5 Epithets of War – Conductor’s Full Score (SP106) Choir and Orchestra
Composer: Goddard, Author: Scannell
Duration: 10 minutes. Scored for: 5 part choir (SSATB) Organ Brass Quintet String Quartet Timpani/Percussion Player 1: Timpani and bass drum Player 2: Glockenspiel, cymbals, suspended cymbal, tam-tam and snare drum. Adapted from the poetry of Vernon Scannell (1922 – 2007) Commissioned in 1980 by Oxford Education Department for performance by the combined secondary school choirs of Oxfordshire, conducted by Chris Banks. Completed: 1st November, 1980
5 Epithets of War – Set of Parts (SP1310) Choir and Orchestra available from Spartan Press
Composer: Goddard, Author: Scannell
PARTS include: Organ, Brass Quintet, String Quartet, Percussion Player 1: Timpani and bass drum Player 2: Glockenspiel, cymbals, suspended cymbal, tam-tam and snare drum. Completed: 1st January, 1980
5 Epithets of War – Vocal Score (SP1309) Choir and Orchestra available from Spartan Press
Composer: Goddard, Author: Scannell
Duration: 10 minutes. Scored for: 5 part choir (SSATB) Organ Brass Quintet String Quartet Timpani/Percussion Player 1: Timpani and bass drum Player 2: Glockenspiel, cymbals, suspended cymbal, tam-tam and snare drum. Adapted from the poetry of Vernon Scannell (1922 – 2007) Commissioned in 1980 by Oxford Education Department for performance by the combined secondary school choirs of Oxfordshire, conducted by Chris Banks. Completed: 1st January, 1980
A Pardoner’s Tale – A Dramatic Cantata (Op. 40) Choir and Orchestra more details
Duration: 25 minutes. Text by Chaucer, music by Mark Goddard. Scored for Choir, Tenor and Baritone Soloists, Narrator and Orchestra. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score, vocal score and parts). Completed: 15th April, 1981
A Tale of Five Winds – A Story for Christmas (Orchestra with Narrator) (SP179) Orchestra and Narrator available from Spartan Press
Composer: Goddard, Author: Pegg
Duration: 25-30 minutes. 1st Performance: Headington Singers Concert in 1990?. Text adapted from a Chinese poem by Stephen Pegg. Completed: 1st December, 1985
A Tale of Five Winds – A Story for Christmas (SP120) Wind Quintet and Narrator available from Spartan Press
Composer: Goddard, Author: Pegg
Duration: 25-30 minutes. 1st Performance: Holywell Music Rooms Oxford, December 1985. Text adapted from a Chinese poem by Stephen Pegg. Wind Quintet with Narrator. Written for the Oxford based wind quintet ‘The Five Winds’ for a Children’s Christmas concert. First performed at the Holywell Music Rooms Oxford 1985. 16 MP3 samples of that first performance are available to listen to, and although the sound recording is poor, it conveys the essence of the piece. A sleepy bear (bassoon), a romantic lady (cor anglais), a mad cobbler (clarinet) and a fisherman’s son (piccolo), are all visited by the ‘Mountain Wind’ (horn) of Stephen Pegg’s imaginative story. Completed: 1st December, 1986
About Time — Six Piano Preludes
Available from EVC Publications
Mark Goddard
Whilst each of the preludes in this suite is distinct in character, they all share the composer’s trademark use of contrasting time signatures, pulsating rhythms and dramatic energy. These pieces (Grades 6-8 ABRSM levels), with their Latin names harking back to a different age, provide the more advanced pianist with a musically challenging and rewarding depiction of different attitudes towards time.
Tempus Fugit (Time Flies) and Momentum are both influenced by jazz and have lively Eastern European folk dance rhythms. Momento Temporis (A Moment in Time) is tranquil and modal, with sonorous pedalling, whilst the harmonies in Perpetuum Mobile often employ familiar diatonic language and use chords based on the intervals of the second and fourth. Tempus Rerum Imperator (Time, Commander of All Things) is a spiky, urgent and chromatic evocation of time running away with us while the final prelude, Ab Aeterno, (From Time Immemorial) is a dark evocation of eternity, with just one chord deployed in a series of mathematical progressions, using rhythmical diminution and augmentation to outline a journey.
