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Solo instrumental


Date & Opus Title Words Duration Publisher More…
Early 1950s
(No opus number)
A Ghost from the Past
for Piano
2½ mins Modus Music
£3.00
Cover
Notes: A Ghost from the Past ws originally improvised and recorded at the Beckenham Salon in the early 1950s, but not written down at the time; Carey later transcribed it from shellac and arranged it for other instruments in 1971; sold together with Park Lane Stroll
1971
(No opus number)
A Ghost from the Past
for Guitar
2½ mins Manuscript info i
Notes: 
1970
(No opus number)
A Little Nocturne
In the Style of Chopin for Piano
1¼ mins Modus Music
£2.10
Cover
Notes: From the incidental music for Footprints in the Jungle, in the second BBC-tv series, Rule Britannia, based on short stories by Somerset Maugham
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
Edizioni Bèrben info i
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)
Summer 1954
Opus 19
Brittany Beach
for Piano
2¼ mins Manuscript info i
Notes: Now in On Holiday, op. 54 (see also op. 18a)
Summer 1957
Opus 28b
Captain Bowsprit’s Blues
for Piano
2 mins Modus Music
£3.00
Cover
Notes: Second movement of Cinque Port; sold together with The Sea-dog’s Song
November 1964
 
Film/documentary music
Display to Sell
Instructional film
Tom Scott Robson 7 mins Manuscript info i
Notes: A short training film
Archive: British Film Institute (BFI):
  • 16mm film stock
  • Original bound music manuscript
  • 1949/1950
    Opus 1a
    Five Diversions
    for Piano
    13½ mins Modus Music
    £3.50
    Cover
    Notes: Originally Four Diversions (withdrawn); subsequently A Little Waltz from Two Waltzes, op. 8 was added; movements are: 1. Vacilación (Habañera); 2. The Lake at Evening; 3. The Girl with the Auburn Hair; 4. Twilit Willows; 5. A Little Waltz
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 14 [Original Four Diversions]
    November 1986
    Opus 94a
    For the Delight of Shiva
    for Vibraphone
    11 mins Edizioni Bèrben 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 Edizioni Bèrben info i
    Notes: Published in the composer’s facsimile, 1990; written for Timothy Walker
    1963
    Opus 41
    Fun with Figures
    Twelve Pieces for the Early Grades Based on the Commonest Intervals in Music, for Piano
    7¼ mins Roberton Publications info i
    Notes: Originally published by S & B
    Spring 1972
    Opus 64a
    In Memoriam Django Reinhardt
    Theme and Two Variations for Guitar
    7½ mins Edizioni Bèrben info i
    Notes: Written for and edited by Angelo Gilardino; movements are: 1. Prelude; 2. Elegy; 3. Django Reinhardt’s Stomp
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 62 • MS / BLYTON 69 • MS / BLYTON 70
    1972
    Opus 60b
    In Memoriam Scott Fitzgerald
    arr. for Guitar
    2½ mins Edizioni Bèrben info i
    Notes: Written for and edited by Angelo Gilardino
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 71
    1961
    (No opus number)
    Simplified Arrangements
    Leroy Anderson
    for Piano
    Out of print Cover
    Notes: Simple piano arrangements of pieces by Leroy Anderson, written under the name Mark Stevens and published by Mills Music Ltd; items are: 1. Forgotten Dreams; 2. The Syncopated Clock; 3. Plink, Plank, Plunk!; 4. Blue Tango; 5. A Trumpeter’s Lullaby
    November 1975
    Opus 75
    Oceani Luni: The Oceans of the Moon
    Theme and Eight Variations for Guitar
    18 mins Edizioni Bèrben 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
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 19
    1957
    Opus 27
    Park Lane Stroll
    for Piano
    2 mins Modus Music
    £3.00
    Cover
    Notes: Used commercially; sold together with A Ghost from the Past. Carey Blyton used the name Mark Stevens on the original score of Park Lane Stroll, though it was subsequently catalogued and published under his own name (and acknowledged with an opus number).
    October 1960
    Opus 31a
    Patterns
    for Piano
    5¼ mins Modus Music
    £3.60
    Cover
    Notes: Originally published by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew; Pastoral republished by Fraser–Enoch Publications, 1985; movements are: 1. Waltz (Passacaglia); 2. Pastoral (Chaconne); 3. The Organ-grinder (Ostinato)
    July 1963
    Opus 37
    Peasant Dance
    for Piano
    Manuscript info i
    Notes: Reused in On Holiday, op. 54
    1960
    (No opus number)
    Simplified Arrangements
    Russ Conway
    for Piano
    Out of print Cover
    Notes: Simple piano arrangements of pieces credited to Trevor H. Stanford (birth name of Russ Conway), written under the name Mark Stevens and published by Mills Music Ltd; items are: 1. Side-Saddle; 2. Roulette; 3. China Tea; 4. Dancing Fingers; 5. Toast of the Town
    Spring 1972
    Opus 65b
    Saxe Blue
    for Guitar
    3 mins Edizioni Bèrben info i
    Notes: Written for and edited by Angelo Gilardino
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 11 • MS / BLYTON 99
    February 1951
    Opus 7a
    Six Epigrams
    for Piano
    6¾ mins Modus Music
    £3.75
    Cover
    Notes: Original title: La Delicatesse; movements are: 1. Idyll; 2. March; 3. Blues; 4. Scherzo; 5. Homage to Czerny; 6. Echoes
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 113 • MS / BLYTON 114
    1967
    Opus 51
    The Bream
    for Guitar
    4½ mins United Music Publishers Ltd info i
    Notes: Carey Blyton’s first piece for guitar; written at the suggestion of, and dedicated to, Julian Bream (but apparently never performed by him); first performance by Brazilian guitarist Turibo Santos at the 1970 Concours International de Guitare, Paris, first UK performance also given by Turibo Santos in 1970, in the Purcell Room
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 47 • MS / BLYTON 48
    February 1971
     
