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The Harrison-Colvig Collection: List of Music Works

This listing was provided by Lou's archivist, Charles Hansen. Another chronological list compiled from Groves and other sources and edited by Bill Alves is also available. Select the CD icon to link to the available recording.

Ballet Scores
Chamber Music
Choral Music
Concerti
Film Music
Gamelan: American
Gamelan: Balinese Gong Kebvar
Gamelan: Cirebon
Gamelan: Javanese
Incidental Music
Korean Court Orchestra
Orchestral Music
Orchestrations and Transcriptions
Percussion
Solo Instrumental

 

Ballet Scores

  • Almanac of the Seasons ( 1950) Ms.
  • Changing World ( 1936) Ms.
  • Chorales For Spring ( 1951-52) Ms.
  • Green Mansions ( 1939) Ms.
  • In Praise of Johnny Appleseed ( 1942) HBP For dancers with three percussionists
  • Omnipotent Chair ( 1940) Ms.
  • Orpheus ( 1941-69) HBP For solo voice, chorus, and percussion orchestra
  • Praises for Hummingbirds and Hawks ( 1951) Ms.
  • Something to Please Everybody ( 1939) Ms.
  • The Marriage at the Eiffel Tower ( 1949) Peters
  • Western Dance ( 1948) HBP For piano or small ensemble

Chamber Music

  • Arion's Leap ( 1974) HBP
    For justly tuned instruments and percussion
  • At the Tomb of Charles Ives ( 1964) Peer
    For chamber ensemble
  • Avalokiteshvara ( 1965) Salvi
    For harp and jahlataranga (2 players)
  • Beverly's Troubadour Piece ( 1967 ) Salvi
    For harp and percussion ostinato (2 players)
  • France, 1917-Spain, 1937 ( 1937) HBP
    For string quartet and percussion
  • Grand Duo ( 1988) HBP
    For violin and piano
  • Harp Solo (from music for Bill and Me) ( 1966-67 )
  • Ms. In Memory of Victor Cowers ( 1968) HBP
    For clarinet and piano
  • Motet for the Day of Ascension ( 1946) TP
    For 7 solo str
  • Music for Violin and Various Instruments, European, ( 1967) Peer
  • New Moon (ballet piece for Erick Hawkins) ( 1986) HBP
    For chamber ensemble
  • Old Times Tune for Merce Cunningham ( 1952-93)
    For string quartet and piano
  • Pacifika Rondo ( 1963) Peer
    For large chamber orchestra of Western and Oriental instruments
  • Party Pieces ( 1945) Peters
    Lou Harrison, John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Henry Cowell;
    arranged by Robert Hughes
  • Praise for the Beauty of Hummingbirds ( 1951) Peer
  • Prelude for Piri, with Harmonium ( 1962) HBP
  • Quintal Taryung ( 1961) Ms.
    For two flutes, changgo
  • Schoenbergiana ( 1945) (arranged by Robert Hughes
    For woodwind sextet
  • Serenade in C for Woodwinds ( 1954) HBP
  • Seven Pastorales ( 1952) Peer
    For 2- 1 -0- l , hp , str
  • Siciliana ( 1945) HBP (arranged by Robert Hughes)
    For woodwind quintet
  • Solstice ( 1949) Peer
    For fl, ob, tpt, cel, tack pf, 2 vcl, cb
  • Songs in the Forest ( 1951-52
    For violin, piano, flute, percussion
  • String Quartet Set ( 1979) Peer
  • Suite #1 ( 1947-48) Peer
    For string orchestra
  • Suite for Cello and Harp ( 1949)
  • The Clay's Quintet ( 1987) HBP
    For trumpet French horn , mandolin, harp percussion
  • Trio ( 1946) C. F. Peters
    For vln, via, vcl
  • Trio (Piano Trio) ( 1990) HBP
    For violin, cello, piano
  • Varied Trio ( 1987, Aptos, Ca.) HBP/Frog Peak
    (arranged by Julie Steinberg)
    For violin, piano, percussion
  • Vestiunt Silve ( 1994) HBP For soprano, flute, 2 viole, harp

Choral Music

  • A Joyous Procession and a Solemn Procession ( 1962) Peters
    For high and low voices, tbn, and perc
  • A Political Primer ( 1951) HBP
    For soloists, chorus, orchestra
  • Easter Cantata ( 1943-46) HBP
    For solo voices, chorus, orchestra
  • Four Strict Songs (Harrison) ( 1955-92) GS
    For 8 bar and orch, 2 tbn, pf, hp , perc, str
  • Gregorian Mass (Mass to St. Cecelia) ( 1986) HBP
    For male chorus
  • Haiku (K. Davis) ( 1968) HBP
    For unison chorus, shiao, harp, percussion
  • Mass (to St. Anthony) ( 1939-54) Peer
    For SATB, trumpet, harp, strings
  • Nova Odo ( 1962) HBP
    For chorus, orchestra, special instruments
  • Peace Piece One (from the Metta Sutta) ( 1968) HBP
    For unison chorus with tbn, 3 perc, 2 hp, reed organ, str qnt
  • Three Songs ( 1985) Peer
    For male chorus, piano, strings

Concerti

  • Concerto
    for Organ with Percussion Orchestra (1972-73) Peer
  • Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan (1987) HBP
  • Concerto in Slendro for Violin (1961) Peters
    For cel, 2 tack pf, perc (triangle), ranch triangle, gongs, washtubs, garbage
  • Piano Concerto ( 1985) Peters
    For piano and orchestra
  • Piano Concerto with Selected Orchestra (1985, Aptos, CA.) C.F. Peters

Film Music

  • Beyond the Far Blue Mountains ( 1981-82) Ms.
    Film by Molly Davies
  • Devotions ( 1983)
    Film by James Broughton
  • Discovering Korean Art (1979) Ms.
  • Nuptiae ( 1973) Ms.
  • The Scattered Remains of James Broughton ( 1987) Ms.

Gamelan: American

  • La Koro Sutro ( 1971) Peer
    For mixed chorus and added percussion instruments
  • Suite for Solo Violin and American Gamelan ( 1972-73) Peer
    Composed with Richard Dee
    For solo violin, and string orchestra

Gamelan: Balinese

  • Gong Kebvar For Jafran Jones ( )

Gamelan: Cirebon

  • Lagu Elang Yusef ( 1984) HBP
    (slendro)
  • Lagu Lagu Thomasan ( 1983) HBP
  • Lagu Victoria ( 1983) HBP

Gamelan: Javanese

  • Book Music(1994) HBP
  • Bubaran Robert ( 1981)
    (poetry reading by Lou Harrison)
  • Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan ( 1987) HBP
  • Cornish Lancaran ( ?) HBP
    For gamelan , solo voc, alto saxophone
  • Double Concerto ( 1981-82) Peters
    For gamelan with violin and cello
  • For the Pleasure of Ovid's Changes ( 1983) HBP
  • Four Coyote Stories ( 1987) HBP
    For baritone with Javanese gamelan
  • Gending Alexander ( 1981) HBP
  • Gending Claude ( 1982) HBP
  • Gending Demeter ( 1981-83) HBP
  • Gending Dennis ( 1982) HBP
  • Gending Hephaestus ( 1981) HBP
  • Gending Hermes ( 1981) HBP
  • Gending in Honor of Aphrodite ( 1986) HBP
    For gamelan, vocal, harp
  • Gending in Honor of the Poet Virgil ( 1982) HBP
  • Gending James and Joel ( 1983) HBP
  • Gending Jody ( ?) HBP
  • Gending Moon ( 1994) HBP
    With male vocal
  • Gending Pak Chokro ( 1976) HBP
  • Gending Palladio ( 1982-83) HBP
  • Gending Paul ( 1977) HBP
  • Gending Pindar ( 1982) HBP
  • Gending Sinan ( 1983) HBP
  • Gending Vincent ( 1986) HBP
  • Gending William Colvig ( 1984) HBP
  • Homage to Max Beckmann ( 1992)
  • Homage to Pacifica ( 1991) HBP
    For mixed chorus, solo harp, solo bassoon, solo Ptolemy Duple, narrator, verse
  • Ketawang Wellington ( 1983) HBP
  • Ladrang Epikuros ( 1981) HBP
  • Ladrang Pak Daliyo ( 1984) HBP
  • Ladrang Sarnvel (1981)
  • Lagu Sociseknum ( 1976) HBP
  • Lancaran Daniel ( 1976) HBP
  • Lancaran Molly ( 1982) HBP
  • Lancaran Samuel ( 1981)
  • Music for the Turning of a Sculpture ( 1977) HBP
  • Philemon and Baukis ( 1987) HBP
    For violin with gamelan
  • Scenes from Cavafy ( 1979-80) HBP
    For large gamelan with baritone, small male chorus
  • Serenade ( )
  • Soedjetmoko Set ( 1990) HBP
    For gamelan with female vocalist and mixed chorus
  • The Foreman's Song Tune ( 1983) HBP
    For gamelan with chorus
  • Gamelan: Sundanese Degung
  • Lagu Pa Undang (1987) HBP
  • Main Bersama Sama (1978) HBP
    For gamelan with French horn
  • Threnody for Carlos Chavez (1978) HBP
    For gamelan with viola

Incidental Music

  • Choephore ( 1937) Ms.
  • Cinna ( 1957) Ms.
  • Electra ( 1938) Ms.
  • Faust (Goethe) ( 1987) HBP
    For soloists, chorus, orchestra, solo harps, gamelan
  • Peter Pan ( 1934) Ms.
  • The Beautiful People ( 1941) Ms.
  • The Only Jealousy of Emer ( 1949) HBP
  • The Trojan Women ( 1938) Ms.
  • The Winter's Tale ( 1938) ML

Korean Court Orchestra

  • Moogunkwha Se Tang Ak ( 1961) Ms.

