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Date & Opus Title Words Duration Publisher More…
9th June 1993
Opus 103
Doctor Who
Dalek Suite
for Saxophone Quartet
7½ mins Out of print Cover
Notes: Published by Valentine Music; movements are: 1. A Desolate Landscape; 2. Chants and Variants; 3. Dalek March and Retreat
Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
MS / BLYTON 32
January 1974
 
Episodic TV music
Doctor Who
Death to the Daleks
TV serial
Terry Nation 20 mins Manuscript info i
Notes: Serial in four 25-minute episodes; parts of the music were treated by the Radiophonic Workshop, including the solo voice, used as the basis for massed choral chant; music played by the London Saxophone Quartet
Archive: British Film Institute (BFI):
  • Original loose and bound music manuscripts
  • BBC rehearsal scripts for episodes I–IV
  • December 1969
     
    Episodic TV music
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who and the Silurians
    TV serial
    Malcolm Hulke 30 mins Manuscript info i
    Notes: Serial in seven 25-minute episodes
    Archive: British Film Institute (BFI):
  • Original loose and bound music manuscripts
  • Various BBC rehearsal scripts
  • January 1983
    Opus 87a
    SchoolDracula! or The Vampire Vanquished
    A Victorian Melodrama for Schools
    Carey Blyton 30 mins Chester Music and Novello & Co
    Product page
    Cover
    Notes: Also available from Boosey & Hawkes
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 53
    June 1987
    Opus 95
    SchoolFrankenstein! or A Bolt from the Blue
    A Victorian Melodrama for Schools
    Carey Blyton 40 mins Chester Music and Novello & Co
    Product page
    Cover
    Notes: Also available from Boosey & Hawkes; dedicated to Gary Higginson
    April 1956; 1957/1958; April/May 1960
    Opus 23a
    Lachrymae—In Memoriam John Dowland
    for High Voice and String Quartet
    Various 15 mins Manuscript info i
    Notes: Movements are: 1. Prelude; 2. Song 1: Madrigal; 3. Interlude I; 4. Song 2: The Moon; 5. Interlude II; 6. Song 3: The Open Door; 7. Interlude III; 8. Song 4: The Sick Rose; 9. Interlude IV; 10. Song 5: Sonnet; 11. Postlude
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 82
    1967
    Opus 23b
    Lachrymae—In Memoriam John Dowland
    for High Voice and String Orchestra
    Various 15 mins Modus Music
    £10.00
    Cover
    Notes: Movements are: 1. Prelude; 2. Song 1: Madrigal; 3. Interlude I; 4. Song 2: The Moon; 5. Intrlude II; 6. Song 3: The Open Door; 7. Interlude III; 8. Song 4: The Sick Rose; 9. Interlude IV; 10. Song 5: Sonnet; 11. Postlude
    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
    July 1953 (1–3); January 1954 (4–6)
    Opus 16a
    Lyrics from the Chinese
    Six Songs for High Voice, Oboe and String Trio
    trans. Helen Waddell 12 mins Manuscript info i
    Notes: Withdrawn; movements are: 1. Aubade; 2: Drinking Song; 3: Song at Evening; 4: Flower Song; 5: Sacrificial Song; 6: Nocturne
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 94 • MS / BLYTON 95
    Winter 1957/1958
    Opus 16b
    Lyrics from the Chinese
    Seven Songs for High Voice and String Orchestra
    trans. Helen Waddell 18 mins Modus Music
    £10.00
    Cover
    Notes: Movements are: 1. Prelude; 2. Song 1: Aubade; 3. Song 2: Drinking Song; 4. Song 3: Song against the Duke Seuen; 5. Song 4: Song at Evening; 6. Interlude; 7. Song 5: Flower Song; 8. Song 6: Sacrificial Song; 9. Song 7: Nocturne; 10. Postlude
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 13 • MS / BLYTON 34 • MS / BLYTON 92 • MS / BLYTON 93 • MS / BLYTON 96
    1958
    Opus 16c
    Lyrics from the Chinese
    Seven Songs for High Voice and Piano
    trans. Helen Waddell 18 mins Fand Music Press
    Product page
    £9.95
    Cover
    Notes: Movements are: 1. Prelude; 2. Song 1: Aubade; 3. Song 2: Drinking Song; 4. Song 3: Song against the Duke Seuen; 5. Song 4: Song at Evening; 6. Interlude; 7. Song 5: Flower Song; 8. Song 6: Sacrificial Song; 9. Song 7: Nocturne; 10. Postlude
    January/February 2000
    Opus 109
    Lyrics from the East
    Five Miniatures for Tenor and Piano
    Various 4½ mins Fand Music Press
    Product page
    £7.45
    Cover
    Notes: Written for Ian and Jennifer Partridge in thanks for their contribution to the CD, Carey Blyton: The Early Songs; songs are: 1. The Blast of Love (Sappho); 2. Paradise (Omar Khayyam); 3. Evening (Anon.); 4. Night (Anon.); 5. Puty-fish (Anon.)
