List of compositions by Betsy Jolas

Opera and stage works

• Le Pavillon au Bord de la Rivière, chamber opera in 4 acts
• Schliemann, opera in 3 acts
• Le Cyclope, chamber opera in 1 act
• Ajax, incidental music for the play by Sophocles
• Les troyennes, incidental music for the play by Euripides
• La dernière existence au camp de Tatenberg, incidental music for the play by Armand Gatti

  Orchestra

• D'un opéra de voyage for chamber orchestra
• Quatre Plages for string orchestra
• Well Met for string orchestra
• Tales of a summer sea for orchestra
• Cinq pièces pour Boulogne
• Well Met 04 – Pantomime for 12 strings
• B Day for symphony orchestra
• Just a Minute
• A Little Summer Suite
• Well Met Suite

  Solo works with orchestra or ensemble

• Points D'Aube for viola and ensemble
• Musique d'hiver for organ and small orchestra
• États for violin and 6 percussionists
• Trois Rencontres for solo string trio and symphony orchestra
• How-Now for 8 instruments
• Onze Lieder for trumpet and chamber orchestra
• Stances for piano and orchestra
• Points d'or for saxophonist
• Frauenleben for viola and orchestra
• Lumor, 7 Lieder spirituels for a saxophonist and orchestra
• Petite symphonie concertante for conducting violin and orchestra
• Wanderlied for cello and 15 instruments
• Histoires Vraies for trumpet and orchestra
• Side Roads'' for cello and strings

  Works for large ensemble

• Figures for 9 instruments
• J.D.E. for 14 musicians
• D'un opéra de poupée en sept musiques for 11 instruments
• Préludes, Fanfares, Interludes, Sonneries for wind band
• Sonate à 8 for cello octet

  Chamber music

• Sonate à Trois for recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord
• Quartet No.1
• Quartet No.3, 9 études for string quartet
• O Wall for wind quintet
• Trio for piano trio
• Quartet No.4 – Menus Propos for string quartet
• Trio "Les Heures" for string trio
• Musique pour Xavier for clarinet, tenor saxophone and violin
• Quartet No.5 for string quartet
• Music for here for solo bassoon with accompaniment of viola and cello
• Quartet No.6 for clarinet and string trio
• Petite sonnerie de juin for horn, trumpet and trombone
• Trio sopra et sola facta for violin, clarinet and piano
• Titivillus for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano or 2 flutes and piano
• Ah! Haydn for piano trio
• Quatuor VII for trumpet, violin, viola and cello

  Duos

• Trifolium for flute and piano
• Remember for cor anglais and cello
• Four Duos for viola and piano
• Trois études campanaires for carillon and keyboard
• Quatre pièces en marge for cello and piano
• Three Duos for tuba and piano
• Music for Joan for vibraphone and piano
• Petites musiques de chevet for clarinet and piano
• E.A petite suite variée for trumpet in C and vibraphone
• Études aperçues for vibraphone and 5 cow bells
• Musique pour Delphine for violin and cello
• Quoth the raven, 3 pieces for clarinet and piano
• Frauenleben for viola and piano
• Music to go for violin and cello
• Come follow for bassoon and viola
• Lovemusic for flute and bass clarinet
• Suite: Puer apud magistros exercentur for 2 alto saxophones
• Allô! for 2 saxophones
• Oh là! for 2 saxophones
• Scat for 2 saxophones
• Ardente for viola and piano
• Femme le soir for cello and piano

  Solo works

• Episode No.1 for flute
• Fusain for bass flute and piccolo
• Chanson d'approche for piano
• Autour for harpsichord
• B for Sonata for piano
• Scion for cello
• Tranche for harp
• Musique de jour for organ
• Episode No.2 "ohne Wörte" for flute
• Auprès for harpsichord
• Pièce pour Saint Germain for piano
• Calling E.C. for piano or two pianos
• Episode No.3 for trumpet in C
• Episode No.4 for tenor saxophone
• Petite suite sérieuse pour concert de famille for piano
• Episode No.5 for cello
• Episode No.6 for viola
• Episode No.7 "night away" for electric guitar
• Episode No.8 for double bass
• Tango Si for piano
• Une journee de Gadad, children's suite for piano
• Signets, hommage à Maurice Ravel for piano
• Episode No.9 "Forte magnum colaraturum" for clarinet
• Pièce pour piano
• Petite Fantaisie for Leo for flute
• Pièces jay for piano
• O Bach! for piano
• Leçons du petit jour for organ
• 3 x Toi for piano – dedicated to Nicolas Hodges

