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Instrumental worksPiano solo – original worksSonatina No. 1 (1945)| RSS 301 | Typeset | 18 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 7’ | £8.50 |
Sonatina No. 2 (1947)| RSS 302 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 6’ | £6.50 |
Sonatina No. 3 (1948)| RSS 303 | Typeset | 22 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 6’ | £10.00 |
Three Early Lyric Pieces (1947–50)| RSS 304 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 5’, 3, 3½’ | £9.50 |
Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268 Fugue on a Fragment of Chopin (1948)| RSS 305 | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 9’ | £7.00 | Written for the centenary of Chopin’s death Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089 Three Nativity Pieces (1949)| RSS 306 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 7’ | £9.50 |
Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268 Waltzes (1950)| RSS 307 | Typeset | 18 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 7’ | £8.40 | Also in a version for orchestra (1952) Nocturne: Homage to John Field (1952)| RSS 308 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 6’ | £7.00 | Also in versions for flute and piano and for clarinet and piano Variations on a theme of Pizzetti (1955)| RSS 309 | Typescript | 20 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 11’ | £7.00 | As with the 1961 violin variations, the theme is the Sarabande from Pizzetti’s incidental music to D’Annunzio’s drama La Pisanella (1913), but the two sets of variations are otherwise entirely different A 20th Century Music Diary (1953–59)| RSS 310 | Manuscript | 39 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 20’ | £10.50 |
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089 4 Studies from A 20th Century music Diary (1953–59)| RSS 311 | Typeset | 15 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 7’ | £8.50 |
Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089 Prelude, Fugue & Fantasy on Busoni’s Faust (1959)| RSS 312 (Publ. Novello) | Typeset | 42 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 28’ | £10.50 |
In its orchestral version (slightly expanded), this work forms the Piano Concerto no. 1 Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091; also on The Essence of Busoni Altarus AIR CD 9041; and on 20th-Century Operatic Fantasias Altarus AIR CD9042 Six Pensées sur des Préludes de Chopin (1959)| RSS 313 | Typeset | 14 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 12’ | £8.00 | Passacaglia on DSCH (1960–62)| RSS 314 | Typeset | 141 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 80–85’ | £29.00 | (reprint of Polskie Wydawnictivo Muzyczne edition) Pars Prima: Sonata Allegro Waltz in rondo-form Episode Suite (Prelude, Sarabande, Jig, Sarabande. Minuet, Jig, Gavotte, Polonaise) Pibroch (Lament for the Children) Episode: Arabesque Variations) Nocturne Pars altera Reverie-Fantasy Fanfare – Forebodings: Alarm – Glimpse of a War-Vision Variations on “Peace, Bread & the Land” (1917) Symphonic March Episode Fandango Pedal-point: “To emergent Africa” Central Episode: études Variations in C minor Pars tertia Adagio: Tribute to Bach Triple Fugue over Ground Bass – Subject I: Andamente Subject II: B A C H Subject III: Dies Irae Final variations (Adagissimo barocco) Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091 Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Stevenson: Passacaglia on DSCH Divine-Art 25013 Passacaglia on DSCH (1960–62)| RSS 315 | Manuscript | 191 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 80–85’ | £29.00 | Composer’s manuscript version Cf above for section titles Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091 Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Stevenson: Passacaglia on DSCH Divine-Art 25013 A Wheen Tunes for Bairns tae Spiel: Four Scottish Pieces for Piano (1964)| RSS 316 (publ. Schott) | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 3’ | £4.00 |
