BMS Publications Spring Clean Sale
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Composer Profiles
The third edition of our invaluable Biographical Dictionary and £12.50 Chronology of 720 British composer profles who have £7.50 ☐ contributed to our musical heritage since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Journals
Volume 41: 2019/2 £5 ☐ Olwen Picton-Jones: ’John Raynor’ £3 Elizabeth Manning: John Locke Danyel Gilgan: Tippett’s A Child of Our Time Tonya Chirgwin: Hugh Blair Jürgen Schaarwächter: Delius and the Sound of Place Adam Davies: Anthony Hedges
Volume 41: 2019/1 £5 ☐ Robert Williams: Bernard van Dieren £3 Jonathan Pollitzer: Whittaker Centenary Retrospect’ Mary Whittaker: The Viking Pioneer Michael Jones: Sir Henry (Walford) Davies & Arthur Hinton Matthew McCullough: Gerald Finzi’s Dies Natalis John Joubert by Chris Bye Volume 40: 2018/2 £5 ☐ Nicholas Haralambous: Tippett’s Second Piano Sonata £3 Michael Jones: Frederic Lamond: Pianist and Composer Chris Bye: E. J. Moeran Barry Smith: A. E. Housman: Hero of the Hidden Life Philip Wheldon-Robinson: British Musical Criticism
Volume 39/40: 2017/2, 2018/1 Double Edition £5 ☐ N. William Snedden: Arthur Bliss and Albert Elkus £3 Chris Bye: On the Highland Trail of Sir Arnold Bax Thomas Hyde: William Mathias Barry Smith: Granville Bantock’s Letters
Volume 38: 2016/2 £5 Christoph Schlüren: Bernard Steven £3 ☐ Ian Johnson: William Alwyn Nicola Harrison: Roger Quilter John Turner: Thank you, Norman Dello Joio! Paul Vincent: London in Wartime Laura Rossi: The Battle of the Somme - 1916 flm
Volume 38: 2016/1 £5 Barry Sterndale-Bennett: Sterndale Bennett: £3 ☐ Trevor Duncan by Philip Scowcroft Lucy, Ralph and Mr Holst by Alan Gibbs George Lloyd: ‘Out of the depths’ by John Gibbons The Colourful Sounds of Miriam Hyde by Jo-Anne Kemp Devils, Donkeys and Dinosaurs by Paul Harrison
Volume 37: 2015/2 £5 Denis Aplvor Serial technique by Mark Marrington £3 ☐ Sir Arthur Bliss: Overture Edinburgh by John France William Bardwell centenary tribute by Paul Conway Scriabin’s infuence on Frank Bridge by John Gibbons Arthur Butterworth by John France Ronald Center ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ by Geoffrey Atkinson Volume 37: 2015/1 £5 John McCabe memories £3 ☐ Jacob’s Ladder part 2: Gordon Jacob Arthur Butterworth - A life in music The reception of Humphrey Searle Algernon Ashton - another forgotten English composer
Volume 36: 2014 £5 Jacob’s Ladder part 1: Gordon Jacob £3 ☐ Music of Cactus Land The Life and Music of William Lloyd Webber An interview with John Joubert.
Volume 35: 2013 £5 Imogen Holst, Benjamin Britten, and related activity. £3 ☐ One Foot in Eden: Ronald Center’s centenary Frances Joan Singleton (1886 – 1975) Richard Henry Walthew (1872 – 1951)
Volume 34: 2012 £5 Orchestral Music of Sir Edward German by Ray Siese £3 ☐ Edward Cympson by David Chandler The Symphonies of Daniel Jones by Paul Conway.
No image Volume 33: 2011 £5 available William Gillies Whittaker by J. Phillip Owen £3 ☐ The Music of Janet Hamilton by John France (continued) Violinist Raymond Jeremy by Nigel Jarrett The Flute Music of Edwin York Bowen by Glen Ballard An Unpublished Letter from E.J.Moeran by John France The O&C University Chamber Music Clubs by Ian Maxwell.
Volume 32: 2010 £5 A Bax/Dermot O’Byrne by William B. Hannam £3 ☐ Percy Grainger and Empire The Moeran Myth by Ian Maxwell Jack – Another Memory by John Talbot Delius: En Arabesk in Newport, by Nigel Jarrett The Life and Work of Janet Hamilton Sir George Alexander Macfarren by Russell Burdekin. Volume 31: 2009 £5 Memories of Jack: by John Talbot £3 ☐ The Moeran Centenary Recalled, by John Talbot The Life and Music of Herbert Sumsion by Diane M Nolan The Century Concerts by Christopher Redwood The Hipkins Memorial by Alan Gibbs.
