List of compositions by Libby Larsen


The following is a chronological list of compositions by Libby Larsen, divided into genre groups.

List of works

Opera

Some Pig Moon Drop The Silver Fox Clair de Lune Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus A Wrinkle in Time Mrs. Dalloway Eric Hermannson's Soul Barnum's Bird Dreaming Blue Every Man Jack
  • ''Picnic''

Orchestral

  • Weaver's Song & Jig
  • Pinions
  • Deep Summer Music
  • Overture: Parachute Dancing
  • Symphony: Water Music
  • Coming Forth Into day
  • What the Monster Saw
  • Collage: Boogie
  • Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
  • Concerto: Cold, Silent Snow
  • Tambourines!
  • The Atmosphere as a Fluid System
  • Marimba Concerto: After Hampton
  • Piano Concerto: Since Armstrong
  • Symphony No. 3: Lyric
  • Overture for the End of a Century
  • Song-Dances to the Light
  • Ring of Fire
  • Blue Fiddler
  • Fanfare: Strum
  • Roll Out the Thunder
  • Spell On Me That Holy Hour: Overture to Tsvetaeva
  • All Around Sound
  • Solo Symphony
  • String Symphony
  • Still Life With Violin
  • Fanfare: Sizzle
  • Brandenburg for the New Millennium
  • Song Concerto
  • Bach 358
  • Evening in the Palace of Reason
  • Encircling Skies
  • Sacred Vows The Moabit Sonnets
  • Six or Seven Dances

Band

  • Grand Rondo
  • Sun Song
  • Brass Flight
  • Concert Dances
  • Short Symphony
  • Hambone
  • Strut
  • River Fanfare
  • An Introduction to the Moon
  • Cri de Coeur

Instrumental

  • Circular Rondo, Canti Breve
  • Three Pieces for Treble Wind and Guitar
  • Piano Suite
  • Impromptu
  • Corker
  • Jazz Variations for Solo Bassoon
  • Tango
  • Bronze Veils
  • Saraband: In profane style
  • Cajun Set
  • Scudding
  • Black Roller
  • Aubade
  • Four on the Floor
  • Sonata In One Movement on Kalenda Maya
  • Up Where the Air Gets Thin
  • With Love & Hisses
  • Juba
  • Song Without Words
  • Astonishing Flight of the Gump
  • Black Birds, Red Hills
  • Fantasy on Slane
  • Kathleen, as she was
  • Aspects of Glory
  • Xibalba
  • Schoenberg, Schenker, and Schillinger
  • String Quartet Schoenberg, Schenker, and Schillinger
  • Dancing Solo
  • Fanfare for the Women
  • Slang
  • Concert Piece for Tuba & Piano
  • Blessed be the Tie That Binds
  • Blue Third Pieces
  • Brass Flight
  • Holy Roller
  • Prelude on Veni Creator Spiritus
  • Brazen Overture
  • Mephisto Rag
  • Neon Angel
  • Three for the Road
  • The Atmosphere as a Fluid System
  • Barn Dances
  • Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano
  • Viola Sonata
  • Licorice Stick
  • On a Day of Bells
  • Argyle Sketches
  • Bid Call
  • Fanfare for Humanity
  • Firebrand
  • Pocket Sonata
  • Bee Navigation
  • Concertino for Tenor Steel Drum and Chamber Ensemble
  • For Two
  • Gavel Patter
  • Pealing Fire
  • Penta Metrics
  • Wait a Minute
  • Yellow Jersey
  • Blue Windows: After Marc Chagall
  • Fanfare for a Learned man
  • Now I Pull Silver
  • Slow Structures
  • Song Concerto
  • Trio in Four Movements
  • Concert Piece for Bassoon and Piano
  • Engelberg: Trio for Brass and Organ
  • He Arose: A Fanfare for Easter
  • The Adventures of Wonderboy: Issue One
  • Double String Quartet, J.S.B.
  • Quartet: She Wrote
  • Ricochet
  • Ricochet
  • Downwind of Roses in Maine
  • Over, Easy
  • In Such a Night
  • Like Blind Men Tapping in the Dark
  • Rodeo Queen of Heaven
  • Ursa
  • 4 ½: A Piano Suite