16 pages
Copyright © 2018
EVC Music Publications Ltd
ISBN 978-1-911359-22-7
At The Year’s Spring (SP147) Choral (SATB) available from Spartan Press
Composer: Goddard, Author: Pegg
Duration: 7 minutes. Texts selected and translated by Stephen Pegg: Vertue (George Herbert), Alysoun (C13th Anon, translated from Middle English), To Bishop Hartgar In Thirst (C9th translated from Latin). A virtuous soul, romantic thoughts about Alison, and a yearning for a drink or two! Unaccompanied choral music which in the last piece provides additional short easy solos from each section of the choir. Completed: 15th March, 1990
Be Strong And Of Good Courage – An Anthem (SP102 ) Church available from Spartan Press
Duration: 5 minutes. Typeset and re-published in the spring of 2005:- Anthem for Choir and Organ with short solos for Soprano, Tenor and Bass solos. Composed for St Barnabas day. 12 printed pages. Completed: 1st November, 1978
Beowulf – A Musical Drama for Primary Schools (Op. 52) Recorders, Percussion, Guitars and Piano more details
Duration: 30-40 minutes. From the Anglo Saxon poem ‘Beowulf’, translated by Kevin Crossley-HOlland, adapted by Henrietta Leyser. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 15th May, 1984
Beowulf – a Suite for Piano (SP1302) Piano Solo available from Spartan Press
Beowulf is an epic 5th century poem, written in old Engish. A Geatish warrior called Beowulf helps neighbouring Danish King Hrothgar to rid his meadhall of a monster called Grendel. These pieces were published on the occasion of Spartan’s 25th anniversary, and are inspired by incidental music written in 1984, for a production performed by Islip Primary School, Oxfordshire. Completed: 18th February, 2015
Beowulf – A Symphonic Poem (Op. 62) Orchestra more details
1st Performance: Oxford Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Town Hall. MG conducing.. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 1st September, 1986
Beowulf – A Theatrical Event (Op. 55) Chamber Ensemble, Choir, Narrators, Actors more details
Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (full score, vocal score and parts). Completed: 10th October, 1984
Birthday Presents – 9 Musical Portraits for Piano (SP1304) Piano Solo available from Spartan Press
To coin a phrase: this book contains ‘something for everyone’. Each of these nine ‘musical gifts’ portrays a different personality, from the itinerate gossiper, to the ‘dreamy type’, the belligerent ‘war monger’, all the way through to the ‘joker’ at the end. If you are giving this book as a birthday present, perhaps the beneficiary should be asked to suggest which of the personalities they feel best suits their countenance, and then compare notes with the giver! These pieces were published on the occasion of Spartan’s 25th birthday. Completed: 1st March, 2015
Bone Shaker (SP127) Brass Band and Solo Trombone available from Spartan Press
Duration: 4-5 minutes. Solo trombone and brass band. This piece was originally written as the final ‘prank’ movement of a concerto for trombone and orchestra. Manuscript form. Completed: 1st May, 1989
Boogie Band (SP691) Flexible Brass Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Three contrasting boogie numbers. Grades: beginner to grade 3. Completed: 26th April, 2003
Boogie Band (SP692) Flexible String Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Three contrasting boogie numbers. Grades: beginner to grade 3. Completed: 26th April, 2003
Boogie Band (SP690) Flexible Wind Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Three contrasting boogie numbers. Grades: beginner to grade 3. Completed: 26th April, 2003
Buffoonery (SP192) Alto Saxophone and Piano available from Spartan Press
Duration: 4-5 minutes. A jazzy, satirical piece here arranged for alto saxophone and piano by popular request. Completed: 15th May, 1991
Buffoonery (SP143) Bassoon and Piano available from Spartan Press
This piece was originally written as the final ‘prank’ movement of a concerto for trombone and orchestra. By popular request, the piece has been given a separate piano part, and has since been proved equally entertaining for trombone, bassoon or cello! A recording of the work is available on CD: POLYPHONIC QPRM 117D. Chosen by AMEB (Australian Syllabus). Completed: 18th April, 1990
Buffoonery (SP144) Cello and Piano available from Spartan Press
This piece was originally written for the trombonist Michael Skitt, as the final ‘prank’ movement of a concerto for trombone and orchestra. By popular request, the piece has been given a separate piano part, and has since been proved equally entertaining for trombone, bassoon or cello! Completed: 10th June, 1990
Buffoonery (SP190) Tenor Saxophone and Piano available from Spartan Press
A jazzy, satirical piece arranged for tenor saxophone and piano by popular request. Completed: 15th April, 1991
Buffoonery (SP142) Trombone and Piano available from Spartan Press
Duration: 4-5 minutes. This piece was originally written for the trombonist Michael Skitt, as the final ‘prank’ movement of a concerto for trombone and orchestra. By popular request, the piece has been given a separate piano part, and has since been proved equally entertaining for trombone, bassoon or cello! Within a month of its publication, Buffoonery was set for trombone grade VIII on the Oxfordshire Instrumental Examinations Syllabus. Completed: 11th December, 1989
Cantango (SP191) Flexible Wind Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Waltz, Ballad, Minuet & Trio and Ragtime & Tango. Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately, quickly and inexpensively. Grades 3 – 5. Completed: 15th June, 1991
Caverns (Op. 44) Chamber Orchestra more details
Duration: 14 minutes. Single wind/brass timps and strings. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 1st April, 1982
Caverns (Op. 45) Orchestra more details
Duration: 14 minutes. Double wind/brass timps and strings. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 1st April, 1982
Chesterton Flowers (SP146) Saxophone Quartet available from Spartan Press
Duration: 10 minutes. Chesterton Flowers was written for a concert given as part of a flower festival at the Oxfordshire village of Chesterton. For soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, with the option of 2 altos, tenor, baritone. ‘Hollyhocks’, ‘Deadly Nightshade’, ‘French Marigolds’ and ‘Canterbury Bells’. Completed: 9th March, 1990
Chesterton Flowers (SP124) String Orchestra available from Spartan Press
Duration: 10 minutes. 1st Performance: November 1987. Chesterton Flowers was written for a concert given as part of a Flower Festival at the Oxfordshire village of Chesterton, in June 1985. Hollyhocks, Deadly Nightshade, French Marigolds and Canterbury Bells. 4 Bassoons (No contra required). Completed: 1st November, 1987
Chesterton Flowers (SP145) Bassoon Quartet (4 Bns) available from Spartan Press
Duration: 10 minutes. 1st Performance: June 1985 in Chesterton Flower Festival, Oxfordshire. Chesterton Flowers was written for a concert given by the ‘Equal Opportunities Bassoon Quartet’ as part of a Flower Festival at the Oxfordshire village of Chesterton, in June 1985. Hollyhocks, Deadly Nightshade, French Marigolds and Canterbury Bells. 4 Bassoons (No contra required). Completed: 15th June, 1985
Circles – for Chamber Ensemble (Op. 47) Trumpet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano more details
Duration: 12 minutes. Winning prize in the Humphrey Searle Chamber Music Prize 1982. The old printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts) was replaced in 2021 with a fully typeset and carefully revised full score and set of parts.
