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The following is a chornological list of compositions by Libby Larsen

Libby Larsen

Libby Larsen is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over fifteen operas...

, divided into genre groups. All material and information found from www.libbylarsen.com,

Opera

• Moon Door (1976 & 1980)

full evening performance with slides, tapes, and costumes

• Silver Fox (1979)

one act opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 for the young; John Olive

John Olive

John Olive is a former American basketball player and coach. Olive attended Bishop Eustace Preparatory School, in Pennsauken, New Jersey, then played collegiate basketball at Villanova University, where he graduated in 1977.Olive was drafted in the eighth round of the 1977 NBA draft by the...

, libretto

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

Choral

• Eine Kleine Snailmusik (1978)

SA and contrabass

Contrabass

Contrabass refers to a musical instrument of very low pitch; generally those pitched one octave below instruments of the bass register...

; text by May Sarton

May Sarton

May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton , an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.-Biography:...

• All Shall Be Well (1979)

SA, soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 solo, soprano recorder, triangle

Triangle (instrument)

The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family. It is a bar of metal, usually steel but sometimes other metals like beryllium copper, bent into a triangle shape. The instrument is usually held by a loop of some form of thread or wire at the top curve...

, and keyboard

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

; text by Libby Larsen

Voice

• Saints Without Tears (1976)

soprano, flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

, and bassoon

Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...

; text by Phyllis McGinley

Phyllis McGinley

Phyllis McGinley was an American writer of children's books and poet about the positive aspects of suburban life.McGinley was born in Ontario, Oregon...

• Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (1978)

soprano, flute, guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, and harp

Harp

The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

; text by Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

• Cowboy Songs (1979)

soprano and piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

; text by Anonymous, Belle Star, and Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

Instrumental

• Circular Rondo, Canti Breve (1974)

oboe

Oboe

The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

 and guitar

• Three Pieces for Treble Wind and Guitar (1974)

treble winds and guitar

• Piano Suite (1976)

solo piano

• Impromptu (1998)

flute, clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

, and bassoon

• Corker (1979)

clarinet and percussion

• Jazz Variations for Solo Bassoon (1977)

solo bassoon

• Tango (1978)

solo guitar

• Bronze Veils (1979)

trombone

Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

, two percussion

• Saraband: In profane style (1979)

solo guitar

Opera

• Clair de Lune (1984)

two act chamber opera; libretto by Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.-Life:Hampl was...

Orchestral

• Pinions (1981)

violin concerto with chamber orchestra

• Deep Summer Music (1982)

full orchestra

• Overture: Parachute Dancing (1983)

full orchestra

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

full orchestra

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

soprano solo, baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...

 solo, SATB chorus, full orchestra; various texts

• What the Monster Saw (1987)

full orchestra, optional slides, adapted from the opera Frankenstein.

• Collage: Boogie (1988)

full orchestra

• Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (1988)

C trumpet and full orchestra

• Concerto: Cold, Silent Snow (1989)

flute, harp, chamber orchestra

Choral

• Dance Set (1980)

SATB, clarinet, cello, percussion, piano; textless

• Double Joy (1982)

SATB divisi, handbells, organ; text by Michael Thwaites

Michael Thwaites

Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO was an Australian academic, poet, intelligence officer, and activist for Moral Rearmament.-Early life and education:...

• In a Winter Garden (1982)

SATB, soprano and tenor solos, chamber orchestra; text by Patricia Hempl

• Everyone Sang (1983)

SATB, harp, two percussion; text by Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...

• Ringeltanze (1983)

five movements

SATB, handbells, string orchestra; medieval French text

• A Creeley Collection (1984)

five movements

SATB, flute, percussion, piano; text by Robert Creeley

• Welcome Yule (1984)

TTBB and strings

• Clair de Lune (1985)

TTBB, tenor solo; text by Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine

Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.-Early life:...

• I Love the Lord (1985)

SATB and organ; text by Nathan Everett

• Peace, Perfect Peace (1985)

SATB a cappella

A cappella

A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...

; text from Isaiah 26:3

Book of Isaiah

The Book of Isaiah is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, preceding the books of Ezekiel, Jeremiah and the Book of the Twelve...

