001 · ORATORIO · SOLO VOICES, CHORUS & ORCHESTRA

Job

Peter Maxwell Davies

An oratorio

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned

M2000 .D38 J63
Locally assigned LC-style call number; not verified against an LC catalog record for this copy.

Text

From Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Book of Job, selected by David Lemon.

Publisher

Chester Music

Score format

Spiral-bound perusal score

Instrumentation

Cataloged from photographs of the cover and scoring page. Entry added 15 October 2026.

002 · SONG CYCLE · SOPRANO & ORCHESTRA

Chantefleurs et Chantefables

Witold Lutosławski

Song cycle for soprano and orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Copies held

2 copies

Call number — adapted from LC record

M1613 .L92 C4
Adapted from Library of Congress record 98705325 for the PWM 1996 edition. LC composer and work codes retained; edition year omitted for this Chester Music copy.

Poems

Robert Desnos, from the collection Chantefables et Chantefleurs

Publisher

Chester Music Limited

Duration

Approximately 16 minutes

Score format

Spiral-bound full score

Edition

Incorporating small corrections and revisions, April 1991 and March 1992; copyright 1991.

Instrumentation

Contents

1. La Belle-de-Nuit — p. 1
2. La Sauterelle — p. 5
3. La Véronique — p. 19
4. L’Églantine, l’Aubépine et la Glycine — p. 27
5. La Tortue — p. 37
6. La Rose — p. 45
7. L’Alligator — p. 51
8. L’Angélique — p. 59
9. Le Papillon — p. 67

First performance

8 August 1991, BBC Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, with soprano Solveig Kringlebotn.

Cataloged from photographs of the title, contents, and instrumentation pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

003 · VOCAL & ORCHESTRAL · BASS-BARITONE & SMALL ORCHESTRA

A Talisman

Brian Elias

For bass-baritone and small orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned, provisional

M2103 .E45 T35
Provisional locally assigned LC-style call number. Sacred-vocal classification awaits confirmation; not an LC-assigned number.

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

Approximately 16½ minutes

Score format

Spiral-bound full score; score in C

Commission

Cheltenham International Festival of Music

Instrumentation

Score notation

Score in C. Piccolo sounds one octave higher than written; double bass sounds one octave lower. Natural string harmonics sound at written pitch, including those for double bass; harp harmonics sound one octave higher than written.

First performance

Cheltenham Festival, 18 July (year not stated on the photographed page). Paul Putnins, bass-baritone; National Youth Orchestra Sinfonietta; Geoffrey Patterson, conductor.

Cataloged from photographs of the title and instrumentation pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

004 · ORCHESTRAL ANTHOLOGY · ISSUE 1

Оркестровые произведения советских композиторов

Various composers

Orchestra Compositions by Soviet Composers — for Symphony Orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned, provisional

M1000 .O75 1975 vyp.1
Provisional assignment under LC orchestral collections. Exact LC record not verified; classification awaits contents review.

Transliterated title

Orkestrovye proizvedeniia sovetskikh kompozitorov

Issue

Выпуск первый — First instalment (Issue 1)

Score format

Full score (партитура); bound volume

Publisher

Советский композитор — Sovetskii kompozitor (Soviet Composer)

Publication

Moscow, 1975

Copyright

© Издательство «Советский композитор», 1975

Contents & instrumentation

For symphony orchestra. Individual composers, works, and detailed instrumentation are awaiting photographs of the contents and scoring pages; no instrument counts or doublings have been inferred.

Cataloged from photographs of the cover, publisher imprint, and copyright page. Contents and detailed instrumentation pending. Entry added 15 October 2026.

005 · CHAMBER ORCHESTRA · 1992

Corrente

Magnus Lindberg

Per orchestra da camera — for chamber orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned

M1045 .L56 C67
Locally assigned using LC classification for chamber orchestra music. No matching LC score record located in the title/composer search; the LC score record for Corrente II concerns a different work.

Year of work

1992

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

14 minutes (publisher listing)

Commission

Svenska Litteratursällskapet (Swedish Literary Society in Finland)

Score format

Spiral-bound full score; transposing score (“The score is not written in C.”)

Instrumentation

Scoring transcribed from the photographed instrumentation page. Duration and player complement checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

006 · CHORAL WORK · TREBLE VOICES & INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE

startled Grass

Simon Holt

Part five of “a ribbon of time”

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned

M1543.5 .H65 S73
Locally assigned under LC classification for secular treble chorus with instrumental ensemble. No matching record located in the LC composer/title search.

Text

Emily Dickinson: “Presentiment — is that long Shadow — on the Lawn —” (c. 1863); English

Year of work

2001 (publisher’s work record)

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

Approximately 11 minutes

Commission

BBC

Score format

Full score

Instrumentation

Pitch names use scientific pitch notation (middle C = C4). Pitches transcribed from the close-up scoring photograph; the crotale’s two-octave transposition is stated separately.

First performance

29 November 2001, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. BBC Singers with Ulrich Heinen, cello; conducted by Stephen Cleobury (as printed in this score).

Cataloged from photographs of the title and scoring pages; composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

007 · SACRED CHORAL MUSIC · MOTET

All the Ends of the Earth

Judith Weir

A choral motet for divided mixed chorus, harp and percussion, drawing on Pérotin’s Viderunt omnes.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1999

Genre

Motet · sacred choral work

Publisher

Chester Music

Score format

Spiral-bound perusal score

Duration

Approximately 10 minutes, according to the photographed score; the publisher’s work listing gives 12 minutes.

Call number — locally assigned

M2021 .W45 A45

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M2021 (sacred mixed chorus with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching printed-score record was located in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026; recording records were found. This is not a verified LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Written for the EBU Millennium Day broadcast, this motet places Pérotin’s medieval cantus firmus in the tenor and bass voices, retaining its pitches, proportions and text. Weir surrounds it with newly composed upper voices setting the tenth-century Alleluyatic Sequence, based on Psalm 148. Harp and percussion illuminate and punctuate the vocal writing.

Instrumentation

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers. First performed on 28 September 1999 at Westminster Cathedral, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, as part of Sounding the Millennium. Dedicated to Nicholas Kenyon.

Cataloged from the supplied title and introductory pages; supplemented by the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

008 · VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC · PIANO/VOCAL SCORE

TreeStone

Stephen Albert

For soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble; this copy contains the piano/vocal reduction.

Physical location

VA.D5

Genre

Song cycle · vocal chamber music

Text

James Joyce, from Finnegans Wake · English

Publisher

G. Schirmer, Inc.; distributed by Hal Leonard

Copy held

Piano/vocal score, as identified on the cover. The ensemble instrumentation below describes the original work.

Duration

Approximately 38 minutes, according to the supplied score.

Call number — from verified LC record

M1529 .A53 T74 1993

LC source & edition status

Library of Congress record 97702438: G. Schirmer / Hal Leonard piano/vocal score, [1993], 78 pages, ISBN 9780793529155. This is an actual LC-assigned call number for that edition. The photographed cover matches the publisher and format; the publication year, ISBN and pagination of this particular copy remain to be checked.

About the work

A vocal cycle for two soloists and chamber ensemble, setting James Joyce’s language from Finnegans Wake in a musical response to the Tristan legend.

Instrumentation of the original work

Contents

I am leafy speafing · A grand funferall · Seabirds · Tristopher Tristian · Fallen griefs · Anna Livia Plurabelle.

