's chorus (SS) and piano.
Published: Waterloo, Ont.: Waterloo Music, 1978.
1 score (7 p.) Words by Thomas Hardy
Windy nights: for unison voices and piano (with optional second part)
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1960 (Series: School songs)
1 score (4 p.) Words by Robert Louis Stevenson.
CHURCH MUSIC
Services and Canticles A canticle, a prayer and a psalm: for unaccompanied choir, S.A.T.B. with divisi.
1 score (22 p.), 2010.
Contents: Magnificat — Dominus illuminatio mea — Exultate Deo.
The Christchurch canticles: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. For SATB and organ.
1 score (15 p.), 2008, ©1971
Revised version of: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, 1971.
Festival Te Deum: choir, brass & organ.
1 ms score (14 p.), 1974.
Magnificat. For soloists, chorus and orchestra.
1 score (121 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (75 p.), 1997.
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. For SATB and organ.
1 ms score (16 p.), 1971.
Revised in 2008 as The Christchurch canticles.
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A: for treble voices and organ.
Published: South Croydon: A. Lengnick, 1973.
1 score (13 p.)
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in F minor. For SATB and organ.
Published: [Croydon]: Royal School of Church Music, 1957.
1 score (7 p.)
The Mass of Saint Thomas. For SATB chorus and organ.
Published: Waterloo, Ont.: Waterloo Music, 1974.
1 score (8 p.)
Missa brevis for Canterbury (Rite “A”). For SSATB chorus, unaccompanied.
1 ms score (22 p.), 1986.
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Missa brevis in die natalis: A little birthday Mass. For SSA chorus and harp or piano.
1 ms score (22 p.), 1991.
Subsequently published as: A little birthday mass: Missa brevis in die natalis.
Published: New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1994 (corrected ed. 1995)
1 score (28 p.)
Missa Pax Christi: Mass for unaccompanied voices (SATB with divisi)
1 score (35 p.) 2006.
Missa Sancti Marci. For unaccompanied SATB.
1 ms score (10 p.), 1981.
The Niagara Mass. For unison chorus (congregation) and optional descant with organ or piano.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1975.
1 score (12 p.)
A Parish Mass: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus and Agnus Dei.
For congregation and optional SATB choir with keyboard accompaniment.
1 score (7 p.), 2009.
Requiem, for chorus, orchestra and S.A.T.B. soloists.
1 score (150 p.) + 1 vocal score (92 p.), 2001.
Te Deum. For SATB chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (66 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (45 p.), 1983.
Trinity Mass. For SATB chorus, organ and congregation.
1 ms score (11 p.), 1983.
Versicles, responses and the Lord's prayer: for treble voices.
Published: Croydon: Lengnick, 1971.
1 score (7 p.)
Cantatas, Hymns, Anthems, Motets, etc.
Advent responsory. For unaccompanied SATB chorus, with soprano and bass (or baritone) solos.
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1996.
1 score (7 p.)
Angularis fundamentum: motet for double SATB choir and organ.
1 ms score (29 p.), 1982. Words translated from an ancient Office hymn by J.M. Neale.
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Away with gloom: Easter anthem for four-part chorus of mixed voices a cappella.
Published: [New York]: G. Schirmer, 1962.
1 score (7 p.) Words by Edward Shillito.
The beatitudes. For SATB chorus and organ.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1975.
1 score (8 p.)
Rev. ed. (11 p.): Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, ©1996.
Blessed be the Lord for his land. For SATB chorus and organ.
Published in the anthology Harvest Festival music: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1964 (republished
1984)
1 score (40 p.)
A brighter dawn is breaking: anthem for treble voices in two parts and organ.
1 ms score (6 p.), 1980.
Christ hath a garden. For four-part chorus of mixed voices a cappella.
Published: New York : G. Schirmer, [1962]
1 score (7 p.). Words by Isaac Watts.
Christ keep us all. For 2 trebles and SATB chorus.
Published: Toronto, Ont.: G.V. Thompson, 1971.
