Michael Maxwell Steer's printed music

Printed Music

This is my concert music.

The categories are
1 Choral
2 Solo voice/s with notated accompaniment
3 Solo voice/s with improvised accompaniment
4 Instrumental

See also my radio and television scores, or recorded music pages.

**1 Choral**
*title*	*personnel*	*description*	*text*	*available*
Alleluia	SsAaTB	Anthem	Sue Porteous ©1976 rev96
Angelus ad virginem	SsATtBb + Org	Christmas anthem	trad ©2000
3 Beguine Motets	SsAaTtBb	13thC poems expressing feminist spirituality ©2003	13thC	Download 1-score pdf 2 score pdf 3 score pdf Listen to the music Read about the Beguines
Chakra Music for Singers	flexible	Improv map for any size of ensemble	©1993	score
Death of Absalom	SAaTtB + Org	Anthem ©1981 rev96	AV Bible	score
Dream Prayer	SsAaTtBb	Motet ©2006	MS ©1991	pdf
Easter Dawn	SsAaTtBb + Pno	25' Motet	MS ©2004	text
The Lord's Prayer	SATB		BCP ©1995
The Lord's Prayer (in other words)	SATB + Org	Modern language version	MS ©1998
3 Poems of Dylan Thomas for aCappella Chorus	SSAATTBB	Concert piece. There was a Saviour - Why East Wind Chills - A stranger has come	Dylan Thomas ©1969 /83 ®2000	£10.70 +pp (+ £1.20 UK, £2.10 Eur, £2.75 Wld) Discount for choirs
Remember my bonds	SSAATTBB	Prayer from E Europe	anon ©1976 rev96
Soul Voyaging	ATBarB	Concert piece (written for Hilliard Ensemble)	MS ©1998	score
They	SATB-SATB	17' concert motet	MS ©2006	text *scrolling video score*
Voice of the Martyrs	SSATTTBB	Prayer from E Europe	Thomas Klassen ©1976 rev96	score

2 **Solo Voice/s with notated accompaniment**
*title*	*personnel*	*description*	*text /date*	*Purchase*
3 Cabaret Songs	MezzoSop + Pno	3 songs, some pno improv	James Agee ©1976
Easter Song	Voice + Pno /Org	Anthem	Bill Champion ©1968	publ Novello
Songs from 'This Side of Paradise'	Soprano + Harp	Settings of 7 poems in This Side of Paradise Sonnet - Clara - Asleep - Embarking at night - Swinburne - Summer Storm - A poem Eleanor sent Amory	F Scott Fitzgerald ©2001	£11 +pp (+ £1 UK, £2 Eur, £2.50 Wld)
From the Asylum	Sop (opt Alto) + Pno (opt electronics)	Scena based on Frances Farmer's Will There Ever Be a Morning	MS ©1983 text
First Songs	Tenor + Pno	Three songs written when still at school	Joyce, de la Mare, Owen ©1961 rev87
	Bar or Ten (versions in D E & F) + Piano (D version also avail for small ensemble)	5 songs charting "love's first fever to its plague": On the Marriage of a Virgin - Love in the Asylum - The Conversation of Prayer - On a Wedding Anniversary - Was there a time?	Dylan Thomas © 1969 rev71 ® 2000	£9.50 +pp (+ £1 UK, £2 Eur, £2.50 Wld) Please specify D, E or F version
Grains	Soprano + Harp	4 concert songs Your touch - To Stand - Winter Solstice - Gone, leaving no trace	Peter R Morris ©2001	£4.80 +pp (+ 95p UK, £1.60 Eur, £2 Wld)
Haiku	aCapella Voice		Clancy Steer ©2001
3 Letters	Sop + Gtr, Hcd	3 songs from communist countries	anon ©1977
Nightsongs	Soprano + Pno	5 concert songs Moonrise - The Lantern out of Doors - The Starlight Night - A 'terrible' Sonnet - Heaven-Haven	Gerard M Hopkins ©2001	£11.90 +pp (+ £1.20 UK, £2 Eur, £2.50 Wld)
Provençale Songs	MzSop + Pno	4 love songs	anon ©2004 ®2004	1-mp3 £4.80 +pp (+ 95p UK, £1.65 Eur, £2 Wld)
4 Riddles	Soprano + clt, Str Qtet	Short concert piece	anon
The Owl & the Painted Room	Soprano + Str Qtet	3 concert songs, comm by & perf at Burnham Market Festival, Norfolk 1987 Unnumbered Road - Next Meeting - The Owl & the Painted Room	Alan Brownjohn ©1987
Sculpture	Sop + Str Qtet, Perc	Poem inspired by visiting Hepworth Museum, St Ives	MS ©1998
Sevenesses	high baritone + piano	5 short poems Sensed – Sketch – South St Nocturne – Sublunary – Snooker Players	Lawrence Sail ©2005	download Sensed as a pdf
Syria	Ten + Gtr	2 songs	P Hore-Ruthven ©2001	£2.70 +pp (+ 95p UK, £1.65 Eur, £2 Wld)
Sonnets to Orpheus	Sop + Sax, Pno, Bass, Perc	Cycle of 12 concert songs	MS after RM Rilke ©2001 Read the poems ®2005	Score £33 +pp 400g (+£1.60 UK, £4.20 Eur, £9.50 Wld) Buy Score & CD together £40 Listen to the audio Visit the Sonnets to Orpheus hot page
Streams & Dreams	C-tenor + Pno	song	MS ©1999 text	£8.60 +pp (+ £1.05 UK, £1.85 Eur, £2.35 Wld)
Theme With Variations	aCapella Voice		James Agee ©1976