First performance

16 January 1985, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City: Lucy Shelton, soprano; David Gordon, tenor; Music Today Ensemble, conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and instrumentation page, supplemented by the linked LC record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

009 · SACRED VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC

Iero Oniro (Sacred Dream)

John Tavener

For solo soprano and ensemble, with synthesizer or tape.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1999

Genre

Sacred vocal chamber music · voice and ensemble with electronics

Publisher

Chester Music

Copy held

Bound perusal score

Duration

Approximately 15 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M2103.3 .T38 I47

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M2103.3 (sacred solo voice with instrumental ensemble or other accompaniment). Composer and work codes are locally assigned. The LC catalog search on 15 October 2026 located a recording, but no matching printed score; this number is not LC-assigned.

About the work

Conceived during Holy Week in Greece in 1999, Iero Oniro draws on a Byzantine service text and Tavener’s recollection of hearing transformed sacred music in a dream. Its intimate ensemble evokes distance, stillness and quiet resonance.

Instrumentation

Performance character

The composer asks for an impression of distance, possibly with performers out of the audience’s sight and with subdued lighting.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned jointly by the Nash Ensemble and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. First performed on 30 January 2001 at Wigmore Hall, London, by Patricia Rozario, soprano, and the Nash Ensemble, conducted by Lionel Friend.

Cataloged from the supplied title and scoring pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

010 · CANTATA · VOCAL SCORE

Voices of Exile

Richard Blackford

A cantata for mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, children’s chorus, instrumental ensemble and tape.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

2001

Genre

Cantata · secular choral music

Publisher

Novello & Co.

Copy held

Vocal score · perusal copy. The resources below describe the original ensemble version, rather than the later orchestral version.

Duration

55 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M1533 .B53 V65

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1533 (vocal scores for secular mixed chorus with accompaniment reduced for keyboard). Composer and work codes assigned locally. LC catalog search on 15 October 2026 located a recording, but no matching printed-score record. This is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

A cantata tracing memories of home, journeys, imprisonment, exile and freedom through poetry, testimony and recorded voices from different countries. Vocal soloists and two choruses bring individual and collective experience into dialogue with instrumental music and tape.

Vocal and instrumental resources

Contents of this vocal score

Prelude: 1. Tenor solo and chorus, Tony Harrison’s Poetry After Auschwitz (p. 1).

Part I — Memories of Home: 2. Bengal, chorus with tape; traditional folksong sung by Kamla Chaudhuri (p. 9). 3. Tibet, baritone and children’s chorus; Tsering Gonpo (p. 12). 4. Zaire, chorus; Mabiala Molu (p. 20).

Part II — Journeys: 5. Somalia, tenor with tape; traditional folksong sung by Osman Dugleh, followed by Abdirahman Mirreh’s poem (p. 30). 6. Tibet, baritone; Tsering Gonpo (p. 32). 7. Austria, chorus and children’s chorus; Erich Fried (p. 36). 8. Somalia, chorus; Abdirahman Mirreh (p. 45).

Part III — Prison: 9. Chile, mezzo-soprano; Maria Eugenia Bravo Calderara (p. 54). 10. Nigeria, tenor; Ken Saro-Wiwa (p. 60). 11. Turkey, chorus; Oktay Rifat (p. 70).

Part IV — Exile: 12. Bosnia, baritone; Himzo Skorupan (p. 74). 13. Macedonia, chorus with tape; traditional folksong sung by Tanya Czarovska (p. 81). 14. Algeria, mezzo-soprano; Samia Dahnaan (p. 85).

Part V — Freedom: 15. Greece, chorus; Yannis Ritsos (p. 89). 16. Kurdistan, mezzo-soprano and tenor; Mohammad Khaki (p. 94). 17. Angola, all three soloists, chorus and children’s chorus; Antonio Joaquim Marques (p. 100).

Epilogue: 18. Tenor solo; Tony Harrison (p. 117). Names follow the photographed contents page.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Poole Arts Centre, with funding from Southern Arts, Poole Arts Trust and the John S Cohen Foundation. First performed on 17 November 2001 at Poole Arts Centre by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Dorset Youth Choir and Kokoro Ensemble, conducted by Neville Creed; soloists Christine Botes, Robert Tear and Paul Whelan. Score preparation by Sara Loewenthal.

Cataloged from the supplied title, contents and resources pages; composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

011 · SONG CYCLE · VOICE, PERCUSSION & STRINGS

Supernatural Songs

John Tavener

For solo mezzo-soprano (or baritone), percussion and strings.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

2003, according to the publisher’s catalog.

Genre

Song cycle · spiritual vocal music

Text

W. B. Yeats, with an opening Latin text by St Augustine. English and Latin.

Publisher

Chester Music

Copy held

Spiral-bound score; title page marked “rev. 8.04”.

Duration

Approximately 30 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M2103.3 .T38 S87

Classification status

Provisional local shelf number using Library of Congress classification for sacred solo voice with ensemble accompaniment. Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching record was found in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026. This is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Opening with St Augustine’s invocation of divine beauty, the cycle moves through Yeats’s poetry of love, myth, ecstasy and death. The solo voice is framed by strings and resonant percussion, reflecting Tavener’s exploration of spiritual traditions.

Instrumentation of this score

Instrumentation follows the photographed score. The publisher’s current work listing names a Hindu temple gong alongside the pow-wow drum; the supplied scoring page instead specifies a very large tam-tam.

Contents

1. St Augustine: “Sero te amavi”
2. O Do Not Love Too Long
3. From the ‘Antigone’
4. He and She
5. Ribh in Ecstasy
6. A Nativity
7. A Needle’s Eye
8. From ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, followed by text from The Man and the Echo
9. Where there is Nothing

Notation & performance notes

The score uses microtones associated with the characteristic vocal inflections of Byzantine chant. Where three double basses divide into two parts, the third player should double the lower line.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the Kent Messenger Group and Sounds New Ltd. First performed on 24 September 2003 at Canterbury Cathedral by Patricia Rozario and the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Nicholas Cleobury.

Cataloged from the supplied title, scoring and text pages, with composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

012 · VOCAL CYCLE · SOPRANO & CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Mirror Suite · Сюита зеркал

Andrei Volkonsky

A vocal cycle for soprano and instrumental ensemble, to poems by Federico García Lorca.

Physical location

VA.D5

Alternative titles & composer names

Suite de los espejos · Suite of Mirrors · Siuita zerkal · А. Волконский · André Volkonsky · Andrey Volkonsky

Genre

Vocal cycle · song cycle · vocal chamber music

Composition date

Circa 1960; the current publisher’s score listing gives 1960, while its performance-material listing gives 1959.

Text

Federico García Lorca; translated from Spanish by V. Burich (Вл. Бурич), as credited in this copy.

Edition & publication

Russian/English title pages. The cover bears the Soviet Composer publisher emblem; full publication imprint and edition year remain to be checked. The current Belaieff edition is a separate publication.

Score format

Ensemble score

Duration

Approximately 17 minutes, according to the current publisher.

Call number — locally assigned

M1613.3 .V65 S58

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1613.3 (solo voice with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching LC record was verified in the search on 15 October 2026; this is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Lorca’s imagery of mirrors and reflections is explored through an intimate ensemble of flute, violin, guitar, percussion and small organ. The soprano’s delivery includes passages of speech with approximate pitch as well as sung writing.

Instrumentation of this score

Notation notes

The supplied legend specifies spoken delivery with approximate intonation, weak and strong beats, colourless vocal tone, and a slight pause where a fermata appears over a bar line.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Supplemental date and duration references: Belaieff score listing and performance-material listing. Entry added 15 October 2026.

013 · SONG CYCLE · BARITONE & CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Morning Songs

Aaron Jay Kernis

For baritone and chamber ensemble, to poems by Jon Anderson.