Recorded by Ronald Brautigam on Essentially Scottish, Piano music from Scotland Koch-Schwann 3-1590-2 (no longer available) Little Jazz Variations on Purcell’s New Scotch Tune (1964, rev. 1975)| RSS 317 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 8’ | £5.90 | Formerly Simple Variations on Purcell’s New Scotch Tune The 1975 revision, undertaken at the instigation of Louis Kentner, entailed the addition of three variations in a more virtuosic style and the renaming of the work. A Scottish Triptych (1959–67)| RSS 318 | Typeset | 26 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 7+5+5 | £12.00 |
Incorporates the Pibroch: Calum Salum’s Salute to the Seals (original written for the highland bagpipes). Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089 No. 2 recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Cathedrals in Sound Altarus AIR CD 9043 Two Music Portraits (1965)| RSS 319 | Typeset | 3 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 3’ | £3.50 |
Three Scots Fairy Tales (1967)| RSS 320 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 5’ | £5.00 |
No. 2 may be performed on clarsach Melody on a Ground of Glazunov (1970)| RSS 321 | Typeset | 3 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 2’ | £3.50 | Peter Grimes Fantasy (1971)| RSS 322 (Publ. Boosey) | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (a) | Duration 7’ | £8.95 | Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on 20th-Century Operatic Fantasias Altarus AIR CD9042 Three Scottish Ballads (1973)| RSS 323 | Typeset | 13 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 10’ | £8.00 |
Nos. 2 and 3 recorded by Murray McLachlan on Piano Music from Scotland Olympia OCD 264 Recorded by Ronald Brautigam on Essentially Scottish: Piano music from Scotland Koch-Schwann 3-1590-2 (no longer available) Promenade Pastorale (1973)| RSS 324 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 3’ | £4.50 | Homage à Francis Poulenc et à Graham Johnson Recitative and Air on DSCH: In Memoriam Shostakovich (1974)| RSS 325 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 5’ | £5.00 | Commissioned for a 70th-birthday Festschrift; the subtitle was added when Shostakovich died before his 70th birthday. Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on Ronald Stevenson piano works Altarus AIR CD 9091 Sonatina Serenissima (1973–77)| RSS 328 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 5’ | £6.50 |
Recorded by Anthony Goldstone on The Britten Connection Gamut Classics GAM CD 526 No longer available. Copies still with RSS Norse Elegy for Ella Nygaard (1976 – 79)| RSS 329 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 4’ | £6.00 | Recorded by Donna Amato on Piano Music by Stevenson, Sorabji and Hinton on Altarus AIR CD9021 Barra Flyting Toccata (1980)| RSS 330 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 2’ | £4.50 | Allegro con spirito, F sharp major (Lydian) Symphonic Elegy for Liszt (1986)| RSS 331 | Typeset | 15 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 11’ | £9.00 | Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089 Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268 Piccolo Niccolò Paganinesco (1986)| RSS 332 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 3’ | £6.50 | Dedication: “To Laurenzio Guantaio” (Lawrence Glover) Ricordanza di San Romerio (A Pilgrimage for Piano) (1987)| RSS 333 | Typeset | 3 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 2’ | £2.50 | Motus Perpetuus (?) Temporibus Fatalibus (1987–88)| RSS 334 | Manuscript | 33 pages | Grade (a) | Duration 11’ | £10.00 | Large portions of this piece are reworked from No. 10 of A 20th Century Music Diary. Dedicated to Joseph Banowetz Recorded by Joseph Banowetz on Stevenson Piano Music Altarus AIR CD 9089 Beltane Bonfire (1989)| RSS 335 | Typeset | 13 pages | Grade (a) | Duration 8’ | £8.50 | Commissioned by the Scottish International Piano Competition as test-piece for Round 2 of the 1990 competition Recorded by Murray McLachlan on Piano Music from Scotland Olympia OCD 264 Recorded by Donna Amato on Piano Music by Stevenson etc Altarus AIR CD9021 A Carlyle Suite (1995)| RSS 336 | Manuscript | 29 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 35’ | £9.80 |
Commissioned by Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association to commemorate the bi-centenary of the birth of Thomas Carlyle in 1795. Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268 Festin d’Alkan (1988–97)| RSS 337 | Manuscript | 65 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 35’ | £16.50 | Concerto for solo piano without orchestra: “Petit concert en forme d’études”