1 score (7 p.)
Christ, my beloved: for four-part chorus of mixed voices a cappella.
Published: [New York]: G. Schirmer, 1962.
1 score (8 p.) Words by William Baldwin.
Christ, who knows all his sheep: anthem for S.A.T.B.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1953.
1 score (4 p.)
Christmas triptych. For SSA chorus with keyboard.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 1992.
1 score (28 p.)
Come ye faithful, raise the strain: anthem for S.A.T.B. choir, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 4 timpani: on the melody Ave
virgo virginum.
1 ms score (13 p.) + 5 parts, 2003.
Fairest Lord Jesus. For S or SS chorus and organ.
1 ms score ([4] p.), 1952.
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Five motets. For unacc. SATB chorus.
1 score (52 p.), 2002.
Contents: 1. O magnum mysterium — 2.Quem vidisti pastores — 3. O vos omnes — 4. Regina coeli laetere — 5.
Coelos ascendit hodie.
Heart's music: anthem for unaccompanied voices (SATB)
1 ms score (3 p.),composed 1965. Words by Thomas Campion.
A hymn [“The shepherds sing”] For unacc. SATB chorus
1 ms score (13 p.), 1968, rev. 1993. Words by George Herbert.
A hymn of celebration: “cantemus cuncti melodium”. For SATB chorus and organ.
1 ms score (12 p.), 1981. Words translated by J.M. Neale from B. Notker.
Published as “The Strain Upraise” in: Two from Toronto: anthems of praise / by Derek Holman and Catherine
Palmer. (Croydon, England: Royal School of Church Music, 1984).
A hymn to St. John Baptist. For SATB chorus, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, and organ.
1 ms score (13 p.) + 1 organ part ([2] p.), 1969.
Jubilate Deo: for high voices (SS) and organ.
1 score (5 p.), 2007.
Justorum animae. For unacc SATB chorus.
Published: Don Mills, Ont: G.V. Thompson, 1996.
1 score (5 p.)
Laudes creationis: cantata for soprano, chorus and instrumental ensemble.
1 ms score (134 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (57 p.) + parts for percussion and 2 pianos, 1987.
Contents: Domine, dominus noster (Psalm 8) — Bring me the sunset / Emily Dickinson — Man / George Herbert —
I thank you God for most this amazing / e.e. cummings — Canticle of the sun / St. Francis of Assisi.
Let this mind be in you. Anthem for S.A.T.B. (divisi) and organ.
Published: Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 1967.
1 score (12 p.)
My God and King: anthem for S.A.T.B.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1955.
1 score (8 p.) Words by George Herbert.
O come, let us sing to the Lord: anthem for choir (SATB, optional solo or junior choir), brass quintet (optional) and
organ.
1 ms score (27 p.), 1984.
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O God, my heart is ready: anthem for treble voices and organ.
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1960 (Chorister series)
1 score (4 p.)
O Lord increase my faith.. For SATB with piano reduction for rehearsal.
1 score (4 p.), 2014.
O Lord, support us all the day long: anthem for SATB with divisi (unaccompanied).
1 score (4 p.), 2007.
O Nata lux: motet for unaccompanied choir, SATB with divisi.
1 score (4 p.), 2008.
Prevent us, O Lord: anthem for treble voices. Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1956
1 score (3 p.)
Six hymns from The hymn book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada. For SATB.
Published: [Toronto]: The Anglican and United Churches of Canada, 1971.
No. 8. O all ye far-spreading lakes — No. 20. How shall I sing that majesty — No. 22. Praise to the living God —
No. 127. Lord, when thou didst thyself undress — No. 158. God who stretched the spangled heavens — No. 211.
God of the farmlands.
A song to David. For chorus, optional children's chorus, mezzo-soprano, baritone, timpani, organ and strings.
1 ms score (89 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (50 p.), 1992, ©1994.
1 vocal score (55 p.) (computer typeset)
Contents: A song to David — The Divine image — Exaltabo te.