Physical location

VA.D5

Alternative title

Morningsongs

Date

1983, as printed on this copy and recorded in the matching LC entry. The current publisher’s work listing gives 1982.

Genre

Song cycle · vocal chamber music

Text

Jon Anderson · English

Publisher

Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York

Score format

Ensemble score

Duration

Approximately 15 minutes

Call number — from verified LC record

M1613.3 .K34 M67 1983

LC source & edition status

Library of Congress record 94771416, Associated Music Publishers, ©1983: 1 score, 36 pages, 28 cm. Title, publisher, date, voice and detailed instrumentation agree with the supplied pages. This is an actual LC-assigned number; pagination and dimensions of this particular copy remain to be checked. LC’s location suffix “Case” is omitted from the local shelf label.

About the work

A three-part setting of Jon Anderson’s poems for baritone and ten instrumentalists. Flute doublings, mallet percussion, harp and a string trio provide a varied chamber palette around the solo voice.

Instrumentation

Contents

1. Paris
2. The Blue Animals
3. Walking Barefoot

Cataloged from the supplied title and instrumentation pages, supplemented by the linked LC record and the publisher’s work listing. Entry added 15 October 2026.

014 · SACRED CHORAL MUSIC · VOICE, CHORUS & WIND ENSEMBLE

Eichá (Lamentation) · אֵיכָה

Simon Bainbridge

For mezzo-soprano solo, SATB chorus and wind ensemble.

Physical location

VA.D5

Alternative title

Eicha

Year of composition

1997

Genre

Sacred choral work · lamentation

Text & language

Lamentations, Chapter 1, verses 1–2, in transliterated Hebrew, according to the composer’s program note.

Publisher

Novello

Score format

Full score · score in C

Duration

Approximately 20 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M2021 .B35 E53

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M2021 (sacred mixed chorus with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching record was located in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026; this is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Original Hebrew text · Lamentations 1:1–2

The original biblical Hebrew is supplied for reference; the score uses transliteration. Hebrew text reference.

A setting of the opening verses of Lamentations, inspired by Bainbridge’s study of Tallis. The mezzo-soprano’s unfolding line contrasts with the chorus’s shifting polyphony, supported by a distinctive ensemble of double reeds and brass.

Instrumentation

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music Festival with funding from Southern Arts. First performed in Oxford on 19 April 1997 by the New London Chamber Choir, conducted by James Wood, as stated in the score.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and scoring page; text identification supplemented by the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

015 · SONG CYCLE · TENOR & STRING ORCHESTRA

A Vision

Geoffrey Burgon

Seven songs to poems by John Clare, for tenor and string orchestra.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1991, according to the publisher.

Genre

Song cycle · voice and string orchestra

Text

John Clare · English

Publisher

Chester Music Limited, London

Copy held

Score in handwritten notation, in a Chester Music cover. The photographs do not establish whether this is an autograph manuscript or a reproduction.

Duration

20 minutes, handwritten in this copy; the publisher’s current work listing gives 25 minutes.

Call number — locally assigned

M1613.3 .B87 V57

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1613.3 (solo voice with string orchestra or other instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. LC catalog search on 15 October 2026 located a recording, but no matching printed-score record. This is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

A cycle of seven John Clare settings, written for Anthony Rolfe Johnson and commissioned by the London Mozart Players. The string writing includes a prominent solo violin part, reflecting Clare’s own interest in playing the violin.

Instrumentation

Contents visible in this copy

The handwritten contents page contains revisions. The clearly uncancelled entries are No. 2, The Daisy — Button Tipp’d wi Dew; No. 4, An Invite to Eternity; and No. 6, Song’s Eternity. The complete seven-song order remains to be checked against the music pages.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the London Mozart Players; first performed at the Gregynog Festival in June 1991, according to the publisher.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and handwritten title, duration and contents pages, supplemented by the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

016 · VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC · TENOR & SEVEN INSTRUMENTALISTS

Fünf Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner

Edison Denisov

Five Stories of Mr Keuner, after texts by Bertolt Brecht, for tenor and seven instrumentalists.

Physical location

VA.D5

Composer name on this edition

Edison Denisow · Эдисон Денисов

Year of composition

1966

Genre

Vocal cycle · vocal chamber music

Text & language

Bertolt Brecht · German

Publisher & edition number

Universal Edition · UE 13 587. The title page also bears the Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg territorial copyright/distribution notice and the number 6890.

Score format

Full score (Partitur) · score in C

Duration

Approximately 14 minutes in the current publisher’s work record; the LC entry for the 1997 edition gives approximately 12 minutes.

Call number — adapted from verified LC record

M1613.3 .D35 G4

LC source & edition status

Library of Congress record 99390210 assigns M1613.3 .D35 G4 1997 to the Universal Edition score, ©1997, 50 pages, 30 cm. The work, publisher and instrumentation match the supplied pages; the year and pagination of this copy remain unverified, so the edition year is omitted from this local adaptation.

About the work

Five Brecht stories are set for tenor and an ensemble combining winds, brass, percussion, piano and double bass. The compact instrumentation gives the vocal narrative sharply contrasting colours.

Instrumentation

Contents

1. Weise am Weisen ist die Haltung
2. Der Zweckdiener
3. Form und Stoff
4. Das Wiedersehen
5. Wenn die Haifische Menschen wären

First performance

20 February 1968, Berlin; Horst Hiestermann, tenor; conducted by Joachim Freyer, according to the publisher’s chronological work list.

Cataloged from the supplied title, text and instrumentation pages, supplemented by the linked LC record and publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

017 · CHORAL MUSIC · TREBLE & WOMEN’S VOICES WITH ENSEMBLE

Storm

Judith Weir

For children’s treble chorus, women’s chorus and nine instrumentalists; words from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1997

Genre

Choral suite · concert work after The Tempest

Text & language

William Shakespeare · English

Publisher

Chester Music Limited

Copy held

Full score with handwritten title, synopsis and contents page; whether the handwritten pages are autograph or reproduced is not established.

Duration

Approximately 18 minutes in this score; the current publisher’s listing gives 20 minutes.

Call number — locally assigned

M1543.5 .W45 S76

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1543.5 (treble chorus with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching printed-score record was verified in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026; this is not an LC-assigned number.

About the work

A five-movement concert sequence drawn from The Tempest, following storm and shipwreck through charm, magic and spirit to mercy. Three flutes, three cellos and three percussionists accompany the contrasting choral groups.

Instrumentation

Contents in this copy

1. Storm (p. 1); 1a. Shipwreck (p. 31); 2. Charm (p. 36); 3. Magic (p. 55); 4. Spirit (p. 71); 5. Mercy (p. 87).

First performance & dedication

The supplied score dates the first performance to 18 November 1997 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the CBSO Senior and Junior Youth Choruses and members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Halsey. Movement 4 was originally written in memory of Stephen John Baldwin.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, contents and scoring pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

018

L’amour et la mort · Έρως και θάνατος · Liebe und Tod

Mikis Theodorakis

Quatre poèmes pour Myrto / Vier Gesänge für Myrto — four songs for voice and string orchestra.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613.3 .T44 A5 1988 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Forces

Solo voice and string orchestra. Vocal register, individual string parts and player numbers are not specified on the supplied pages.

Texts

Mikis Theodorakis and Lorenzos Mavilis.

Score and edition

Full score (Partitur). Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1988. First edition (1. Auflage). Order number 1143; license number 418-515/B 7/88. Printed in the German Democratic Republic by Offizin Andersen Nexö, Leipzig. Cover design: Peter Zappe, Leipzig. The cover bears a Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg distribution label.