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 91
    Summer 1952, revised Summer 1979
    Opus 14
    Moresques
    Three Songs for Soprano, Flute, Harp and Piano
    David Munro 16 mins Edizioni Bèrben info i
    Notes: Songs are: 1. A Yellow Flower; 2. Simoom; 3. Love-song of the Lady of Granada
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 35 • MS / BLYTON 36 • MS / BLYTON 37
    1949/1950
    Opus 4a
    Pastiches
    An Entertainment in the Form of Six Poetical and Musical Parodies for Narrator and Piano
    David Munro 15 mins Edizioni Bèrben 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)
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 89
    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 Edizioni Bèrben 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)
    December 1964/January 1965
    Opus 48
    Prayers from the Ark
    Seven Songs for High Voice and Piano
    Carmen Bemos de Gasztold trans. Rumer Godden 13 mins Modus Music
    £5.00
    Currently unavailable
    Cover
    Notes: Songs are: 1. The Prayer of the Cock; 2. The Prayer of the Goldfish; 3. The Prayer of the Cat; 4. The Prayer of the Tortoise; 5. The Prayer of the Mouse; 6. The Prayer of the Ox; 7. The Prayer of the Lark; dedicated to the composer’s parents, who brought the poems to his attention
    March 1975
     
    Episodic TV music
    Doctor Who
    Revenge of the Cybermen
    TV serial
    Gerry Davis 26 mins Manuscript info i
    Notes: Serial in four 25-minute episodes; parts of the music were treated by the Radiophonic Workshop
    Archive: British Film Institute (BFI):
  • Original bound music manuscript
  • BBC rehearsal scripts for episodes I–IV
  • Various assorted miscellaneous notes and correspondence
  • 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
    10th May 1993
    Opus 102
    Doctor Who
    Silurian Suite
    for Trumpet in B flat and Piano
    5½ mins Out of print Cover
    Notes: Published by Valentine Music; movements are: 1. In the Caves; 2. A Close Encounter; 3. March: The Brigadier
    August 1963
    Opus 39
    Six Regional Canadian Folk Songs
    arr. for Voice and Piano
    17 mins Roberton Publications info i
    Notes: Originally published by Curwen; dedicated to Robert Ivan Foster (baritone) and recorded by him (with Nina Walker, piano) on Onslo LP OCAB-61-64; songs are: 1. Donkey Riding (The Maritimes); 2. Auction Block (Ontario); 3. C’est l’Aviron (Quebec); 4. An Eskimo Lullaby (Baffinland); 5. Kelligrews Soiree (Newfoundland); 6. Lukey’s Boat (Nova Scotia)
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 111
    November 1977
    Opus 79
    SchoolSweeney Todd the Barber, or The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    A Victorian Melodrama for Schools
    Carey Blyton 17 mins Chester Music and Novello & Co
    Product page
    Cover
    Notes: Also available from Boosey & Hawkes
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 108 • MS / BLYTON 109
    August/September 1976
    Opus 76
    The Girl from Nogami
    Chamber Opera in One Act
    Jack Gray Manuscript info i
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 78
    January 1982
    Opus 84
    The Maiden Deceived
    A British Folk Song Cycle for Voice, Horn, Clarinet and Piano
    11 mins Modus Music
    £12.00
    Cover
    Notes: Songs are: 1. Early One Morning; 2. Bobby Shafto; 3. O, Waly, Waly; 4. Early One Morning/What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor; 5. There is a Tavern in the Town
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 39
    Summer/Winter 1956
    Opus 25
    The Poetry of Dress
    Three Songs for Tenor and Piano
    Robert Herrick & Anon. 3 mins Modus Music
    £3.60
    Cover
    Notes: Originally published by Mills Music; songs are: 1. Whenas in Silks my Julia goes (Robert Herrick); 2. A Sweet Disorder in the Dress (Robert Herrick); 3. My Love in her Attire (Anon.); written for Jack Irons (tenor)
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 18 • MS / BLYTON 88 [First and second drafts]
    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
    June/July 1951
    Opus 9
    Three a.m.
