List of compositions by Philip Glass


The following is a list of compositions by Philip Glass.

Works for the Philip Glass Ensemble

600 Lines How Now for ensemble Music in Fifths Music in Similar Motion Music with Changing Parts Music in Twelve Parts Another Look at Harmony, Parts 1 and 2 North Star Dance Glassworks A Descent into the Maelstrom Orion
  • ''Los Paisajes del Rio''

Operas

Einstein on the Beach for the Philip Glass Ensemble Satyagraha Akhnaten The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, Act V – The Rome Section The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 The Voyage White Raven The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Galileo Galilei Waiting for the Barbarians for voices, chorus and orchestra Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American
  • Spuren der Verirrten
  • ''Circus Days and Nights''

Chamber operas, music theatre

A Madrigal Opera for six voices, violin and viola The Photographer for soloists, chorus and orchestra The Juniper Tree The Fall of the House of Usher 1000 Airplanes on the Roof for voice and ensemble Hydrogen Jukebox for voices and ensemble Orphée for voices and chamber orchestra La Belle et la Bête for voices and the Philip Glass Ensemble or chamber orchestra Les Enfants terribles, Dance Opera for voices and three pianos The Witches of Venice, children's opera-ballet Monsters of Grace, chamber opera for the Philip Glass Ensemble In the Penal Colony for voices and string quintet The Sound of a Voice for voices and chamber ensemble including a pipa

Works for solo piano or electric organ

How Now for piano or electric organ Two Pages for piano or electric organ Music in Contrary Motion for electric organ Another Look at Harmony, Part 3 for electric organ Knee Play 4 for piano Modern Love Waltz for piano Mad Rush for piano or electric organ Opening for piano The Olympian for piano
  • Cadenza for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 Wichita Vortex Sutra for piano Metamorphosis for piano The French Lieutenant Sleeps from The Screens for piano Night on the Balcony from The Screens for piano Tesra for piano 12 Pieces for Ballet for piano Etudes for piano, Volume 1 The Joyful Moment for piano Truman Sleeps Dreaming Awake for piano A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close, two movements for piano Etudes for piano, Volume 2 Distant Figure – Passacaglia First Piano Sonata
  • ''Prelude for Organ''

Works for solo piano, arranged by others from various sources

Trilogy Sonata for piano Closing from "Mishima" for piano Anima Mundi for piano Selections from "A Brief History of Time" for piano The Orphée Suite for piano Candyman: Helen's Theme and more for piano
  • Overture from La Belle et la Bête for piano Jenipapo: No. 14 for piano Epilogue from Monsters of Grace for piano Dracula for piano Naqoyqatsi: Primacy of Number for piano The Fog of War for piano Music from the Hours for piano
  • Concerto No. 2 "After Lewis and Clark" for piano Neverwas Set for piano "Life in the Mountains" from "The Illusionist" for piano Notes on a Scandal: I knew her for piano No Reservations Combine for piano Prophecies from Koyaanisqatsi for piano

Works for two or more pianos

In Again Out Again for two pianos Six Scenes from Les Enfants Terribles for two pianos Four Movements for Two Pianos
  • ''Two Movements for Four Pianos''

String quartets

  • String Quartet No. 1
  • String Quartet No. 2 Company
  • String Quartet No. 3 Mishima
  • String Quartet No. 4 Buczak
  • String Quartet No. 5 Bent for String Quartet Dracula for string quartet
  • String Quartet No. 6
  • String Quartet No. 7
  • String Quartet No. 8
  • King Lear
  • String Quartet No. 9 ''King Lear''

Chamber music (other than string quartets)

  • Brass Sextet Play for two saxophones Music for Ensemble and Two Actresses for wind sextet and two speakers Head On for violin, cello and piano Music in the Shape of a Square for two flutes Two Down for two saxophones Best Out of Three for three clarinets Music in Eight Parts for two soprano saxophones, viola, cello and three electric organs Fourth Series Part Three for violin and clarinet Opening from Glassworks for piano, cello and percussion Façades, for two saxophones and string ensemble Prelude to Endgame for timpani and double bass Music from The Screens for chamber ensemble Passages for chamber ensemble The Orchard for cello and piano Love Divided By for flute and piano In the Summer House for violin and cello
  • Saxophone Quartet Tissues for cello, percussion and piano Taoist Sacred Dance for piano and flute Music from The Sound of a Voice for flute, pipa, violin, cello and percussion
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano
  • Duo for Viola & Percussion Pendulum, movement for violin and piano
  • Duos for violin and cello Annunciation, piano quintet for two violins, viola, cello, and piano Perpetulum, percussion quartet

Chamber music (other than string quartets), arranged by others

The Windcatcher for saxophone sextet
  • String Sextet

Works for solo instruments (other than piano)