Songs of Sion: three psalm settings for chorus and orchestra.
1 ms score (71 p.) + 1 ms vocal score, 1995.
Contents: By the waters of Babylon — When the Lord turned again — Great is the Lord and highly to be praised.
Thee we adore: trebles and organ.
Published: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1965.
1 score (4 p.)
To everything there is a season: for high voices (S.S.A.) and piano.
1 score (16 p.), 2007.
Two motets on Latin and German texts. For unacc. SATB chorus.
1 score (11 p.), 2005.
Contents: O magnum mysterium — O vos omnes.
Revised version extracted from Five motets (2002).
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Verbum caro factum est = The Word was made flesh: a Christmas cantata. For SATB chorus and children's chorus
with tenor solo and brass band.
1 ms score (77 p.) + 1 vocal score (36 p.), 2004.
Ye holy angels bright: anthem for S.A.T.B. For SATB chorus with organ.
Published: England: Novello, 1953.
1 score (7 p.) Words by Richard Baxter.
Sacred songs
Antiphons of the Venerable Bede: for counter-tenor and organ.
1 ms score (15 p.), 1979.
In the bleak midwinter: for mezzo soprano and organ.
1 ms score (17 p.), 1981. Words by Christina Rossetti.
Revelations of Julian of Norwich: a cycle of six songs for organ and soprano.
1 score (25 p.), 2013.
Contents: The blessed teaching of Our Lord — A little thing — I it am — Our Blessed Lady — Love — All things
shall be well.
Carols
Carol of the stork: S.A.T.B. (with divisi S.T.B.)
1 score (6 p.), undated (ca. 198-?)
Carol of the shepherds: treble voices, 1, 2 or 3 part, with piano or organ.
Published: Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 2002.
1 score (6 p.)
A Christmas carol. For unaccompanied SATB chorus.
1 score (5 p.), 1981. Words by Robert Finch.
The flower of Jesse: carol for SATB (unaccompanied)
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1964.
1 score (3 p.) Words by John Awdley.
Jesus Christ the apple tree. For treble voices or solo and organ.
Published: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, [1964?]
1 score (4 p.)
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Make we joy now in this feast: carol for SATB (unaccompanied)
Published: London: Novello, 1964.
1 score (4 p.)
Mary is a lady bright: carol for SATB (unaccompanied)
Published: London: Novello, 1964.
1 score (4 p.
O my dear heart: a Christmas carol for S.A.T.B.( unaccompanied)
Published: [U.K.]: Novello & Co., 1960.
1 score (4 p.) Words by John Wedderburn.
Out of the blossom sprang a thorn: carol for S.S.A. (or T.T.B.), unaccompanied.
1 ms score ([2] p.), undated (ca. 198-?)
Sir Christëmas: a sequence of carols for treble or soprano voices and instrumental ensemble or piano.
With flute, violoncello, harp, piano and percussion, or piano alone.
1 ms score (128 p.) + 1 ms vocal score (55 p.), 1987.
1 vocal score (57 p.) (printed). Published: [U.K.]: Novello, 1990.
Contents: Proface, welcome! — Sir Christëmas — The Wassail — Omnes gentes plaudite — Here comes holly —
Ivy, chief of trees — Nay, ivy nay — Now have a good day!
Sleep, holy babe: a carol. For unacc SATB chorus.
Published: Don Mills, Ont: G.V. Thompson, 1996.
1 score (9 p.)
Sweet was the song: a carol for treble voices. For unison chorus with organ or piano.
Published: Croydon: Royal School of Church Music, 1957.
1 score (4 p.)
This rose is railëd on a ryse: a carol for male voices. For unacc. TTBB chorus.
1 ms score (4 p.), 1999.
Three carols. For SATB unaccompanied.
1 ms score, 1979.
Contents: Adam our father was in bliss — The Virgin's cradle hymn — A carol of the kings.
