Timothy Salter - List of Works
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Vocal Choral Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Orchestral Music
Caprices & Nocturnes for strings (stg orch for children, with optional db) 10'30"; 1985
Chameleon (saxophone concerto) (alto sax solo, perc (1 player), strings) 19'; 2008
Diversions (2fl, ob, cor a, cl, bcl, 2bsn (2.+cbsn), 2hn, stgs) 15'; 1978/1998
Forthrights and Meanders (3 fl (2.+picc), 2 ob, cor a, 2 cl (2.+bcl), bcl, 2 bsn, cbsn, 4 hn, 3 trp, 3 tbn, tba, perc (2-3 players)) 13'; 1999
1978
Sinfonietta (2 fl, (1.2.+picc), ob, cor a, cl, bcl, 2 bsn, 4 hn, 3 trp, 3 tbn, tba, timp, 3 perc, hrp, stgs) 15'; 1981
Symphony (3 fl (2.3.+picc), 2 ob, cor a cl, 2 bcl, 2 bsn, cbsn, 4 hn, 2 trp, 3 tbn, tba, timp, 3 perc, hrp, stgs) 23'; 1981
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Vocal Choral Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Chamber Music for three or more performers
Abstractions I (2 ob, cor a) 11'; 1984
Aerial (fl, vln, vla, vcl) 11'30"; 2008 
Arias for Percussion (perc quartet) 11'; 2006
Aquatints (fl, hp, vln, vla, vcl) 12'30"; 2012
Clarinet Quintet (cl, 2 vln, vla, vcl) 19’; 2009
Divertimento (2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bsn, 2 hn) 10'; 1968
Dovetail (ob, cl, bn) 12'; 2014
Five Pieces (recorders (2 descant, treble, tenor), vcl) 4'; 1966/7
Four American Doubles (2 vln, keybd (pno or hpschd) 12'; 1982
1. Don't get around much anymore (Ellington, Russell)
2. I got it bad and that ain't good (Ellington, Webster)
3. Let's call the whole thing off (Gershwin)
4. Take the 'A' Train (Strayhorn)
Four Canonic Pieces (pno, vln, vcl) 5'; 1966/7
Four Movements (cl, pno, stg qutt) 12'; 1968
Guitar Quartet (2 requintos, 2 guitars) 16'; 1973
Heptad - 3 pieces for clarinet ensemble 9'; 1982
Mosaics I-IV 15'; Appendix: Mosaic V 4'25" (fl/picc, vla, hp) 19'25"; 1991
Parallax (hn, perc (1 player), pno) 13'30"; 1993
Piano Quartet (pno, vln, vla, vcl) 17'; 2006
Piano Quintet (2 vln, vla, vcl, pno; Variant 2000: vln, vla, vcl, db, pno) 25'; 1990
Piano Trio 19'; 1987
Piece (ensemble of domras & balalaikas) 2'30"; 1970
Rippled Surface (after M.C. Escher) (cl,vln, vcl, pno) 14'; 2002
Serenade (cl/bcl, perc (1 player), vcl) 14'30"; 2004/2015
Shadows I & II (trio: vln or cl, vcl or bass clarinet, pno) 9'30"; 1999/2007
String Quartet No.1 (Humours) 17’; 1980
String Quartet No.2 10'; 1983
String Quartet No.3 22’; 2010
String Trio 14'30"; 1986
Through mazes running (Abstractions
Trefoil (vln, vcl, pno) 9’; 2013
Trio Pieces (2 vln, org) 11'30"; 1994
Trio Poemata (vln, hn, pno) 12'; 1970
Wind Quintet (fl, ob/cor a, cl, hn, bn) 13'; 2002
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Choral Vocal Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Instrumental Music for solos and duos
Abstractions II (bcl & pno) 8'; 1986/2008
Bagatelle (solo tbn) 5'; 1993
Cantus (vcl & pno) 14'; 1976
Capriccio (ob & pno) 2'; 1969
Cat being bold at first (pno) 1'; 1997
Chameleon (sax & pno) 19'; 2008
Chimera (vln & pno)11'; 2003
Daydream (vln & pno) 1'45"; 2007
Declamation (vla) 6'; 2002
Diptych (Abstractions IV) (ob/cor a, pno) 12'30"; 1992
Dragonflies draw flame (pno) 3'30"; 1999
Echoes and Challenges (2 pnos) 10'; 1993
Equipoise (guitar) 8'; 2002
Fantasy on a theme of J.S. Bach (pno) 10'; 1978
Fantasy (organ) 10'; 2006
Filigree (pno) 2'15"; 1992
Firefly (pno) 3'; 2006
Four Pieces (pno duet) 19'; 1979
Images after Klee (harpsichord) 6’; 2010
Imprints (five pieces for bsn & pno) 14'30"; 1997
Lutie's Arabesque (pno) 2'55"; 1995
Malleabilis I (marimba) 8'; 1983
Malleabilis II (pno, perc (1 player)) 7'30"; 1986
Malleabilis
Mondrian Pictures (three pieces for cl & pno) 9'; 1997