Volume 30: 2008 £5 The Vocal Music of Cecil Forsyth by David M. Bynog £3 ☐ English provincial music festivals by Pippa Drummond Music in the Midlands by Karl Kroeger Sir Kenneth MacMillan by Paul R.W. Jackson Ursula Vaughan Williams by Stan Meares The ‘Mad’ Songs of Ivor Gurney by Richard Carder.
Volume 29: 2007 £5 Granville Bantock and Ernest Newman, by Lewis Foreman £3 ☐ Richard Arnell by Paul R. W. Jackson Holst, Purcell and Morley College by Alan Gibbs John Ireland’s Piano Sonata by John Talbot Music in Birmingham by Margaret Handford Elaine Hugh-Jones at Eighty by Michael Jones Tobias Matthay by Colin Scott-Sutherland
No image Volume 28: 2006 £5 available John Ireland and Charles Markes by George Dannatt £3 ☐ My Memories of Grace Williams by Ian Parrott Bristol's Music and Musicians by Stephen Banfeld Jaunting Car: the compositions of Peter Hope by John Turner Benjamin Frankel by Dimitri Kennaway.
No image Volume 27: 2005 £5 available Alan Rawsthorne by John McCabe £3 ☐ The Constancy of Lambert by Stephen Lloyd Thomas Attwood by Alastair Mitchell William Alwyn at 100 by Hubert Culot John Parry's Nightingale by John Turner Matyas Seiber and the Dorian Singers by Alan Gibbs British Symphonism by Jurgen Schaarwachter Scott and Arnold: Is the Symphony out-dated? by Ian Parrott
No image Volume 26: 2004 £5 available Queen's (King's) Musick in the 20th Century by Alastair Mitchell £3 ☐ Frederic Austin by Martin Lee-Browne Edwin Rose by Alan Gibbs W.Denis Browne and The Comic Spirit by Philip Lancaster Ronald Stevenson, Bax & the North by Colin Scott-Sutherland No image Volume 25: 2003 £5 available The Lennox Berkeley Centenary by Peter Dickinson £3 ☐ Roger Quilter by Valerie Langfeld Bantock Meets the Press by Lewis Foreman The EPSS/BMS Golden Jubilee Song Competition 2002 Edouard Michael by Hubert Culot Holst Among Friends by Alan Gibbs W. Vincent Wallace by David Grant Alexander Campbell Mackenzie by Jurgen Schaarwachter Alice Mary Smith by Ian Graham-Jones Bax and Balfour Gardiner by Colin Scott-Sutherland.
No image Volume 24: 2002 £5 available Mervyn Roberts by Colin Scott-Sutherland £3 ☐ Alexander Campbell Mackenzie by Jurgen Schaarwachter Alice Mary Smith by Ian Graham-Jones Percy Turnbull by Jeremy Dibble Sir R.R. Terry by George Sharman Six Sonnets in Tribute to E.J. Moeran by Jon Manchip White Norfolk folksong collected and arranged by E.J. Moeran
No image Volume 23: 2001 £5 available Malcolm Williamson at 70 by Christopher Austin £3 ☐ Patrick Piggott by Colin Scott-Sutherland Francis Jackson (Part 2), by Robin Walker Moeran, Warlock and Song by Stephen Banfeld Discovering Malcolm Davidson by Lynn Parker A Christmas Carol by Malcolm Davidson Malcolm Arnold at 80 by Hubert Culot
No image Volume 22: 2000 Out of print available The Solo Songs of Michael Head by Barbara Streets Michael Head Remembered by John Carol Case The Lark song by Michael Head Alan Bush by Michael Jones Douglas Steele by John Turner Francis Jackson (Part 1) by Robin Walker Arthur Seymour Sullivan by Stan Meares The Dolmetsch Legacy William Walton at Ashby St.Ledgers by Trevor Hold.
