Howard Skempton

British composer and accordionist

Howard While Skempton (born 31 October 1947) is an English composer, pianist, and accordionist.

Since the late 1960s, when he helped to organise the Scratch Orchestra, he has been associated with the English school of experimental music. Skempton's work is characterised by stripped-down, essentials-only choice of materials, absence of formal development and a strong emphasis on melody. The musicologist Hermann-Christoph Müller has described Skempton's music as "the emancipation of the consonance".

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Works

A Roma
Air
Air Melody
Bends
Call
Campanella
Campanella 3
Chorale
Drum Canon 2
Fire
First Prelude
Images
Images: Interlude 1
Images: Interlude 2
Images: Interlude 3
Images: Interlude 4
Images: Interlude 5
Images: Interlude 6
Images: Interlude 7
Images: Interlude 8
Images: Postlude: The Keel Row
Images: Prelude
Images: Prelude 2
Images: Prelude 3
Images: Prelude 4
Images: Prelude 5
Images: Prelude 6
Images: Prelude 7
Images: Prelude 8
Images: Song 2
Images: The Cockfight: A Traditional Song
Images: Variations
Invention
June '77
Kettle's Yard Canon
La gora di mulino
Lento
Melody
Of Late
Piano Piece 1969
Postlude
Quavers 3
Quavers 5
Rise Up, My Love
Rise Up, My Love: I. Rise up, my love
Rise Up, My Love: II. How fair is thy love
Rise Up, My Love: III. My beloved is gone down
Rise Up, My Love: IV. How fair and how pleasant
Rumba
Saltaire Melody
Swedish Caprice
Sweet Chariot
The Durham Strike
There Is No Rose
Toccata
Trace
Well, Well, Cornelius
passing fancy
senza licenza
una barcarola eccentrica