Contents

Απρίλης; Αν γυρεύεις απ’ τον ήλιο την χαρά; Έρως και θάνατος; Λήθη. Titles from the Greek music archive’s work record; contents pages of this copy have not yet been supplied.

Duration

Not yet confirmed.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title page and colophon. Supplemental reference: Greek music archive work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

019

Five Songs to Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya

Brian Elias

Song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1989). Russian texts by Irina Ratushinskaya.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .E45 F58 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Orchestral full score, Chester Music Limited, London. Perusal copy. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Duration

Approximately 25 minutes, as printed in this copy; current publisher listing gives 28 minutes.

Soloist

Mezzo-soprano.

Woodwinds

4 flutes (1 and 2 doubling alto flute; 3 and 4 doubling piccolo); 2 oboes; cor anglais; 2 B-flat clarinets (2 doubling E-flat clarinet); bass clarinet; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon.

Brass

4 horns in F; 3 trumpets in C (1 doubling E-flat flugelhorn; the third-song solos may be played on B-flat flugelhorn if the E-flat instrument is unavailable); 2 trombones; bass trombone; tuba.

Other instruments

2 harps; celesta; timpani; 5 percussionists; strings.

Percussion

Player 1: vibraphone, 3 congas (high, medium, low), large gong.
Player 2: glockenspiel, large tam-tam, tenor drum, triangle.
Player 3: tubular bells (2 octaves, F–F), bass drum.
Player 4: crotales (2 octaves, C–C), side drum, 3 tam-tams (high, medium, low), one additional pair of crotales, bell plates.
Player 5: small tambourine (15–20 cm diameter), 3 triangles (high, medium, low), 3 suspended cymbals (high, medium, low), 4 Japanese temple bells, handbell, one pair of crotales, bell plates shared with Player 4. Individually notated pitches for the additional crotales, bell plates and handbell await verification from a clearer close-up.

Notation and language

Score in C, with octave transpositions explained in the score. Russian text in transliteration, credited to Grisha Gerenstein; the score advises consultation with a native Russian speaker for hard and soft consonants.

Contents

Five songs; complete individual titles have not yet been verified from this copy.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and orchestration pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

020

A New Beginning

John Tavener

An Acclamation for the Millennium 2,000 A.D. (1999), for solo treble, children’s chorus, SATB chorus and orchestra.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .T38 N49 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Full score, Chester Music, London; spiral-bound perusal copy. Publication date and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed. The publisher’s full-score product code is CH61637; CH61638 identifies the separate vocal score and CH61639 the chorus part.

Duration

Approximately 7 minutes.

Voices

Solo treble; children’s chorus; SATB chorus.

Brass

3 trumpets in C; 2 tenor trombones; bass trombone.

Percussion and other instruments

3 percussionists: handbells, large Tibetan temple bowl, large gong, very large tam-tam. Timpani; organ; strings. The supplied scoring page does not assign individual percussion instruments to players or specify handbell pitches. The publisher also lists a string-quartet alternative and a two-percussionist option; this copy specifies three percussionists.

Text and language

English, with Greek Alleluia. Words copyright © 1999 New Start 2000.

Commission

Commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company Limited; written for the closing minutes of 1999 to herald the new millennium.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and scoring pages. Supplemental references: publisher’s work record and full-score edition record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

021

A Song for St. Stephen, Op. 150

John Joubert

For SATB soloists, junior and senior youth choirs, adult mixed choir and orchestra (2003).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .J68 S66 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Full score. Novello. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed. This is the orchestral full score; the separately published NOV078782 is a vocal score with organ reduction.

Voices

Soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists; junior youth choir; senior youth choir; adult mixed choir.

Orchestra

The publisher’s rental catalogue lists 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, 2 percussionists; harp; organ; strings. Instrument doublings and individual percussion instruments await the scoring page of this copy.

Duration

Approximately 6 minutes, according to the publisher’s rental catalogue.

Text

English; Stephen Tunnicliffe.

Commission and first performance

Commissioned by the CBSO Chorus and Orchestra. First performed on 18 December 2003 by the CBSO Junior and Senior Youth Choirs, CBSO Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Simon Halsey, according to the British Music Collection.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and title page. Supplemental references: publisher’s rental catalogue and British Music Collection. Entry added 15 October 2026.

022

Mirror of Perfection

Richard Blackford

Cantata for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed choir and orchestra (1996), based on texts by St. Francis of Assisi.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .B53 M57 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Orchestral score, Novello, London; spiral-bound perusal copy. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Voices

Soprano and baritone soloists; SATB chorus.

Instrumentation

3 horns in F; harp; strings; 1 percussionist playing timpani, tubular bell (low B) and triangle. No woodwinds are listed in the supplied instrumentation.

Duration

Approximately 40 minutes.

Text and structure

Texts by St. Francis of Assisi; Italian. Seven canticles; individual movement titles await the contents page of this copy.

Commission and first performance

Commissioned by the Royal Ballet School and first performed at the Royal College of Music in March 1996, according to the publisher.

Recording noted in the score

Sony Classical SK 60285: Ying Huang, soprano; Bo Skovhus, baritone; Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conducted by Richard Blackford.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Supplemental references: publisher’s work record and British Music Collection. Entry added 15 October 2026.

023

The Dance, forever the Dance

Edward Gregson

For mezzo-soprano solo, SATB chorus and orchestra (1999, revised 2002).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1533 .G74 D36 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Vocal score. Novello. The title page identifies the 2002 revision of the 1999 work. Publication date, pagination and edition number of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Voices

Mezzo-soprano solo; SATB chorus.

Orchestral forces of the complete work

Publisher’s listing: 3 flutes (piccolo doubling), 2 oboes (cor anglais doubling), 2 clarinets plus bass clarinet, 2 bassoons plus contrabassoon; 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, 3 percussionists; harp, piano (doubling celesta); strings. The programme note describes antiphonal offstage trumpets. Exact doubling assignments and percussion instruments await the scoring page. This holding is the vocal score.

Duration

Approximately 30 minutes, according to the publisher.

Movements

1. Dance of Joy
2. Dance of Love
3. Dance of Death
4. Dance of Life

Text and language

English; compiled from sources including Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, W. H. Auden and the traditional text “Tomorrow shall be my dancing day.”

Commission

Commissioned by the Hertfordshire Chorus with funding from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Eastern Arts Board and Holst Foundation.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and title page. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

024

Château de l’âme

Kaija Saariaho

Five songs for solo soprano, eight female voices and orchestra.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .S23 C43 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Study score, Chester Music, London; order number CH61338 is identified on the scoring page. Transposed orchestral score. Publication date and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Date

Listed as 1996 by the publisher; IRCAM gives 1995 as the composition date.

Voices

Solo soprano; 4 sopranos and 4 mezzo-sopranos.

Woodwinds and brass

2 flutes, both doubling piccolo; 2 oboes; 2 B-flat clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns in F; 2 trumpets in C; 2 trombones; tuba.

Percussion — 4 players in total

Player 1: crotales (2-octave set), xylophone (shared with Player 2), marimba (shared with Player 3), triangle, large suspended cymbal, large tam-tam (with triangle beater), frame drum, maracas.
Player 2: xylophone (shared with Player 1), vibraphone, large tam-tam (with triangle beater), large suspended cymbal, guiro on stand.
Player 3: marimba (shared with Player 1), medium tam-tam, large tam-tam, tom-tom, Chinese tom-tom, triangle, large suspended cymbal, frame drum, bass drum (soft skin, no audible pitch).
Player 4: timpani.