No image Volume 21: 1999 £5 available John Marsh by Ian Graham-Jones £3 ☐ Christopher Edmunds by Michael Jones William Baines 'Goodnight to Flamboro', by Roger Carpenter William Baines - Past and Present by Robin Walker The Piano and John McCabe by Guy Rickards Cedric Thorpe Davie by Colin Scott-Sutherland The First National Congress of the British Music SocietyErik Chisholm's Archives by Colin Scott-Sutherland No image Volume 20: 1998 £5 available Philip Sainton by Barbara Clark £3 ☐ John Foulds by Malcolm MacDonald The Songs of Francis George Scott by Colin Scott-Sutherland ‘A Misty Mornin', song by Francis George Scott Walton's Late Music by Jurgen Schaarwachter Edmund Rubbra by Gary Higginson Peter Wishart by Alastair Pearce Carol: The Heavenly Kery, by Peter Wishart Who was Donald Francis Tovey? by Margaret Moncrief 'The Bride of Dionysus' a note by Malcolm MacDonald
No image Volume 19: 1997 £5 available Henry Cotter Nixon by Anthony Nixon £3 ☐ Ivor Gurney by Pamela Blevins Tovey's 'The Bride of Dionysus' by Peter Shore Leslie Heward by Michael Jones John Jefreys by Colin Scott-Sutherland.
No image Volume 18: 1996 £5 available The Beckwiths of Norwich by Tom Roast £3 ☐ Frank Bridge in the last twenty-fve years by John Bishop The flm music of Arthur Benjamin by Andrew Youdell Patrick Hadley by Eric Wetherell Benjamin Britten and the guitar by Stephen Batchelor Sibelius 7 by Ray & Sara Maidstone Thomas F Dunhill and Sibelius 7 by Beryl Kington
No image Volume 17: 1995 £5 available Gordon Jacob by Eric Wetherell £3 ☐ A Nonagenarian Composer's Memorabilia by Thomas Pitfeld Changing Performance Practice by Peter Reynolds Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum by Brian Inglis Kenneth Alford and Hubert Bath by Kenneth Shenton E.J. Moeran letters and Songs by Geofrey Self
No image Volume 16: 1994 £5 available Peterkin by Alastair Chisholm and Colin Scott- Sutherland £3 ☐ E.J. Moeran letters and Songs by Geofrey Self 50 Years of British Opera by Stan Meares Sir Thomas Beecham and English Music by Jack Douglas.
No image Volume 15: 1993 Out of print available Music for a Documentary Film Unit by John Legard "Anyhow, About Walton and Lambert" by Angus Morrison Ivor Gurney's songs to his own poems by Richard Carder Josef Holbrooke and the Music Hall by Michael Freeman The music of Holst & Vaughan Williams by Edward Macan No image Volume 14: 1992 £5 available Richard Arnell at 75, by Michael Dawney £3 ☐ The Language and Music of Gerald Finzi, by Edward Cline Algernon Ashton by Patrick Webb Horsley's 1842 Edition of William Byrd by Richard Turbet Dorothy Howell by Celia Mike The Newcastle Conservatoire of Music by D.H. Thomas.
No image Volume 13: 1991 Out of print available Ruth Gipps by David C.F. Wright Stanley Bate by Michael Barlow and Robert Barnett Morfydd Owen by Rhian Davies Vaughan Williams & Holst by Carolyn Livingston.
No image Volume 12: 1990 £5 available Sir Lennox Berkeley: a tribute by David Wordsworth £3 ☐ Adrian Cruft edited by Jack Denford (part 2) Edgar Bainton by Michael Jones Rupert Brooke and the Gallipoli Composers by Rhian Davies John Veale by David C.F. Wright.
No image Volume 11: 1989 £5 available Founder Members of the British Music Society £3 ☐ Settings of Housman's ‘Bredon Hill’ by Brian Blyth Daubney William Henry Bellby Robert Barnett The Mid-Victorian Secular Cantata by Maxwell W. Pettitt Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: a Personal Memoir by E. Ann Rust Adrian Cruft edited by Jack Denford (part 1)
No image Volume 10: 1988 £5 available Some Recollections of Peter Wishart by D.J. Roberts £3 ☐ Arthur Benjamin: Australian Symphonist by Robert Barnett Alfred Reynolds: Man of the Theatre by Philip Scowcroft John Herbert Foulds by Lance Tufnell The Student Diary of William Sterndale Bennett (Part 2)
No image Volume 9: 1987 £5 available Charles Avison by Lyall Wilkes £3 ☐ Humphrey Searle by D.C.F. Wright Poem: Discordant Song by Michael Cardy John Gerrard Williams by Barbara Parker Hans Gal: a Conversation with Martin J. Anderson Sir Arthur Somervell by Kenneth Shenton The Student Diary of William Sterndale Bennett (Part 1) No image Volume 8: 1986 £5 available The Lesser Known Talents of Cecil Gray by Pauline Gray £3 ☐ An unpublished round att. to Morley or Byrd by Richard Turbet Frank Bridge's First Visit to America by Dr Trevor Bray Sir George Alexander Macfarren by Maxwell W. Pettitt British Music in Doncaster by Philip Scowcroft Bernard van Dieren by Patrick Riley The Student Diary of William Sterndale Bennett
No image Volume 7: 1985 £5 available Ernest Bristow Farrar by Adrian Ofcer £3 ☐ Edward German by James Brown William Alwyn: A Memorial Tribute by Hubert Culot Cyril Bradley Rootham by Kenneth Shenton Elgar's First Symphony by Michael Garnaes Peter Warlock by Peter J. Reynolds Gordon Jacob in Interview by Lewis Foreman
No image Volume 6: 1984 £5 available The Pre-Raphaelites and Music by Susan Parsons £3 ☐ Orlando Gibbons' Quartercentenary by Richard Turbet Delius and the Round Dance by Stephen Banfeld The Symphonies of Edmund Rubbra by Louis Blois Richard Hall by Geofrey Tomason Rebecca Clarke: Song ‘The Donkey’
No image Volume 5: 1983 £5 available Vaughan Williams: ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ by Stan Meares £3 ☐ Music at the Imperial Institute by Dr E.D. Mackerness van Dieren's Toccata and Tema con Variazioni for piano Hubert Parry & English Dissonance by Jeremy C. Dibble William Wordsworth 75th Birthday Tribute by John Dodd Rebecca Clarke by Michael Ponder George Butterworth: the Early Years by Michael Barlow.
