Libby Larsen

Libby Larsen's composition is a great way to engage students in the lives and histories of some of modern music's most influential contributors. From Sedalia, Missouri to Ghana and the Ivory Coast, Ha...

The piece consists of nine fully notated sections which surround eight sections of improvised music. Each of the improvised sections includes the reading of a poem which refers to the moon.

For symphonic winds (Picc. 2. 2. 3. Bcl. Contra Bcl. 2-5Sax-4. 3. 3. 1-Euphonium-String Bass-Timps-3Perc), tuned water glasses, and amplified voice. The piece consists of nine fully notated sections w...

Larsen's flowing meditation on the 'Veni creator' tune was written as the Pentecost entry for a multi-composer anthology based on the liturgical year. It was given one of the highest rankings in a sur...

A one movement work in three sections for clarinet, violin, and piano. The title refers to the use of both jazz and boogie slang and twentieth-century 'new music' slang throughout the composition.

A celebration of orchestral strings in three strongly contrasting movements.

This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental colour. Both the singer and the audienc...

Blue Third Pieces, for flute or B flat clarinet and guitar is a homage to the interval of the third and its place in the blues.Including references to Ray Charles and using samples from Dizzy Gillespi...

Larsen's fantasia on the familiar hymn-tune boasts richly atmospheric organ writing and is well-suited to weddings or services focussing on fellowship or reconciliation.

Barn Dances is a set of four abstract pieces drawing their titles from the name of a particular dance step used in cowboy dances. Taking the name of the step as a point of departure, Larsen's idea was...

Larsen derives a Joplinesque ragtime theme from one of the most familiar passages from Liszt's Mephisto pieces and builds it into a grand showpiece on the Romantic model for advanced pianists. It buil...

Larsen writes, '. . . I have loosely transcribed bell patterns from a field recording of Russian bells . . . the Communist persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church included the removal and destructi...

Black Birds, Red Hills is inspired by six Georgia O'Keeffe paintings, each exploring the flow of time and colour on her beloved red hills of New Mexico. This reflective portrayal is set in four moveme...

A piece about how auctioneersâ styles, pitches, timing, and complex rhythms merge to become what is their own âbid callâ.

Larsen states that she chose the instruments for Firebrand for their colour, combination and for their agility. However, rather than a nonstop, wildly virtuosic affair that might be suggested from the...

Penta Metrics is a set of five short pieces for intermediate-level pianists. The set is composed so that it can be played as a group of five works, or with pieces performed individually. Each piece is...

This accessible Christmas cantata presents a sequence of five carols, McDowall gives the familiar melodies a colourful new harmonic treatment, and the arrangements range in atmosphere from tenderness...

Using as its basis two traditional nursery rhymes and an achingly nostalgic poem by Eugene Field, Larsen deftly captures the essence of childhood in her clever setting of the three texts whilst offeri...

This stunning setting of Revelation 22:12-13, 17, describes Christ's generous offering of grace to 'whoever is willing'. The piece begins with a lively opening but quickly shifts into a gentler mood,...

This Christmas gradual sets a text from the second chapter of the book of Matthew depicting the moment that the angel tells Joseph to take his family to Egypt. The original instrumentation is flute, t...