Music manuscripts page

Compositions and arrangements by John Longley

The copyright for these compositions and arrangements is held by John Longley, but feel free to download and print them for private use. In the event that you would actually like to perform any of them, I'd be absolutely delighted, but I would be grateful if you let me know!

Home recordings of some of these pieces are available from my recordings page.

Sonata in Blue

Original solo piano composition in three movements; duration approx 27 minutes. Obvious influences include Alkan, Rachmaninov and Oscar Peterson. Dedicated to my wife Caroline. Handwritten manuscript.

Title page and front matter (2 pages)
First movement (12 pages)
Second movement (5 pages)
Third movement (15 pages)

Toccatina

Original composition, previously known as Catch-as-catch-can. Now a solo piano piece, but originally written as a duet for two flutes and dedicated to Chris and Cathy Barber. Duration 3 minutes.

Handwritten manuscript (3 pages)

La Mora Limpia

My arrangement of a popular Nicaraguan song by Justo Santos. A big thankyou to Caroline for typesetting this! Duration 5 minutes.

Typeset score (13 pages)

Sing, you skies

A hymn in traditional style. This one has its own web page.
John Longley