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PART 3: ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TITLES
Title Catalogue number
A dis, a dis 304
À Saint Malo (Ernest MacMillan, arr. by
Holman)
A15
The Abbott of Angers 953
Academic processional 82
Adam our father was in bliss 661
Adlestrop 1503, 150b2
Advent responsory 36
Airs and echoes upon a ground 115
Alchemy 1056
All things shall be well 1536
Amor mi fai danzar 1055
Angels from the realms of glory A25
Angularis fundamentum 76
Antiphons of the Venerable Bede 65
An Apostrophe to the heavenly hosts
(Healey Willan, additional parts by Holman)
A13
Arabesque 1054
Ash roses 105
Aubade 951
August 1476
Autumn 974
Away with gloom 26
Away, away 30
The Ballad of red fox 1083
The Beatitudes 53
Behold a rose now springing A192
Blessed be the Lord for his land 29
The blessed teaching of Our Lord 1531
Blow, blow thou winter wind 1471
The Bluebird 793
A Bone in the throat 933
A Bridal song 982
A Brighter dawn is breaking 67
Bring me the sunset 902
Browny bee 30
Bruce's clavier-book 145
The Burning of the leaves 1524
By the waters of Babylon 1071
By the waters of Babylon (James
Nares, edited by Holman)
A4
Ça bergers, assemblons-nous A262
Cantemus cuncti melodium 72
Canticle of the sun 905
A Canticle, a prayer and a psalm 149
Care-charmer sleep 37
Care-charmer sleepe 1523
A Carol of the kings 663
Carol of the shepherds 125
Carol of the stork 69
Carol prelude on “Away in a manger” 104
The Centred passion 89
The Challenge 40
Cherry-ripe 37, 554
Christ hath a garden 27
Christ keep us all 45
Christ, my beloved 12
Christ, who knows all his sheep 10
The Christchurch canticles 44a
A Christmas carol (words by Robert
Finch)
71
Christmas eve 1472
Christmas triptych A12
Le Cloître noir 973
Coelos ascendit hodie 1265
Come, shepherds, come A22
Come ye faithful, raise the strain 130
44
Contrasts: five Canadian songs 97
Coridon’s song 11
Counsel to girls 1284
Country days 6
Crabbed age and youth cannot live
together
16
Creatures great and small 108
Crockery-ware 604
Dame Trot and her cat 28
Dans cette étable (Now in the manger) A21
The Dawning of the day 603
Daybreak and a candle end 141, 141a
The Death of Orpheus 135
Deck the halls A95
Dejection 1111
Dirge 1402
The Divine image 1022
Do not go gentle 593
Doctor Canon's cure 77
Domine, dominus noster (Psalm 8) 901
Dominus illuminatio mea 1492
The Double 1274
East away O! 23
Eight French folk-tunes 24
The Elysian fields 1353
En etsi valtaa (Sibelius, harmonized by Holman) A27
Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris A22
The epicure 934
Epistle to be left in the earth 592
Et iterum gaudete!: 146
Everyone sang 1112, 1525
Exaltabo te 1023
Exultate Deo 1493
Fain would I change that note 1292
Fair and fair 884
Fair daffodils 1474
Fairest Lord Jesus 7
The False bride 792
Fanfare 68
A farewell to her husband 1205
Father Point in August 492
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
(Lament)
1321
Festival Te Deum 50
Fidelity 1204
Five Christmas carols A9
Five motets 126
The Flower of Jesse 33
Food for thought 93
Four Elizabethan love-songs 37
Four fanfares 52
Four folk-songs from Canada 60
Four Herrick songs 55
The Four seasons 147
Four Shakespeare songs 98
The garden of Jesus A123
Gascoigne's lullaby 1343
Gaudete! A18, A18a
Geology 1051
God of the farmlands 476
God rest you merry, gentlemen A93
God who stretched the spangled heavens 475
Good King Wenceslas A261
Great is the Lord and highly to be praised 1073
