2 Songs for Europe
Derek B. Scott

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Salisbury Plain, Op. 1 (horn & piano)
Pagan Overture, Op. 2 (orchestra)
North Country Variations (withdrawn)
Guitar Concerto (withdrawn)
Danny Deever, Op. 13 (voice & chamber ensemble)
Five Yeats Songs, Op. 14 (voice & piano)
Motorcycle Michael, Op. 9 (narrator & chamber orchestra)
Scherzo, Op. 4 (double bass & piano)
Sinfonietta (withdrawn)
Songs Of Innocence And Experience, Op. 11 (voices - SAATTB minimum)
Suite, Op. 12 (harpsichord)
Three Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 5 (voice & piano)
Chacony, Op. 24 (orchestra)
Fugal Overture, Op. 6 (orchestra)
Brannigan's Journey, Op. 30 (Tone Poem No. 1)
Kirkliston Waltz, Op. 31 (orchestra)
Lament, Op. 8 (full orchestra)
La Marseillaise, Op. 20
Symphony No. 1, Op. 23 (brass band)
Symphony No. 2, Op. 26 (brass band)
Airs & Dances, Op. 28 (Highland bagpipe & brass band)
Former Beauties, Op. 0 (baritone voice & piano)
Wilberforce, Op. 10 (operetta)
The Silver Sword, Op. 15 (voices & chamber ensemble)
The Warning Song, Op. 18 (dramatic cantata)
Three Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 5 (voice & piano quintet)
Four Yeats Songs, Op. 22 (voice & piano quintet)
Wilberforce March Op. 10a (brass band)
Five Yeats Songs, Op. 14 (voice & string quartet)
Brass Quintet, Op. 7
Clear the Decks! Op. 21 (jazz band)
Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 29 (brass band)
Past & Present, Op. 33 (voice & piano)
Three Love Songs, Op. 19 (voice & piano)
Three Love Songs, Op. 19 (voice & piano quintet)
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 17
3 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 27 (piano)
The Isle of Skye, Op. 16 (Highland bagpipe)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen, Op. 25 (brass band)
Suite Grotesque, Op. 32 (orchestra)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen, Op. 25 (orchestra)
Clear the Decks! Op. 21 (orchestra)
String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 34 (Quartetto spensierato)
Apathetic Trio, Op. 3 (clarinet, horn & piano)
2 Folksongs in the Dorian Mode (1971–73)
String Quartet No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 35 (Quartetto nostalgico)
Descant Recorder Sonata (1970)
4 Pop Songs (1968)
28 Pop Songs (1967)
L'Eritrea, Op. 36
14 Pop Songs (1966)
2 Songs for Europe
3 Burns Songs (voice & pf.)
Serenade, Op. 48
Telescope (1973)
Three Old-Time Dances (1977–80)
12 Miscellaneous Songs
5 Yeats Songs, Op. 14
Midsommervisen, Op. 37
Former Beauties (voice + piano quintet)
Past & Present, Op. 33 (voice + piano quintet)
The Silver Sword, Op. 39 (Tone Poem No. 2)
Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 23
Symphony No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 26
String Quartet No. 4 in E Major, Op. 38
Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 40
Airs & Dances, Op. 28 (Bagpipe & Orchestra)
4 Part-Songs (1972–80)
Fibrillation Fantasy, Op. 41
Pavane, Op. 42
The Warning Song (Tone Poem No. 4), Op. 44
Wilberforce (Tone Poem No. 3), Op. 43
Salisbury Plain (Horn + Orch)
Reminiscence, Op. 45 (1971, rev. 2022)
Dance Suite No. 2: The 1960s Part One
Dance Suite No. 2: The 1960s Part Two
Dance Suite No. 1, part one
Dance Suite No. 1, part two
12 Little Preludes for Piano (1968)
Impromptu for piano (1968)
Valse à la Chopin (1972)
2 Funeral Chorale Preludes (1972)
Classical Sonata in the Style of Haydn (1972)
Chorale Fugue for Organ (1972)
Clear the Decks! (Boogie for Piano), Op. 21 (1991)

Additional Information

Scores for large ensemble and for voice(s) and piano

Be Nice to Nice People (2008)

Big Society (2011)

My first mock-Eurovision song was written in March 2008, after I had challenged a group of my students to write a song for the Eurovision Song Contest. I my song, I tried to incorporate memorable gestures (such as kisses and blowing raspberries) as well as to imitate familiar devices from past Eurovision songs, such as a strong 2-beat rhythm, quirky accompaniment figures, and a semitonal key rise for the final chorus. My second song for Europe was inspired by a speech given by PM David Cameron about his ambitions for a ‘big society’, which I found hilarious. I thought a Eurovision song was the ideal vehicle to promote his social theory.

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