Orchestral

  • Air for the Poet ( 1988) Ms.
  • Alleluia ( 1944) TP For 2 (pic)-2-1-bol-0, 2-0-0-0, hp, str
  • Canticle #6 ( 1942) Lou Harrison
  • Christmas Music ( 1960) Ms.
    Lou Harrison - Chas. Ives; arranged by Lou Harrison
    Orchestra and chorus
  • Elegiac Symphony ( 1941-75) Peer
  • Labyrinth ( 1940) MFP For 11 players and 91 instruments
  • Simfony in Free Style ( 1955) Peters
    Arr. David Doty for computer synthesis
    For fl, viols, bells, tack pf, hps, drs, maracas, tbn
  • Suite #2 ( 1947-48) MM
    For str orch or str qtt
  • Suite for Symphonic Strings ( 1936-60) Peters
    For string orchestra
  • Suite for Violin, Piano, and Small Orchestra ( 1951) Peters
    For 2-1-0-0-, hp, cel, tack pf, tam-tam, 2 vcl, bass
  • Symphony #4 ( 1990) Peer
    For orchestra with baritone
  • Symphony on G ( 1948-61) Peer
    For 2-3-3-0, 2-2-2-0, 2 hp , pf, tack pf, str
  • Third Symphony ( 1937-82) Peters

Orchestrations and Transcriptions

  • Christmas Music ( ?) Ms.
    Charles Ives and Lou Harrison
  • Ives Psalm 100 ( ?) Ms.
    composed by Charles Ives
    For SATB with boy's chorus, organ, bells
  • Spring in Loyang (Nak Ban Chun) ( ?)
    Transcribed for chorus with Western orchestration
  • Suite for Toy Piano ( ?)
    composed by John Cage
    For standard symphony orchestra
  • Suite: Music for Cheng (?)
    composed by Richard Dee
    For standard symphony orchestra

Percussion

  • Bomba ( 1939 S.F.)
    1st. player: maracas; flower pots 2nd. player: metal rattles; large bells 3rd.
  • Canticle #l ( 1940) MFP
    I: tambourine, 3 wood blocks, 3 high bells II: gourd rattle 3 dragon's mouths
  • Canticle #3 ( 1941) MFP
    For fl/ocarina, 6 muted iron pipes, 3 wood blocks, 5 muted brake drums
  • Concerto #I for Flute and Percussion ( 1939) Peters
    For flute and percussion ostinati
  • Counterdance In Spring (from "Tributes to Charon") ( 1936-83) HBP, MFP
  • Double Music (with John Cage) ( 1941) Peters
    Lou Harrison and John Cage
    For percussion quartet: water buffalo bells, muted brake drums, sistrum, sleigh
  • Fugue for Percussion ( 1941) MFP
    I: flexatone (or saw), claves, maracas II: metalaphone (7 tones), box, 5 cowbells
  • In Praise of Johnny Appleseed ( 1942) HBP
    For three players: pipe claves, pipe lengths, wood claves, primitive
  • Koncherto por la violono kon perkuta orkestro ( 1959) Peters
    I: suspended (or muted) pipe-lengths, or flower pots II: suspended (or muted)
  • Majestic Fanfare ( 1963) HBP
    For trumpets with percussion
  • Song of Quetzecoatl ( 1940) MFP
    I: 5 glasses (or bells), 5 wood blocks, 5 dragon's mouths, sistrums (or maracas)

Solo Instrumental

  • Air in G minor ( 1947) HBP
    For flute or violin with drone
  • Jahla ( 1972)
    For harp with percussion ostinato
  • Pedal Sonata for Organ ( 1987-89 ) HBP
  • Praises for Michael the Archangel ( 1946) Ms.
    For organ
  • Prelude and Sarabande for Piano ( 1937) TP
  • Serenade for Guitar (with arrangement for Harp) ( 1952) Ms.
    For guitar or harp
    A.K.A. Serenade for Frank Wigglesworth
  • Serenade for Guitar with Optional Percussion ( 1978) Peer
  • Serenade for Three Recorders ( 1943)
  • Six Sonatas for Cembalo or Piano ( 1934-35) Peer
  • Sonata in Ishartum ( )
    For small harps
  • Sonata por Psaltero ( 1961-69) HBP
    For psaltery
  • The Garden at One and a Quarter Moons ( 1961-69) HBP
    For psaltery
  • Third Sonata for Piano ( 1938 )
  • Peer Suite for Four Haisho and Two Percussionists (1992) HBP
    I: 5 glasses (or bells), 5 wood blocks, 5 dragon's mouths, sistrums (or maracas)


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