Eight Guitar Pieces

for steel or

nylon strings

by Peter Billam

© Peter J Billam, 2017

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The copyright owner remains the composer, Peter Billam.

This edition 27 May 2021.

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ccBY

Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Director

of the Théâtre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer and computer

programmer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, and lectured in composition at the Conservatorium.

He founded pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, taking scores fromComposer to Performer in one immediate step. pjb.com.au offers a new approach to music

publishing. These pieces are written to be read, made to be played !

Compositions at www.pjb.com.au include: Five Short Pieces, guitar, 1979; Divisions on an ItalianGround, flute and guitar, 1980; De Profundis and Nacht, on poems by Lama Anagarika Govinda, voice and

piano, 1980; Fünf Bagatellen, piano, 1980; Sadhana, wind and brass ensemble, 1980; Concert Study, piano

four hands, 1980; Five Rounds, choir, 1986; Go Forth and Multiply, choir, 1986; Three Violin Duets, 1987;

Fable, for piano, 1987; To Erich Jantsch, SAATTB recorders, 1988; A Suite of Curves, trombone (or horn)

and piano, 1990; Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melody instruments, 1991; Tr ombone

Quintet, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994; Three Songs, on poems by Jack Kerouac,

Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of these are available), 1994; Piano

Study, piano, 1994; Four Dances, various ensembles including recorder quartet, string quartet, 1995; The

Poet in the Clouds, on a poem by S. T. Coleridge, SATB choir, 1995; Tr es Casidas del Diván del Tamarit,

on poems by Federico García Lorca, voice and piano, 1997; Three Suites, for the solo line, piano, and piano

and a solo line, 2000; Die Zeiten, on poems by Kästner, Bachman and Jünger, choir (only the second and third

of these are available), 2000; Three Duets for flutes, 2001; For Four Hands for piano four hands, 2002; Three

Preludes for piano, 2003; Second Solo Suite for flute, violin, viola or cello, 2003; Guitar Duet for two

guitars, 2006; We Who Mourn for choir, 2007; Trio With Guitar for guitar and two clarinets or two

recorders or two violas, 2008; Canons for two- and four-hand piano, 2009; Flute Trio, 2012; Twenty Studies

for piano, 2013-14; Music for Strings and Two Encores for Strings for 2vln, 2vla, 2vlc, 2015; Album for

Choir, 2015; Eight Pieces for Guitar, 2017.

Arrangements include: By J. S. Bach: Trio BWV 655, piano and flute; Vor deinen Thron BWV 668,piano; Fugue in F minor BWV 689, SATB recorders; Four Duets BWV 802-5, keyboard; Six Preludes and

Fugues from Book I, keyboard; Flute Sonata BWV 1031 in G major for alto recorder and keyboard; Flute

Sonata BWV 1032 completed by Peter Billam for flute and keyboard, also in C major for alto recorder, and

in G major for descant; Ricercare a 3 of the Musikalisches Opfer for keyboard; Ricercare a 6, for sSATBG

recorders, or strings, or two keyboards; and Fuga Canonica; from the Art of Fugue: Contrapuncti 1, 4 and 9

for keyboard, and Contrapunctus 14 as completed by D. F. Tovey, for keyboard, or for SATB recorders, or

for strings; Passacaglia and Fugue in c for piano four hands; Chorales with Descant for melody instrument

and piano; Cello Suites I, II and III for flute or alto recorder, Forty Chorales for piano, Der Geist hilft for

SATB-SATB recorders. By Bartók: Suite op.14 for piano. By Brahms: Fugue in Ab minor for organ, for

SATB recorders and gamba, in A minor; Choralvorspiele for organ plus settings by Isaac, Bach, Praetorius,

recorders. John Carr, Divisions on an Italian Ground, flute or recorder and guitar. Franz Liszt, Late piano

pieces, G.F. Händel: Concerto Grosso in A minor op 6 no 4, harpsichord and recorders; Recorder Sonata in

Bb no 5, in G for tenor recorder and keyboard. Claudio Monteverdi, Ecco Mormorar l’Onde, SSATB

recorders. Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht for piano. Franz Schubert: Four Songs, voice and guitar;

Dances, recorders and guitar, Dances, piano 4 hands. Scriabin, Two Preludes op.67; Five Preludes op.74,

piano. Telemann, Twelve Flute Fantasias and Six Duets, recorder. Wilbye, Draw on sweet Night, SSATTB

recorders, and for flute choir. Twelve Italian Songs and Seven English Songs, voice and guitar; Folk Guitar

Solos; Fourteen Folk Dance Tunes, recorder and guitar; Bushband Dances, violin, accordeon and banjo;

Easy Classical Pieces, Bb trumpet and piano; Famous Beginnings, for piano.

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