Choral

  • Eine Kleine Snailmusik
  • All Shall Be Well
  • Dance Set
  • Double Joy
  • In a Winter Garden
  • Everyone Sang
  • Ringeltanze
  • A Creeley Collection
  • Welcome Yule
  • Clair de Lune
  • I Love the Lord
  • Peace, Perfect Peace
  • We Celebrate
  • Who Cannot Weep, Come Learn of Me
  • Clair de Lune in Blue
  • Songs of Youth and Pleasure
  • Canticle of the Sun
  • A Garden Wall
  • Refuge
  • The Settling Years
  • Three Summer Scenes
  • How it Thrills Us
  • I Am a Little Church
  • Alleluia
  • Deck the Halls
  • Eagle Poem
  • Missa Gaia—Mass for the Earth
  • Mother, Sister, Blessed Holy
  • Pied Beauty
  • God As Ribbon of Light
  • Canticle of Mary
  • A Choral Welcome
  • I Just Lightning
  • Little Notes on A Simple Staff
  • Fanfare & Alleluia
  • I Arise Today
  • I Will Sing and Raise a Psalm
  • Invitation to Music
  • Seven Ghosts
  • Today, This Spring
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • So Blessedly It Sprung
  • I Find My Feet Have Further Goals
  • Love Songs
  • May Sky
  • Reasons for Loving Harmonica
  • Density of Light
  • Ring the Bells
  • Stepping Westward
  • Sweet & Sour Nursery Rhymes
  • By a Departing Light
  • Day Song
  • Is God, Our Endless Day
  • A Salute to Louis Armstrong
  • To a Long Loved Love
  • Four Valentines: A Lover's Journey
  • Falling
  • How To Songs
  • Lord, Before This Fleeting Season
  • Psalm 121
  • Touch the Air Softly
  • The Witches Trio
  • If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
  • Jack's Valentine
  • The Ballerina and the Clown
  • Flee We to Our Lord
  • Come Before Winter
  • I It Am: The Shewings of Julian of Norwich
  • Womanly Song of God
  • A Young Nun Singing
  • Cry Peace
  • Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head
  • Natus Est Emmanuel
  • Praise One
  • The Shepherds and the Angels
  • Giving Thanks
  • God So Loved the World
  • I Dream of Peace
  • The Nothing That Is
  • The Summer Day
  • Western Songs
  • Of Music
  • The Blackbird
  • Crowding North
  • Four Meditations of Mechthild of Magdeburg
  • I Lift My Eyes to the Hills
  • Novum Gaudium
  • A Simple Gloria
  • Whitman's America
  • To Sing
  • A Book of Spells
  • Free, Fearless, and Female Celebration Mass-Lutheran Edition
  • Chain of Hope
  • Concord Fragments
  • Arctic Spring Celebration Mass-Catholic Edition
  • If Music Be the Food of Love
  • ''Matineé: The Fantom of the Fair''

Voice

  • Saints Without Tears
  • Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke Cowboy Songs
  • Three Rilke Songs
  • A Verse Record of my Peonies
  • Before Winter
  • Me
  • Songs From Letters
  • When I Am An Old Woman
  • Sonnets From the Portuguese
  • How Lovely Are Thy Holy Groves
  • Perineo
  • Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
  • Mary Cassatt
  • Margaret Songs
  • Chanting to Paradise
  • Lord, Make Me An Instrument
  • The Ant and the Grasshopper
  • Late in the Day
  • Songs of Light and Love
  • Love After 1950
  • My Antonia
  • Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII
  • Hell's Belles
  • Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub
  • Notes Slipped Under the Door
  • Raspberry Island Dreaming
  • Raspberry Island Dreaming
  • De Toda la Eternidad
  • I Love You Through the Daytimes
  • This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony
  • Fern Hill
  • A Pig in the House
  • Sifting Through the Ruins
  • Take
  • Center Field Girl
  • A Quiet Song
  • Righty, 1966
  • Within the Circles of Our Lives
  • Far in a Western Brookland
  • Forget Me Not
  • This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony, Orchestral Version
  • Song
  • The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes