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compositions by Timothy Roberts

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Choral

Stanzas of Innocence   SATB children's choir a capella, words and music by TR. Four simple non-liturgical choral pieces, 2004/2015
Dogs Like Singing   Two-part amateur mixed chorus and piano, 2009

Songs

words by TR where no poet is named
dog star gazing (Pete Brown)   Cycle of seven "mad songs", high voice with figured bass accompaniment ad lib., 1996
12 Songs (Spike Hawkins)   countertenor, cornett and harmonium, 2005
Library (Bernard Kops)   tenor or baritone and piano
Muse (Pete Brown)   baritone and MIDI accompaniment
Frances (Michael Horowitz)   tenor and piano
You are Gone (Bernard Kops)   high tenor and piano
Infant Joy (Blake)   a capella, interlude for violin or celesta
Bach and the Sentry (Ivor Gurney)   tenor and clavichord or piano
Hobo: song of the bipolar wanderer   blues style
Ghost's Song   voice and harmonium or piano
Cabaret Sarabande: My Little Lament   variable scoring
Making Love Songs With You   for 1930s light tenor
Music, If Music (Shakespeare)   TT/SS, sax and continuo


String Orchestra

Idyll  Fugue on a Irish Tune – Midnight – Lullaby
Wind instruments
On and Off the Wall: 12 sketches for two cornets and four sackbuts
Canzona on Jerusalem​ for cornets and sackbuts
Eight White-note Canons for three cornets a cappella
42 Improvisations for Jeremy West: cornett a cappella
Prelude and Four Fugues on Christ's words from the St Matthew Passion: for two Baroque flutes and two oboes da caccia 

Keyboard
for piano
Three Family Portraits (1996–7)  Insomniac Rag – Fugue on a Theme by Edward Lear – Prelude on Mozart 
The Duke's Rondeau (2009)
Sonatinas "for Haydn" (2009)  

for harpsichord
Lamento (1996)
Four Distillations after Verlaine songs by Gabriel Fauré (1996)  N'est-ce-pas? — En sourdine — Clair de lune — Puis que l'aube grandit   
D'ailleurs (otherwise): a study in DNA after J.S. Bach (2009)
Fresh Air (after Bach) (2014)
Fractal Ground (after Purcell) (2014)


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