List of compositions by Libby Larsen

1970-1979

Opera

• Some Pig
• Moon Drop
• Silver Ox

  Orchestral

• Weaver's Song & Jig

  Choral

• Eine Kleine Snailmusik
• All Shall Be Well

  Voice

• Saints Without Tears
• Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
• Cowboy Songs

  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

  1980-1989

Opera

• Clair de Lune

  Orchestral

• 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

  Band

• Grand Rondo

  Choral

• 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

  Voice

• Three Rilke Songs
• A Verse Record of my Peonies
• Before Winter
• Me
• Songs From Letters

  Instrumental

• 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

  1990-1999

Opera

• A Wrinkle in Time
• Mrs. Dalloway
• Eric Hermannson's Soul

  Orchestral

• 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

  Band

• Sun Song
• Brass Flight
• Concert Dances
• Short Symphony
• Hambone

  Choral

• 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

  Voice

• 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 Art and the Grasshopper
• Late in the Day
• Songs of Light and Love

  Instrumental

• 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

  2000–2009

Opera

• Barnum's Bird
• Dreaming Blue
• Every Man Jack
• Picnic

  Orchestral

• 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

  Band

• Strut
• River Fanfare
• An Introduction to the Moon
• Cri de Coeur

  Choral

• 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

  Voice

• 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 Shipped 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

  Instrumental

• 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

  2010-present

Orchestral

• The Moabit Sonnets

  Choral

• Celebration Mass-Lutheran Edition
• Chain of Hope
• Concord Fragments
• Celebration Mass-Catholic Edition
• If Music Be the Food of Love

  Voice

• The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes

  Instrumental

• In Such a Night
• Like Blind Men Tapping in the Dark
• Rodeo Queen of Heaven
• Ursa