The Greenland whale 791
Ha’nacker Mill 1502
The Happy heart 1285
Hark! The herald angels sing A94, A263
He haw hum 287
The Heart mislaid 127
Heart's music 34
Heigh ho! 18
Here comes holly 915
Hey nonny nonny noe 1015
Homage to Handel 84
Homage to John Aubrey 54
45
Homage to Robert Herrick 62
The Hounds of spring 1473
How long wilt Thou forget me
How shall I sing that majesty 472
A hymn of celebration 72
A Hymn (“The shepherds sing”) 41
A hymn to St. John Baptist 42
I am a Canadian 975
I hear an army 591, 1522
I it am 1533
I thank you God for most this amazing 904
I wake and feel the fell of dark 106
Il est né le divin enfant A91
In a Spring night 1273
In Dulci Jubilo A191
In the bleak midwinter 73
The Invisible reality 118
Invocation to Pluto and Proserpine 1351
It was a lover and his lass 162, 1011
Ivy, chief of trees 916
Jack the cowboy 601
Jankin 1342
Jesus Ahatonia (the Huron carol) A7
Jesus Christ the apple tree 30
Jezebel 100
Jubilate Deo 137
Justorum animae 109
The king of love A24
The Labyrinth of love 120
Lady day 25
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 1414, 141b
Lament (Fear no more the heat o’ the
sun)
1321
Largo, Réjouissance, Largo 122
A Lasting spring 132
Laudes creationis 90
Leipzig preludes 123
Let this mind be in you 39
Like the waters 1411
A Little birthday mass 99
A little thing 1532
Look, stranger, at this island 4
Lord, when thou didst thyself undress 474
Love 1535
Love and time 1013
Love in winter 954
Love unfeigned 883
Love’s brave court 1206
Love's farewell 1404
Loveliest of trees 1282, 128a,
128b, 150b3
Lullaby 852
The Mad maid's song 553
A Madrigal (words by Shakespeare) 881
Magnificat 113, 1491
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis 44
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A 48
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in F minor 15
Le Mai d'amour 1162
The Maid of the moor 932
Make we joy now in this feast 31
Man (words by George Herbert) 903
Mary is a lady bright 32
The Mass of Saint Thomas 51
Maze 1052
Midnight on the Great Western 1501, 150b1
Miramichi lightning 493
Missa brevis for Canterbury (Rite
“A”)
86
Missa brevis in die natalis 99
Missa Pax Christi 136
Missa Sancti Marci 74
The Moment 1283
Mr. Pepys and his musick 58
My God and King 13
My jolly shanty boy 972
46
My true love hath my heart and I have
his
8, 163
My voice shalt thou hear (Joseph
Corfe, edited by Holman)
A2
Nay, ivy nay 917
The Niagara Mass 56
Nicholas Knock 92
Night music 85
Night piece to Julia 551
Nightingales 40
No music is abroad 1272
The North wind 63
Now have good day! 918
Now in the manger A21
Now fades the last long streak of snow 895
Now sleeps the crimson petal 139
Nuit d'été 1161
O all ye far-spreading lakes 471
O come all ye faithful A92
O come, let us sing to the Lord 83
O God, my heart is ready 20
O Lord increase my faith 154
O Lord, support us all the day long 138
O magnum mysterium 1261, 126a1
O mistress mine 1012
O my dear heart 21
O Nata lux 143
O vos omnes 1263, 126a2
Oh! Can you leave your native land 971
Old yew, which graspest at the stones 891
Omnes gentes plaudite 914
On Westwell Downs 1504
Orpheus with his lute 1322
Où vas-tu mon p'tit garçon? 602
Our Blessed Lady 1534
Out of the blossom sprang a thorn 70
A Parish Mass 148
Partita for organ and oboe on the tune
‘Mount pleasant’
78
The passionate man’s pilgrimage 19
The Path by which we twain did go 893
Plaint 952
A Play of passion 152
Ponteach and the Green Man 61
