Orchestral Music by Ernest Tomlinson

Suites

Symphonic Works

Festival Music

Symphonic Jazz

Individual Items

Production, Background and Foreground Music

Music for String Orchestra

SUITES

Aladdin Ballet-music (24.45)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
The Entry of Aladdin (3.00)
The Sultan at Home (2.30)
Birdcage Dance (4.00)
Cushion Dance (2.30)
Belly Dance (4.00)
Four Jewel Dances
1. Ruby (2.30)
2. Pearl (3.15)
3. Emerald (1.30)
4. Finale Act II (1.30)

Ballet Suite: Man About Town (15.10)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
1. Street Scene (3.30)
2. Dance of the Young Girl (3.00)
3. Romantic Sequence (5.10)
4. Celebration Dance (3.30)

Cinderella Suite (13.30)
(JWMedia)
1. Little Serenade (3.15)
2. Soliloquy (3.20)
3. Fairy Coach (2.35)
4. Cinderella Waltz (4.05)

English Pageant (15.30)
(Mills Music)
1. March:Men-at-Arms (3.40)
2. The Jester (3.45)
3. My Lady's Pavane (5.00)
4. The Fiddler at the Fair (3.30)

Festival Suite (12.25)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
1. Festive Overture (4.10)
2. Saraband (4.15)
3. Carnival Dance (4.00)

First Suite of English Folk-Dances (13.00)
(Novello)
1. Jenny Pluck Pears (3.15)
2. Ten Pound Lass (1.15)
3. Dick's Maggot (2.35)
4. Nonesuch (2.20)
5. Hunt the Squirrel (2.45)
6. Woodicock (1.55)

Georgian Suite (17.30)
(From Thomas Arne harpsichord pieces)
(Electrophonic Music Company
1. Overture (2.20)
2. Almain (3.25)
3. Minuet (1.00)
4. Jig (1.30)
5. Air (1.40)
6. Gavotte (3.30)
7. Siciliano (1.25)
8. Coranto (2.40)

Light Music Suite (17.00)
(Chandos)
1. Carnival Time (3.35)
2. Serenade to a Wayward Miss (3.30)
3. Pizzicato Humoresque (3.00)
4. Linda's Dance (3.40)
5. Waltz for a Princess (3.05)

Lyrical Suite (10.00)
(JWMedia)
1. Pastorella (2.35)
2. Caprice (1.55)
3. Nocturne (2.15)
4. Roundelay (3.00)

Second Suite of English Folk-Dances (19.30)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
1. Kettledrum (2.20)
2. Chipping Lane (2.40)
3. Newcastle (2.50)
4. Up goes Ely (3.05)
5. Love-in-a-Mist (3.30)
6. Epping Forest (2.15)
7. Catch Me If You Can (2.50)

Silverthorn Suite (9.50)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
1. Alla Marcia (2.50)
2. Canzonet [pub. JWMedia] (3.30)
3. Concert Jig (3.30)

Three Pastoral Dances (7.10)
(Boosey & Hawkes)
1. Bourrée (2.20)
2. Minuet (2.15)
3. Hornpipe (2.30)

Three Gaelic Sketches (8.30)
(JWMedia)
1.Fairy Cobbler (2.40)
2.Gaelic Lullaby (3.10)
3.Legend of the Sea (2.55)

 

SYMPHONIC WORKS

Concerto for Orchestra [3 movements] (18 mins)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
3(3Picc) 3 (CA) 3 (B.Cl) 3(Cbssn)/5 4 3 1/Timp 3Pc Hp/Strings

Little Symphony for Strings, Oboe and Cor Anglais [4 movements] (17.45)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
Minimum strings: 3.2.2.2.1 players

Rhapsody and Rondo for Horn and Orchestra (11.15)
(Mills Music Ltd.)
3(Picc) 2 2 2/4 3 3 1/Timp 2Pc Hp Clste/Strings

Serenade for Strings (17 mins)
(Mills Music Ltd.)
Cantabile, Tranquillo, Grazioso, Giocoso
Symphonic size strings