3 **Solo Voice/s** **with improvised accompaniment**
*title*	*personnel*	*description*	*text /date*	*avail*
Aftermath	Sop + Pno		MS ©1999
A Detrimental Case	Alto + chords	Comic song	MS ©2001
An Impossible Dream	Ten + Pno		Val Palmer ©1969
Elegy	MzSop + Pno, WindUp Gramophone, Tape & i/a electronics	Electro-acoustic concert piece - premiered by SPNM 1991	James Agee ©1989-91
Ghosts	Ten + Pno		MS ©2001
If stone	Alto + Pno		MS ©1999
Mabhruid	Alto + Pno also avai' 5 part aCappella women	Gaelic style song	MS ©2001
The Misfits	In the sounds of the night (vocal qtet) Okay. Y'all gotta imagine (scena) Mind if I stick around? (comedy duet) Perce's Song (ten) You cried for me (duet) I wisht you coulda met my kids (duet)	orojected Musical on the Monroe /Gable film	MS after Arthur Miller ©2001
Moonvelvet	Alto + Pno		MS ©2000
Mystery	Bari + Pno		MS ©2002
Our Love	MzSop + Pno	anniversary song	MS ©2001
Period Pieces from the mid-30s	Hi V + Pno	vernacular pastiches	James Agee ©1976
Phoney Pholksong	Sop solo	an ironic folksong	MS ©1999
Rain Song	Alto + Pno		MS ©1986
September 11th - the day that innocence ended	Med V + Pno	Song inspired by 9/11	MS ©2001
Sycamore	V + chords	song	MS ©2001
Tumulus	Sop + Pno	art song	MS ©1999 text	mp3+ score

4 **Instrumental**
*title*	*personnel*	*description*	*avail*
Beauty & the Beast	2 pedal harps & Strings	Suite of 3 educational movts (G.IV/V) ©1994 incl parts & demo CD	£24 +pp (+ £1.30 UK, £2.50 Eur, £3.50 Wld)
The Cruelty of Dreams	Violin solo	selected for SPNM ©1999
Deceptive Spring	Guitar solo	©1994
Grovely Wood	Harp solo	©1996 incl demo CD	£9 +pp (+ £1.10 UK, £1.65 Eur, £2 Wld)
Images in Smoke	Full orchestra	Atmospheric movt ©2000
	Harp solo	6 movts: '6 moods in 6 modes' ©2000
Montana	String Orchestra	Movt ® BBC London Studio Strings ©1976	mp3
Nebulæ	Chamber Orchestra	Movt ©1996
Not Wavendon but Drowning	Sax Quintet	Concert piece with Improv ©1985
Now I See	7 Perf + i/a electronics	3 movts ©1994
A Partial View of the Hudson on a Wet November Morning	2 versions: Piano / Harp	Short easy movt ©1982
3 Pieces for Sax	Blue Virginia: TenSax + Pno Nocturne: SopSax + Pno Sax on the Motorway: AltSax + Pno	©1967-99
Slower than thought	piano	©2003	score
Spectral Music	Fl + Pno	Concert piece ©1999
Spinther II	Variable ensemble	Colour improvisation map ©1995	score
Stones Emerging Throu Consciousness	Baroq Fl + Hcd	3 movt concert piece ©1985
Torquato Tasso	Wind Quintet	3 movt suite from incidental music to BBCr3 prod of Gœthe's play ©1982