    Five Miniatures for Baritone and Piano
    David Munro 7½ mins Modus Music
    £4.00
    Cover
    Notes: Songs are: 1. The Dawn Gapes In; 2. As the Last Guest Leaves; 3. The City Sleeps; 4. By Moonlight; 5. Three a.m.; first two performances given by John Frost (bass-baritone) and Carey Blyton (piano) at Beckenham Grammar School, 18th October 1951, and at the first Beckenham Salon public concert, Old Council Offices, Beckenham, 2nd April 1952
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 107 • MS / BLYTON 112
    1964
    Opus 44
    Three Canadian Carols
    arr. for Voice, Clarinet and Piano
    11 mins Manuscript info i
    Notes: Dedicated to Robert Ivan Foster (baritone) and recorded by him (with Nina Walker, piano and Jonathan Steward, clarinet) on Onslo LP OCAB-61-65; first public performance by Robert Ivan Foster at The Questors Theatre, London on 19th December 1964; songs are: 1. The Shepherdess’ Carol (D’où viens-tu, bergère?); 2. The Cherry Tree Carol; 3. The Huron Carol (Jesous Ahatonhia)
    May/July 1963
    Opus 36
    Three Welsh Folk Songs
    arr. for Voice and Harp (or Piano)
    6½ mins Manuscript info i
    Notes: Dedicated to Robert Ivan Foster (baritone) and recorded by him (with Tryphena Partridge, harp) on Onslo LP OCAB-61-63; songs are: 1. Lullaby (Suo-gân); 2. The Plea of the Miller (Tôn Y Melinydd); 3. David of the White Rock (Dafydd Y Gareg Wen)
    October/November 1951
    Opus 11
    Toi et Moi
    Five Songs for Baritone and Piano
    Paul Géraldy 12 mins Modus Music
    £5.00
    Cover
    Notes: Songs are: 1. Doute; 2. Dualisme; 3. Post-Scriptum; 4. Habitude; 5. Mea Culpa (French words)
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 1 • MS / BLYTON 2 • MS / BLYTON 3 • MS / BLYTON 4 • MS / BLYTON 15
    June/August 1951
    Opus 10a
    Two Pensive Songs
    for High Voice and Piano
    Carey Blyton & Donald R. Hills 5 mins Modus Music
    £3.50
    Cover
    Notes: Songs are: 1. Two Stolen Roses (Carey Blyton); 2. Come, Night (Donald R. Hills)
    1st February 1993
    Opus 101
    Doctor Who
    Vogan Suite
    for Horn in F (or Horn in E flat) and Piano
    4½ mins Just Music
    Product page
    Cover
    Notes: Movements are: 1. Deep Space; 2. Vogan March; 3. All’s well … that ends well; Just Music publishes only the version for Horn in E flat
    Spring 1956/Winter 1957
    Opus 26c
    What then is Love?
    Four Modern Madrigals for High Voice, Clarinet in A and Piano
    Various 6 mins Out of print info i
    Notes: Originally published by Mills Music; republished by Roberton; songs are: 1. Western wind, when will thou blow? (Anon.); 2. Tell me, where is fancy bred? (William Shakespeare); 3. Stay, O sweet, and do not rise! (John Donne); 4. Love is a sickness full of woes (Samuel Daniel)
    October 2020
    (No opus number)
    [Sketches]
    Unknown material held in Trinity Laban’s Carey Blyton Collection
    Manuscript info i
    Notes: To be investigated…
    Archive: Trinity Laban (Jerwood Library):
    MS / BLYTON 33