Other instruments

Harp; piano; strings.

Duration

Approximately 24 minutes, as printed in this score; current publisher listing gives 22 minutes.

Texts and language

French translations of ancient Indian and Egyptian texts. The publisher identifies sources from the Atharva Veda and Egyptian incantations. Complete movement titles await the contents page of this copy.

Commission and dedication

Commissioned by Betty Freeman and Gérard Mortier for the 1996 Salzburg Festival. Dedicated to Aliisa and Dawn Upshaw, according to the publisher.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and scoring pages. Supplemental references: publisher’s work record and IRCAM work record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

025

Alleluia Psallat

Geoffrey Burgon

For SATB choir and orchestra (2002).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .B87 A45 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Full score. Chester Music; spiral-bound perusal copy. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Voices

SATB choir.

Woodwinds

Piccolo; flute; oboe; cor anglais; B-flat clarinet; bass clarinet; bassoon; contrabassoon. Listed as separate instruments on the supplied scoring page, with no doublings specified.

Brass

4 horns in F; 2 trumpets in C; 2 tenor trombones; bass trombone; tuba.

Percussion and strings

Timpani; 2 percussionists playing wood block, claves and medium bass drum; strings.

Duration

10 minutes.

Text and language

Latin, anonymous 13th-century text; an English translation is printed on the supplied introductory page.

Commission and premiere

Commissioned by the 2003 Newbury Spring Festival for its twenty-fifth anniversary. First performed on 10 May 2003 at St. Nicholas’ Church, Newbury, by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Lazarev, as stated in this score.

Cataloged from the supplied title and instrumentation pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s rental catalogue. Entry added 16 October 2026.

026

Joan of Arc

Geoffrey Burgon

A fantasy based on the events of her life, with text by Susan Hill (1970).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1520 .B87 J63 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Chester Music, London; spiral-bound score reproducing handwritten notation and introductory notes. Publication date, pagination and edition number remain unconfirmed; autograph status is not established.

Voices and narrator

Joan: narrator, with sung passages as described in the performance note; 2 sopranos, tenor and baritone, as listed in this copy. The current publisher listing gives 3 sopranos; this discrepancy remains to be checked against the complete score.

Instruments

Flute doubling alto flute; cello; harp; 1 percussionist playing xylophone, 3 timpani, side drum, 2 tom-toms and bass drum. The introductory note indicates that the drums should form a descending scale.

Duration

Approximately 35 minutes in the supplied performance note; current publisher listing gives 30 minutes.

Text and language

English; Susan Hill.

Commission

Commissioned by the Little Missenden Festival, with funds made available by the Arts Council, as stated on the supplied opening page.

Performance notes

Conceived for performance in a darkened church, with Joan illuminated selectively and the other performers visible with restrained lighting. The score also permits concert performance as a cantata or music drama, with costume and action.

Cataloged from the supplied title, instrumentation, performance-note and opening pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

027

Elogium Musicum amatissimi amici nunc remoti

Hans Werner Henze

For large mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra (2007–08). A musical eulogy in praise of a best beloved now far away.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1530 .H45 E46 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Full score. Chester Music. Score in C. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Voices and text

Large mixed SATB chorus; Latin text by Franco Serpa.

Woodwinds

4 flutes (2 and 3 doubling piccolo; 4 doubling alto flute); 4 clarinets (4 doubling bass clarinet); alto saxophone; 2 oboes; cor anglais; heckelphone; 3 bassoons; contrabassoon.

Brass

4 trumpets (4 doubling bass trumpet); 4 horns; Wagner tuba; 3 trombones (1 alto, 2 tenor, 3 bass); tuba.

Keyboards, harp and strings

Celesta; harp; piano; strings.

Percussion

Timpani, plus 4 percussionists.
Player I: vibraphone, 2 sistra, whip, large suspended cymbal.
Player II: snare drum, glockenspiel, 3 tom-toms, sistrum, maracas, crotales.
Player III: bass drum, 2 suspended cymbals (medium and large), small China gong, 3 gongs.
Player IV: marimba, small suspended cymbal, 3 bongos.

Duration

Approximately 25 minutes, as printed in this score and listed by the Henze Foundation; current publisher work listing gives 20 minutes.

Commission and premiere

Commissioned by the Leipzig Gewandhaus. First performed on 2 October 2008 in the main auditorium of the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, by the Gewandhausorchester and MDR choir, conducted by Riccardo Chailly.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and orchestration page. Supplemental references: Henze Foundation work record and publisher’s work record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

028

Symphony No. 12 — De döda på torget

Allan Pettersson

The Dead in the Marketplace, for mixed choir and orchestra (1974).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1533 .P48 S9 no.12 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Choral score (körpartitur). Edition Wilhelm Hansen Stockholm AB. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed. The printed 1974 identifies the work, not a confirmed publication year.

Forces

Mixed choir and orchestra. This holding is the choral score; detailed orchestration has not been verified from the supplied pages.

Text and language

Pablo Neruda, “Los muertos de la plaza”; Swedish translation by Artur Lundkvist and Francisco J. Uriz.

Duration

Approximately 52 minutes, as printed in this copy.

Commission

Commissioned by Uppsala University for its 500th anniversary.

First performance

29 September 1977, Uppsala: Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Choir and Uppsala Academic Chamber Choir, conducted by Carl-Rune Larsson, as stated on the title page.

Recording noted in the score

Caprice CAP 1127.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and title page. Entry added 16 October 2026.

029

Autumn Sonata — A Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra

Thea Musgrave

1993. Based on fragments of poems by Georg Trakl.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1034 .M88 A88 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Spiral-bound orchestral score reproducing handwritten notation. The supplied title page is dated 1993. Publisher: Novello & Co., London, confirmed by this copy’s outer cover. The cover lists Music Sales Limited Distribution Centre, Newmarket Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3YB, for hire and sales, and Novello’s Promotions and Copyright office at 8/9 Frith Street, London W1V 5TZ. These are historical imprint details printed on the copy. Publication date, edition number and pagination remain unconfirmed. Autograph status is not established.

Soloist

Bass clarinet.

Woodwinds

2 flutes (2 doubling piccolo); 2 oboes (2 doubling cor anglais); 2 B-flat clarinets (2 doubling bass clarinet); 2 bassoons (2 doubling contrabassoon). The programme note places the orchestral bass clarinet offstage in the fifth section.

Brass and strings

3 horns in F; 2 trumpets in C; 2 trombones; strings.

Percussion

Timpani; 1 percussionist: tam-tam, bass drum, 2 cymbals, snare drum, 2 tom-toms, vibraphone, tubular bells and crotales.

Duration and structure

Approximately 20 minutes. Five movements and a coda, played without a break: I. Oscuro e misterioso; II. Svegliato; III. Alla marcia, con furore; IV. Lamentoso; V. Oscuro e misterioso; VI. Adagio sostenuto (coda).

Commission

Written in 1993 on a commission from Victoria Soames, with funding from the Arts Council of Great Britain and South West Arts.

Programme

An instrumental response to fragments of Georg Trakl’s poetry, conceived as a sequel to Wild Winter. The concluding coda recalls Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

Cataloged from the supplied title, programme-note and instrumentation pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

030

Natural History

Judith Weir

Four songs for soprano and orchestra (1998).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .W45 N38 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Orchestral full score; spiral-bound perusal copy. Chester Music Limited, London. The cover lists Music Sales Limited Distribution Centre, Newmarket Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3YB, for hire and sales, and 8/9 Frith Street, London W1V 5TZ, for promotions and copyright. These are historical imprint details. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed; the current full-score product code is CH79574, not yet verified on this copy.

