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Publisher: Modus Music

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Modus Music

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Phone number: +44 (0)20 8363 2663

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Items published by Modus

Date & Opus	Title	Words	Duration	Price	More…
1949/1950 Opus 1a	Five Diversions for Piano		13½ mins	£3.50
	Notes: Originally Four Diversions (withdrawn); subsequently A Little Waltz from Two Waltzes, op. 8 was added; movements are: 1.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
Early 1950s (No opus number)	A Ghost from the Past for Piano		2½ mins	£3.00
	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
February 1951 Opus 7a	Six Epigrams for Piano		6¾ mins	£3.75
	Notes: Original title: La Delicatesse; movements are: 1. Idyll; 2. March; 3. Blues; 4. Scherzo; 5. Homage to Czerny; 6. Echoes
June/July 1951 Opus 9	Three a.m. Five Miniatures for Baritone and Piano	David Munro	7½ mins	£4.00
	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
June/August 1951 Opus 10a	Two Pensive Songs for High Voice and Piano	Carey Blyton & Donald R. Hills	5 mins	£3.50
	Notes: Songs are: 1. Two Stolen Roses (Carey Blyton); 2. Come, Night (Donald R. Hills)
October/November 1951 Opus 11	Toi et Moi Five Songs for Baritone and Piano	Paul Géraldy	12 mins	£5.00
	Notes: Songs are: 1. Doute; 2. Dualisme; 3. Post-Scriptum; 4. Habitude; 5. Mea Culpa (French words)
January 1952 Opus 12a	Elegy for Viola and Piano		—	£4.50
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Summer/Winter 1956 Opus 25	The Poetry of Dress Three Songs for Tenor and Piano	Robert Herrick & Anon.	3 mins	£3.60
	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)
1957 Opus 27	Park Lane Stroll for Piano		2 mins	£3.00
	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).
Summer 1957 Opus 28b	Captain Bowsprit’s Blues for Piano		2 mins	£3.00
	Notes: Second movement of Cinque Port; sold together with The Sea-dog’s Song
Summer 1957 Opus 28c	The Sea-dog’s Song A Good-Natured Parody of the English Sea-Shanty for Voice and Piano	Allan Cunningham	1¾ mins	£3.60
	Notes: Fourth movement of Cinque Port
1993 Opus 28d	The Sea-dog’s Song A Good-Natured Parody of the English Sea-Shanty for Piano		1¾ mins	£3.00
	Notes: Fourth movement of Cinque Port; piano transcription by John Mitchell; sold together with Captain Bowsprit’s Blues
Winter 1957/1958 Opus 16b	Lyrics from the Chinese Seven Songs for High Voice and String Orchestra	trans. Helen Waddell	18 mins	£10.00
	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
September/October 1960 Opus 30	Humoresque for Violin and Piano		—	£4.20
	Notes: Reuses music from op. 22
October 1960 Opus 31a	Patterns for Piano		5¼ mins	£3.60
	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)
1962/1964 Opus 32a	Three Musical Mishaps for Piano		5¼ mins	£3.30
	Notes: Movements are: 1. The Three-stringed Fiddle; 2. The Damaged Bagpipes; 3. The Broken Pianola
1963/1964 Opus 42	Three Impressions for Piano		7 mins	£3.60
	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
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	£5.00 Currently unavailable
	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
1967 (No opus number)	Robin Redbreast An Easter Song in the Folk Idiom for Voice and Piano or Organ	Carey Blyton	2¼ mins	£3.00
	Notes: Written as an entry to the 1967 Southern TV A Carol for Easter competition, where it reached the semifinals (the last twelve from a field of over 1,000 entries); originally composed for voice and guitar; broadcast in a Southern TV religious programme at Easter 1967 (to an accompaniment of two guitars and a ‘backing’ by the Mike Sammes Singers); published in 1999 and dedicated at that time to Gary Higginson, a composer and former student who had put on performances of many of Carey’s works at St Helen’s School, Abingdon
1967 Opus 23b	Lachrymae—In Memoriam John Dowland for High Voice and String Orchestra	Various	15 mins	£10.00
	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
1968 (No opus number)	Blue Christmas A Carol in the Blues Idiom for Voice and Piano	Peter Westmore	3¾ mins	£3.00
	Notes: Carey Blyton’s entry in the 1968 Southern TV A Carol for Christmas competition
Early 1970s Opus 32b	Three Musical Mishaps arr. for Saxophone Quartet		5¼ mins	£7.50
	Notes: Movements are: 1. The Three-stringed Fiddle; 2. The Damaged Bagpipes; 3. The Broken Pianola
1970 (No opus number)	A Little Nocturne In the Style of Chopin for Piano		1¼ mins	£2.10
	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
27th June 1975 Opus 69e	Pianoman A Music Hall Parody with a Ragtime Chorus	Carey Blyton	2½ mins	£3.60
	Notes: Song based on Mock Joplin; a saxophone-free version of op. 69b; dedicated to Soo-Bee Lee (soprano) and performed by her on the CD Carey Blyton: The folksong arrangements
1978 Opus 71b	God’s Gifts for Two Treble Voices and Piano		2 mins	£1.50
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January 1982 Opus 84	The Maiden Deceived A British Folk Song Cycle for Voice, Horn, Clarinet and Piano		11 mins	£12.00
	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
1983 (No opus number)	Ynes (Inez) arr. for Piano Duet		3 mins	£2.10
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October 1985 Opus 92a	The Indian Coffee House Roof Garden Orchestra Tango The Last Tango in Pondicherry, for Piano Duet		2¼ mins	£2.10
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1991 (No opus number)	Eine Kleine Froschmusik A Little Frog Music for Piano Duet		1½ mins	£2.10
	Notes: Written for Frank Bayford’s 50th Birthday Concert, held at the British Music Information Centre, London, 4th October 1991, and premiered by John Mitchell and Carey Blyton
November 1991 Opus 17b	Two Beethoven Sonatinas for Piano arr. for Flute (or Oboe), Clarinet and Bassoon		—	£9.00
	Notes: Price includes full score and parts
1992 Opus 100½	The Flea for Voice and Piano	“Adam Had ’em” (Anon.)	1 minute	£2.10
	Notes: One of twenty songs written by past and present members of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain upon the retirement of Elizabeth Yeoman after 26 years as General Secretary (1966–1992); these songs, comprising An Elizabethan Songbook, were first performed by students at the Royal College of Music, London on 21st January 1993
1996 or 1997 Opus 103½	Indigo Blues A Colonial Song for Medium Voice and Piano	Carey Blyton	1¼ mins	£2.10
	Notes: An unashamed send-up of Glibert & Sullivan; dedicated to “Jan Stericker (‘Mrs Fiveboys’)”, Carey’s next-door neighbour in Woodbridge, whose grandparents had an indigo plantation in Bihar, north-west India; score states that the song was written in “Hardh Pawncore, 1899”, which may not be accurate
1994 (No opus number)	Minuet for Octet for Piano Duet		1½ mins	£2.10
	Notes: Written as a birthday present for John Mitchell
Winter 1997/1998 Opus 28e	Cinque Port (Music for an Opera) A Suite in Five Movements for Two Pianos		15 mins	£12.00
	Notes: Movements are: 1. Prelude: Daybreak over the Harbour; 2. Song 1: Captain Bowsprit’s Blues; 3. Interlude: The Beach—Midwinter; 4. Song 2: The Sea-dog’s Song; 5. Postlude: Dusk over the Harbour