Halloween – 13 Scary Minutes (Op. 43) String Quartet more details
Completed: 15th January, 1982 and revised October 2021. Fully typeset score and parts. Duration: approximately 13 minutes.
Circles (Op. 42) Trumpet and Organ more details
Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and part). Completed: 15th January, 1982
Colloquy (SP104 ) Clarinet and Guitar More information
Duration: 4 minutes. 1st Performance: Pat Frost and Roland Gallery RAM. Winning work in the Battison Haynes Prize, RAM 1980. New fully typeset edition, published by Spartan Press in 2020. Completed: 1st November, 1979
Concerto for Brass (SP111) Brass Ensemble available from Spartan Press
An upgraded edition of this exciting work for 10 piece brass ensemble that has enjoyed consistent success since its composition in 1981. Scored for 4 trp (1 dbl picc.trp/3 & 4 dbl flugal) hn in F, 3 tenor tbns, bass tbn, tba. Challenging contemporary music. Duration: 15 mins. The original facsimile edition was replaced in 2020 with a fully revised and expertly typeset edition. Score and 10 parts.
Concerto for Trombone (SP114) Trombone and Piano available from Spartan Press
Duration: 20 minutes. Solo Trombone with piano (Orchestral material on hire). Commissioned by the Burford Orchestra for the trombonist Michael Skitt. Five movements. Manuscript form. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Counting the Days (UMP64327) Solo Guitar available from Fuller Music
Mark Goddard and others, editor: Hector Quine
Duration: 4 minutes. This work appears in ’20th Century British Composers Volume 2′ – guitar music edited by Hector Quine. Ricordi numbers: LD740 HL50484847. Dewey: 787.87/?189. Contents: Bowers T. – Miniature Variations; Copley P. – Rondino; Goddard M. – Counting the Days; Walters G. – Preludio alla Marcia. Completed: 1st June, 1984
D minor Variations (Op. 12) Piano Duet more details
1st Performance: Windsor Baptist Church: Janette Creber and Mark Goddard.. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and part). Completed: 1st June, 1976
Fables (SP320) Flexible Wind Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Earthy music inspired by three Old English poems about the advent of Spring: ‘Vertue’, ‘Alysoun’ and ‘To Bishop Hartgar in Thirst’ – Old English equivalents of Religion, Sex and Drugs respectively! Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately, quickly and inexpensively. Completed: 15th March, 1994
Fanfare, Romance and Jig – Three Short Pieces (SP116) Wind Sextet available from Spartan Press
Duration: 10 minutes. 1st Performance: Cambridge (wedding). Wind Sextet. Three jolly pieces for 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons, originally written for the wedding of Peter and Kay Fenton. Completed: 1st January, 1986
Fiddledy-Jig (SP224) Flexible String Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Goddard, editor: Ellis
Carousel, Ballad, Minuet & Trio and Ragtime & Tango. Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately, quickly and inexpensively. This set includes a full score and parts as follows; 3xvln1, 2xvln2, vln3/va, 2xvc, db. Completed: 15th March, 1992
Flower Festival (SP611) String Quartet available from Spartan Press
Duration: 10 minutes. These entertaining pieces were written originally for a concert as part of a Flower Festival at the Oxfordshire village of Chesterton, in June 1985. Completed: 8th June, 2001
Flute Fundae (SP506) Flute and Piano available from Spartan Press
Twenty-four pages of fun including ‘Locked on Latin’, ‘Enharmonium’ and ‘Flutata’. Completed: 18th September, 1998
Freestyle (SP378) Flexible Wind Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Versatile music in jazz style in six parts (unusually). Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately, quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY. Completed: 15th August, 1995
Fugato, Theme and Variations (Op. 10) more details
Fugato, Theme and Variations for flute, violin, viola and bassoon. Written in April, 1976 and fully revised in 2018.
