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Fand Music Press is excited to present two new small works by Carey Blyton, one of them a new discovery.

The newly unearthed novelty is The Ballad of Lady Maynard and Dudin Brown. In 1971 Carey Blyton made an arrangement for choir of The Mistletoe Bough, which was subsequently recorded by Canzonetta and Jennifer Partridge (piano) on The Choral Music of Carey Blyton. Amongst his papers in the studio where he worked, Peter Thompson recently came across The Ballad of Lady Maynard and Dudin Brown, an apparently new choral work. Apparently, at some point, Carey Blyton decided to ‘arrange’ his arrangement of The Mistletoe Bough by composing new words and presenting them as a newly collected folksong—clearly with humorous intentions. The ‘new’ song would make a welcome ‘tongue-in-cheek’ filler to any choral programme and so Fand Music Press is delighted to present it to a wider public.

The second item is a previously unpublished fanfare for brass ensemble, Fanfara Pian’ e Forte. Written for Bandmaster Douglas Mackay and the Trumpeters of Kneller Hall, this is a welcome addition to the fanfares that bejewel British music in an illustrious tradition that included Elgar, Bax and Bliss.

The Ballad of Lady Maynard and Dudin Brown

A medi-evil ditty collected by Gustav Holst ‘At the Whore’s Bed’

for unaccompanied choir (SATB)
£3.50

Fanfara Pian’ e Forte

Echo-Fanfare

for three trumpets, three trombones and side drum
£5.50