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Guitar


Date & Opus Title Duration Publisher More…
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
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
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
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
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
1971
(No opus number)
A Ghost from the Past
for Guitar
2½ mins Manuscript info i
Notes: 
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’
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
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