Gergask Songs – 6 Songs for Primary School (Op. 75) Voice and Piano more details
Music by Mark Goddard, words by pupils
1st Performance: Aviemore MacDonald Resort Theatre. Commissioned for the Highland Year of Culture 2007. Poetry by the Children at Gergask Primary School, Laggan Bridge. Children’s voices and piano accompaniment, with optional parts for flute, clarinet and/or bassoon. Completed: 1st June, 2007
Gerty Goat Scuffer (SP1202) Double Bass and Piano available from Spartan Press
Written for David Heyes as part of his ‘Fizz at 50’ project. ‘Gerty Goat Scuffer’ (in case you wondered) is one of many nick-names we had for a much loved family dog – officially named ‘Heavy Hetty’ from a character in an imaginative children’s book of that name. In my youth as a composition student at the RAM, I discovered that walking a dog for an hour a day is the anti-dote to the long hours required as a composer, ‘sat you yer bum’ writing at a desk, and (in those pre-computer years) writing endless parts out by hand. First of these ‘best friends’ was a glorious Gordon Setter called ‘Sophie’, (my first love), who accompanied Pat and I on our honeymoon across Scotland. Thirty years later, we were privileged to enjoy the company of three therapeutic beasts; ‘Merlin’ (a prize winning Pyrenean Mountain Dog), ‘Gael’ (an over energetic Scottish Border Collie) and ‘Hetty’ (a unique cross between a Pyrenean Mountain Dog and a St. Bernard – something of a ‘kennel-maid’s Accident’). Hetty (see picture) is unfortunately no longer with us now. She had an extraordinary puppy-hood that left her with titanium plates holding her back legs together. Hetty was surprisingly active though, right through to the age of nearly 10 – speciality: chasing Pheasants in the grounds at Strathmashie – but she became progressively hampered by arthritis, and ‘scuffed along’ on her vast hairy pads with a swagger. She also used to remind our children of a mountain goat. Songs have been written about her, but this is the first instrumental work that she has inspired! The pervading thematic motive of the piece (heard from the outset), cheekily alludes to an (over) famous Saint-Saëns work for double bass (but no insult is intended to Hetty!). The increasingly roving tonality and unusually sudden shifts of key, combined with the use of jazz chords, combines to present a short but heartfelt tribute to a unique animal that provided untold pleasure to all she came into contact with, simply by just being ‘herself’. Completed: 4th December, 2012
Good Times Past (SP1300) Piano Solo available from Spartan Press
‘Good Times Past’ comprises a series of nine short and contrasting piano pieces, in a light, yet essentially modern idiom. Glancing affectionately back in time, to an era of traditional pastimes and board games, these pieces where published on the occasion of Spartan’s 25th birthday, and are musically related to a set of flute duets written in 1982, which became ‘Tricks and Games’ – Spartan’s first published book. Nine easy pieces, including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, American Indians, Ragtime etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Ragtime was selected to be published in Pianist Magazine, March 2015. Completed: 5th December, 2014
Hands On Jazz (SP357) Piano Duet available from Spartan Press
Pupil’s part (PRIMO) grades 3 – 5, with a teacher’s part (SECONDO) about grades 5 – 6. Music originally written for Trinity College exam syllabus. Contents: Locked on Latin, Monsoon, Sarah and Enharmonium. Completed: 15th February, 1995
Heat Of The Sun, The – A Dream Cycle for Strings (Op. 46) String Orchestra more details
Duration: 21 minutes. 1st Performance: James Judd with the Wren Orchestra. BBC Capital Radio Broadcast from St. Johns Smith Square London.. Winning work in the Capital Radio Prize 1982. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 1st June, 1982
Hornpipe Variations (SP103) Wind Quintet available from Spartan Press
Duration: 7 minutes. Student work, under the teaching of Gordon Crosse. Theme is a Hornpipe in E minor by Henry Purcell. 5 short variations: Fanfare, Dance, Chorale, Tarantella, Fugue. Completed: 15th January, 1979
Joplin: Three Rags (Op. 67) Violin, Double Bass, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone and Percussion more details
Joplin, arr: Goddard
Ragtime Dance, Bethena and Maple Leaf Rag, scored to match the 7 Instruments found in Stravinsky Soldier?s Tale. For Jackie Keirs and the Oxford Dance Theatre Tour, 1988 and 2008. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 1st April, 1987
Le Roi a Fait Battre Tambour (SP128) Choral (SATB) available from Spartan Press
Music by Mark Goddard. Words edited by Lois Steenman-Clark
Duration: 3 minutes.. 1st Performance: Headington Singers. A French Revolution Concert piece. The King Beats His Drum’ text selected and edited by Lois Steenman-Clark, was written for a French Revolutionary Concert in July 1989. The setting is for SATB with either piano, or (much more fun) two piccolos and two bassoons (parts available separately: SP1383 and SP1384). Completed: 14th July, 1989
Medieval Carol (SP135) Choral (SATB) available from Spartan Press
Composer: Goddard, Author: Pegg
Duration: 3 minutes. A Medieval Carol is for unaccompanied SATB and is a setting of a text transferred from medieval English by Stephen Pegg. Originally written for the Headington Singers, the carol has been performed widely by choral societies and school choirs since 1989. Completed: 2nd October, 1989
Medieval Carol (SP150) String Orchestra available from Spartan Press
Originally arranged for West Oxfordshire Adult Education String Workshop, this short piece is for players of an early grade. Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately, quickly and inexpensively. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Music Medals Saxophone Ensemble Pieces – Copper (AB6071) Saxophone Ensemble available from Fuller Music
Beethoven, Alan Bullard, Colin Cowles, Mark Goddard, Mike Hall
Duration: 1 minute. Includes ‘Mark Goddard: Wet Dog’. Completed: 22nd December, 2005
