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Publisher: Edizioni Bèrben


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Edizioni Bèrben

Bèrben s.r.l., Via Redipuglia 65, 60122 ANCONA, Italy

Phone number: +39 071 204428

Fax number: +39 071 57414

Email: info@berben.it


Items published by Bèrben

Date & Opus Title Words Duration More…
1965/1966
Opus 49
A Catch for Wind Instruments
Twenty-three Short Movements (in Three Sets) for Wind Quintet, after Izaak Walton
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Notes: 
February/March 1977
Opus 18b
A Little Trio for Wind Instruments
arr. for Flute (or Oboe), Clarinet in B flat and Bassoon (or Bass Clarinet)
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Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990
April 1983
Opus 88
A Shoal of Fishes
A Suite of Nine Miniatures for Pedal Concert Harp after prints by Hiroshige (1797–1858) and anonymous poems of the period, published in 1832/3
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Notes: Written for the Lloyds Bank National Composers’ Award Competition; published in the composer’s facsimile, 1988; movements are: 1. Tobiuwo (Flying fish); 2. Suzuki (Sea-perch); 3. Ebi (Shrimp); 4. Shima-hata (Grouper); 5. Ai (Trout); 6. Akodai/Kurodai (Red bream or golden tai/Black seabream or porgy); 7. Bora (Gray mullet); 8. Koi (Carp); 9. Saba/Hirosaba or marusaba (Mackerel)
April 1989
(No opus number)
Bach-Chat for Two Guitars
Off-beat Bach
2 mins info i
Notes: Arranged from the Recorded Music Library piece of the same name; published in the composer’s facsimile, 1989 (edited by the guitarist Rose Andresier)
April 1990
Opus 1b
Five Diversions
arr. for Wind Quintet
13½ mins info i
Notes: A rescoring for wind instruments of Four Diversions for Piano, original op. 1 and A Little Waltz from Two Waltzes, op. 8; movements are: 1. Vacilación (Habañera); 2. The Lake at Evening; 3. The Girl with the Auburn Hair; 4. Twilit Willows; 5. A Little Waltz; dedicated to the memory of May Parker, who had taught the teenaged Carey Blyton piano and thus fired his interest in music
December 1972
Opus 66
Flying Birds
Theme and Nine Variations for Saxophone Quartet
7¾ mins info i
Notes: Written for the London Saxophone Quartet; concert version of the music for the RSPB film; movements are: 1. Theme; 2. Variation 1: Gannets; 3. Variation 2: The Arctic Tern (Slow Waltz); 4. Variation 3: The Arctic Tern (hovering and dipping); 5. Variation 4: Birds landing; 6. Variation 5: Puffins & Friends (Slow Tango); 7. Variation 6: Razorbills and Kittiwakes; 8. Variation 7: Swans taking off… and landing; 9. Variation 8: Knot, Widgeon and Waders; 10. Variation 9: Oystercatchers and Sanderling (Finale)
November 1986
Opus 94a
For the Delight of Shiva
for Vibraphone
11 mins info i
Notes: Based on the rag Misra Sivaranjani; published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990; written for Derek Foster
Spring 1988
Opus 94b
For the Delight of Shiva
for Guitar
11 mins info i
Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990; written for Timothy Walker
Spring 1972
Opus 64a
In Memoriam Django Reinhardt
Theme and Two Variations for Guitar
7½ mins info i
Notes: Written for and edited by Angelo Gilardino; movements are: 1. Prelude; 2. Elegy; 3. Django Reinhardt’s Stomp
Spring 1972
Opus 64b
In Memoriam Django Reinhardt
Theme and Two Variations for Saxophone Quartet
7½ mins info i
Notes: Published by Dorn Publications, Inc., USA; written for the London Saxophone Quartet; movements are: 1. Prelude; 2. Elegy; 3. Django Reinhardt’s Stomp
1971
Opus 60a
In Memoriam Scott Fitzgerald
for Saxophone Quartet
2½ mins info i
Notes: Written for the London Saxophone Quartet; arrangement of untitled piano piece, c. 1950
1972
Opus 60b
In Memoriam Scott Fitzgerald
arr. for Guitar
2½ mins info i
Notes: Written for and edited by Angelo Gilardino
Summer 1952, revised Summer 1979
Opus 14
Moresques
Three Songs for Soprano, Flute, Harp and Piano
David Munro 16 mins info i
Notes: Songs are: 1. A Yellow Flower; 2. Simoom; 3. Love-song of the Lady of Granada
1990
Opus 99
SchoolMusica Mechanica
for Three Violins, Two Cellos and Double Bass
6 mins info i
Notes: Movements are: 1. Musical Clock (England); 2. Barrel Organ (France); 3. Jukebox (America)
May 1989
Opus 96
Nimblefingers
Five Duets for Two Clarinets (B flat/A)
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Notes: Based on some ten TV commercial music tracks for Nimble Bread, written in the mid-1960s; published in the composer’s facsimile, 1989; movements are: 1. Nitty-gritty; 2. Namby-pamby; 3. Arty-crafty; 4. Airy-fairy; 5. Hoity-toity
November 1975
Opus 75
Oceani Luni: The Oceans of the Moon
Theme and Eight Variations for Guitar
18 mins info i
