Geoffrey Burgon
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Three Elegies |
| Composed: | 1964+ |
| Duration: | 6' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Short Mass |
| Composed: | 1965+ |
| Duration: | 9' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SSATB |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Farewell Earth's Bliss |
| Composed: | 1966+ |
| Duration: | 6' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | six solo voices |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Three Carols ( I Sing of a Maiden; Welcome our Messiah; The Coventry Carol) |
| Composed: | 1967+ |
| Duration: | 6' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Two Hymns to Mary |
| Composed: | 1967,1969+ |
| Duration: | 3' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | And There was War in Heaven |
| Composed: | 1970 |
| Duration: | 3' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | boys' voices or sopranos/organ |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Five Alleluias |
| Composed: | 1970 |
| Duration: | 10' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | six solo voices (or brass) |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Golden Eternity |
| Composed: | 1970 |
| Duration: | 17' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB/harp/piano |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Mai Hamama |
| Composed: | 1970 |
| Duration: | 6' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | six solo voices |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | A Prayer to the Trinity |
| Composed: | 1972 |
| Duration: | 4' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Sleep |
| Composed: | 1973 |
| Duration: | 9' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | five solo voices |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | The Fire of Heaven |
| Composed: | 1973+ |
| Duration: | 12' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | triple chorus |
| First performance: | 1973 |
| Performance Place: | Three Choirs Festival |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Noche Oscura |
| Composed: | 1974 |
| Duration: | 5' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | six solo voices |
| First performance: | 1974 |
| Performance Place: | Cheltenham Festival |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Dos Coros |
| Composed: | 1975 |
| Duration: | 12' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | twelve solo voices |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | This World From |
| Composed: | 1979 |
| Duration: | 6' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB/organ |
| First performance: | 1979 |
| By: | Chichester Cathedral Choir and Alan Thurlow |
| Performance Place: | Chichester Festival |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Laudate Dominum |
| Composed: | 1980 |
| Duration: | 6' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB/organ |
| First performance: | 1980 |
| Performance Place: | Worcester Cathedral |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | But Have Been Found Again |
| Composed: | 1983 |
| Duration: | 7' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SAATTBB |
| First performance: | 1983 |
| By: | combibned cathedral choirs |
| Conducted by: | David Willcocks |
| Performance Place: | Southern Cathedrals Festival |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | A God and Yet a Man |
| Composed: | 1984 |
| Duration: | 2' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SSAATTBB |
| Written for: | The Chester Music Carol Book |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | The Names of the Hare |
| Composed: | 1985 |
| Duration: | 4' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
| Commissioned by: | The Milton Keynes Chorale |
| First performance: | 14th June 1986 |
| By: | Milton Keynes Chorale |
| Conducted by: | Neville Creed |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | The Song of the Creatures |
| Composed: | 1987 |
| Duration: | 12' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB/organ |
| Commissioned by: | St. Matthew's Church Northampton |
| First performance: | 21st September 1987 |
| By: | Choir of St. Matthew's Church |
| Conducted by: | Andrew Shenton |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Prayer to St. Richard |
| Composed: | 1989 |
| Duration: | 2' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB choir |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Songs of the Creation |
| Composed: | 1989 |
| Duration: | 25' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB chorus and organ |
| Commissioned by: | The Southern Cathedrals Festival |
| First performance: | 1989 |
| Performance Place: | Chichester Cathedral |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Five Love Songs |
| Composed: | 1992 |
| Duration: | 12' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
| Text by: | WH Auden |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | In a Dark Time |
| Composed: | 1992 |
| Duration: | 5' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
| Text by: | Theodore Roetke |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | The First World |
| Composed: | 1992 |
| Duration: | 5' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Christ's Love |
| Composed: | 2000 |
| Duration: | 12' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | four pieces to Middle English texts for mixed chorus |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Magic Words |
| Composed: | 2000 |
| Duration: | 15' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | six pieces to Inuitt texts for mixed chorus, percussion (played by chorus) |
| First performance: | 2000 |
| Performance Place: | Little Missenden Festival 2000 Joyful Company of Singers |
| Conducted by: | Peter Broadbent |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Te Deum |
| Composed: | 2002 |
| Duration: | 7' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB & Organ. |
| First performance: | 2006 |
| Conducted by: | Matthew Owens |
| Performance Place: | premiere Wells Cathedral 2006 |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Of Flowers and Emeralds Sheen |
| Composed: | 2004 |
| Duration: | 4' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | Anthem for mixed chorus to a poem by St John of the Cross, |
| First performance: | 2004 |
| Performance Place: | St Paul’s Cathedral |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Becket Mass |
| Composed: | 2005 |
| Duration: | 12' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB & Organ |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Death be not Proud |
| Composed: | 2005 |
| Duration: | 4' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB, organ & trumpet (optional) |
| First performance: | 2006 |
| Conducted by: | Matthew Owens |
| Performance Place: | premiere Wells Cathedral |
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| Type: | CHORAL MUSIC |
| Title: | Come let us pity Death |
| Composed: | 2005 |
| Duration: | 5' |
| Instrumentation/Scoring: | SATB, organ & trumpet (optional) |
| First performance: | 2006 |
| Conducted by: | Matthew Owens |
| Performance Place: | premiere Wells Cathedral |
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