Libby Larsen

For SATB unaccompanied. This choral octavo is drawn from Larsen's It I am. This is a lovely, hushed and meditative hymn that is simple and eloquent. The brevity and expressive beauty of this piece can...

For SATB unaccompanied. There are three songs making up this cycle entitled 'Western Songs' - Buffalo Gals, Green Grow the Lilacs, and Ol' Chisholm Trail. The arrangements by turn spin contrapuntal an...

For SATB unaccompanied. There are three songs making up this cycle entitled 'Western Songs' - Buffalo Gals, Green Grow the Lilacs, and Ol' Chisholm Trail. The arrangements by turn spin contrapuntal an...

For SATB unaccompanied. There are three songs making up this cycle entitled 'Western Songs' - Buffalo Gals, Green Grow the Lilacs, and Ol' Chisholm Trail. The arrangements by turn spin contrapuntal an...

Libby Larsen's setting of this traditional Appalachian lullaby is simple and gentle, with the option for solo singing. Originally published in World Carols for Choirs.

Margaret Songs are a collection of three songs of Margaret Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen's chamber opera, Eric Hermannson's Soul, based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one woman's em...

This salute to the spirit of Louis Armstrong breathtakingly incorporates 'Basin Street Blues', 'Lady be good', 'Tiger Rag', 'When the saints go marching in', and more surprisingly excerpts from 'Clair...

For SATB chorus and piano. This salute to the spirit of Louis Armstrong breathtakingly incorporates 'Basin Street Blues', 'Lady be good', 'Tiger Rag', 'When the saints go marching in', and more surpri...

Suzzie Vango's exuberant arrangement of Gaudete embellishes the charm of this well-known sixteenth-century carol with an accented rhythmic ostinato and playful changes of metre. A version for upper vo...

Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round is an exuberant setting of the well-known hymn by John Chadwick. The second section explores the Lydian mode, while the adamantine final verse reflects the text's...

For SATB choir and organ. I will sing and raise a psalm has a text from St Francis of Assisi and works well as a concert piece or as an anthem. THe music is rewarding for organist and choir alike. The...

SATB, oboe, viola, and harp. 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 color. Bot...

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...

Inspired by the legendary cyclists of the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two saxophones, originally composed for two clarinets. The form of the piece follows how the sprint w...

Inspired by the legendary cyclists of the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two saxophones, originally composed for two clarinets. The form of the piece follows how the sprint w...

Composed during the year between Lance Armstrong's fifth and sixth victories in the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two clarinets. The form of the piece follows how the sprint...

For two clarinets. Composed during the year between Lance Armstrong's fifth and sixth victories in the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two clarinets. The form of the piece fol...

The piece is a fairly athletic work in three movements. The first and third are very rhythmic, fast, and hauntingly jazz-like in a Miles Davis kind of way. The second movement is quite placid, free fl...