Notes: Written for, and edited by, Angelo Gilardino; movements are: 1. The Sea of Fertility (Mare fœcunditas); 2. The Sea of Rains (Mare imbrium); 3. The Sea of Cold (Mare frigoris); 4. The Sea of Crises (Mare crisium); 5. Theme: “To the moon”; 6. The Sea of Clouds (Mare nubium); 7. The Sea of Tranquillity (Mare tranquillitatis); 8. The Lake of Dreams (Lacus somniorum); 9. The Ocean of Storms (Oceanus procellarum); the theme ‘To the moon’ is taken from Lachrymae, op. 23
February 1987
Opus 82b
Pasticheries (non-Boulangerie)
Three Parodies arr. for Brass Quintet
6 mins info i
Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990; movements are: 1. The Return of Bulgy Gogo—ragtime (tribute to Peter Warlock); 2. The Velvet Gentleman—à la brossienne (tribute to Erik Satie); 3. Up the Faringdon Road!—valse brilliantine (tribute to Lord Berners); transcription made for the New Mexico Brass Quintet of Albuquerque, USA
March/April 1979
Opus 82a
Pasticheries (non-Boulangerie)
Three Parodies for Piano Duet
6 mins info i
Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990; movements are: 1. The Return of Bulgy Gogo—ragtime (tribute to Peter Warlock); 2. The Velvet Gentleman—à la brossienne (tribute to Erik Satie); 3. Up the Faringdon Road!—valse brilliantine (tribute to Lord Berners); these pieces are affectionate tributes to three composers whose music Carey Blyton admired—none of whom studied with Nadia Boulanger!
1949/1950
Opus 4a
Pastiches
An Entertainment in the Form of Six Poetical and Musical Parodies for Narrator and Piano
David Munro 15 mins info i
Notes: Movements are: 1. Mouvement Perpétuel (Francis Poulenc/Lewis Carroll); 2. Tango (Darius Milhaud/Edith Sitwell); 3. Berceuse (Gabriel Fauré/William Shakespeare); 4. Mazurka (Dmitri Shostakovich/T. S. Eliot); 5. Negro Song (Antonín Dvořák/Rudyard Kipling); 6. Carioca! (Heitor Villa-Lobos/Gertrude Stein)
1981
Opus 4c
Pastiches
Nº2 (Tango) arr. for Three Guitars by Keigo Fujii
1¾ mins info i
Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1989
1988
Opus 4b
Pastiches
arr. for Two Guitars
11½ mins info i
Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1989; edited by Rose Andresier; movements are: 1. Mouvement Perpétuel (Francis Poulenc/Lewis Carroll); 2. Tango (Darius Milhaud/Edith Sitwell); 3. Berceuse (Gabriel Fauré/William Shakespeare); 4. Mazurka (Dmitri Shostakovich/T. S. Eliot); 5. Negro Song (Antonín Dvořák/Rudyard Kipling); 6. Carioca! (Heitor Villa-Lobos/Gertrude Stein)
1949/1950, 1988, 1994
Opus 4d
Pastiches
An Entertainment in the Form of Six Poetical and Musical Parodies for Narrator and Two Guitars
David Munro 15 mins info i
Notes: Arrangement for two guitars republished by Edizioni Bèrben in 1994 with the texts of the poems and the original Production Note, allowing the guitarists to perform the work with a narrator for a more unusual concert item; movements are: 1. Mouvement Perpétuel (Francis Poulenc/Lewis Carroll); 2. Tango (Darius Milhaud/Edith Sitwell); 3. Berceuse (Gabriel Fauré/William Shakespeare); 4. Mazurka (Dmitri Shostakovich/T. S. Eliot); 5. Negro Song (Antonín Dvořák/Rudyard Kipling); 6. Carioca! (Heitor Villa-Lobos/Gertrude Stein)
1981
Opus 31c
Patterns
arr. for Two Guitars by Keigo Fujii (nos 1 & 3 only: Waltz and The Organ-grinder)
5¼ mins info i
Notes: Published in the arranger’s facsimile, 1988; movements are: 1. Waltz (Passacaglia); 2. Pastoral (Chaconne); 3. The Organ-grinder (Ostinato)
Spring 1972
Opus 65a
Saxe Blue
for Saxophone Quartet
3 mins info i
Notes: Published by Dorn Publications, Inc., USA; written for the London Saxophone Quartet
Spring 1972
Opus 65b
Saxe Blue
for Guitar
3 mins info i
Notes: Written for and edited by Angelo Gilardino
1988
Opus 7b
Six Epigrams
arr. for Alto Saxophone and Piano
6¾ mins info i
Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1989; movements are: 1. Idyll; 2. March; 3. Blues; 4. Scherzo; 5. Homage to Czerny; 6. Echoes
February 1982
Opus 85a
Sweet and Sour Rag
for Piano Duet
4 mins info i
Notes: Written for John Mitchell; published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990
March 1983
Opus 85b
Sweet and Sour Rag
arr. for Brass Quintet
4 mins info i
Notes: Written for the Chestnut Brass Company of Philadelphia, USA (brass quintet); published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990
May 1952, revised Winter 1961–2
Opus 13
Three Moods
for Violin and Piano
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Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990
1981
Opus 32c
Three Musical Mishaps
arr. for Two Guitars by Keigo Fujii
5¼ mins info i
Notes: Published in 1989 by permission of the Sam Fox Publishing Company, USA; movements are: 1. The Three-stringed Fiddle; 2. The Damaged Bagpipes; 3. The Broken Pianola
1989
Opus 10b
Two Pensive Songs
arr. for Clarinet and Piano
5 mins info i
Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990; movements are: 1. Two Stolen Roses; 2. Come, Night