List of compositions by Libby Larsen

• A Wrinkle in Time (1991)

• Mrs. Dalloway (1993)

• Eric Hermannson's Soul (1998)

• Barnum's Bird (2000)

• Dreaming Blue (2002)

• Every Man Jack (2006)

• Picnic (2009)

Orchestral

• Weaver's Song & Jig (1978)

• Pinions (1981)

• Deep Summer Music (1982)

• Overture: Parachute Dancing (1983)

• Symphony: Water Music (Symphony No. 1) (1985)

• Coming Forth Into day (Symphony No. 2) (1986)

• What the Monster Saw (1987)

• Collage: Boogie (1988)

• Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (1988)

• Concerto: Cold, Silent Snow (1989)

• Tambourines! (1991)

• The Atmosphere as a Fluid System (1992)

• Marimba Concerto: After Hampton (1992)

• Piano Concerto: Since Armstrong (1992)

• Symphony No. 3: Lyric (1992)

• Overture for the End of a Century (1994)

• Song-Dances to the Light (1994)

• Ring of Fire (1995)

• Blue Fiddler (1996)

• Fanfare: Strum (1996)

• Roll Out the Thunder (1997)

• Spell On Me That Holy Hour: Overture to Tsvetaeva (1997)

• All Around Sound (1999)

• Solo Symphony (Symphony No. 5) (1999)

• String Symphony (Symphony No. 4) (1999)

• Still Life With Violin (2000)

• Fanfare: Sizzle (2001)

• Brandenburg for the New Millennium (2002)

• Song Concerto (2005)

• Bach 358 (2008)

• Evening in the Palace of Reason (2008)

• Encircling Skies (2009)

• Sacred Vows (2009)

• The Moabit Sonnets (2011)

• Six or Seven Dances (2024)

Band

• Grand Rondo (1988)

• Sun Song (1991)

• Brass Flight (1996)

• Concert Dances (1996)

• Short Symphony (1996)

• Hambone (1999)

• Strut (2003)

• River Fanfare (2004)

• An Introduction to the Moon (2005)

• Cri de Coeur (2009)

Instrumental

• Circular Rondo, Canti Breve (1974)

• Three Pieces for Treble Wind and Guitar (1974)

• Piano Suite (1976)

• Impromptu (1998)

• Corker (1979)

• Jazz Variations for Solo Bassoon (1977)

• Tango (1978)

• Bronze Veils (1979)

• Saraband: In profane style (1979)

• Cajun Set (1980)

• Scudding (1980)

• Black Roller (1981)

• Aubade (1982)

• Four on the Floor (1983)

• Sonata In One Movement on Kalenda Maya (1983)

• Up Where the Air Gets Thin (1985)

• With Love & Hisses (1985)

• Juba (1986)

• Song Without Words (1986)

• Astonishing Flight of the Gump (1987)

• Black Birds, Red Hills (1987)

• Fantasy on Slane

• Kathleen, as she was (1989)

• Aspects of Glory (1990)

• Xibalba (1990)

• Schoenberg, Schenker, and Schillinger (1991)

• String Quartet Schoenberg, Schenker, and Schillinger (1991)

• Dancing Solo (1994)

• Fanfare for the Women (1994)

• Slang (1994)

• Concert Piece for Tuba & Piano (1995)

• Blessed be the Tie That Binds (1996)

• Blue Third Pieces (1996)

• Brass Flight (1996)

• Holy Roller (1997)

• Prelude on Veni Creator Spiritus (1997)

• Brazen Overture (2000)

• Mephisto Rag (2000)

• Neon Angel (2000)

• Three for the Road (2000)

• The Atmosphere as a Fluid System (also known as "Sky Concerto) (2001)

• Barn Dances (2001)

• Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (2001)

• Viola Sonata (2001)

• Licorice Stick (2002)

• On a Day of Bells (2002)

• Argyle Sketches (2003)

• Bid Call (2003)

• Fanfare for Humanity (2003)

• Firebrand (2003)

• Pocket Sonata (2003)

• Bee Navigation (2004)

• Concertino for Tenor Steel Drum and Chamber Ensemble (2004)

• For Two (2004)

• Gavel Patter (2004)

• Pealing Fire (2004)

• Penta Metrics (2004)

• Wait a Minute (2004)

• Yellow Jersey (2004)

• Blue Windows: After Marc Chagall (2005)

• Fanfare for a Learned man (2005)

• Now I Pull Silver (2005)

• Slow Structures (2005)

• Song Concerto (2005)

• Trio in Four Movements (2005)

• Concert Piece for Bassoon and Piano (2006)

• Engelberg: Trio for Brass and Organ (2006)

• He Arose: A Fanfare for Easter (2006)

• The Adventures of Wonderboy: Issue One (2008)

• Double String Quartet, J.S.B. (2008)

• Quartet: She Wrote (2008)

• Ricochet (2008)

• Ricochet (piano) (2008)

• Downwind of Roses in Maine (2009)

• Over, Easy (2009)

• In Such a Night (2010)

• Like Blind Men Tapping in the Dark (2010)

• Rodeo Queen of Heaven (2010)

• Ursa (2010)

• 4 ½: A Piano Suite (2016)

Choral

• Eine Kleine Snailmusik (1978)

• All Shall Be Well (1979)

