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    • Adrian Hopley
    • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg
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    • Dan Maslen
    • Giovanni Monti
    • Tony O'Donnell
    • Luis Pato
    • Dominic Poole
    • Jonathan Reid
    • Marja Slotemaker
    • Susanne Steffen
    • Colin Tanser
    • Andrew Townsend
    • Leopold van der Pals
    • Soleira Wennekes
  • More info
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Welcome  to  the  Upper  Esk Music website

Over 110 volumes of music
by 23 composers

Upper Esk Music is based in Castleton, a beautiful village in the Upper Esk Valley of the North Yorks Moors, with a strong community spirit and a history of creative activity.
It was started in 2011 by Andrew Dyer, a retired teacher/lecturer with years of experience as a composer/arranger, conductor, performer, accompanist and jazz band leader.
There are currently over 100 volumes of music, with many more to come. 
Skill level is indicated from A (easy) to E (very difficult).
For ease of finding your way around the website, everything in pale blue is a link on which you can click
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JUST  PUBLISHED!
Songs for the Oberufer Plays
​   in 3 volumes:
 – The Paradise Play
     – The Shepherds' Play
​       – The Three Kings' Play


by 
Leopold van der Pals

click here to view the music by Leopold van der Pals
​The scores come with photocopiable vocal parts to assist learning of the songs. And there are lower transpositions of some of the higher songs included in the scores.
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​Purchase separately, or as a set for the reduced price of £32, saving £6.
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​A World in Harmony
​3 volumes of exciting new
acapella arrangements
​of songs from round the world


by 
Fabian Lochner
click here to view Fabian's music


A rich new resource for lovers of world music with haunting new harmonies – 
a must-have for community choirs and performing choirs alike!
 
The music is varied in both style and origin, with sacred and secular music from
Israel, Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, India, Russia and America
(including a number of African-American spirituals).

'I bought the three volumes and they have been a delight...I particularly
applaud the heart-string-tugging quality of so many of the songs...'
                                           John Rees
                                                               Co-publisher of 'Findhorn Songbook' (2014)


Purchase separately at £15.00 per volume, or as a set for £40.00

AND a new one available separately!!

​La Ghirlandèina
Pavarotti's song about the Cathedral in Modena, with music by Henry Mancini

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New Ballad by
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Ainsley
click here to view Ainsley's music​

​The Valley

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Recently published
Anna Prokhovnik Cooper
click here to view Anna's music
Playing the Lyre with Joy
Volume 1
(Volume 2 available from May 2022)



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Browse music by COMPOSER, CATEGORY or (where assigned) ISMN
CHECK OUT OUR ORDERING AND SHIPPING SYSTEM!
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2022–23  CATALOGUE  
click on link below to download 2022-23 catalogue 
Complete catalogue 2022–23.pdf

As an example of our work, the slide show below gives the cover and pages of one of the volumes of music:
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  • Home
  • About us
  • Music Volumes
    • Ordering and payment
    • International Standard Music Numbers
  • Our Composers
    • Mary Alton
    • Helen Bawden
    • Hugh A Cameron
    • Dave Chapman
    • Anna Prokhovnik Cooper
    • Claudio Di Meo
    • Andrew Dyer
    • Albert Elliot (Ainsley)
    • Adrian Hopley
    • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg
    • Fabian Lochner
    • Dan Maslen
    • Giovanni Monti
    • Tony O'Donnell
    • Luis Pato
    • Dominic Poole
    • Jonathan Reid
    • Marja Slotemaker
    • Susanne Steffen
    • Colin Tanser
    • Andrew Townsend
    • Leopold van der Pals
    • Soleira Wennekes
  • More info
    • What is Eurythmy?
    • Flexible Band Arrangements
  • Contact