    Commercial music
    Birds Eye Florida Orange Juice
    The Organist
    TV commercial: Birds Eye Orange Juice
    ½ min Manuscript info i
    Notes: Made by Ridley Scott Associates
    December 1971
     
    Film/documentary music
    Play for Today
    The Pigeon-Fancier
    TV play
    Peter Hankin 4 mins Manuscript info i
    Notes: A somewhat sombre play set in the North of England concerning the retirement of a Nottinghamshire miner and obsessional pigeon-breeder and racer, and his son, a schoolteacher; music performed by Harold Clarke
    Archive: British Film Institute (BFI):
    Original bound music manuscript
    1993
    Opus 28d
    The Sea-dog’s Song
    A Good-Natured Parody of the English Sea-Shanty for Piano
    1¾ mins Modus Music
    £3.00
    Cover
    Notes: Fourth movement of Cinque Port; piano transcription by John Mitchell; sold together with Captain Bowsprit’s Blues
    1961
    (No opus number)
    Simplified Arrangements
    The Tony Osborne Album
    (for Piano)
    Out of print Cover
    Notes: Simple piano arrangements of pieces by Tony Osborne, written under the name Roy Green and published by Mason Music Ltd; items are: 1. The Windows of Paris; 2. Winter Starlight; 3. While Paris Sleeps; 4. Autumn in London; 5. Folies Bergère
    1961
    (No opus number)
    Simplified Arrangements
    The Tony Osborne Album, Book Two
    (for Piano)
    Out of print Cover
    Notes: Simple piano arrangements of pieces by Tony Osborne, written under the name Roy Green and published by Mason Music Ltd; items are: 1. The Man from Madrid; 2. That’s Paris; 3. The Secrets of the Seine; 4. Tony’s Cha Cha Cha; 5. The Bear of Berne
    1963/1964
    Opus 42
    Three Impressions
    for Piano
    7 mins Modus Music
    £3.60
    Cover
    Notes: Reused as On Holiday for String Orchestra, op. 54 (see opp. 18a, 19, 37); movements are: 1. Dyrehaven; 2. Brittany Beach; 3. Peasant Dance
    1962/1964
    Opus 32a
    Three Musical Mishaps
    for Piano
    5¼ mins Modus Music
    £3.30
    Cover
    Notes: Movements are: 1. The Three-stringed Fiddle; 2. The Damaged Bagpipes; 3. The Broken Pianola
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 64 • MS / BLYTON 65 • MS / BLYTON 66
    April 1974
    Opus 68
    Two Japanese Pieces
    Water Garden and Koto Music for Guitar
    3 mins Oxford University Press info i
    Notes: Written for the OUP album, Easy Modern Guitar Music [Modern British Guitar Music?]; edited by Hector Quine; movements are: 1. Water Garden; 2. Koto Music; Koto Music is currently available in the OUP album, Enjoy Playing Guitar: Time for Two + CD; Koto Music was an Associated Board Grade 3, List C exam piece in 1980 and the piece was played by Stephen Richter on the AB demonstration tape issued to teachers and pupils
    May 1951
    Opus 8
    Two Waltzes
    for Piano
    Manuscript info i
    Notes: One waltz reused in Five Diversions for Wind Quintet, op. 1b, the other in Patterns for Piano, op. 31
    November 1978
    Opus 80
    Yugen
    Theme and Four Variations for Guitar
    5 mins Out of print info i
    Notes: Written for the OUP album, Modern Guitar Music Book 2; edited by Hector Quine; “Yugen” is a Japanese word meaning ‘the haunting sense of sadness and regret for days gone by’