Monopolies (solo bsn) 7'; 1995
Moonmarks (homage to Henry Purcell) (cl, trp) 4'15"; 1994
Oration (solo vln) 4'45"; 1994
Passacaglia I (org) 5'; 1961
Passacaglia II (org) 7'; 1971
Perspectives (1-5) (pno) 9'; 1980
Perspectives (Set Two) (pno) 14'; 1985
Phantasma (vcl & pno) 11; 2016
Prelude and Fugue (vla or cl, & pno) 6'; 1976
Quints (pno duet) 10'; 1972
Scintilla (solo vcl) 5'30"; 2003
Sonata (cl & pno) 15' ; 1976
Sonata No. 1 (pno) 7'; 1961
Sonata No. 2 (pno) 15'30"; 1989
Sonatina (pno) 6'; 1963
Scherzo (org/pno duet) 3'30" 1980
Study in thirds (homage to Claude Debussy) (pno) 4'15"; 1998
Three Intermezzi (2 harps) 10' 15"; 2011
The Vine about the Elm (vln & org) 9'30"; 2001
Three Night Pieces (vcl & alto fl) 5'; 1997
Three Pieces (fl & pno) 9'; 1978
Traceries (theorbo & barogue vln) 8'; 2000
Umuse (vcl & perc (1 player) 11’; 2012
Variations (vln & pno) 5'; 1976
Vitis flexuosa (vc & org) 6’45”; 2009
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Vocal Choral Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Vocal Music
After the Sun (text: Henry_Vaughan, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Lowbury; bar, ob/cor a, pno) 19'; 1988
Archilochos Fragments (text: Archilochos, trans. by Guy Davenport &
Colour Symphony (text: Edward Lowbury; voice & pno) 6'; 1983
Four Hopkins Songs (voice (high/low versions) & pno) 8'30"; 1968
Life (text: George Herbert; voice & pno) 6'; 1988
Rancour of the Air (formerly entitled 'Trouble') (text:
The Emissaries (text: Luke X, 1-6; voice & org) 10'; 1971
Three Songs (text: Donne, anon, Campion; tenor/sop, hn, pno) 15'; 1969
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Vocal Choral Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Choral Music
A Poem of Dancing (Text: Sir John Davies; cl doubling bcl, or org, SATB chorus) 12'; 2005
Against the Light (Text: Edward Lowbury; SATB chorus, wind quintet (fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn) or pno) 18'; 1971
Cantata Quaerentium (text: G. M. Hopkins, New Test.; solo voice (bar/contralto), SATB chorus, ob, cor a, 2 hn, stgs, pno) 23'; 1965 revised 1982
Carol Sonnet and Song (words; anon, Shakespeare, Donne; SSAA chorus) 6'; 1962
Dejlig er den himmel blaa (Danish, arr. solo voice and SATB chorus) 2'15"; 1987
Delius Intermezzo and Serenade (2 harps & SATB chorus) 5’; 2012
Duo Christi Miracula:
Miraculum Primum (text: Matt. XIV, 22-33; SATB chorus ) 7'; 1966
Miraculum Secundum (text: Marc. V, 1-15, 18-19; SATB chorus) 9'30"; 1966
Eternity (Text: Robert Herrick; SATB chorus with divisions) 5'; 1985
I will lift up mine eyes (Text: Pss. 88, 121; SATB chorus with divisions) 14'; 1983
Introit: Venite, adoremus Deum (ps. 94; SATB chorus & org) 2'; 1967
Invida Aetas (Fragments from Horace; SATB chorus) 11’; 2009
Katharsios (pno, perc (1 player), SATB chorus (mostly wordless)) 13'; 1984
Lacrimae rerum (text from Virgil, Aeneid) (vcl, org, SATB chorus) 22'; 1996
Nocturne (harp & SATB chorus) 5'30"; 1987
Out of your sleep (SATB chorus) 2'30"; 1969
Propers for Feast of Purification (SATB chorus & org) 4'; 1968
Propers for Feast of St. Thomas (SATB chorus & org) 2'; 1967
Scapulis suis (text: Louis MacNeice, Ps. 91; bar solo, org, SATB chorus) 7'; 1966
The Beholder (org, perc (1 player), sop & SATB chorus) 14'; 2000
The Burning Babe (SATB chorus) 2'30"; 1969
The Quality of Mercy (text: Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice; SATB chorus) 5’30”; 2011
The white and the walk of the morning (text: G.M. Hopkins; SATB chorus with divisions) 8'30"; 1994
Three Easter Carols (words: 15th c. English, 16th c. German, trans.; SA chorus & org/pno) 6'; 1962
Yblessed be (SATB chorus) 3'; 1970
Welcum our Messias (unison voices & pno) 2'30"; 1971