Music Medals Saxophone Ensemble Pieces – Silver (AB6098) Saxophone Ensemble available from Fuller Music
Alan Bullard, Robert Tucker, Jeffery Wilson, Karen Street, Alan Haughton, Elgar, Colin Cowles, Gordon Lewin, Andy Hampton, Martin Ellerby, Mark Lockheart, Malcolm Miles, Mark Goddard, Andrew Wilson
Duration: 1 minute. Includes ‘Mark Goddard: News Beat’. Contents: Dreamy Days Composed by Alan Bullard, Shepherd’s Hey, Sixth Sense Composed by Robert Tucker, Rock-Four Cheese Composed by Jeffery Wilson, Control-Alt- Composed by Karen Street, Unsquare Rag Composed by Alan Haughton, Land Of Hope And Glory From Pomp And Circumstance, Op. 39 No. 1 by Edward Elgar, Pagan Lament Composed by Colin Cowles, Last Waltz In Bluesville Composed by Gordon Lewin, The Dance Lesson Composed by Karen Street, Three Friends Rag Composed by Andy Hampton, Scherzo Composed by Alan Haughton, Maigret Composed by Martin Ellerby, The Village Composed by Mark Lockheart, Country Gardens, A Dance Perchance? Composed by Malcolm Miles, Carnival Shout Composed by Alan Bullard, Closer Now Composed by Jeffery Wilson, News Beat Composed by Mark Goddard, Real Dreams Composed by Andrew Wilson. Completed: 22nd December, 2005
Music Medals, Flute Ensemble Pieces, Bronze Level (AB4923) Flute Ensemble available from Fuller Music
Nigel Scaife, James Rae, Robert Tucker, Cecilia McDowall, Paul Harris, Sarah Watts, Mark Goddard, Alan Haughton
Duration: 1 minute. Includes ‘Mark Goddard: You’ve Been Tangoed’. Contents: Chinese Lanterns [Nigel Scaife]; Precious Metal [James Rae]; The Train Set [Robert Tucker]; In the Mode [Cecilia McDowall]; Anyone for Tennis? [Paul Harris]; Break Time [Sarah Watts]; You’ve Been Tangoed [Mark Goddard]; Chopped Sticks (arr. Haughton). Completed: 20th May, 2004
Music Medals, Flute Ensemble Pieces, Silver Level (AB4931) Flute Ensemble available from Fuller Music
Paul Harris, Georg Benda, Elgar, Mark Goddard
Duration: 1 minute. Includes ‘Mark Goddard: News Beat’. Contents:A Couple of Old Gossips [Paul Harris]; Menuet from Sonatina in C [Georg Benda]; Pond Skaters [Paul Harris]; Cycle Race [Colin Cowles]; Brunch with Beethoven [Paul Harris]; The Three Ravens [Trad.]; Land of Hope and Glory from Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39. Completed: 20th May, 2004
Fantasia after Brahms (Op. 7) more details
Completed: 15th December, 1975. 1st Performance: 11/12/1975 given by Chris Banks and Mark Goddard, Cheney School.
Completely revised and typeset in September 2018. Due to be published by EVC Music Publications Ltd in 2019.
Oxford Variations (Op. 13) more details
Theme and four variations. Completed: 15th August, 1976 and revised in 2018.
1st Performance: Yenworthy, Devon. September 30th 1976. Katie Thomas (flute) and Mark Goddard (piano).
Duration: 7 minutes. Light, attractive and fairly short!
Partita Variations (Op. 36) Organ Solo more details
Written for Richard Pilliner. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript score. Completed: 1st June, 1980
Party Pieces (SP138) Bassoon and Piano available from Spartan Press
Young bassoonists can also enjoy the sort of fun pieces until now reserved for flutes, oboes and clarinets. The solo part is written in the bass clef throughout, and strays no higher than ‘Middle C’. Completed: 9th December, 1989
Party Pieces (SP287) Bb Bass and Piano available from Spartan Press
Bb bass (in treble clef) and piano. Completed: 11th May, 1997
Party Pieces (SP178) Tenor Saxophone and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP139) Cello and Piano available from Spartan Press
Young cellists can also enjoy the sort of fun pieces till now reserved for violins. The solo part is written in the bass clef throughout, and strays no higher than ‘middle C’. The piano part has also been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP140) Clarinet and Piano available from Spartan Press
Energetic and full of fun, these jolly tunes range from the slow ‘Chalumeau Blues’ to the syncopated variations on ‘Go Tell Aunt Nancy’. The piano part has been kept deliberately simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Swingin’, Charlbury Charleston, Feelin’ Blue, Old Timer Waltz, Chalumeau Blues, Ragamuffin, Aunt Nancy’s Party. Completed: 28th November, 1989
Party Pieces (SP188) Eb Bass and Piano available from Spartan Press
Eb bass (in treble clef) and piano. Completed: 6th March, 1991
Party Pieces (SP180) Alto Saxophone and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP184) Flute and Piano available from Spartan Press
A glossy and colourful new and revitalised edition. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP165) Horn In Eb and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP166) Horn In F and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 22nd May, 1990
Party Pieces (SP185) Oboe and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP167) Trombone and Piano available from Spartan Press
The last in the series of brass Party Pieces, originally set for grades 2 to 5 on the Oxford Examinations Syllabus. The solo part makes use of both tenor and bass clefs, and the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Swingin’, Hornpipe, Charlbury Charleston, Blues, Ragamuffin, Boogie, Daydreams, Take it!. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP168) Trumpet and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP169) Tuba and Piano available from Spartan Press
Tuba (in bass clef) and piano. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Party Pieces (SP176) Viola and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 22nd May, 1990
Party Pieces (SP181) Violin and Piano available from Spartan Press
Fresh and energetic pieces in which the piano part has been kept fairly simple, while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Paso-doble Demento – A Lollipop (SP136) Bassoon Quartet (4 Bns) available from Spartan Press