  Chorus

• Mass for choir, soloists and orchestra
• Motet I – To everything, there is a season for 7 women's voices
• Madrigal for choir
• Arbres for mixed choir a cappella
• Et le reste à l'avenant for mixed choir a cappella
• Everyone sings for double women's choir féminin et brass
• Enfantillages for women's or children's choir in 3 equal voices
• L'oeil égaré dans les plis de l'obéissance au vent, cantate radiophonique for soprano, contralto, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra
• Dans la chaleur vacante, cantate radiophonique for choir and orchestra
• Mots for vocal quintet and ensemble
• Motet II for chorus and ensemble
• Diurnes for mixed chorus of 12 to 72 voices
• Sonata for 12 mixed voices a cappella
• Perriault le déluné, comédie-madrigal for mixed choir of 3 times 4 voices a cappella
• Für Celia affettuoso for choir in 6 voices
• Motet III "Hunc igitur terrorem" for 5 solo voices, choir and Baroque orchestra
• Enfantillages new version with flute and women's or children's choir
• Autres enfantillages for children's or women's choir with clarinet ad libitum
• Chant dormant for choir
• Concerto-Fantaisie "O night, oh" – for mixed choir of 32 voices and concertante piano
• Motet IV "Ventosum Vocant" for soprano and quintet
• Femme en son jardin for vocal quartet, viola, cello and piano
• Orça for choir a cappella
• Savez-Vous Qui Est Mon Ami for chorus of three mixed voices

  Vocal

• Plupart du temps I, 6 melodies for mezzo-soprano and piano
• Chansons pour Paule for mezzo-soprano and piano
• Cinq poèmes de Jacques Dupin for soprano et piano or orchestra
• Mots for soprano and ensemble
• Quartet No.2 for soprano and string trio
• Mon Ami for voice and piano
• Caprice for one voice for any male or female voice and piano, without pianist
• Caprice for two voices for mezzo-soprano and counter-tenor or contralto
• Liring Ballade for baritone and orchestra
• Plupart du temps II for tenor, tenor saxophone and cello
• Sigrancia-Ballade for baritone and orchestra
• Lovaby, concert aria from the opera Schliemann for soprano and orchestra
• Titivillus for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano or 2 flutes and piano
• Motet IV 'Ventosum Vocant' for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp, violin and cello.
• L' Ascension du Mont Ventoux for soprano, narrator, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and harp
• D'un journal d'amour for soprano and viola
• Sur do : Hommage à Purcell pour quatuor vocal, alto et violoncelle
• Rambles for narrator/speaker, flute, clarinet, harp, violin and cello
• L'oeil égaré for baritone and piano
• Fredons for soprano and ensemble

  Reworkings of early music

• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 11 for string quartet, double bass, wind quintet, harp and piano or orchestra
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 20 for wind quintet, string trio, viola, harp or orchestra
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 47 for flute, clarinet, 2 violins, 2 violas and cello
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 68 for flute, clarinet, 2 violins, 2 violas and cello
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 84 for flute, bassoon, piano and string quartet
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 92 for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and string quartet or orchestra
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 97 for wind quintet, string trio
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No 121 for flute, piano and string quartet or orchestra
• Lassus Ricercare for brass, percussion, harp and pianos
• Orlandus Lassus / 3 Psaumes de Ulenberg
• Pierluigi Palestrina / Assumpta est Maria motet, for flute, clarinet, harp and string trio
• Guillaume Dufay / Flos Florum motet for wind quintet
• Johannes Brasart / O Flos Fragrans motet for wind quintet
• Josquin des Prés / Suite brève
• Jean Sébastien Bach / 14 Goldberg canons for flute, oboe, clarinet, string trio and double bass
• Jean Sébastien Bach – Contrapunctus IV '' for chamber orchestra and vocal quartet