Strung Out for amplified violin Gradus for soprano saxophone Arabesque in Memoriam for flute France from The Screens for violin Melodies for saxophone Songs and Poems No. 1 for Solo Cello Songs and Poems No. 2 for Solo Cello Partita for Solo Violin Orbit for solo cello, for Yo-Yo Ma and Lil Buck, April 2, 2013, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Manhattan
  • ''Partita for Solo Double Bass ''

Symphonies

Other works for orchestra

Piece for Chamber Orchestra Music in Similar Motion for chamber orchestra Company for string orchestra Glass Pieces for orchestra Prelude and Dance from Akhnaten for orchestra the CIVIL warS – the Cologne Section for orchestra with optional mixed chorus Two Interludes from the CIVIL warS – the Rome Section for orchestra Runaway Horses from Mishima for string orchestra and harp In the Upper Room for chamber orchestra Phaedra for string orchestra and percussion The Light, a Symphonic Portrait for orchestra The Canyon, a Dramatic Episode for orchestra Passages for chamber orchestra Mechanical Ballet from The Voyage for orchestra Suite from Orphée for chamber orchestra
  • Concerto Grosso for chamber orchestra Three Pieces from The Secret Agent for orchestra Days and Nights in Rocinha, Dance for orchestra DRA Fanfare for orchestra Dancissimo for orchestra Icarus at the Edge of Time for narrator and orchestra Harmonium Mountain for orchestra Black and White Scherzo for orchestra Overture 2012 for orchestra King Lear Overture for orchestra Alice ballet for orchestra Triumph of the Octagon for orchestra

Works for orchestra, orchestrated by others

Modern Love Waltz for chamber orchestra The Thin Blue Line for string orchestra
  • Overture to La Belle et la Bête for string orchestra and piano Life: A Journey Through Time in seven sections for orchestra
  • Overture from La Belle et la Bête for string orchestra Four Pieces from "Dracula" for string orchestra and piano

Other works for orchestra, with chorus and solo voices

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance for chorus, ensemble and orchestra The Olympian: Lighting of the Torch and Closing for orchestra and chorus Itaipu, a symphonic portrait for chorus and orchestra in four movements Persephone for orchestra and chorus Songs of Milarepa for baritone and chamber orchestra Psalm 126 for orchestra and chorus The Passion of Ramakrishna for chorus and orchestra

Concerti and other works for solo instruments and orchestra

For piano

For violin

For cello

For harpsichord

For multiple soloists

Façades for two saxophones and string orchestra

Works for solo instruments and orchestra, arranged or orchestrated by others

Closing from "Glassworks" for piano and string orchestra Passages for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra Dracula: Suite for string orchestra and piano
  • Suite from The Hours for piano, strings, harp and celeste Orphée Suite from the opera Orphée for flute, strings and percussion Flute Concerto for flute and orchestra – transcription from Violin Concerto n. 1

Vocal works

Music for Voices Hebeve Song for soprano, clarinet and bassoon Songs from Liquid Days for voices and ensemble De Cie for four voices Ignorant Sky, Song The Streets of Berlin, Song Planctus, Song for voice and piano In the Night Kitchen for voices and chamber ensemble Book of Longing for solo voices and chamber ensemble

Works for chorus

Haze Gold for chorus A Clear Midnight for chorus Spring Grass for chorus Another Look at Harmony, Part IV for chorus and organ
  • Three Songs for chorus a cappella

Works for organ

Dance No. 2 for organ Dance No. 4 for organ Mad Rush for organ Voices for organ, didgeridoo and narrator Prelude for organ

Music for the theatre

Incidental music for stage works:Play The Red Horse Animation The Lost Ones Cascando The Saint and the Football Player Dressed Like an Egg Cold Harbor Company Endgame Worstward Ho The Screens Cymbeline Henry IV, Parts One and Two In the Summer House Woyzeck The Elephant Man Beckett Shorts The Bacchae The Crucible

Dance scores

Dance Glass Pieces In the Upper Room
  • Music for Mysteries and What's So Funny
  • ''Heroes Symphony''

Film and television scores

Chappaqua Inquiring Nuns North Star: Mark di Suvero, Sculptor Sesame Street Cues

Arrangements

Icct Hedral for orchestra Sound of Silence for piano

Other works

One Plus One for amplified tabletop Long Beach Island, Word Location The Late Great Johnny Ace, coda to the song from Paul Simon's Hearts and Bones Pink Noise, acoustic installation Brown Piano, Martingala, Double Rhythm, Boogie Mood, Sax, Variation: alarm bleeps for Swatch wristwatches Aguas da Amazonia Spoleto Fanfare, for carillon