Duration: 3 minutes. 1st Performance: BBC Radio Oxford – Oxford Music Festival prize winners concert, Headington School. Pasodoble Demento was written for the ‘Equal Opportunities Bassoon Quartet’ in 1986 and has since become a favourite ‘lollipop’ being selected for the Oxford Music Festival Prize Winners’ Concert in the same year, and subsequently broadcast. The style of the piece is rooted in ‘big band’ sounds. 4 Bassoons (No contra required). Completed: 15th November, 1984
Paso-doble Demento – A Lollipop for Brass Band (SP126) Brass Band available from Spartan Press
Duration: 3 minutes. This entertaining ‘lollipop’ item started life as a bassoon quartet(!) but was ‘refurbished’ for Wantage Silver Band in 1989. The style of the piece is rooted in ‘big band’ sounds and is in a simplified scoring with a single part for each of Eb horns, baritones and euphoniums. The ‘kit’ percussion part is optional. The scoring is thinned out. Manuscript form. Completed: 1st May, 1989
Pasodoble Demento – A Lollipop (SP137) Saxophone Quartet available from Spartan Press
A naughty pastiche of ‘big band’ sounds. Includes full score, plus parts for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone, plus a fifth part for another alto sax to replace the soprano if necessary. Completed: 24th May, 1990
Plain Sailing: Alto Clef Book (SP170) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Versatile music, and very easy, wherein each of the five short pieces sounds good in two, three or more parts. The bass clef bk has an additional 5th part which should be played as a priority in the presence of other treble instruments. Parts are notated NOT in order of difficulty, but of musical importance. Part two, while sometimes being the easiest to play, holds the key harmony notes, while the fourth part occasionally has to copy with a descant, over an otherwise independent structure. Completed: 23rd March, 1990
Plain Sailing: Bass Clef Book (SP148) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Versatile music, and very easy, wherein each of the five short pieces sounds good in two, three or more parts. The bass clef bk has an additional 5th part which should be played as a priority in the presence of other treble instruments. Parts are notated NOT in order of difficulty, but of musical importance. Part two, while sometimes being the easiest to play, holds the key harmony notes, while the fourth part occasionally has to copy with a descant, over an otherwise independent structure. Completed: 14th March, 1990
Plain Sailing: Bb Instruments’ Book (SP149) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Versatile music, and very easy, wherein each of the five short pieces sounds good in two, three or more parts. The bass clef bk has an additional 5th part which should be played as a priority in the presence of other treble instruments. Parts are notated NOT in order of difficulty, but of musical importance. Part two, while sometimes being the easiest to play, holds the key harmony notes, while the fourth part occasionally has to copy with a descant, over an otherwise independent structure. Completed: 14th March, 1990
Plain Sailing: Brass Pack (SP222) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Containing 2 treble clef books in Bb, plus 1 each of Eb, F and bass clef books. Completed: 22nd February, 1992
Plain Sailing: Eb Instruments’ Book (SP171) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Versatile music, and very easy, wherein each of the five short pieces sounds good in two, three or more parts. The bass clef bk has an additional 5th part which should be played as a priority in the presence of other treble instruments. Parts are notated NOT in order of difficulty, but of musical importance. Part two, while sometimes being the easiest to play, holds the key harmony notes, while the fourth part occasionally has to copy with a descant, over an otherwise independent structure. Completed: 7th May, 1990
Plain Sailing: Strings Pack (SP223) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Containing 3 treble clef books in C, plus 1 each of alto and bass clef books. Completed: 22nd February, 1992
Plain Sailing: Treble Clef Book (SP141) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Versatile music, and very easy, wherein each of the five short pieces sounds good in two, three or more parts. The bass clef bk has an additional 5th part which should be played as a priority in the presence of other treble instruments. Parts are notated NOT in order of difficulty, but of musical importance. Part two, while sometimes being the easiest to play, holds the key harmony notes, while the fourth part occasionally has to copy with a descant, over an otherwise independent structure. Completed: 18th December, 1989
Plain Sailing: Treble Clef Instruments in F (SP172) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Versatile music, and very easy, wherein each of the five short pieces sounds good in two, three or more parts. The bass clef bk has an additional 5th part which should be played as a priority in the presence of other treble instruments. Parts are notated NOT in order of difficulty, but of musical importance. Part two, while sometimes being the easiest to play, holds the key harmony notes, while the fourth part occasionally has to copy with a descant, over an otherwise independent structure. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Plain Sailing: Woodwind Pack (SP221) Group Teaching available from Spartan Press
Containing 2 treble clef books in C, plus 1 each of Bb, Eb and bass clef books. Completed: 22nd February, 1992
Questions (SP186) Violin and Piano available from Spartan Press
Duration: 8 minutes. Commissioned by Nona Liddell for the Sasha Lasserson Memorial Prize Work in 1983. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and part). Completed: 1st June, 1983
Ragtimes and Gladtimes (SP1305) Piano Solo available from Spartan Press
These pieces where published on the occasion of Spartan’s 25th birthday, and are musically related to a set of piano duets written in 2001, ‘Whirligig’. Completed: 4th June, 2015
Reflection (Op. 29) Harpsichord more details
Duration: 9 minutes. Written for Richard Pilliner. Completed: January, 1980 and fully revised and typeset February 2019.
