Site Map —
Philip Goddard's music compositions site
What follows here is a basic listing of pages and isn't intended for regular surfing. It's meant just for finding the odd tucked-away pages that are proving difficult to locate quickly. Certain pages and files are not included in this listing in order not to encourage mass downloading.
General
- Home
- List of works — with links to detailed programme notes and YouTube MP3-quality videos of each entire work, and purchase of CD-quality FLAC downloads and scores. This is your primary exploration place.
- SCORES for sale or hire — with instrumentation lists for all the works
- Music Store… — CD-quality FLAC downloads of carefully crafted MIDI renditions of all the works
- About the music — General description, including what it sounds like
- About the Composer
- Equipment used for composing and playback
- Specifications of my virtual organs
- How the MIDI realizations were made so realistic
- Collaborations & Commissions
- What they're saying about this music
- Musical Influences on Philip Goddard's Music & Literary Works — Including a challenging examination of the nature of supposed artistic ‘influences’ and indeed the very nature of the creative process
- How Philip Goddard's Nature-Symphonies came about — The frisson of making field recordings out in ‘Mother Nature’, and then exploring beyond accepted boundaries in deploying those sounds…
- On Finding One's Own Voice as a Composer — a substantial and thought provoking essay
Programme notes for the works…
Symphonies (orchestral and choral)
- Symphony 1 (Sagarmatha)
- Symphony 2 (Idyll, Chorale & Dance)
- Symphony 3 (Dark Forest — Monument and Reflections)
- Symphony 4 (Highland Wilderness)
- Symphony 5 (Magritte Gallery)
- Symphony 6 (K2 — A Song of Enlightenment)
- Symphony 7 (Ancient Cry for Freedom)
- Symphony 8 (The Ferryman)
- Symphony 9 (Orb of Life and Death)
- Symphony 10 (Journey of Awakenings, Joys and Sorrows)
Other Orchestral works
- Sunshine and Showers
- Mount Everest — Summit Bid
- Fantasy Variations — From the Scottish Mountains
- Golgotha to Rozabal
Other Choral works
- Symphonic Ancient Mantra Dances
- Et in Arcadia Ego
- The Beginning and Also the End
- Clarity of a Mountain Sunrise
- Tears of Avalokiteshvara
Instrumental works
- Autumn Leaves and Spring Blossoms (9 instruments: string quartet & wind quintet)
- Tune in a Stained Glass Window (solo organ version)
- Monument and Reflections (duo & trio versions)
- The Unknown (organ & tuba or other low wind instrument)
- The Great Wilderness (solo organ)
- De Profundis Clamavi (3 trumpets & electronic)
- The Seen and the Unseen (2 saxophones & piano)
- Nordic Wilderness Journey (contrabass sax, tenor sax & piano)
- Fallen Soldiers (organ & 3 trumpets)
‘New Age’ pastiche
Nature-Symphonies: nature-generated stochastic (probability-driven) music
Transformations from original field-recordings of various wind chimes and combinations thereof, or sometimes using other natural soundscapes, made by the Composer…
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Nature-Symphony 1 (The Inner Fire wistfully seeking to define itself)
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Nature-Symphony 2 (Deep cave waterfall celebrating its own splendour)
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Nature-Symphony 3 (Enigma of the waters of the depths)
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Nature-Symphony 4 (Gypsies seeking to find something that can never be found)
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Nature-Symphony 5 (Wide-eyed young monk's contemplation of Ama Dablam)
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Nature-Symphony 6 (Perambulation of the Ring of Fire)
Nature-Symphony 7 (Processional in solitude)
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Nature-Symphony 7a (Solitude's fire chamber)
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Nature-Symphony 8 (Exuberance of the bamboo poet)
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Nature-Symphony 9 (The ever-falling leaves of autumn)
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Nature-Symphony 9a (Into the haunted autumn forest…)
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Nature-Symphony 10 (Moonlit nocturne:
Whispery mutterings of a million nothings, each with its story to tell
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Nature-Symphony 11 (The Eternal Astronomer's gaze)
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Nature-Symphony 12 (Around the rim of the quivering volcano)
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Nature-Symphony 13 (Springtime riverside reverie)
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Nature-Symphony 14 (Celebration of rutting stags)
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Nature-Symphony 15 (December rural afternoon quietude)
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Nature-Symphony 16 (Dance of the shimmering Irish mountain mist arising)
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Nature-Symphony 17 (The origin of lightning — Dialogue between a mountain and a poet)
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Nature-Symphony 18 (Legend of the night and the day in the deep forest)
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Nature-Symphony 19 (Crazy sad dance — Jeoffry the cat's seven last meows at the foot of a moonlit cross)
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Nature-Symphony 20 (Monolith — The unknowable)
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Nature-Symphony 21 (Deep ocean floor examining its own volcanics)
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Nature-Symphony 22 (Solar rays — The Sun's ‘Poem of Ecstasy’)
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Nature-Symphony 23 (A strange air from Beeny Cliff's sea caves)
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Nature-Symphony 24 (Secret forest — Bringer of joyful dreams)
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Nature-Symphony 25 (Lament —
My land is laid waste; we have nothing…
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Nature-Symphony 26 (Celebration of skylarks, wind and the unknown)
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Nature-Symphony 27 (Quest for the ever-concealed mountain — Prelude to the mountaineer's ‘Poem of Ecstasy’)
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Nature-Symphony 28 (The mountaineer's ‘Poem of Ecstasy’)
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Nature-Symphony 29 (Fragile eternity of an early springtime sunrise)
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Nature-Symphony 30 (Mother Nature telling springtime melancholy not to be so silly!)