No image Volume 4: 1982 £5 available Elgar and South Yorkshire by Philip Scowcroft £3 ☐ Christopher Headington-Interview by Terry Barfoot Piano Music of the Georgian Era by Colin Scott-Sutherland The New Grove and British Composers by Stan Meares
No image Volume 3: 1981 £5 available Sir Eugene Goossens by Anne Goossens £3 ☐ Parry's Chamber Music by Jeremy C. Dibble The Study of Local Musical History by Dr E.D. Mackerness Cyril Scott: Piano Sonata No 3 by W.A. Pasfeld Wilfred Sanderson by Philip Scowcroft Leslie Heward's Moeran Recording by Patric Stevenson No image Volume 2: 1980 Out of print available Out of print Harty’s Recording: Walton’s 1st symphony by Patric Stevenson Ronald Center: An Introduction, by Derek M. Blyth The Making of The Planets by Michael Short A Bliss Discography by Andrew Guyatt Whittaker Centenary Retrospect by Jonathan Pollitzer The Viking Pioneer by Mary Whittaker A Whittaker Discography by Andrew Guyatt John Raynor by Olwen Picton-Jones Doncaster and its Composers by P.L. Scowcroft.
No image Volume 1: 1979 Out of print available Sir Arthur Bliss by Andrew Guyatt Sir William Sterndale Bennett by Barry Sterndale Bennett A Profle of Percy Turnbull by Mary Turnbull Bernard van Dieren by Robert Williams.
Monographs
BMS Monograph 5: £8.99 PARROTTCISMS: £6 ☐ The Autobiography of Ian Parrott
No image BMS Monograph 4: £10.99 available GOODNIGHT TO FLAMBORO’ £6 ☐ The Life and Music of William Baines
No image BMS Monograph 3: £5 available ARNOLD COOKE £3 ☐ A celebration of the 90th birthday of Arnold Cooke on 4th November 1996
No image BMS Monograph 2: £5 available EDWARD THOMAS AND JOHN IRELAND £3 ☐ A personal refection on parallels between the poet and the composer.
No image BMS Monograph 1: £5 available BENJAMIN BURROWS AND SOME OF HIS POETS £3 ☐ A celebration of the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Burrows on 20th October 1891 Other Booklets
No image ASPECTS OF BRITISH SONG £6 available by Brian Blyth Daubney £4 ☐ A miscellany of essays on sundry aspects of British song by a variety of authors. Composers featured range from William Byrd to Peter Wishart, including many masters of British song
No image BRITISH CHORAL MUSIC £8.95 available A performing conspectus of nineteenth- and twentieth-century £6 ☐ music for choral societies. Edited by Lewis Foreman
No image BRITISH OPERA IN RETROSPECT £6 available This book lists the operas performed as part of the British Opera £5 ☐ in Retrospect project in 1985. It gives details of the winners of the competition, and includes a series of articles providing a general introduction to British opera. Only 10 copies left!
Scores
No image GRANVILLE BANTOCK: Pagan Symphony £15 available A facsimile of the composer’s MS full score, published by ☐ Joseph Williams in 1936
No image GRANVILLE BANTOCK: Song of Songs £12.50 available The vocal score of this work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, ☐ published by Swan & Co in 1922
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