Composer’s note: “This work encapsulates my idea that composition, transcription and variation are all essentially the same thing”. The High Road to Linton (1978)| RSS 338 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 3’ | £5.50 | Toccata-Reel for piano. Includes a Coda by John Fritzell A Rosary of Variations on O’Riada’s Irish Folk Mass| RSS 340 | Typeset | 16 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 3’ | £9.00 | Piano solo – transcriptionsBach-Stevenson, Komm, süsser Tod, BWV478 (1991)| RSS 501 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 3’ | £4.50 | Berg, Wiegenlied aus ‘Wozzeck’ (1953)| RSS 502 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 4½’ | £5.00 | Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on 20th-Century Operatic Fantasias Altarus AIR CD9042 Bull, Three Elizabethan Pieces after John Bull (1950)| RSS 503 | Typeset | 24 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 10’ | £10.00 |
Bush, The minstrel’s lay (1974)| RSS 504 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 5½’ | £6.50 | From Wat Tyler Recorded by Ronald Stevenson on 20th-Century Operatic Fantasias Altarus AIR CD9042 Etudette d’après Korsakov et Chopin (Spectre d’Alkan) (1987)| RSS 505 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 3’ | £6.50 | The Flight of the Bumble-bee (Korsakov) combined with Etude in A minor (Chopin Op.10, no.2) (subtitled Spectre d’Alkan) Chopin, Three Waltz Transcriptions (1955)| RSS 506 | Typeset | 31 pages | Grade (d) | Duration c.3’ each | £15.00 |
Grieg, Den Bergtekne (1990)| RSS 507 | Typeset | 6 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 5’ | £6.50 | Recorded by Donna Amato on Piano Music by Stevenson, Sorabji and Hinton on Altarus AIR CD9021 Mahler, Symphony no.10: Adagio (1987)| RSS 508 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (d) | Duration c.30’ | £9.50| Merrick, Hebridean Seascape (1986)| RSS 509 (publ. Roberton) | Manuscript | 20 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 5’ | £6.00 | From Seascape, 2nd movement of Piano concerto no. 2 Morrison, Rory Dall Morrison’s Harp Book (1970)| RSS 616 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 20’ | £6.50 | Also for clarsach or pedal harp
Paderewski, Manru Suite (1961)| RSS 510 | Typeset | 23 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 12½’ | £11.50 |
Purcell, The Queen’s Dolour – A Farewell (1959)| RSS 511 | Typeset | 2 pages | Grade (e–m) | Duration 2’ | £3.00 | Purcell Three Grounds (1955–58)| RSS 512 | Typeset | 14 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 5’ | £8.00 | Purcell Toccata (1955)| RSS 513 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 5’ | £7.00 | Purcell Hornpipe (1995)| RSS 514 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 3’ | £5.00 | Scott F G songs (1961, rev. 1971)| RSS 515 (Roberton Publications 9548) | Typeset | 29 pages | Grade (d) | Duration c.22’ | Eight F. G. Scott songs recorded by Murray McLachlan on Piano Music from Scotland Olympia OCD 264 Two Eclogues (1951 and 1956)| RSS 516 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 5’ | £6.60 |
L’Art Nouveau du Chant Appliqué au Piano Vol. I| RSS 517 | Typeset | 24 pages | Grade (d) | Duration c.2’ each | £12.00 |
L’Art Nouveau du Chant Appliqué au Piano Vol. 2| RSS 518 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration c.2’ each | £7.00 |
L’Art Nouveau du Chant Appliqué au Piano Vol. 3| RSS 519 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (m) | Duration c.2’ each | £8.00 |
Romance, from Concerto in D minor, Mozart, K466 (2002)| RSS 520 | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 6’ | £8.00 | Romance, from “Louise”, Charpentier| RSS 521 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 2’ | £4.00 | Canonic Caprice after Strauss’ “The Bat”| RSS 522 | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (d) | Duration ’ | £ | Piano solo – Folk song arrangementsScottish Folk Music Settings (c. 1959–65)| RSS 551 | Typeset | 24 pages | Grade (m) | £12.00 |
