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Edmund Jolliffe

Edmund Jolliffe

The list of Edmund Jolliffe’s scores for theatre, radio and television, including BBC One’s popular series Who Do You Think You Are?, Channel 4’s Unreported World and ITV’s The Great War: The People’s Story, is testimony to the appeal of his music to a wide audience. In

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Jolliffe, Edmund: My Family And Other Animals For Clarinet And Piano

Jolliffe, Edmund: My Family and Other Animals for Clarinet and Piano

...typical variety of awkward and amiable relatives, beautifully portrayed in music of beguiling simplicity by Edmund Jolliffe. Technically, for beginners and early-grade players, there is an important lesson that musical expression is in essence the expression of personality, often from the most basic musical resources. Brother is a cool repeated...
Jolliffe, Edmund: Sweet Stay Awhile

Jolliffe, Edmund: Sweet stay awhile

SATB unaccompanied (with divisions) Although the English madrigal has been fairly described by John Rutter as a completed historical form, its younger sibling the partsong still flourishes in the hands of sympathetic composers like Edmund Jolliffe, who can clothe secular texts with music a cappella that fits their sentiments like...
Jolliffe, Edmund: Flying High. Clarinet & Piano

Jolliffe, Edmund: Flying High. Clarinet & Piano

...in the Sun things are easy-going, while the mood turns warm and reflective in The Setting Sun and Evening Stroll. The memorable melodies and stylish yet simple piano parts in all ten pieces show Edmund Jolliffe’s special gifts as a communicator tuned to perfection. Previous Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP1439...
Jolliffe, Edmund: Taking Off. Clarinet & Piano

Jolliffe, Edmund: Taking Off. Clarinet & Piano

10 tunes for clarinet & piano. Previous Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP1438 Featured on the ABRSM’s Grade 1 Clarinet syllabus, Tea for Two is just one of ten cool pieces from Edmund Jolliffe’s collection Taking Off. Crafted to nurture technical ability with maximum musical enjoyment, they embrace a variety of...
Jolliffe, Edmund: Aiming High For Oboe And Piano

Jolliffe, Edmund: Aiming High for Oboe and Piano

...oboe pieces by Edmund Jolliffe. Each one is not only a picturesque or playful study, but also a reflection of the anthology’s title, addressing aspects of technique and interpretation through shapely melodies crafted around an aspiring phrase or phrases in the instrument’s upper register. For oboists of between grades three...
Jolliffe, Edmund: Lux Aeterna

Jolliffe, Edmund: Lux aeterna

SATB unaccompanied (with divisions) Edmund Jolliffe's setting of the communion antiphon for the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass may be sung to equally powerful effect either liturgically, or as the focus of a collective expression of remembrance, or as a moving addition to any choral concert programme. From the opening revelation...
Jolliffe, Edmund: I Will Lay Me Down In Peace

Jolliffe, Edmund: I will lay me down in peace

SATB and piano For parish choirs Edmund Jolliffe offers a fine post-communion anthem in a much-loved idiom of Anglican liturgical music. The resources are straightforward: SATB choir without divisions, and piano. The effects however are subtle. The music builds steadily through broadly phrased paragraphs that balance individual lines within the...
Jolliffe, Edmund: Christus Natus Hodie

Jolliffe, Edmund: Christus natus hodie

Trebles (3-part) and piano As in his other carol for Choral Now, Follow the star, Edmund Jolliffe in Christus natus hodie paints a Christmas scene in his own words: a joyful image of children tucked up in bed on a snowy Christmas Eve while dreaming of Santa's reindeer hauling a...
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