, Edward Bickersteth

• We Celebrate (1985)

SATB, piano or organ; text by John Cummins

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

SSA, mezzo-soprano and tenor solos; text from MS09.38 Trinity College

• Clair de Lune in Blue (1986)

SATB jazz choir, piano; textless

• Songs of Youth and Pleasure (1986)

four movements

SATB a cappella; Renaissance text

• Canticle of the Sun
  Canticle of the Sun
  The Canticle of the Sun, also known as the Laudes Creaturarum , is a religious song composed by Saint Francis of Assisi. It was written in the Umbrian dialect of Italian but has since been translated into many languages...
  
   (1987)

SSAAA, finger cymbals, synthesizer, organ; text by St. Francis of Assisi

• A Garden Wall (1987)

unison choir, keyboard, Orff instruments, 7 speaking roles, and congregation

• Refuge (1988)

SSAA a cappella; text by Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale , was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and after her marriage in 1914 she went by the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger.-Biography:...

• The Settling Years (1988)

three movements

SATB, woodwind quintet, piano, percussion; 20th century biographical texts

• Three Summer Scenes (1988)

SATB, optional youth choirs, full orchestra; texts by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...

, Lloyd Frankenburg, and Maurice Lindsay

Maurice Lindsay

Maurice Lindsay CBE was a Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet. He was born in Glasgow.After serving in World War II he became a radio broadcaster, also editing the 1946 anthology Modern Scottish Poetry, and writing music criticism. He later was Programme Controller at Border Television.His...

Voice

• Three Rilke Songs (1980)

high voice and guitar; text by Rainer Maria Rilke

• A Verse Record of my Peonies (1980)

tenor, tape, and percussion; text by Masaoka Shiki

Masaoka Shiki

, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru , was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry...

• Before Winter (1982)

baritone and organ; text by Arthur Mampel

• Me (Brenda Ueland) (1987)

soprano and piano; text by Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. She is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.-Background:...

• Songs From Letters (1989)

soprano and piano or chamber ensemble; text by Calamity Jane

Instrumental

• Cajun Set (1980)

guitar and string trio

• Scudding (1980)

solo cello

• Black Roller (1981)

flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, violin, viola

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

 (feautred), and cello

• Aubade (1982)

solo flute

• Four on the Floor (1983)

violin, cello, contrabass, piano

• Sonata In One Movement on Kalenda Maya (1983)

solo organ

• Up Where the Air Gets Thin (1985)

cello and contrabass

• With Love & Hisses (1985)

double woodwind quintet.

Accompanies the silent Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...

 film "Love and Hisses."

• Juba (1986)

cello and piano

• Song Without Words (1986)

clarinet and piano

• Astonishing Flight of the Gump (1987)

flute, oboe, bassoon, and piano

• Black Birds, Red Hills (1987)

clarinet, viola, and piano

• Fantasy on Slane

organ and flute

• Kathleen, as she was (1989)

oboe and harpsichord

Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

Opera

• Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (1990)

full length music drama; libretto by Libby Larsen

• A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and...
  
  (1991)

one act opera; libretto by Walter Green

• Mrs. Dalloway (1993)

full length music drama in two acts; libretto by Bonnie Grice

• Eric Hermannson's Soul
  Eric Hermannson's Soul
  "Eric Hermannson's Soul" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in Cosmopolitan in April 1900.-Plot summary:In rural Nebraska, Eric Hermannson gives up on girls after seeing a rattlesnake whilst on a date with Lena, and stops playing the violin shortly after; he becomes a good...
  
  (1998)

full length opera with orchestra; libretty by Chas Rader-Shieber

Orchestral

• Tambourines! (1991)

full orchestra

• The Atmosphere as a Fluid System (1992)

solo flute, percussion, string orchestra

• Marimba Concerto: After Hampton (1992)

solo marimba, full orchestra

• Piano Concerto: Since Armstrong (1992)

solo piano, full orchestra

• Symphony No. 3: Lyric (1992)

full orchestra

• Overture for the End of a Century (1994)

full orchestra

• Song-Dances to the Light (1994)

SA chorus, Orff instruments, full orchestra (or piano); text by young people

• Ring of Fire (1995)

full orchestra

• Blue Fiddler (1996)

full orchestra

• Fanfare: Strum (1996)

orchestra, no strings

• Roll Out the Thunder (1997)

full orchestra

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

full orchestra

• All Around Sound (1999)

full orchestra, cued CD; text by John Coy

John Coy

John Richard Coy is an American children's book author. He is best-known for his books on basketball, Strong to the Hoop, Around the World, and Box Out, as well as Night Driving and his coming-of-age novel about sports and decisions, Crackback.-Early life:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, John Coy...

