Maurice Johnstone
List of Works

Tarn Hows: A Cumbrian Rhapsody (1949) for orchestra
Dover Beach, for baritone and Orchestra (1947)
Pennine Way (c1943)
County Palatine (for Brass Band and also arranged for orchestra)
A Welsh Rhapsody (c1938)
Beaufighters (c1942)
The Oak and the Ash (1956) for orchestra.
Banners: Overture for orchestra
Ballad for Saxophone and Orchestra
Weber: Invitation to the Dance (orchestral arrangement)
Two Songs: Hush (words by James Walker) At Night (words by Alice Meynell)
Song: So Are You To My Thoughts (Shakespeare) (1947)
Three Bach Cello pieces (arranged for viola and orchestra) (c1946)
Sea Dogs (1968)
The Tempest (Fantasia for Brass Band)
Watling Street (c1937)
Sonnet for Spencer (sig tune for BBC North Region programmes)
Arrangement of Wagner’s Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine (composed under name of David Bowden)
Northern Lights (signature tune for BBC North Region Children’s Hour)
Anthem for Brass
A Gilbert and Sullivan Fantasia (for chorus and brass band)
Romance: a string arrangement from ‘Albumleaf’ for piano by Wagner (1973)
Orchestration of Vaughan Williams ‘Three Songs from The House of Life’ (Love-Sight, Silent Noon and Heart’s Haven)

Scores
‘Tarn Hows: A Cumbrian Rhapsody’ for Full Orchestra (1950 - Lengnick)
Printed Score: Dedicated to Marguerite Johnstone
Commercial Recording: ASV CD WHL 2113 Brian Kay’s British Light Music Discoveries
Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland.

‘The Oak and the Ash’ for Full Orchestra (1956 – Lengnick)
M/S Dedicated to Gordon Jacob

‘Dover Beach’ for Baritone Solo and Full Orchestra (1942)
Poem by Matthew Arnold
M/S

‘Banners’ for Full Orchestra
M/S

‘The Tempest’ for Brass Band (R. Smith & Co. Ltd)
Brass Instrument Parts

‘County Palatine’ for Brass Band (& transcribed for full orchestra) (1951 – Lengnick)
M/S

‘Psalm 121’ for Choir and Organ (1957)
Dedicated to St Georges School, Harpenden

‘So Are You To My Thoughts’ for Voice and Piano accompaniment (1947 – Lengnick)
Printed Score

Two Songs – ‘At Night’ and ‘Hush’ for Voice and Piano (1944 – OUP)
Full Score
Dedicated to Joan

‘Three Cello Pieces’ by J.S. Bach arr. Maurice Johnstone for Viola and Piano (1946 – Lengnick)

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