• Dance Set (1980)

• Double Joy (1982)

• In a Winter Garden (1982)

• Everyone Sang (1983)

• Ringeltanze (1983)

• A Creeley Collection (1984)

• Welcome Yule (1984)

• Clair de Lune (1985)

• I Love the Lord (1985)

• Peace, Perfect Peace (1985)

• We Celebrate (1985)

• Who Cannot Weep, Come Learn of Me (1985)

• Clair de Lune in Blue (1986)

• Songs of Youth and Pleasure (1986)

• Canticle of the Sun (1987)

• A Garden Wall (1987)

• Refuge (1988)

• The Settling Years (1988)

• Three Summer Scenes (1988)

• How it Thrills Us (1990)

• I Am a Little Church (1991)

• Alleluia (1992)

• Deck the Halls (1992)

• Eagle Poem (1992)

• Missa Gaia—Mass for the Earth (1992)

• Mother, Sister, Blessed Holy (1992)

• Pied Beauty (Glory to God) (1992)

• God As Ribbon of Light (1993)

• Canticle of Mary (1994)

• A Choral Welcome (1994)

• I Just Lightning (1994)

• Little Notes on A Simple Staff (1994)

• Fanfare & Alleluia (1995)

• I Arise Today (1995)

• I Will Sing and Raise a Psalm (1995)

• Invitation to Music (1995)

• Seven Ghosts (1995)

• Today, This Spring (1995)

• Eleanor Roosevelt (1996)

• So Blessedly It Sprung (1996)

• I Find My Feet Have Further Goals (1997)

• Love Songs (1997)

• May Sky (1997)

• Reasons for Loving Harmonica (1997)

• Density of Light (1998)

• Ring the Bells (1998)

• Stepping Westward (1998)

• Sweet & Sour Nursery Rhymes (1998)

• By a Departing Light (1999)

• Day Song (1999)

• Is God, Our Endless Day (1999)

• A Salute to Louis Armstrong (1999)

• To a Long Loved Love (1999)

• Four Valentines: A Lover's Journey (2000)

• Falling (2000)

• How To Songs (2000)

• Lord, Before This Fleeting Season (2000)

• Psalm 121 (2000)

• Touch the Air Softly (2000)

• The Witches Trio (2001)

• If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking (2001)

• Jack's Valentine (2001)

• The Ballerina and the Clown (2002)

• Flee We to Our Lord (2002)

• Come Before Winter (2003)

• I It Am: The Shewings of Julian of Norwich (2003)

• Womanly Song of God (2003)

• A Young Nun Singing (2003)

• Cry Peace (2004)

• Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head (2004)

• Natus Est Emmanuel (2004)

• Praise One (2004)

• The Shepherds and the Angels (2004)

• Giving Thanks (2005)

• God So Loved the World (2005)

• I Dream of Peace (2005)

• The Nothing That Is (2005)

• The Summer Day (2005)

• Western Songs (2005)

• Of Music (2006)

• The Blackbird (2007)

• Crowding North (2007)

• Four Meditations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (2007)

• I Lift My Eyes to the Hills (2007)

• Novum Gaudium (2007)

• A Simple Gloria (2007)

• Whitman's America (2007)

• To Sing (2008)

• A Book of Spells (2009)

• Free, Fearless, and Female (2009)

• Celebration Mass-Lutheran Edition (2010)

• Chain of Hope (2010)

• Concord Fragments (2010)

• Arctic Spring (2011)

• Celebration Mass-Catholic Edition (2011)

• If Music Be the Food of Love (2011)

• Matineé: The Fantom of the Fair (2014)

Voice

• Saints Without Tears (1976)

• Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (1978)

• Cowboy Songs (1979)

• Three Rilke Songs (1980)

• A Verse Record of my Peonies (1980)

• Before Winter (1982)

• Me (Brenda Ueland) (1987)

• Songs From Letters (1989)

• When I Am An Old Woman (1990)

• Sonnets From the Portuguese (1991)

• How Lovely Are Thy Holy Groves (1992)

• Perineo (1993)

• Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers (1994)

• Mary Cassatt (1994)

• Margaret Songs (1996)

• Chanting to Paradise (1997)

• Lord, Make Me An Instrument (1997)

• The Ant and the Grasshopper (1998)

• Late in the Day (1998)

• Songs of Light and Love (1998)

• Love After 1950 (2000)

• My Antonia (2000)

• Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII (2000)

• Hell's Belles (2001)

• Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub (2001)

• Notes Slipped Under the Door (2001)

• Raspberry Island Dreaming (2002)

• Raspberry Island Dreaming (Piano/Vocal) (2002)

• De Toda la Eternidad (2003/2005)

• I Love You Through the Daytimes (2003)

• This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony (2003)

• Fern Hill (2004)

• A Pig in the House (2004)

• Sifting Through the Ruins (2005)

• Take (2006)

• Center Field Girl (2007)

• A Quiet Song (2007)

• Righty, 1966 (2007)

• Within the Circles of Our Lives (2007)

• Far in a Western Brookland (2008)

• Forget Me Not (2008)

• This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony, Orchestral Version (2008)

• Song (2009)

• The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes (2010)

References

"Libby Larsen: Works", accessed 03/21/2011.

External links

• Libby Larsen - Home