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Vocal Choral Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Folk song arrangements
Since he began the series in 1974
Barbara Allen (SATB chorus) 3'45"; 1993
Blow The Wind Southerly (SATB chorus) 3'45"; 1984
Bridgwater Fair (SATB chorus) 1'45"; 1999
Cold blows the wind (transcribed SATB chorus 1995) 4'30"; 1989
Dashing away with the Smoothing Iron (SATB chorus) 3'; 1988
Early one morning (SATB chorus) 2'; 1988
Elsie Marley (SATB chorus) 2'; 1991
Flowers in the Valley (SATB chorus) 3'45"; 2015
Four English Folk Songs; 1974
The Frog and the Mouse (SATB chorus) 1'30"
The Seeds of Love (SATB chorus)5'
The Tailor and the Mouse (SATB chorus) 2'
The Trees so High (SATB chorus)3'30"
O Rare Turpin (SATB chorus) 2'; 1993
O Waly, Waly (SATB chorus) 4'; 1990
Strawberry Fair (SATB chorus) 2'15"; 1984
The Blacksmith (SATB chorus) 3'; 1999
The Bold Fisherman (SATB chorus) 2'30"; 2002
The Coasts of High Barbary (SATB chorus) 2'40"; 1997
The Cuckoo (SATB chorus) 3'; 2002
The Cuckoo is a pretty bird (SATB chorus) 2'45"; 2016
The Loyal Lover (SATB chorus) 3'20"; 1997
The Miller of the Dee (SATB chorus) 2'15"; 1990
The Oak and the Ash (SATB chorus) 3'40"; 1985
The Willow Tree (SATB chorus) 3'30"; 1991
The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies (SATB chorus) 2'15"; 1984
Three English Folk Songs; 1979
A Frog he would a-wooing go (SATB chorus) 4'30"
Bonny at Morn (SATB chorus) 3'45"
O No John! (SATB chorus) 2'
Two English Folk Songs; 1989
Cold blows the wind (pno, perc (1 player), SATB chorus) 4'30"
O soldier, soldier (pno, perc (1 player), SATB chorus) 2'
Widdicombe Fair (SATB chorus) 4'30"; 1983
Two Danish Folk Songs (SATB chorus) 4'; 1982
Nu falmer skoven trint om land
Roselil og hendes mor
Danish folk song arrangements nos. 3 and 4 (SATB chorus, optional sop solo); 1996
Jeg gik mig i lunden 3'
En yndig og frydefuld sommertid 1'45"
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Vocal Choral Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Miscellaneous
Dresden Amen (SATB chorus) 30"; 1968
Descant to Hyfrydol (Prichard, d. 1879); 1968
Fanfare for elevation of host (3tbn) 30"; 1968
Londonderry Air (voice & pno) 2'; 1975
Four Anglican Chants (SATB chorus); 1979
Cadenzas for Mozart, Oboe Concerto K.315; 1980
Orchestral Chamber Solo & Duo Vocal Choral Folk song arrangements Miscellaneous Transcriptions
Transcriptions
Two Chorale Preludes: J.S. Bach (Meine Seele erhebt den Herren & In dir ist Freude) (organ) (transcr. vc & vibraphone) 5'30"; 2012
J.S. Bach: Three Chorale Preludes (organ) (transcr. pno duet) 9'; 1972-79
1. In dir ist Freude
2. Nun komm, der heiden Heiland
3. Fantasia super: Komm, Heilige Geist, Herre Gott
Four Chorale Preludes (J.S. Bach, Brahms) (organ) (transcr. vc & org) 12'; 2013
Five Chorale Preludes (organ) (transcr. vn or vc and pno or org) 11'30"; 2011
1. J.S.Bach Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter
2. Brahms Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
3. J.S.Bach Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
4. Karg-Elert Schmücke dich, O liebe Seele
5. J.S.Bach Fughetta super "Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot'"
Buxtehude: Prelude & Fugue (organ) (transcr. vc & org) 6'15"; 2014
Debussy: Des pas sur la neige & Les collines d'Anacapri (piano) (transcr. vc & vib) 7'30"; 2012
Debussy: Sérénade à la poupée & La sérénade interrompue (piano) (transcr. vc & vib) 6'30"; 2013
Fauré: Fantaisie (fl & pno) (transcr. fl, vn, va, vc) 5’; 2009
Fauré: Morceau de Concours (fl & pno) (transcr. fl, vn, va, vc) 1’45”; 2009
Five French songs (Fauré & Debussy) (voice & piano) (transcr. voice & string quartet) 12'30"; 2012