Violin Solo
Violin Carols (SP538) available from Spartan Press
Various, arr: Goddard
Twenty seven of the most popular carols laid out in a simple solo manner with optional chord symbols. Completed: 7th September, 1999
Violin and Piano
Party Pieces (SP181) 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
Questions (SP186) 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
Violin Duet
Tricks and Games (SP175) 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
Viola Solo
Viola Carols (SP583) available from Spartan Press
Various, arr: Goddard
Twenty seven of the most popular carols laid out in a simple solo manner with optional chord symbols. Completed: 24th September, 2000
Viola and Piano
Party Pieces (SP176) 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
Viola Duet
Tricks and Games (SP174) 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
Cello Solo
Cello Carols (SP584) available from Spartan Press
Various, arr: Goddard
Twenty seven of the most popular carols laid out in a simple solo manner with optional chord symbols. Completed: 24th September, 2000
Cello and Piano
Buffoonery (SP144) 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
Party Pieces (SP139) 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
Cello Duet
Tricks and Games (SP134) 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
Double Bass and Piano
Gerty Goat Scuffer (SP1202) 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
Solo Guitar
Counting the Days (UMP64327) 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