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

full orchestra

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

string orchestra

Band

• Sun Song (1991)

concert band

• Brass Flight (1996)

brass choir

• Concert Dances (1996)

concert band

• Short Symphony (1996)

concert band

• Hambone (1999)

concert band

Choral

• How it Thrills Us (1990)

SATB a cappella; text by Rainer Marie Rilke

• I Am a Little Church (1991)

SATB and organ; text by e.e. cummings

E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings , was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright...

• Alleluia (1992)

SATB a cappella

• Deck the Halls (1992)

TTBB, five soloists, piano, handbells

• Eagle Poem (1992)

SATB, four-hand piano; text by Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is a Native American poet, musician, and author of ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played alto saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee Nation and...

• Missa Gaia—Mass for the Earth (1992)

SATB, SSA, soprano solo, oboe, strings, four-hand piano

• Mother, Sister, Blessed Holy (1992)

SATB, four-hand piano

• Now I Become Myself (1992)

TTBB, soprano solo, a cappella; text by May Sarton

• Pied Beauty (Glory to God) (1992)

SATB, four-hand piano; text by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...

• God As Ribbon of Light (1993)

SATB and organ; text by Sr. Mary Virginia Micka

• Canticle of Mary (1994)

SSA, four-hand piano or chamber orchestra; text from the Magnificat

Magnificat

The Magnificat — also known as the Song of Mary or the Canticle of Mary — is a canticle frequently sung liturgically in Christian church services. It is one of the eight most ancient Christian hymns and perhaps the earliest Marian hymn...

 and Gregorian hymnal

Hymnal

Hymnal or hymnary or hymnbook is a collection of hymns, i.e. religious songs, usually in the form of a book. The earliest hand-written hymnals are known since Middle Ages in the context of European Christianity...

• A Choral Welcome (1994)

SATB divisi, keyboard or orchestra; text by G. Galina

• I Just Lightning (1994)

SSAA and percussion; text by María Sabina

Maria Sabina

María Sabina was a Mazatec curandera who lived her entire life in a modest dwelling in the Sierra Mazateca of southern Mexico...

• Little Notes on A Simple Staff (1994)

SATB and piano; text by Siv Cedering

Siv Cedering

Siv Cedering was an award-winning Swedish-American poet, writer, and artist. She occasionally published as Siv Cedering Fox.-Early life:...

• Fanfare & Alleluia (1995)

SATB, brass, handbells, chimes, and organ

• I Arise Today (1995)

SATB and organ; text from St Patrick's Breastplate

• I Will Sing and Raise a Psalm (1995)

SATB and organ; text by St. Francis of Assisi

• Invitation to Music (1995)

SATB and string quartet, string orchestra, or piano; text by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...

• Seven Ghosts (1995)

five movements

SATB with soprano solo, brass quintet, piano, and percussion; 20th century biographical texts

• Today, This Spring (1995)

three songs

SA and piano; text by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...

, Charles Wilson, and Jan Kimes

• Eleanor Roosevelt (1996)

SATB with soprano and mezzo-soprano solos, speaker, clarinet, cello, piano and percussion; text by Sally M. Gall

• So Blessedly It Sprung (1996)

SATB, oboe, viola, and harp; text from 12th century poetry by Adam of Saint Victor

• I Find My Feet Have Further Goals (1997)

SATB a cappella; text by Emily Dickinson

• Love Songs (1997)

SATB and piano; text based on love songs by American woman poets

• May Sky (1997)

SATB divisi, a cappella; text by Tokuji Hirai, Neiji Ozawa, Reiko Gomyo, and Suiko Matsushita

• Reasons for Loving Harmonica (1997)

SATB and piano; text by Julie Kane

Julie Kane

Julie Kane is a contemporary American poet, scholar, and editor and the Louisiana Poet Laureate for the 2011-2013 term. Although born in Massachusetts, Kane has lived in Louisiana for over three decades and writes about the region with the doubled consciousness of a non-native...

• Density of Light (1998)

SATB, treble choir, brass; text by Thomas H. Troeger

• Ring the Bells (1998)

SSA children's chorus and piano; text by M.K. Dean

• Stepping Westward (1998)

SSA, handbells, oboe, and marimba; text by Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

-Early life and influences:Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p74 Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales...

