Martin Grayson

I have been a composer since I was a teenager but for much of my professional life I was an academic chemist. I am now devoting myself to composing, teaching, playing and directing early music as well as my own music. I won the 2007 Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain composition contest for writing a modern 'In Nomine', and have written many modern pieces employing early instruments such as lute, viol and recorder.

You will find music of very different types here, some of it in the atonal 'academic' style of the 1960s, much tonal music influenced by a variety of early 20th century music styles and pieces which are approaching the style I am currently developing.

I am currently setting an anthology of solo guitar arrangements of pieces by classical and early composers, largely unknown by guitarists at large but which I have enjoyed playing for years. The guitar fingering, not the notes is taking the time!

I am also putting on Sibelius Music a collection of recorder arrangements. These are priced at the ludicrously cheap 25 cents per page because in the UK there has been for 3 decades an excellent publisher of recorder music whose editions worked out at 25 pence per page when bought by subscription!

Scores

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  • Score Groups
    • Ludi Musici I - For Two Recorders
      • Variations on Brigg Fair for Treble and Tenor Recorders
      • Variations on 'Dives and Lazarus'
      • La Battaglia
      • The Cuckoo, Variations on a Somerset Folksong for Treble and Tenor recorders
      • Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home, for Treble and Tenor Recorders
      • La Cioccona, for Treble and Tenor Recorders
      • Ich Stund an Einem Morgen, for two recorders
    • Guitar Music
      • Untitled Group
      • David of the White Rock, arr. for 'Cello and Guitar by anon.
      • Sonata for Solo Guitar (2)
      • The Flowers of the Forest, Trad., 19th century arrangement, adapted for voice and guitar or lute by trad.
      • Suite (1) of 5 Pieces for Solo Guitar
      • III - Tango
      • 2nd Suite for Solo Guitar
      • Barcarole
      • 2 Sonatas for Guitar Duet (1979)
      • Variations on a Somerset Folksong, for Two Guitars
    • Viol Music
      • In Nomine a4 Op. 30 No. 2
      • The Song "Orpheus with his Lute", Consort Song Version, with viols
      • In Nomine a4 (No. 2) (2008)
      • In Nomine a5 (No. 1) for 5 part viol consort
    • Orchestral Music
      • Fantasia on a Theme by Telemann
      • Concerto for Viola and Small Orchestra, Mvt. 1
      • 2nd Movement of the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
      • 3rd and Final Movement of the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
    • Chamber Music
      • Duo for Violin and Viola Op. 33
      • Sonata (3) for recorder or Other Melody Instrument
      • Sonata for Recorder or Other Melody Instrument No. 3 - Final two movements
      • Sonata for Recorder or Other Melody Instrument (1)
      • Suite for Oboe Alone
      • Sonata for Flute and Guitar
      • Sonata for Recorder or Other Melody Instrument Op. 16 No. 1
      • Sonata for Solo 'Cello (1971)
      • Variations on a Somerset Folksong, Violin and Guitar version
      • Allegro for Solo Violin (1971)
      • String Quartet in One Movement (1972)
      • Sonata for Solo Flute Op. 8
    • Lute Music
      • Two Organ Pieces by Thomas Tallis, arr. for Lute by Thomas Tallis
      • Pisa - from the Intermedio of 1539 by Matteo Rampollini
    • Atonal Music
      • Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
      • Woodwind Trio
      • Recorder Trio, adapted from 'Woodwind Trio'
      • Chamber Symphony for 9 Sustained Instruments and Percussion
    • Recorder Music
      • If You Love Me by Thomas Tallis
      • Duetto for Two Recorders, Originally Two Violas (Falck 61) by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
      • Little Piece for Treble and Bass Recoders
      • Duo No. 1 for Clarinet and Bassoon, arranged for Treble and Bass Recorders by Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Trio Sonata in E-minor, arr. to g-minor for recorders by G. P. Telemann
      • Quartet for Recorders
      • Divertimento by Johann Baptiste Vanhal
      • Fantasy for 3 Recorders (1988)
      • The Song "Orpheus with his Lute", Version for 4 recorders
      • Sonata for Treble and Bass Recorders
      • 11 Famous Carols for two Instruments, Descant and Treble Version by trad.
      • 11 Famous Carols for two Instruments by trad.
      • Suite for Oboe Alone (Recorder version)
    • Ludi Musici II - for Two Recorders
      • The Oak and the Ash
      • Fantasia on David of the White Rock
      • Fantasia on 'Durch Adams Fall' for Treble and Tenor Recorders
    • Variations on Durch Adams Fall