Trumpet Concerto [3 movements] (18 mins)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
Tpt Solo - 3(Picc) 3 3 3(CBn)/4 3 3 1/Timp 2Pc Hp/Strings

Sinfonietta [4 short movements, played without a break] (11 mins)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
3(Picc 3(C.A.) 3(B.Clar) 3(C.Bsn)/4 3 3 1/Timp 3Pc Hp/Strings

 

'PROMS LAST NIGHT' TYPE WORKS

Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne (18 mins)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
2(Picc) 2(CA) 2 2/4 2 3 1/Timp 2Pc Hp/Strings
Minimum 2 1 2 1/2 2 2 1/2Pc.(incl. Timps.) Hp/Strgs.

Fantasia on North-Country Tunes [5 movements] (25 mins)
(Electrophonic Music Company)
3(Picc) 3(CA) 3(B.Cl) 3(Cbn)/5 4 3 1/Timp 4Pc Hp/Strings

 

SYMPHONIC-JAZZ WORKS
(all Electrophonic Music Company)

Sinfonia '62 (32 mins)
Romance, Tarantella, Nocturne, Toccata
3(Picc) 2(CA) 2 2/2AltSxs 2TenSxs BarSx/4 4 3 1/Timp 4 Pc Hp Guit(Jazz) Pfte/ Strings
or Symphony Orchestra plus Big Band

Symphony '65 (35 mins)
Introduction-Ballad-Interlude-Scherzo-Interlude-Romance-Interlude-Moto Perpetuo
Sym Orch: 3(3Piccs) 3(CA) 3(B.Cl) 3)Cbn)/4 3 3 1/Timp 4Pc Hp/ Strings
Big Band: Fl(Picc) 2ASxs 2TSxs BarSx (dbling 4Cls Bcl)/4Tp 4Tbn/Guit Pno Drums

Concerto for 5 [Five Saxophones and Orchestra] (18 mins)
Ballad Blue Lullaby Rondo in Rhythm
Sax Team: 2 Altos 2 Tenors Baritone
Orch: 2(Picc) 2 2 2/4 4(or3) 3 1/Timp 2Pc Hp/ Strings

 

INDIVIDUAL ITEMS

A Georgian Miniature (2.30)
(Boosey & Hawkes)

An English Overture (6.55)
(Chandos)

Best Foot Forward, March (3.15)
(Chandos)

Capability Brown (3.20)
(Chandos)

Comedy Overture (4.00)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Cumberland Square (3.05)
(JWMedia)

Elegy - Head of the Family (3.15)
[Cor Anglais Solo]
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Gaiety Galop (2.30)
(JWMedia)


Highway to the Sun, Rhythmic Overture
(5.30)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Interlude - Head of the Family (2.00)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Island Fairy Tale (2.25)
(Chandos)

Kielder Water (4.20)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Lakeside Idyll (4.45)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Little Serenade (3.15)
(JWMedia)

Mediterranean Moonlight (5.00)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Miranda (3.00)
(Chandos)

Nautical Interlude (3.20)
(JWMedia)

Passepied (3.00)
(JWMedia)

Overture for a Festive Occasion (4.10)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Rigadoon (2.20)
(Electrophonic Music Company)

Shenandoah (3.55)
(JWMedia)

Soft Stillness and the Night (5.00)
(Chandos)

Sweet and Dainty (1.30)
(JWMedia)

PRODUCTION MUSIC
Publisher recordings for background and incidental use.