• Sweet & Sour Nursery Rhymes (1998)

SATB and french horn; text by Eugene Field

Eugene Field

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.-Biography:...

 and traditional

• By a Departing Light (1999)

SATB a cappella, text by Emily Dickinson

• Day Song (1999)

SSA a cappella; text by N. F. S. Grundtvig, and Libby Larsen

• Is God, Our Endless Day (1999)

SATB a cappella; text by Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich is regarded as one of the most important English mystics. She is venerated in the Anglican and Lutheran churches, but has never been canonized, or officially beatified, by the Catholic Church, probably because so little is known of her life aside from her writings, including the...

• A Salute to Louis Armstrong (1999)

from choral suite Seven Ghosts.

SATB divisi and piano; text by Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

• To a Long Loved Love (1999)

SATB, string quartet; text by Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time...

Voice

• When I Am An Old Woman (1990)

soprano and piano; text by Jenny Joseph

Jenny Joseph

-Life and career:She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford .Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s...

• Sonnets From the Portuguese (1991)

soprano and chamber ensemble or piano; text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.-Early life:Members...

• How Lovely Are Thy Holy Groves (1992)

soprano and piano; text from the Chinook Psalter

• Perineo (1993)

baritone and piano; text by Roberto Echavarren

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

mezzo-soprano, cello, and piano; text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hilde Doolittle, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

• Mary Cassatt (1994)

mezzo-soprano, trombone, orchestra and slides; text from the historical narrative and letters of Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...

• Margaret Songs (1996)

soprano and piano; text by Willa Cather

Willa Cather

Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...

 and Libby Larsen

• Chanting to Paradise (1997)

soprano and piano; text by Dickinson

• Lord, Make Me An Instrument (1997)

tenor and piano; text by St. Francis of Assisi

• The Art and the Grasshopper (1998)

soprano and piano; text by Jeanne Shepard

• Late in the Day (1998)

soprano and piano; text by Jeanne Shepard

• Songs of Light and Love (1998)

soprano and chamber ensemble; text by May Sarton

Instrumental

• Aspects of Glory (1990)

solo organ

• Xibalba (1990)

bassoon and percussion

• Schoenberg, Schenker, and Schillinger (1991)

flute, oboe, viola, cello, and keyboard

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

string quartet

• Dancing Solo (1994)

solo clarinet

• Fanfare for the Women (1994)

solo trumpet

• Slang (1994)

clarinet, violin, and piano

• Concert Piece for Tuba & Piano (1995)

tuba and piano

• Blessed be the Tie That Binds (1996)

solo organ

• Blue Third Pieces (1996)

flute or clarinet and guitar

• Brass Flight (1996)

brass choir

• Holy Roller (1997)

saxophone and piano

• Prelude on Veni Creator Spiritus (1997)

solo organ

Opera

• Barnum's Bird (2000)

chamber choral opera in two acts; libretto by Bridget Carpenter

Bridget Carpenter

-Life:She holds an M.F.A. from Brown University, and has taught playwriting in grammar school, high school, college, and prison.Most recently, she was a playwright-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre in London. Her plays have been produced across the country. She is working on new play...

• Dreaming Blue (2002)

opera in one act for child actor, SATB soloists, children's chorus, rhythm chorus, and drumming group; libretto by Libby Larsen

• Every Man Jack (2006)

chamber opera, based on the life of Jack London

Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...

; libretto by Philip Littell

• Picnic (2009)

opera in three acts based on the play by William Inge; libretto by David Holley

Orchestral

• Still Life With Violin (2000)

solo violin and full orchestra

• Fanfare: Sizzle (2001)

full orchestra

• Brandenburg for the New Millennium (2002)

trumpet, marimba, electric guitar, amplified harpsichord, and string orchestra

• Song Concerto (2005)

saxophone (alto and soprano) and chamber orchestra

• Bach 358 (2008)

full orchestra

• Evening in the Palace of Reason (2008)

string orchestra, solo string quartet

• Encircling Skies (2009)

double choir, full orchestra, full wind ensemble, three marimbas, three pianos

• Sacred Vows (2009)

tenor, baritone, narrator, SATB chorus, full orchestra; text by U Sam Oeur

Band

• Strut (2003)

concert band

• River Fanfare (2004)

British brass band

• An Introduction to the Moon (2005)

symphonic wind ensemble, tuned water glasses, recorded voice, eight collaborative improvisations

• Cri de Couer (2009)

solo euphonium and wind ensemble

Choral

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

four movements

six-voice male a cappella; text by James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

, William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, and Karl Joseph Simrock

Karl Joseph Simrock

Karl Joseph Simrock , was a German poet and writer. He is primarily known for his translation of the Nibelungenlied into modern German.- Life :He was born in Bonn, where his father was a music publisher...

