Sheet Music Downloads by Libby Larsen

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 conclusion, with its evoc...

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...

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...

Dale Warland Choral Series A Lover's Journey is a set of four pieces which chronicles the extraodinarily commonplace yet supremly elegant story of love and valentining. Written as a Valentine to The K...

From the collection Love Songs, 'Dear Love' sets a text by American writer Willa Cather. Scored for SATB unaccompanied, this meditation on the universality of love features rich, lucid harmonies and c...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the 1940s and 50s 'four on the floor' referred to a high performance car with a four-speed gearbox and a gear-change mounted on the floor. And that is the characteristic of this piece - fast, loud,...

Holy Roller is a revival sermon captured in the sounds of the alto saxophone and piano. It is inspired by classical revival preaching and the music seeks to represent the language: cajoling and incant...

Larsen's beautiful piece is absolute music in a standard classical layout with an emphasis on long lyrical lines. A good piece for conservatory and university students.

Dancing Solo gives clarinettists an excellent chance to display their technical prowess in a widely varied, dramatic, and colourful context.

The music is composed to create layers of tonality which overlap in space, especially in a vast space with a long acoustic decay.

This excellent addition to the tuba repertoire allows this oft-neglected instrument to demonstrate its more versatile side. Concert Piece explores a 3-octave range, allowing the tuba to combine fast-p...

This song cycle uses texts by women poets and focuses on women's experience with great humour and irony. The cycle will appeal to singers with real interpretative flair and is accessible to advanced s...

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, from 1880-1902. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle to earn a living to support...

Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese explores the finding of a mature love by a woman who wonders what part of her must she sacrifice to the lover and to the world...

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda Ueland's 1938 autobiography. Although Ueland's life was nothing out of the ordinary, the philosophy of her writing is to find the joy in everyday e...

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...

Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden's memories of Ántonia Shimerda during their shared experiences of the pioneering period...

Try me, good King is a group of five songs drawn from the final letters and gallows speeches of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The cycle is a psychologically intense monodrama that presents technic...

Acclaimed composer Libby Larsen set words of a young girl in this choral work that explores the essence of music and singing. Beginning quietly, the tones grow into a rushing river of sound or a const...