A Collection of fourteen scores, professionally notated, printed, bound, and signed with a special message by Ella, including pieces commissioned by BBC Radio 3.
This Collection is stocked by Cambridge Pendelbury Library of Music | Guildhall School of Music & Drama | Trinity Laban Jerwood Library | Leeds Conservatoire of Music | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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Plango: A Cure Lament | High Soprano and Piano
(Poet Jo Brandon, Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for International Women’s Commission 2021)
Everyday Magic | Mezzo Soprano and Piano
(PRS, Wild Plum & Cheltenham Music Festival Workshop Commission 2019)
Shunned Street | Low Mezzo Soprano and Piano
(Poet Jo Brandon, Leeds Lieder + Festival 2011)
This Little Rose | Soprano and Piano
(Poet Emily Dickinson, released on Emergence, an album by Nadine Benjamin and Nicole Panizza)
Songs for Marvellous | Voice, Piano, Harp, Horn, Cymbals and SSA
(Including 9th October 2014, Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep, - then the letting go - (Sibling), Child and Mother and Song For My Children, 2014-18)
Lamplight | Soprano and Piano
(Poet May Wedderburn Cannan)
Breake of Day | Soprano and Piano
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep | SSA
(Performed by BBC Singers 2015 & 2016)
Heigh Ho - The Holly! | SSA
(Performed by BBC Singers 2016)
Lucky | Solo Tuba
(Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 2020 )
...And You Know We'll Be Alright? | Full Orchestra
(Performing parts available to hire separately)
I Remember. Like I'm The Only | wind orchestra
(Commissioned as part of the Adopt a Composer Scheme, 2012. Performing parts available to hire separately)
A Domani, People. A Domani | Guitar Ensemble
(Commissioned by Royal Philharmonic Society for Bicentenary Celebrations 2013. Inclusive of performing parts)
Lesser Trefoil | Solo Flute
(Commissioned by City of London Festival, 2012)
A Song Cycle
1. 9th October 2018 - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: D4 - G4
2. Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - SSA | Range: B3 - F5
3. Then the Letting Go (Sibling) - Mezzo Soprano, Horn in F and Cymbals | Range: G3 - Eb5
4. Child and Mother - Soprano and Harp/Piano | Range: C4 - F5
5. Song for my Children (A Te) - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: A3 - E5
In Memoriam
Marvellous John Bartholomew Jarman-Pinto
3rd September 2014
285g
Modena, Italy
Programme Notes
'Songs for Marvellous' was written after our son, Marvellous, was born at 20 weeks in Modena, Italy, in 2014. I came away from the explicitly traumatic experience feeling that I needed to prove to him my worth. I had failed him, as I saw it then, in my most basic task as a parent, failed to keep him alive and failed to bring his body home.
I spent weeks and months trying to lose myself in tasks; moving house, video games, cleaning, washing, composing and transcribing music, all to keep my mind from rehashing over every single moment of my experience in Italy. I was rebuffed so many times when trying to get help for my post traumatic stress disorder, not to mention the grief.
In the midst of this, some beautiful people wound their healing hands around us, embracing us with letters, regular phone calls and texts, medical and emotional support, hugs and shoulders to cry on.
I knew that I wanted to have Marvy memorialised somehow. Writing ‘Songs For Marvellous’ was a way to grieve, heal and keep our son in our lives. The baby that only I knew; who would wriggle when I felt stressed; wake me at night with his kicking; respond instantly to my touch; who cheekily showed us his bum during scans; who was such a beautiful weight to hold and a perfect being to set eyes upon. Who is so loved, wanted and missed.
He will always journey with me.
Performance Instructions
‘Songs For Marvellous’ was designed to be performed as either individual songs or as a whole. Regardless of how many pieces you choose, they must always be performed in the order below.
1. 9th October 2018 - Mezzo Soprano and Piano
2. Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - SSA
3. Then the Letting Go (Sibling) - Mezzo Soprano, Horn in F and Cymbals
4. Child and Mother - Soprano and Harp/Piano
5. Song for my Children (A Te) - Mezzo Soprano and Piano
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Three songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano pieces from the song cycle, Songs For Marvellous
1. 9th October 2018 - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: D4 - G4
2. Child and Mother - Mezzo Soprano and Harp/Piano | Range: C4 - F5
3. Song for my Children (A Te) - Mezzo Soprano and Piano | Range: A3 - E5
In Memoriam
Marvellous John Bartholomew Jarman-Pinto
3rd September 2014
285g
Modena, Italy
Programme Notes
'Songs for Marvellous' was written after our son, Marvellous, was born at 20 weeks in Modena, Italy, in 2014. I came away from the explicitly traumatic experience feeling that I needed to prove to him my worth. I had failed him, as I saw it then, in my most basic task as a parent, failed to keep him alive and failed to bring his body home.
I spent weeks and months trying to lose myself in tasks; moving house, video games, cleaning, washing, composing and transcribing music, all to keep my mind from rehashing over every single moment of my experience in Italy. I was rebuffed so many times when trying to get help for my post traumatic stress disorder, not to mention the grief.
In the midst of this, some beautiful people wound their healing hands around us, embracing us with letters, regular phone calls and texts, medical and emotional support, hugs and shoulders to cry on.
I knew that I wanted to have Marvy memorialised somehow. Writing ‘Songs For Marvellous’ was a way to grieve, heal and keep our son in our lives. The baby that only I knew; who would wriggle when I felt stressed; wake me at night with his kicking; respond instantly to my touch; who cheekily showed us his bum during scans; who was such a beautiful weight to hold and a perfect being to set eyes upon. Who is so loved, wanted and missed.
He will always journey with me.
PDF Digital Download
2 Copy License (Singer and Pianist)
Please support self-published composers and buy extra copies rather than photocopying
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