• Falling (2000)

SATB chorus, SATB quartet, SAT trio, trumpet, piano, and percussion; text by James Dickey

James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.-Early years:...

• How To Songs (2000)

SSA (children's) chorus

• Lord, Before This Fleeting Season (2000)

SATB a cappella; text by Maryann Jindra

• Psalm 121 (2000)

SSAA divisi a cappella; text from and by Psalm 121

Psalm 121

Psalm 121 is the 121st psalm from the Book of Psalms. It is one of 15 psalms that begins with the words "A song of ascents" .-Judaism:*Is recited following Mincha between Sukkot and Shabbat Hagadol....

, Patricia Hennings, and John Muir

John Muir

John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions...

• Touch the Air Softly (2000)

SSAA a cappella; text by William Jay Smith

William Jay Smith

William Jay Smith is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.- Life :...

• The Witches Trio (2001)

SSAA a cappella; text by William Shakespeare

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

SSA, woodwind quintet, percussion, and strings; text by Emily Dickinson

• Jack's Valentine (2001)

SSAA; text by Aldeen Humphreys

• The Ballerina and the Clown (2002)

SSA and harp; text by Sally Gall

• Flee We to Our Lord (2002)

SATB a cappella; text by Julian of Norwich

• Come Before Winter (2003)

SATB, baritone solo, orchestra or piano; text by Arthur Mampel

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

SATB divisi, soprano, countertenor, baritone, and chamber orchestra; text by Julian of Norwich

• Womanly Song of God (2003)

SSAA divisi a cappella; text by Catherine de Vinck

• A Young Nun Singing (2003)

SSA a cappella; text by anonomous, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Idea Vilarino

• Cry Peace (2004)

SATB divisi a cappella; text adapted by Libby Larsen

• Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head (2004)

two or three-part, solo voice, and piano; traditional text

• Natus Est Emmanuel (2004)

SSAA divisi a cappella; Anonomous text from Piae Cantiones

Piae Cantiones

Piae Cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum is a collection of late medieval Latin songs first published in 1582. It was compiled by Jacobus Finno or Jaakko Suomalainen , a clergyman who was headmaster of the cathedral school at Turku...

• Praise One (2004)

SATB, SATB favori, orchestra; text adapted by Libby Larsen from Psalms 146, 147, 148, and 150

• The Shepherds and the Angels (2004)

SATB, soprano and baritone solos, organ and brass ensemble; text from Luke 2:8-20

Gospel of Luke

The Gospel According to Luke , commonly shortened to the Gospel of Luke or simply Luke, is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels. This synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. It details his story from the events of his birth to his Ascension.The...

• Giving Thanks (2005)

SSAA and string quartet; text by Chief Jake Swamp

• God So Loved the World (2005)

SATB a cappella; text from John 3:16-17

Gospel of John

The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...

• I Dream of Peace (2005)

SATB and percussion; text by children of former Yugoslavia

Former Yugoslavia

The former Yugoslavia is a term used to describe the present day states which succeeded the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....

• The Nothing That Is (2005)

SATB, baritone solo, three speaking voices and chamber ensemble; text adapted by Libby Larsen

• The Summer Day (2005)

SSAA and string quartet; text by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...

• Western Songs (2005)

SATB a cappella; text from American Folksongs

• Of Music (2006)

SSAA and four-hand piano; text by Emily Dickinson

• The Blackbird (2007)

TTBB and piano; text by Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...

• Crowding North (2007)

three pieces

SATB, guitar, flute, oboe, bassoon, and string quartet

• Four Meditations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (2007)

SATB, organ, handbells; text by Mechthild of Magdeburg

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Mechthild of Magdeburg , a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit described her visions of God....

• I Lift My Eyes to the Hills (2007)

SATB, handbells, organ; text from Psalm 121

• Novum Gaudium (2007)

SATB a cappella; text from and by Ecce Novum Gaudium and Angelus Emittitur

• A Simple Gloria (2007)

SATB a cappella; text by M. K. Dean

• Whitman's America (2007)

SATB a cappella; text by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...