Soloist

Soprano.

Woodwinds

3 flutes (3 doubling piccolo and alto flute); 3 oboes; 3 B-flat clarinets; 3 bassoons (3 doubling contrabassoon).

Brass

4 horns in F; 3 trumpets in C; tuba. No trombones.

Percussion

Timpani, plus 2 percussionists.
Player 1: cymbals, tubular bells, suspended cymbal, glockenspiel.
Player 2: glockenspiel (shared with Player 1), snare drum, tam-tam, xylophone, bamboo chimes, metal wind chimes, gong.

Other instruments

Harp; strings.

Duration

Approximately 17 minutes.

Contents

1. Horse
2. Singer
3. Swimmer
4. Fish/Bird

Text and language

English; four texts from the Inner Chapters of Chuang-tzu (Zhuangzi), condensed by Weir from A. C. Graham’s translation.

Commission and premiere

Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and written for Dawn Upshaw. First performed by Upshaw and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, on 14 January 1999 at Symphony Hall, Boston.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title, orchestration and programme-note pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

031

Les Espaces du sommeil

Witold Lutosławski

For baritone and orchestra (1975), to words by Robert Desnos.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .L92 E8 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Orchestral score. Chester Music: J. & W. Chester/Edition Wilhelm Hansen London Ltd., Eagle Court, London EC1M 5QD, as printed on the title page. Publication date, edition number and pagination remain unconfirmed.

Soloist and text

Baritone; French poem by Robert Desnos.

Woodwinds

3 flutes (2 and 3 doubling piccolo); 3 oboes; 3 B-flat clarinets (3 doubling B-flat bass clarinet); 3 bassoons.

Brass

4 horns in F; 3 trumpets in C; 3 trombones; tuba.

Percussion

Timpani; bells, marimba, side drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bongos, tam-tam, cymbals and vibraphone without motor. The supplied list does not specify the percussionist count; the current publisher listing specifies 3 percussionists in addition to timpani.

Other instruments

Harp; piano; strings. The current publisher listing also includes celesta, absent from this copy’s introductory instrument list; its use awaits verification within the score.

Duration

Approximately 15 minutes.

Premiere and dedication

First performed on 12 April 1978 by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Lutosławski. Dedicated to Fischer-Dieskau, according to the publisher.

Performance notation

The introductory note distinguishes unconducted ad libitum passages from precisely coordinated metrical passages. The score uses sounding pitches except for the conventional octave transpositions of piccolo, double bass, xylophone and glockenspiel.

Cataloged from the supplied title and orchestration pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

032

To Brooklyn Bridge

Tristan Keuris

For 24 voices and instrumental ensemble (1987–88), to a poem by Hart Crane.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1530 .K48 T6 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Spiral-bound full score reproducing handwritten notation. Novello & Co.; copyright © 1989 visible on the supplied score page. The cover lists Music Sales Limited Distribution Centre, Newmarket Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3YB, and Novello’s Promotions and Copyright office at 8/9 Frith Street, London W1V 5TZ. These are historical imprint details. Edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed; autograph status is not established.

Voices

24 singers: 6 sopranos, 6 altos, 6 tenors and 6 basses, confirmed by the supplied score page.

Instrumental ensemble

15 players: E-flat clarinet, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet; soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones; 2 pianos; 2 harps; 3 double basses. Complete ensemble list supplied by the Donemus catalogue.

Text and language

Hart Crane, “To Brooklyn Bridge”; English.

Duration

Approximately 27 minutes, according to Donemus.

Commission

Commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Nederlands Kamerkoor), according to Donemus.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and score pages. Supplemental reference: Donemus catalogue record. Entry added 16 October 2026.

033

Neljä Leino-Laulua (Four Leino Songs)

Kaija Saariaho

Four songs for soprano and orchestra (2007), setting poems by Eino Leino in Finnish.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .S23 N45 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Chester Music. Spiral-bound orchestral full score, marked as a perusal copy. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Soloist

Soprano.

Orchestra

2 flutes (2nd doubling alto flute and piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat, bassoon, contrabassoon; 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 2 trombones; timpani (1 set), 2 percussion players; harp, celesta and strings.

Percussion

Player 1: crotales, xylophone, glockenspiel, tamtam, small suspended cymbal (with bow). Player 2: vibraphone, marimba, glass chimes, triangle, bass drum.

Score notation

Transposed score. Crotales sound two octaves higher than written.

Duration

Approximately 13 minutes.

Commission and dedication

Commissioned by the Osaka International Festival, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Casa da Musica, Porto. Dedicated to Anu Komsi.

First performance

5 April 2008, Festival Hall, Osaka, as part of the Osaka International Festival.

Performance materials

The supplied score states that orchestral parts are available on hire from the publisher.

Cataloged from the supplied title and instrumentation pages. Composition year, poet and language confirmed by the publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 16 October 2026.

034

Åtta barfotasånger (Eight Barefoot Songs)

Allan Pettersson

Eight songs for voice and orchestra, orchestrated by Antal Doráti from Pettersson’s 24 Barefoot Songs for voice and piano (1943–45).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .P48 B37 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Orchestral full score (Partitur), spiral-bound. AB Nordiska Musikförlaget, Stockholm; copyright © 1981 printed on the opening score page. The copyright date is recorded separately from the work’s composition and orchestration dates. This copy’s complete plate number, publication date and pagination remain unconfirmed.

Orchestration

Antal Doráti, credited on the title and opening score pages.

Voice and orchestra

Solo voice (baritone in the Swedish Allan Pettersson Society catalogue); flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones; percussion and strings. The society gives the orchestral shorthand 1122–4220–perc–str. Bass drum and tamtam are visible in the supplied opening page; the complete percussion inventory and player assignments await confirmation from this copy.

Text and language

Allan Pettersson; Swedish.

Duration

Approximately 30 minutes, according to the Swedish Allan Pettersson Society.

Opening song

“Herren går på ängen,” confirmed by the supplied score page.

Version

Selection of eight songs in Doráti’s orchestration, listed as 1970 in the Swedish Allan Pettersson Society work catalogue.

Cataloged from the supplied title and opening score pages. Supplemental references: Swedish Allan Pettersson Society work catalogue and BIS recording notes. Entry added 18 October 2026.

035

Vocal-Symphonic Works by Soviet Composers — Issue 2

L. Vainstein · A. Lokshin · D. Smirnov

Вокально-симфонические произведения советских композиторов. Выпуск 2. Anthology in vocal score (клавир).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1619 .V65 1990 vyp.2 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Publisher and date

Moscow: Sovetsky Kompozitor Publishers (Советский композитор), 1990, confirmed by the photographed title page.

Format

Vocal score / piano reduction of vocal-symphonic works. Anthology volume.

Copies held

2 copies available in the library, both at VA.D5.

Contents

L. Vainstein (Л. Вайнштейн): Вересковый мед — Heather Ale, pages 3–27; A. Lokshin (А. Локшин): Искусство поэзии — The Art of Poetry, pages 28–40; D. Smirnov (Д. Смирнов): Вечный приют — Eternal Refuge, pages 41–55. Work titles and composer credits appear on the supplied title page; page ranges are from the library catalogue reference.

Texts

Heather Ale: Robert Louis Stevenson, Russian translation by Samuil Marshak. The Art of Poetry: Nikolai Zabolotsky. Eternal Refuge: Mikhail Bulgakov. Text credits supplied by the library catalogue reference.

Extent

56 pages reported by the library catalogue; pagination of this physical copy has not yet been checked.