Retrospection (Op. 32) Clarinet and Bassoon more details
Duration: 5 minutes. Winning piece in the William Elkin Prize for composition RAM 1980. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript score. Completed: 1st January, 1980
Sands Of Time (Op. 48) Brass Band more details
Two pieces for brass band. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 1st May, 1983
Sea Legend – A Symphonic Poem (SP125
) Brass Band available from Spartan Press
Duration: 15 minutes. 15 minute ‘tone poem’ written for Wantage Silver Band, featuring three solo cornets. The ingredients of a ‘Rip-roaring Seafarer’s Yarn’ permeate the musical textures unfettered. Manuscript form. (Also available for small orchestra on hire only). Completed: 1st May, 1989
Sea Legend – A Symphonic Poem For Orchestra (Op. 69) Orchestra more details
Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts: Fl, Obx2, Bn, Trpx3, Tps and Strings). Completed: 1st February, 1989
Sinfonietta (Op. 31) Chamber Orchestra more details
Duration: 16 minutes. 1st Performance: John Carewe with RAM orchestra. Four movements for chamber orchestra. Printed facsimile of the original manuscript (score and parts). Completed: 1st December, 1979
Sonata Felice (Op. 16) Clarinet and Piano more details
Completed: 15th June, 1977 and fully revised in October 2018.
First performance at Cheney School Oxford: Beverley Couling (clarinet) and Mark Goddard (piano).
Sonatina (SP101) Flute and Piano available from Spartan Press
Duration: 7 – 8 minutes. 1st Performance: First performed in 1979 by Robert Winn. Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music.. The first of the three movements is tense, building from the depths of the piano. The middle movement evocative, using slow glissandi in the bottom octave of the flute, and the last movement is a naughty bi-tonal rondo. Typeset and re-printed in 2010 on the occasion of the composer’s 50th birthday. This was the very first work to be published by Spartan Press Music Publishers Limited, in a ‘low budget’ facsimile format over twenty years ago, in 1990. Now typeset to the highest standards. Completed: 1st January, 1978
Songs without Words (SP1306) Trumpet and Piano available from Spartan Press
Songs Without Words is a set of three short pieces, each inspired by a classic twentieth century poem. There is an underlying theme of ‘School’. 1. School Bell The music urgently moves forward within an anxiously breathless waltz lest we be late for school. Originally inspired by Eleanor Farjeon’s famous poem ‘Nine O’clock Bell’ where pupils hustle and bustle to school in the morning: Some of them scurrying, others not worrying, Carelessly trudging or anxiously hurrying. 2. A Blitz of a Boy With an affectionate nod to Charles Causley’s sad tale about ‘Timothy Winters’ who ‘hasn’t heard of the welfare state’. He sleeps on a sack on the kitchen floor, and they say there aren’t boys like him anymore. Although the music is laden with pathos, there is insuppressible energy too, portraying that lovable ‘Blitz of a Boy’! 3. A Lesson You’ll Never Forget! Roger McGough’s black poem ‘The Lesson’ was the catalyst for this piece. The teacher (and later even the headmaster) set upon a notoriously rowdy class with various lethal weapons, systematically murdering all the pupils! He picked on a boy who was shouting and throttled him then and there, then garrotted the girl behind him (the one with grotty hair). The baroque style recitative passages represent the school ‘establishment’, and are contrasted ludicrously with savage harmonic ‘stabs’ and terrifyingly anxious ‘chase scenes’ around the class room; this poem is not for the squeamish! Completed: 11th May, 2015
Teddy Bears’ Picnic, (Variations on A) (SP721) Flexible Wind Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Bratton/Goddard
Variations on Teddy Bear’s Picnic – a flexible quintet. Set of naughty variations on the famous tune marked ‘Care Free’, ‘Macabre Gigue’, ‘Spooky’, ‘Sinister’ and ‘Reprise’. 137 bar single movement Fantasia. Completed: 1st August, 1985
Teddy Bears’ Picnic, (Variations on) (SP722) Flexible Brass Quintet available from Spartan Press
Bratton/Goddard
Variations on Teddy Bear’s Picnic – a flexible quintet. Set of naughty variations on the famous tune marked ‘Care Free’, ‘Macabre Gigue’, ‘Spooky’, ‘Sinister’ and ‘Reprise’. 137 bar single movement Fantasia. Completed: 26th March, 2004
Teddy Bears’ Picnic, (Variations on) (SP723) Flexible String Ensemble available from Spartan Press
Bratton/Goddard
Set of naughty variations on the famous tune: ‘Care Free’, ‘Macabre Gigue’, ‘Spooky’, ‘Sinister’ and ‘Reprise’. 137 bar single movement Fantasia. Complete with score and 3 x vln1, 2 x vln2, vln3/va, 2 x vc, db/vc2. Completed: 26th March, 2004
The Circus – A Light Overture for brass band (SP129
) Brass Band available from Spartan Press
Duration: 5 minutes. 1st Performance: Wantage Silver Band. This overture, which parallels some of the traditional circus acts (for example trapeze, jugglers, clowns etc), is meant as an affectionate parody of a musical style all too readily neglected these days. Manuscript form. (Also available for orchestra). Completed: 1st May, 1983
The Circus – A Light Overture for orchestra (Op. 39) Light Orchestra more details
Duration: 5 minutes. Completed: 1st April, 1981 and revised in September 2018. Winner of the Eric Coates Prize for composition at the Royal Academy of Music. First performance: Abingdon and District Music Society.