• To Sing (2008)

SSA and piano; text by Kasey Zitnik

• A Book of Spells (2009)

SSAA and piano; text by Z. E. Budapest

• Free, Fearless, and Female (2009)

SSAA and marimba; text by Judy Belski, Anonymous Pampa Poem trans. by W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin

William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...

, and Anna Swir

Voice

• Love After 1950 (2000)

five movements

mezzo-soprano and piano; text by Rita Dove

Rita Dove

Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "U.S. Poet Laureate"...

, Julie Kane, Kathryn Daniels, Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead is a Scottish poet and dramatist, originally from Newarthill in North Lanarkshire.-Background:After attending Glasgow School of Art, Lochhead lectured in fine art for eight years before becoming a professional writer....

, and Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism...

• My Antonia (2000)

high voice and piano; text by Willa Cather

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

five movements

soprano and piano; text by Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...

, Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII. She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter's execution for trumped up charges of high treason, incest and adultery in May 1536. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of...

, Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves was a German noblewoman and the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England and as such she was Queen of England from 6 January 1540 to 9 July 1540. The marriage was never consummated, and she was not crowned queen consort...

, Catherine Howard

Catherine Howard

Catherine Howard , also spelled Katherine, Katheryn or Kathryn, was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, and sometimes known by his reference to her as his "rose without a thorn"....

, and Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr ; 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen consort of England and Ireland and the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII of England. She married Henry VIII on 12 July 1543. She was the fourth commoner Henry had taken as his consort, and outlived him...

• Hell's Belles (2001)

four movements

mezzo-soprano and handbells; text by Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an award-winning American actress of the stage and screen, talk-show host, and bonne vivante...

, Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...

, Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...

, and Nursery Rhyme

Nursery rhyme

The term nursery rhyme is used for "traditional" poems for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the older ‘Mother Goose Rhymes’ is still often used.-Lullabies:...

• Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub (2001)

tenor and piano; text by Thomas McGrath

Thomas McGrath (poet)

Thomas Matthew McGrath, was a celebrated American poet....

• Notes Shipped Under the Door (2001)

soprano, flute, and orchestra; text by Eugenia Zukerman

Eugenia Zukerman

Eugenia Rich Zukerman is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Mrs Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at major music festivals internationally for more than three decades...

• Raspberry Island Dreaming (2002)

mezzo-soprano and full orchestra; text by Joyce Stuphen and Patricia Hampl

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

mezzo-soprano and piano; text by Joyce Stuphen and Patricia Hampl

• De Toda la Eternidad (2003/2005)

soprano and wind ensemble or piano; text by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz

• I Love You Through the Daytimes (2003)

baritone and piano; ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

ian text

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

soprano and string quartet; text by Dima Hilal and Sekena Shaben

• Fern Hill (2004)

solo tenor; text by Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...

• A Pig in the House (2004)

tenor and piano; Alvin Greenburg

• Sifting Through the Ruins (2005)

mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano; text by Hilary North, anonymous, Alicia Vasquez, Martha Cooper

Martha Cooper

Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland where she picked up photography at the age of three. She graduated from high school at the age of 16, earned an art degree at age 19 from Grinnell College...

, and Ted Berrigan

Ted Berrigan

-Early life:Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army in 1954 to serve in the Korean War. After three years in the Army, he finished his college studies at the University of Tulsa in...

• Take (2006)

soprano and piano; text by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

• Center Field Girl (2007)

soprano and piano; text by Michele Antonello Frisch

• A Quiet Song (2007)

baritone and piano; text by Brenda Ueland

written in memory of Bruce Carlson of the Schubert Club

• Righty, 1966 (2007)

soprano, flute, and piano; text by Michele Antonello Frisch

• Within the Circles of Our Lives (2007)

soprano, baritone, and wind ensemble; text by Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays...

• Far in a Western Brookland (2008)

tenor and piano; text by A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

Alfred Edward Housman , usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900...

• Forget Me Not (2008)

soprano and tenor duet and piano; anonymous text from Cupples and Leon

Cupples & Leon

Cupples & Leon was an American publishing company founded in 1902 by Victor I. Cupples and Arthur T. Leon . They published juvenile fiction and children's books but are mainly remembered today as the major publisher of books collecting comic strips during the early decades of the 20th century.In...