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Nature-Symphony Prelude 1 (Prelude to a springtime forest tableau)
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Nature-Symphony 31 (Springtime forest tableau: On seeing the most beautiful thing one could never see)
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Nature-Symphony 32 (Splendour of the Perpetual Transmuter at work and play)
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Nature-Symphony 33 (Cornwall extravaganza: Pentargon Cove Guillemots' Coven)
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Nature-Symphony 34 (Exploration of a joyful planet yet to be devised)
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Nature-Symphony 35 (Night stroll among a bare mountain's crags)
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Nature-Symphony Prelude 2 (Song of anguish — memorial to Alexei Navalny)
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Nature-Symphony 36 (Surreal landscape of contradictory impressions!)
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Nature-Symphony 37 (Colourful resonance of a wild sea on rocks and cliff)
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Nature-Symphony 38 (Preliminary report on the unclimbed Mountain of Ten Thousand Ecstasies)
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Nature-Symphony 39 (Progress on the unclimbed Mountain of Ten Thousand Ecstasies)
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Nature-Symphony 40 (Mother Nature's great celebration — by moonlight)
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Nature-Symphony 41 (Forest springtime — the enigmatic waiting…)
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Nature-Symphony 42 (A springtime forest's passing cloud shadows)
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Nature-Symphony 43 (The Inner Fire's sun-like resplendence takes hold…)
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Nature-Symphony 44 (
In the weeping land, trees sat down beside me, seeking to work out a solution…
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Nature-Symphony 45 (The inner dynamo ever creating its own source — springtime celebration)
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Nature-Symphony 46 (Peaceful sea at night with
What the hell's that!
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Nature-Symphony 47 (Enchanting dark-forest glade)
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Nature-Symphony 48 (After the great earthquake, the shocked silence shudders, shimmering like heat)
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Nature-Symphony 49 (An unexpected planetary configuration telling its own story…)
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Nature-Symphony 50 (Processional — Magnificent Galaxy, ever rotating…)
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Nature-Symphony 51 (The fundamental pinnacle examining the source of inspiration itself)
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Nature-Symphony 52 (The sound of one mountain applauding its climbers)
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Nature-Symphony 53 (
Yon bright mountain calls from afar, its distance vast!
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Nature-Symphony 54 (Sinfonia Lugubre della Primavera –
Il miagolio
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Nature-Symphony 55 (Ancient harmonies — Laments of another Age)
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Nature-Symphony 56 (The inner fire inspecting its active star-formation regions…)
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Nature-Symphony 57 (Awaiting, awaiting… —
Watchman, what of the night?
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Nature-Symphony 58 (Anticipation, eruption, remembering, remembrance)
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Nature-Symphony 59 (Magnificent mountain of three glaciers towering)
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Nature-Symphony 60 (Dancing Song of the Earth: There shall be no more war!)
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Nature-Symphony 61 (Steely-wiry sunrise echoes in a dark and rocky mountain forest)
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Nature-Symphony 62 (Shifting colours of the deep forest trail, with lurking bears)
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Nature-Symphony 63 (Chaos – Anti-Chaos — The inner fire in wonder at what it's creating)
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Nature-Symphony 64 (The inner fire's unending quest for its own meaning)
- Nature-Symphony 65 (The inner fire seeking to understand cosmic black holes)
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Nature-Symphony 66 (Flies as musicians (1): wholetone scale (implicit))
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Nature-Symphony 67 (Flies as musicians (2): wholetone minor 6th)
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Nature-Symphony 68 (Flies as musicians (3): half-diminished 7th) — Rannoch Moor Moods, 1
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Nature-Symphony 69 (Flies as musicians (4): diminished 7th, extended) — Rannoch Moor Moods, 2
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Nature-Symphony 70 (Flies as musicians (5): pentatonic and major, with pedal tone) — Rannoch Moor Moods, 3
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Nature-Symphony 71a+b (Flies as musicians (6a+b): A romp in the shadow of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1+2)
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Nature-Symphony 72 (Flies as musicians 7: Landscape of pseudo-fugues of the jolly tritone)
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Nature-Symphony 73 (Flies as musicians 8: Hilltop celebration: the flies' freaky sarabandes)
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Nature-Symphony 74 (Flies as musicians 9: Dance of solace, after Mt Everest rockfall)
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Nature-Symphony 75 (Autumn colour and shadows, with rutting stags)
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Nature-Symphony 76 (Beauty of Mother Nature's ever-running dynamo)
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Nature-Symphony 77 (Threnody for a dying planet)
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Nature-Symphony 78 (Inspirational companions in the land of shadows)
If I appear to have omitted from here a link for a page that you're after, please do let me know.