Nos. 2,3,8,9,10 Recorded by Sheena Nicoll on Rhapsody – Lyric Music of Ronald Stevenson Dunelm Records DRD 0268 Sounding Strings (1979)| RSS 617 (publ. UMP) | Typeset | 16 pages | Grade (e) | £6.50 | 14 arrangements of folk tunes from six Celtic countries Intended primarily for clarsach; performable also on pedal harp or piano
A Chinese Folksong Suite (1965)| RSS 552 | Typeset | 16 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 10’ | £8.50 |
Nos. 2 and 5 also exist in version for piano duet A Ghanaian Folksong Suite (1965)| RSS 553 | Typeset | 9 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 7’ | £7.00 |
South Uist Hebridean Folksong Suite (1969)| RSS 554 | Typeset | 14 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 7’ | £6.60 |
Recorded by Ronald Brautigam on Essentially Scottish: Piano music from Scotland Koch-Schwann 3-1590-2 (no longer available) Piano duet – Folk song arrangements2 Chinese Folk-songs (1965)| RSS 580 | Typeset | 9 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 4’ | £6.00 |
These two pieces also exist as nos. 2 and 5 in A Chinese Folk-song Suite for piano solo Irish Folk-song Suite| RSS 581 | Typeset | 23 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 10’ | £9.00 |
Organ – Original worksPrelude and Fugue on a 12-note Theme from Liszt’s Faust-Symphonie (1971)| RSS 590 (Publ. OUP, now Roberton) | Typeset | 12 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 11½’ | £4.50 | Prelude: Lento assai Fugue: L’istesso tempo The first thirteen bars of the fugue are a transcription of material from no. 14 of A 20th Century Music Diary Recorded by Kevin Bowyer on In Memoriam John Ogdon (1937–1989) on Altarus AIR CD9063 (2) Reflections on an Old Scots Psalm Tune (1965)| RSS 591 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 2’50” | £3.50 | Recorded by Jonathan Scott on Bridgewater Hall Organ on ASC Records ASC CS CD 42 Chorale Prelude & Fugue on Themes from Wagner and Chorale Postlude on Themes from Cornish Folksong, Wagner and von Bülow (1984–2000)| RSS 592 | Typeset | 18 pages | Grade (d) | Duration c.30” | £8.50 | The Fugue is “On the Shepherd’s Air from Tristan”. The Chorale Postlude sets Tom Hubbard’s 1998 Scots poem Tristan and Isolde for contralto (or mezzo) and tenor. Prelude and Chorale (An Easter Offering)| RSS 593 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 3’ | £4.50 | Organ – TranscriptionsBusoni, Sonatina Brevis (1997)| RSS 599 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (m–d) | Duration 5’ | £6.50 | (in Signo Joannis Sebastiani Magni) Original for piano, transcribed for organ: baroque registration HarpsichordHarpsichord Sonata (1968)| RSS 601 | Manuscript | 26 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 18’ | £9.00 | Also performable on piano
Solo Violin – original worksVariations of a Theme of Pizzetti (1961)| RSS 611 | Typeset | 7 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 10’ | £5.60 | Tema
Scots Suite (1984)| RSS 612 | Typeset | 20 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 23’ | £9.50 |
Recorded by Petr Mace?ek on Music for violin solo by Slavický, Stevenson, Fišer and Hanuš Waldmann JW 014 Solo Violin – transcriptionsPurcell Three Grounds (1958)| RSS 613 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 6’ | £5.50 | Harp – original worksTwo Cambrian Cantos for Harp (1965)| RSS 614 | Typeset | 8 pages | Grade (m) | Duration 3+2’ | £4.50 |
Fantasia polifonica (1983–84)| RSS 615 | Manuscript | 23 pages | Grade (d) | Duration 9½’ | £9.00 |
Celtic harp – arrangementsMorrison, Rory Dall Morrison’s Harp Book (1970)| RSS 616 | Typeset | 11 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 20’ | £6.50 | Also for piano or pedal harp
Sounding Strings (1979)| RSS 617 (publ. UMP) | Typeset | 16 pages | Grade (e) | £6.50 | 14 arrangements of folk tunes from six Celtic countries Intended primarily for clarsach; performable also on pedal harp or piano
Guitar – transcriptionsPurcell – The Queen’s Dolour – A Farewell (1959)Granados – Ballad of Love and Death (1970)| RSS 618 | Typeset | 3 pages | Grade (e–m) | Duration 4’ | £3.50 | Granados from Balada: El Amor y la Muerte, no. 5 of Goyescas Flute or recorderThree Improvisations on Themes by Emmanuel Moór (1986)| RSS 619 | Typeset | 4 pages | Grade (e) | Duration 4’ | £4.00 | for descant or tenor recorder or flute solo
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