 A Date with a Dream
(Chandos)

Automation Melody
(
JWMedia)

Beguine (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Busy Chatter
(JWMedia)

Cantilena
(Mozart Edition)

Capability Brown
(Chandos)

Caprice
(JWMedia)

Carefree Character (*AP)
(Berry M C Ltd)

Cartoon Capers
(JWMedia)
-
Tricky Quicky
- Flitting Along
- Enter Villain
- Pride and Fall
- C-c-c-rash
- Quick Ending
- Lugubrious Loon

Chattering Samba (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Cheeky Urchin (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Choral Contrasts
(JWMedia)
- Lost Souls

Crime Variations
(JWMedia)
- Eerie Mystery
- Sudden Death
- Running Figures

Curvy
(Standard)

Devil-May-Care (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Domestic Fun
(Keith Prowse)

Dramatic (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Dream Waltz
(Chandos)

Dusky-eyed Flirt (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Fairy Coach
(JWMedia)

Fashion Promenade (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Flickering Flames
(Bosworth)

Foul Play Suspected
(JWMedia)

Fun for Fiddlers (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Gaiety Galop
(JWMedia)

Garden Scene
(Chandos)

Gay and Vivacious (*AP)
(Bosworth)

Gay Time (*AP)
(Keith Prowse)

Georgian Miniatures Part 1
(Cavendish House)
- Allegro
- Processional
- Jig
- Gavotte
- Minuet

Get Weaving
(Chandos)
1. Title Music
2. End Titles
3. Get Weaving Theme Tune
4. Chinese Scene
5. Mini Car

Goblin Ballet (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Happy Go Lucky (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Holiday Polka (*AP)
(Chandos)

In Light-hearted mood (*AP)
(Bosworth)

Jack-in-a-Box
(Boosey & Hawkes)

Light Music Suite No. 1
(Chandos)
- Carnival Time
- Serenade for a Wayward Miss
- Pizzicato Humoresque
- Linda's Dance
- Waltz for a Princess

Light Music Suite No. 2
(Chandos)
- Celebration Day
- Island Fairy Tale
- Melanie Dances
- Concert Waltz

Little Serenade
(JWMedia)

Lively Episode (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Lonely Grief
(Bosworth)

Lonely Journey (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Mainly Melodic
(JWMedia)
-
Mediterranean Daydream
- Danse Pastorale
- Blue Vista
- On Top of the World
- Hippie Hop
- Cute Package
- Country Hop
- All Go and Bustle

Marching Sportsmen
(JWMedia)

Meadow and Brook
(JWMedia)

Melody in the Sun (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Merrily Along
(Bosworth)

Miranda
(Chandos)

Mississippi Melody (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Moonlight Magic
(Mozart Edition)

National Pride
(Chandos)

Nicoletta
(Mozart Edition)

Nimble Fingers (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Nocturne
(JWMedia)

Panoramic Prelude
(JWMedia)

Pastorella
(JWMedia)

Perky Puppet (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Poignant Scene
(JWMedia)

Prairie Sunset
(Bosworth)

Ruined Abbey
(JWMedia)

Running Smoothly (*AP)
(Chandos)

Sad Soliloquy
(JWMedia)

Sea Haze
(Standard)

Sheerline
(JWMedia)

Soft Stillness and the Night
(Chandos)

Spanish Festival Dance
(Mozart Edition)

Stately Occasion
(Chandos)

Sweet and Dainty
(JWMedia)

The Great Panorama
(Boosey & Hawkes)

The Happy Whistlers (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

To the Horizon (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Tragedy Strikes, 1, 2, 3.
(Chandos)

Whimsical Wanderer (*AP)
(Mozart Edition)

Whodunnit
(Chandos)

Winner's Medal (*AP)
(JWMedia)

Witch Doctor
(Chandos)

Young Man's Fancy
(Bosworth)

 

Music for String Orchestra

Serenade for Strings (17 mins)
1. Cantabile
2. Tranquillo
3. Grazioso
4. Giocoso

Four Movements for String Orchestra
1. Alla Marcia
2. Soft Stillness and the Night
3. Melanie Dances
4. Concert Waltz

Catch Me If You Can

Miniature Suite for Strings
1. Canzonet
2. Saraband
3. Minuet
4. Country Dance

Passepied (arranged from original orchestration, as recorded in ET's 2nd Marco Polo CD)

Interlude from 'Head of the Family'

More details, plus some notes by the composer, are given for pieces arranged for string orchestra.