 Given book of poems

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

soprano, percussion I, II, III, celeste, and string orchestra; text by Dima Hilal and Sekeena Shaben

• Song (2009)

solo soprano; text by e.e. cummings

Instrumental

• Brazen Overture (2000)

brass quintet

• Mephisto Rag (2000)

solo piano

• Neon Angel (2000)

violin, cello, clarinet (or saxophone), flute, piano, percussion, and cued CD

• Three for the Road (2000)

violin, cello, and piano

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

flute and orchestra

• Barn Dances (2001)

flute, clarinet, and piano

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

violin, cello, and piano

• Viola Sonata (2001)

viola and piano

• Licorice Stick (2002)

clarinet and piano

• On a Day of Bells (2002)

solo organ

• Argyle Sketches (2003)

solo guitar

• Bid Call (2003)

alto saxophone, cello

• Fanfare for Humanity (2003)

brass ensemble

• Firebrand (2003)

flute/piccolo, violin, cello, and piano

• Pocket Sonata (2003)

oboe, alto saxophone, violin, cello, marimba/vibraphone, and piano

• Bee Navigation (2004)

solo clarinet

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

tenor steel drum and chamber ensemble

• For Two (2004)

four-hand piano

• Gavel Patter (2004)

four-hand piano

• Pealing Fire (2004)

carillon

• Penta Metrics (2004)

solo piano

• Wait a Minute (2004)

saxophone quartet

• Yellow Jersey (2004)

Bb clarinet duet

• Blue Windows: After Marc Chagall
  Marc Chagall
  Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
  
   (2005)

woodwind quintet and piano

• Fanfare for a Learned man (2005)

brass quintet

• Now I Pull Silver (2005)

amplified flute and prepared CD; text by A. E. Stallings

A. E. Stallings

Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow-Background:Stallings was raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia and University of Oxford. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. In 1999, Stallings moved...

• Slow Structures (2005)

flute, cello, and piano

• Song Concerto (2005)

saxophone and chamber orchestra

• Trio in Four Movements (2005)

four movements

flute, violin, and harp

• Concert Piece for Bassoon and Piano (2006)

bassoon and piano

• Engelberg: Trio for Brass and Organ (2006)

trumpet, horn in F, trombone, and organ

• He Arose: A Fanfare for Easter (2006)

organ, two trumpet, two trombone, optional horn

• The Adventures of Wonderboy: Issue One (2008)

bass, sampler, narrator, cartoons, strings

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

double string quartet

• Quartet: She Wrote (2008)

string quartet

• Ricochet (2008)

two marimbas

• Ricochet (piano) (2008)

solo piano

• Downwind of Roses in Maine (2009)

flute, Bb clarinet, and mallet percussion

• Over, Easy (2009)

violin, viola, cello, and piano

Orchestral

• The Moabit Sonnets (2011)

two sopranos, tenor, bass, chamber orchestra; text by Albrecht Haushofer

Albrecht Haushofer

Albrecht Georg Haushofer was a German geographer, diplomat and author.Albrecht Haushofer's father was the retired General and geographer Karl Haushofer . His mother Martha . Albrecht had one brother, Heinz.Albrecht studied geography and history at Munich University...

, trans. M.D. Herter Norton

Choral

• Celebration Mass-Lutheran Edition (2010)

SATB choir, congregation, organ, and optional handbells, brass quintet/quartet and percussion/timpani; text from traditional Lutheran liturgy

• Chain of Hope (2010)

SATB, baritone, actress, piano; text from various letters and writings regarding Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...

; libretto by Libby Larsen, Kathleen Holt and Jeanne Soderberg

• Concord Fragments (2010)

SSAA, oboe, clarinet and piano; text adapted by Libby Larsen

• Celebration Mass-Catholic Edition (2011)

SATB choir, congregation, organ; text from traditional Catholic liturgy

• If Music Be the Food of Love (2011)

SATB; text by Henry Heveningham

Voice

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

baritone and prepared piano; text by H. H. Holmes

H. H. Holmes

Herman Webster Mudgett , better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term...

aka Herman Mudgett

Instrumental

• In Such a Night (2010)

two violas and recorded voice; text by William Shakespeare

• Like Blind Men Tapping in the Dark (2010)

one marimba, two performers

• Rodeo Queen of Heaven (2010)

clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

• Ursa (2010)

tuba and wind ensemble