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• 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

• Music From the Mountain Waters

Other Choral works

• Tune in a Stained Glass Window
• Flapping Duck Song
• Flapping Duck Fantasy

• Symphonic Ancient Mantra Dances
• Et in Arcadia Ego
• The Beginning and Also the End
• Clarity of a Mountain Sunrise
• Tears of Avalokiteshvara

• Sunrise on Ama Dablam

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

• Ascending

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…

• Nature-Symphony 1 (The Inner Fire wistfully seeking to define itself)

• Nature-Symphony 2 (Deep cave waterfall celebrating its own splendour)

• Nature-Symphony 3 (Enigma of the waters of the depths)

• Nature-Symphony 4 (Gypsies seeking to find something that can never be found)

• Nature-Symphony 5 (Wide-eyed young monk's contemplation of Ama Dablam)

• Nature-Symphony 6 (Perambulation of the Ring of Fire)

  Nature-Symphony 7 (Processional in solitude)

• Nature-Symphony 7a (Solitude's fire chamber)

• Nature-Symphony 8 (Exuberance of the bamboo poet)

• Nature-Symphony 9 (The ever-falling leaves of autumn)

• Nature-Symphony 9a (Into the haunted autumn forest…)

• Nature-Symphony 10 (Moonlit nocturne: Whispery mutterings of a million nothings, each with its story to tell

• Nature-Symphony 11 (The Eternal Astronomer's gaze)

• Nature-Symphony 12 (Around the rim of the quivering volcano)

• Nature-Symphony 13 (Springtime riverside reverie)

• Nature-Symphony 14 (Celebration of rutting stags)

• Nature-Symphony 15 (December rural afternoon quietude)

• Nature-Symphony 16 (Dance of the shimmering Irish mountain mist arising)

• Nature-Symphony 17 (The origin of lightning — Dialogue between a mountain and a poet)

• Nature-Symphony 18 (Legend of the night and the day in the deep forest)

• Nature-Symphony 19 (Crazy sad dance — Jeoffry the cat's seven last meows at the foot of a moonlit cross)

• Nature-Symphony 20 (Monolith — The unknowable)

• Nature-Symphony 21 (Deep ocean floor examining its own volcanics)

• Nature-Symphony 22 (Solar rays — The Sun's ‘Poem of Ecstasy’)

• Nature-Symphony 23 (A strange air from Beeny Cliff's sea caves)

• Nature-Symphony 24 (Secret forest — Bringer of joyful dreams)

• Nature-Symphony 25 (Lament — My land is laid waste; we have nothing…)

• Nature-Symphony 26 (Celebration of skylarks, wind and the unknown)

• Nature-Symphony 27 (Quest for the ever-concealed mountain — Prelude to the mountaineer's ‘Poem of Ecstasy’)

• Nature-Symphony 28 (The mountaineer's ‘Poem of Ecstasy’)

• Nature-Symphony 29 (Fragile eternity of an early springtime sunrise)

• Nature-Symphony 30 (Mother Nature telling springtime melancholy not to be so silly!)

• Nature-Symphony Prelude 1 (Prelude to a springtime forest tableau)

• Nature-Symphony 31 (Springtime forest tableau: On seeing the most beautiful thing one could never see)

• Nature-Symphony 32 (Splendour of the Perpetual Transmuter at work and play)

• Nature-Symphony 33 (Cornwall extravaganza: Pentargon Cove Guillemots' Coven)

• Nature-Symphony 34 (Exploration of a joyful planet yet to be devised)

• Nature-Symphony 35 (Night stroll among a bare mountain's crags)

• Nature-Symphony Prelude 2 (Song of anguish — memorial to Alexei Navalny)

• Nature-Symphony 36 (Surreal landscape of contradictory impressions!)

• Nature-Symphony 37 (Colourful resonance of a wild sea on rocks and cliff)

• Nature-Symphony 38 (Preliminary report on the unclimbed Mountain of Ten Thousand Ecstasies)

• Nature-Symphony 39 (Progress on the unclimbed Mountain of Ten Thousand Ecstasies)

• Nature-Symphony 40 (Mother Nature's great celebration — by moonlight)

• Nature-Symphony 41 (Forest springtime — the enigmatic waiting…)

• Nature-Symphony 42 (A springtime forest's passing cloud shadows)

• Nature-Symphony 43 (The Inner Fire's sun-like resplendence takes hold…)

• Nature-Symphony 44 (In the weeping land, trees sat down beside me, seeking to work out a solution…)

• Nature-Symphony 45 (The inner dynamo ever creating its own source — springtime celebration)

• Nature-Symphony 46 (Peaceful sea at night with What the hell's that!)

• Nature-Symphony 47 (Enchanting dark-forest glade)

• Nature-Symphony 48 (After the great earthquake, the shocked silence shudders, shimmering like heat)

• Nature-Symphony 49 (An unexpected planetary configuration telling its own story…)

• Nature-Symphony 50 (Processional — Magnificent Galaxy, ever rotating…)

• Nature-Symphony 51 (The fundamental pinnacle examining the source of inspiration itself)

• Nature-Symphony 52 (The sound of one mountain applauding its climbers)

• Nature-Symphony 53 (Yon bright mountain calls from afar, its distance vast!)

• Nature-Symphony 54 (Sinfonia Lugubre della Primavera – Il miagolio)

• Nature-Symphony 55 (Ancient harmonies — Laments of another Age)

• Nature-Symphony 56 (The inner fire inspecting its active star-formation regions…)

• Nature-Symphony 57 (Awaiting, awaiting… — Watchman, what of the night?)

• Nature-Symphony 58 (Anticipation, eruption, remembering, remembrance)

• Nature-Symphony 59 (Magnificent mountain of three glaciers towering)

• Nature-Symphony 60 (Dancing Song of the Earth: There shall be no more war!)

• Nature-Symphony 61 (Steely-wiry sunrise echoes in a dark and rocky mountain forest)

• Nature-Symphony 62 (Shifting colours of the deep forest trail, with lurking bears)

• Nature-Symphony 63 (Chaos – Anti-Chaos — The inner fire in wonder at what it's creating)

• 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)

• Nature-Symphony 66 (Flies as musicians (1): wholetone scale (implicit))

• Nature-Symphony 67 (Flies as musicians (2): wholetone minor 6th)

• Nature-Symphony 68 (Flies as musicians (3): half-diminished 7th) — Rannoch Moor Moods, 1

• Nature-Symphony 69 (Flies as musicians (4): diminished 7th, extended) — Rannoch Moor Moods, 2

• Nature-Symphony 70 (Flies as musicians (5): pentatonic and major, with pedal tone) — Rannoch Moor Moods, 3

• Nature-Symphony 71a+b (Flies as musicians (6a+b): A romp in the shadow of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1+2)

• Nature-Symphony 72 (Flies as musicians 7: Landscape of pseudo-fugues of the jolly tritone)

• Nature-Symphony 73 (Flies as musicians 8: Hilltop celebration: the flies' freaky sarabandes)

• Nature-Symphony 74 (Flies as musicians 9: Dance of solace, after Mt Everest rockfall)

• Nature-Symphony 75 (Autumn colour and shadows, with rutting stags)

• Nature-Symphony 76 (Beauty of Mother Nature's ever-running dynamo)

• Nature-Symphony 77 (Threnody for a dying planet)

• Nature-Symphony 78 (Inspirational companions in the land of shadows)