Language and performing forces

Russian texts; works for soloists and orchestra, presented here in vocal score. Individual voice types and complete orchestration await confirmation from the internal score pages.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and title page. Supplemental pagination and text credits: Ekaterinburg music library catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

036

Concertos for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra

Composers awaiting identification

Концерты для меццо-сопрано с оркестром. Collection in piano score (клавир).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1619 .K66 1989 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number. Classification awaits contents review.

Publisher and date

Moscow: Sovetsky Kompozitor Publishers (Советский композитор), 1989, confirmed by the supplied title page.

Score format

Piano score / vocal score (клавир), as labeled on both cover and title page; reduction of works for mezzo-soprano and orchestra.

Original performing forces

Mezzo-soprano and orchestra. Individual orchestral instrumentations remain unconfirmed.

Contents and credits

The supplied cover and title page do not name the composers or individual concertos. Contents, composer and arranger credits, text authors and languages await the contents or opening music pages.

Edition details

Pagination, plate number and any ISBN remain unconfirmed.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and title page. Entry added 18 October 2026.

037

Quatre Instants — orchestral version

Kaija Saariaho

Four songs for soprano and orchestra (2002), arranged by the composer from her version for soprano and piano. Text by Amin Maalouf, in French.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .S23 Q38 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Chester Music Limited. Spiral-bound orchestral full score, stamped “Perusal Score.” The supplied cover lists the Music Sales distribution centre in Bury St. Edmunds and the publisher’s London office at 8/9 Frith Street; these are historical imprint details. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Orchestra

2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo and alto flute), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat, 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon); 2 horns in F; harp, celesta, 2 percussion players; solo soprano and strings.

Percussion

Player I: crotales, suspended cymbal, glass chimes, marimba. Player II: tamtam, vibraphone, medium suspended cymbal, triangle, crotales, glass chimes. This inventory follows the photographed score; the current publisher’s online shorthand also mentions timpani, which are not listed on the supplied orchestration page.

Contents

I. Attente; II. Douleur; III. Parfum de l’instant; IV. Résonances.

Text and language

Amin Maalouf; French. All four texts are printed in the supplied score.

Duration

Approximately 20 minutes, as printed in this copy.

Commission

The supplied score credits the Finnish Chamber Orchestra Association and the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

First performance

August 2003, Tammisaari Summer Concert Festival, Finland; Karita Mattila, soprano, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, as stated in this copy.

Dedication

To Karita Mattila and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, according to the publisher’s work catalogue.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title, orchestration and text pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

038

In My Sky at Twilight — Songs of Passion and Love

Augusta Read Thomas

For solo soprano and chamber orchestra (2002). The supplied instrumentation corresponds to the original version for soprano and 18 players.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613.3 .T46 I5 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Comb-bound full score. G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, NY. Cover marked “From the G. Schirmer Rental Library,” with a handwritten printing date that is not clear enough to transcribe confidently. Publication date, plate number and pagination remain unconfirmed.

Soloist and ensemble

Light lyric soprano; piccolo, flute, oboe, 2 clarinets in B-flat; 2 horns in F, piccolo trumpet in B-flat, trumpet in C; 2 percussion players, 2 pianos (Piano 2 doubling celesta), harp; violin I, violin II, viola and violoncello.

Percussion I

Vibraphone (motor off in movement I, slow motor in movement II; 2 bows and wire brushes), xylophone, 3 crotales (bow required), very large woodblock, large bass drum, suspended cymbal (bow required), small triangle, large triangle, maraca and almglocken.

Percussion II

Tubular chimes (felt mallets where marked; otherwise chimes hammer), crotales (2 bows), glockenspiel, almglocken, bongos, suspended cymbal (triangle beater), large tamtam and graduated metal wind chimes. Crotales, suspended cymbal and almglocken may be shared between the players. Exact pitched-percussion note requirements await a clearer image.

Duration

20–22 minutes, as printed in this copy.

Form and language

Two large sections, Deeper Than All Roses and Lament, separated by an instrumental interlude; English texts, according to the composer and publisher.

Commission

Commissioned for MusicNOW, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new-music chamber series, in loving memory of Marilyn M. Simpson by her devoted family.

Dedication

To Pierre Boulez, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Christine Brandes and William G. Simpson.

World premiere

1 December 2002, Orchestra Hall, Chicago; Christine Brandes, soprano, with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Version note

This copy lists four individual string instruments. The composer’s later chamber-orchestra version has different string parts. The historical prefatory note in this copy also discusses concert and dance presentations and a then-projected longer version with small chorus; that chorus is not included in the supplied instrumentation.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, prefatory and instrumentation pages. Supplemental references: composer’s work page and publisher’s catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

039

Concerto for Pizzicato Piano and Ten Instruments

Tan Dun

Concerto for solo piano and ten instrumentalists (1995).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1040 .T36 C66 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Comb-bound full score. G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, NY, confirmed on the cover and title page. Publication date, plate number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Soloist and ensemble

Solo piano; flute, oboe, bass clarinet, guitar, harp, one percussionist, violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass with C extension.

Percussion

Concert marimba, 10-inch Chinese gong, tamtam, bass drum, 2 congas and 2 roto-toms. Mallets, brushes and bow are specified. The exact notated roto-tom pitches await confirmation from a clearer image.

Piano technique and musical basis

The publisher describes plucking the piano strings and using techniques inspired by the pipa, with pitch material based on C–A–G–E, in memory of John Cage.

Positioning

Players are arranged around the piano, whose cover is removed. All players stand facing the piano throughout the piece; the soloist faces the conductor, as directed in the supplied score.

Duration

Approximately 14 minutes in this copy; the publisher’s catalogue gives 15 minutes.

Commission

Festival d’Automne, Paris, for Contrechamps, Geneva.

Premiere statement in this copy

27 October 1995, Paris, France; Contrechamps, Margaret Leng Tan, soloist, Tan Dun conducting.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Composition year and musical background confirmed by the publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

040

Orchestral Theatre II: Re

Tan Dun

For divided orchestra, bass voice and audience with two conductors (1992).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .T36 O7 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Comb-bound full score. G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, NY, confirmed by the supplied cover and title page. Publication date, plate number and pagination remain unconfirmed.

Performers

Solo bass voice; divided orchestra, audience participation and two conductors.

Orchestra

3 piccolos, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 2 bassoons; 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in D, 3 trombones, tuba; 4 percussion players, piano, harp and strings (contrabasses with 5 strings), as listed in the supplied score.

Percussion I

Water-gongs (8–12 inches), water-triangle, bottle for bubbling sounds with a large container of water on a stand, flexatone, cowbells, suspended cymbal and a pair of stones.

Percussion II

4 timpani; opening tuning shown in notation. Exact pitches await confirmation from a clearer image.

Percussion III

Tamtam, crash cymbals, 2 bongos, a pair of stones and a small high-pitched triangle.

Percussion IV

Flexatone, bass drum, tubular chimes and slapstick.

Audience and vocal material

The publisher describes vocal participation by the bass, conductors, orchestra and audience, including humming the pitch D (“re”) and a chanted passage. Vocal material draws on Lao Tze and Liu Zongyuan.

Duration

Approximately 18 minutes, according to the publisher.

Commission

Suntory Limited for the Suntory International Program for Music Composition in 1993, as stated in this copy.

Dedication

To Toru Takemitsu, confirmed by the supplied dedication page.