The Cowley Parish Mass: Congregational Copy (SP119) Church available from Spartan Press
Congregational copy. Single melody line only. Completed: 10th June, 1990
The Cowley Parish Mass: Organ copy (SP118) Church available from Spartan Press
A congregational setting of rite A. Written for the Parish of Cowley, Oxford, and used by them weekly since 1987. Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus, and Agnus Dei, with alternative acclamations and congregational setting to Eucharistic prayer. Completed: 10th June, 1990
The Priests of the Lord (SP117) Church available from Spartan Press
Duration: 3 minutes. Anthem for SATB with organ. Text from Leviticus. Commissioned by Father Keith Haydon on the occasion of his tenth anniversary of ordination to the Priesthood. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Tricks and Games (SP173) Saxophone Duet available from Spartan Press
Suitable for either 2 altos, or 2 tenors, or 1 of each (cunning three stave system). Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 10th June, 1990
Tricks and Games (SP133) Bassoon Duet available from Spartan Press
Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 6th November, 1989
Tricks and Games (SP134) Cello Duet available from Spartan Press
Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 9th April, 1990
Tricks and Games (SP132) Clarinet Duet available from Spartan Press
Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 2nd October, 1989
Tricks and Games (SP130) Flute Duet available from Spartan Press
Originally commissioned by Boosey and Hawkes, but published by Spartan Press in 1989. Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 1st September, 1989
Tricks and Games (SP131) Oboe Duet available from Spartan Press
Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 24th November, 1989
Tricks and Games (SP174) Viola Duet available from Spartan Press
Parts (written in the alto clef throughout). Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 30th April, 1990
Tricks and Games (SP175) Violin Duet available from Spartan Press
Including:- Chinese Chequers, Draughts, Cowboys, Indians, Rag-Time etc. – each presents a different challenge, yet with the emphasis on fun. Completed: 30th April, 1990
Trombone Concerto – Full Orchestral Score (SP1394) Orchestra available from Spartan Press
Duration: 20 minutes. 1st Performance: Mike Skitt – Burford Orchestra, March 1986 and Wantage Silver Band.. Commissioned by John Esaias for the Burford Orchestra and the trombonist Michael Skitt. Five movements. Completed: 1st June, 1987
Trombone Concerto (SP1393) Trombone and Piano available from Spartan Press
Duration: 20 minutes. 1st Performance: Mike Skitt – Burford Orchestra, March 1986 and Wantage Silver Band.. Solo Trombone with piano (Orchestral also available). Commissioned by John Esaias for the Burford Orchestra and the trombonist Michael Skitt. Five movements. Completed: 1st June, 1987
Trombone Concerto (SP1395) Orchestra available from Spartan Press
Duration: 20 minutes. 1st Performance: Mike Skitt – Burford Orchestra, March 1986 and Wantage Silver Band.. Commissioned by John Esaias for the Burford Orchestra and the trombonist Michael Skitt. Five movements. Completed: 1st June, 1987
Voluntary Choice Book 1 (SP911) Organ Solo available from Spartan Press
Includes Mark Goddard: ‘Intrada’
This book replaces the legacy edition of Voluntary Choice Book 1 (SP323) and is enhanced by the addition of a manuals only arrangement of ‘The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba’. Also featured: Largo from ‘Winter’ by Vivaldi and much more… Completed: 12th February, 2008
Voluntary Choice Book 2 (SP912) Organ Solo available from Spartan Press
Includes Mark Goddard: ‘Medieval Carol’.
This book replaces the legacy edition of Voluntary Choice Book 2 (SP324) and is enhanced by the addition of a manuals only arrangement of ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’ (manuals only), as well as music from Enigma Variations, The Water Music and more… Completed: 26th February, 2008
Voluntary Choice Book 3 (SP913) Organ Solo available from Spartan Press
Includes Mark Goddard: ‘Gloria’ and ‘Vertue’.
This book replaces the legacy edition of Voluntary Choice Book 3 (SP325) and is enhanced by the addition of a manuals only arrangement of ‘Sheep May Safely Graze’, as well as, amongst other useful voluntaries, an inspired arrangement of Amazing Grace and The Flower Duet from Lakme. Completed: 11th March, 2008
Wedding Music (SP1301) Wind Quintet available from Spartan Press
Duration: 10 minutes. Three celebratory pieces, commissioned originally for a wedding, arranged here for wind quintet by the composer. Ideal for the signing of the register! Originally written for wind sextet, and published in 1989 as ‘Fanfare, Romance and Jig’. Completed: 27th March, 2015
What Do You Dream About? (SP1307) Piano Solo available from Spartan Press
Duration: 10 minutes. These light hearted Surreal Reveries were composed as part of Spartan’s 25th anniversary year celebrations and there’s quite a story attached to them: The Spartan Press team organised a ‘brainstorming’ session (as they often do) to help with deciding on definitive titles for each of the pieces, but we generated so many good ideas that we simply couldn’t decide what to do: so we invite you, the pianist, to provide your own titles! The full results of our production meeting were entertaining and illuminating, and so we’ve reproduced them for your entertainment on page 15. In the score, we have at least gone as far as associating each movement with an appropriate ’emoticon’, just for the fun of it. Grades c. 4 – 7. Completed: 25th June, 2015
Whirligig (SP305) Piano Duet available from Spartan Press
Four pieces for piano duet teams of grade 4 onwards. The recent popularity of piano duets is partly explained by teachers looking to provide young pupils with valuable ensemble experience. Whirligig offers contrasting textures, contemporary rhythms and a lot of fun! Completed: 15th June, 1993
Woodwind World: Flute Book 2 (TCL320025) Flute and Piano available from Fuller Music
Includes Mark Goddard: ‘Locked On Latin’.
Woodwind World: Flute Book 2 comprises arrangements of Traditional, Baroque and Classical pieces, edited with regard to current concepts of performance practice. Some additional editorial suggestions have been made to assist performers, students and examination candidates in developing their own interpretations. Four of these pieces are unaccompanied. Completed: 21st May, 2001