Postlude on a melody by Melchior
Vulpius
103
Praise to the living God 473
Prayer for Pentecostal fire 43
Prelude, air and fugue for organ 3a
Prelude and fugue for organ on a
theme of Purcell
87
Prelude and fugue for recorder and
piano
3
Prelude and fugue in stile antico on the
name GE*A*D BA*E*
133
Prelude on “Ave virgo virginum” 75
Prelude on Innsbrück 1232
Prelude on Liebster Immanuel 1231
Prelude on "My dancing day" 57
The Present time 101
Prevent us, O Lord 14
Proface, welcome! 911
Quem vidisti pastores 1262
Quittez pasteurs A10
Quittez pasteurs (Come, shepherds,
come)
A23
Rattlesnake skipping song 1085
Recitative and aria (W.A. Mozart,
realized & completed by Holman)
A16
Regina coeli laetere 1264
Rejoice in the Lord O ye righteous (by
James Nares, edited by Holman)
A1
Requiem 124
Revelations of Julian of Norwich 153
La Romance du vin 96
Rondo, Sarabande, Hornpipe 144
Running to Paradise 1413
Sailing to Byzantium 1415
Samuel Pepys and his musick 58
Say nay! 1403
Sequence for St. Michael 955
47
Serenade for clarinet and string
orchestra
94
A Serving-men's song 931
Shall I come, sweet love, to thee 37
The Shepherds sing 41
Shepherds to Bethlem hasten A193
Simple gifts A10
Sing ivy 30
Sir Christëmas 91
Six little mice 30
Six songs for SSA and piano 12
Sleep, holy babe 110
The Snail 1084
Snow anthology 49
Song (words by John Dryden) 882
Song by Sir Philip Sidney 4
A Song of enchantment 5
The Song of soldiers 1
Song of the crib A121
A Song to David 102
Songs of darkness 59
Songs of Sion 107
Songs of youth 88
Sonnet [from Such sweet sorrow] 1401
Sonnet [from The heart mislaid] 1271
Sonnet 3 1352
Sonnet 4 983
A Sprig of May 1291
Steam, sweeps and semi-circles 150
The strain upraise 72
Strange labyrinth 1201
Such sweet sorrow 140
Sumer is icumen in 1281
Summer thirst 1475
Sweet breath at night 1053
Sweet content 114
Sweet was the song 17
Sweet William 134
The Swete sesoun 128
Symphony in D minor 38
Le Tambour (Harry Somers, arr. By
Holman)
A14
Tapestry 95
Te Deum 80
Thee we adore 35
There twixt the ox and donkey A22
This rose is railëd on a ryse 117
Three Canadian folksongs 79
Three carols 66
Three German carols A19
Three songs for tenor and harp 150b
Thy voice is on the rolling air 896
The Time draws near the birth of
Christ
894
To everything there is a season 142
To her friend Lucasia 1202
To music 1323
To music, to becalm his fever 552
Tonight the winds begin to rise 892
Towered Camelot 1477
Trinity Mass 81
Troisième grand solo pour flûte, op. 74
(J.L. Tulou, arr. by Holman) A8
Twangdillo 1341
The twelve days of Christmas A20
Two old songs 129
Two out of three 151
Two poems for chorus and orchestra 111
Two poems of Émile Nelligan 116
Unicorn 1082
Upon the death of her son 1203
Variations on a melody by Doctor
Arne
119
Venus and Pomona 121
Verbum caro factum est 131
Versicles, responses and the Lord's
prayer
46
The Virgin's cradle hymn 662
48
Wandering Aengus 1412
The Wassail 913
Weathers 64
Weatherscapes 49
Weep you no more sad fountains 165, 1014
The West wind 1478
The Wexford carol A122
What hath night to do with sleep? 853
When icicles hang by the wall 981
When June is come. 2
When that I was and a little tiny boy 984
When the Lord turned again 1072
Whether men do laugh or weep 16
Widdecombe Fair A27
Windy nights 22
The Witches' charm 851
The Wonderful Derby ram 1081
The Word was made flesh 131
Worship ye that lovers bene this May 161
Would God that it were holiday 37
Ye holy angels bright 9
You are old, Father William 112