First performance

1 July 1993, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hiroyuki Iwaki and Tan Dun, as stated in this copy.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title, dedication and instrumentation pages. Composition year, duration and audience participation supplemented by the publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

041

Red Forecast (Orchestral Theater III)

Tan Dun

For soprano, orchestra, video and audio (1996).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1611 .T36 R43 — provisional, locally assigned; not a verified complete LC call number. Class M1611 is reported in the CiNii catalogue record, which also cites LCCN 98705492.

Score and publisher

Comb-bound full score. G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, NY. Cover marked “From the G. Schirmer Rental Library,” with handwritten printing date “11/10/98” (transcribed without resolving day/month order). This is a copy-printing date, separate from the 1996 work date.

Bibliographic extent

CiNii describes a G. Schirmer ©1996 edition of 124 pages, 43 cm; this copy’s pagination and dimensions have not yet been checked.

Soloist and media

Soprano, also operating a portable cassette player for the prerecorded Forecast; video and audio.

Orchestra

Flute doubling piccolo, oboe, B-flat clarinet doubling bass clarinet, bassoon doubling contrabassoon, B-flat tenor saxophone; 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in D, 2 trombones; 3 percussion players, piano, harp and strings divided into two groups.

Strings

Each group: 2 first violins, 2 second violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and 1 bass; 18 string players in total.

Percussion I

5 timpani, guiro, tubular chimes, Chinese cymbals, cymbal, Tibetan singing bowl, xylophone and small triangle. Opening timpani tuning is printed in notation; exact pitches await confirmation.

Percussion II

Chinese cymbal, tamtam, 3 cowbells (shared with Player III), suspended cymbal, bass drum (shared with Player III), Tibetan singing bowl, vibraphone and small triangle.

Percussion III

5 tom-toms of indeterminate pitch, snare drum, woodblocks, shared bass drum and 3 cowbells, suspended cymbal, Tibetan singing bowl and small triangle. A pair of Tibetan bells is also prepared at position 1 for the conductor.

Dramatic-version equipment

The supplied score specifies a video player with multi-cable connections, at least 5 television monitors on stage (possibly more in the audience), a VHS video image tape, opera music stands and spotlight equipment. The score distinguishes these additional requirements from its concert version. Companion audio/video materials held with this copy have not been confirmed.

Contents

1. Ritual; 2. Snow; 3. Cloud; 4. Wind; 5. Storm and Documentary; 6. Sunshine.

Text

English text compiled by the composer from newspaper weather reports, according to CiNii.

Duration

Approximately 40 minutes, according to the publisher.

Commission and premiere

Co-commissioned by the BBC and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. First performance: 26 November 1996, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Susan Botti (soprano), Mike Newman (video artist), Tan Dun (conductor), as stated in this copy.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Supplemental references: publisher’s catalogue and CiNii bibliographic record. Entry added 18 October 2026.

042

Three Michelangelo Songs

Tristan Keuris

For mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1990), setting Italian poems by Michelangelo.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .K48 T47 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Orchestral full score reproducing handwritten notation. Novello & Co., confirmed by the supplied cover. The cover lists the Music Sales distribution centre in Bury St. Edmunds and the publisher’s London office at 8/9 Frith Street; these are historical imprint details. Autograph status is not established. Publication date, plate number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Publication reference

Donemus describes a Novello ©1991 edition; this date has not been confirmed in the photographed copy.

Contents

I. O notte, dolce tempo (approximately 5 minutes); II. Sulla morte di Cecchino Bracci (approximately 3 minutes); III. Di morte certo, ma non già dell’ora (approximately 8 minutes).

Text and language

Michelangelo Buonarroti; Italian.

Orchestra

2 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 2 horns, trumpet; 2 percussion players, harp and strings. Publisher’s suggested string complement: 8 first violins, 6 second violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos and 2 basses. The detailed handwritten percussion list in this copy awaits clearer transcription.

Duration

Approximately 16 minutes, confirmed by the supplied contents page and publisher.

Occasion and support

Composed for the centenary of the Gelders Orkest, with financial support from the Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst.

Dedication

To Jard van Nes and the Gelders Orkest.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, handwritten title and contents/scoring pages. Supplemental references: publisher’s work catalogue and Donemus catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

043

Frohlocket mit Händen alle Völker, BuxWV 29

Diderich Buxtehude

Sacred cantata in German for five-part vocal ensemble, instruments and basso continuo.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .B98 F7 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Full score (Partitur). Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS, as printed on the cover. The title-page imprint also names Wilhelm Hansen Musik-Forlag, Copenhagen; Norsk Musikforlag A/S, Oslo; AB Nordiska Musikförlaget, Stockholm; J. & W. Chester Ltd, London; and Wilhelmiana Musikverlag, Frankfurt am Main. These are the historical imprint details of the photographed copy.

Edition details

Publication date, editor credit, plate number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed. No date or edition number from a modern retail listing has been assigned to this copy.

Work identification and forces

BuxWV 29; five-part voices (SSATB), trumpets, strings and basso continuo. Exact instrumental counts and any editorial substitutions in this Wilhelm Hansen edition await the scoring or opening music pages.

Text and language

German. The work sets Psalm 47:2–4 and concludes with a chorale using the last stanza of Martin Luther’s “Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich,” according to the recording booklet reference.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and title page. Work identification, scoring and text context supplemented by the Challenge Classics recording booklet. Entry added 18 October 2026.

044

Tre Voci

Arne Nordheim

For soprano and chamber ensemble (1988), with texts by Francesco Petrarca, Giordano Bruno and Giuseppe Ungaretti.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613.3 .N67 T74 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Full score. Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS, Copenhagen, confirmed by the supplied title page. The title-page year 1988 is recorded as the work date; this copy’s publication date, edition number, pagination and ISBN remain unconfirmed.

Ensemble

Solo soprano; flute doubling piccolo; E-flat clarinet doubling B-flat bass clarinet; violin, violoncello, one percussionist and piano. Six instrumental players in total.

Percussion

Crotales, medium and large tamtams, vibraphone, Javanese gongs and whip.

Notation

Score in C, as stated on the supplied instrumentation page.

Text authors

Francesco Petrarca, Giordano Bruno and Giuseppe Ungaretti, all credited on the title page. Individual poem titles and the sung language await the text or music pages.

Duration

Approximately 16 minutes, as printed in this copy.

Commission

Rikskonsertene in Norway, as stated on the supplied title page.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Entry added 18 October 2026.

045

Three Songs — for soprano and chamber orchestra

Peter Lieberson

Three songs setting texts by Douglas Penick, identified in published work lists as a 1981 composition.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613.3 .L54 T47 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Full score reproducing handwritten notation. The cover bears the joint G. Schirmer, Inc. & Associated Music Publishers, Inc. Rental Performance Department label, 5 Bellvale Road, Chester, N.Y. 10918. This address is recorded as a historical cover detail. Autograph status is not established; publication date, plate number and pagination remain unconfirmed.

Performing forces

Solo soprano; flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet, bassoon; horn in F, trumpet in B-flat, tenor trombone; harp, piano and string quartet (2 violins, viola, violoncello), following the supplied instrumentation page.

Text

Douglas Penick; selections from Epistrophia, reproduced with the author’s permission, as stated in this copy.

Commission

Department of Music, University of Chicago.

Dedication

To Paul Fromm, in celebration of his 75th birthday, as written on the title page.

Notation

Non-transposed score without key signatures, as stated in the handwritten note.

Duration and contents

Individual song titles and printed duration await confirmation from the music or contents pages.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, handwritten title and instrumentation pages. Work-year reference: Pytheas composer work list. Entry added 18 October 2026.

046

Giro · Two Songs from Five Images after Sappho

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Giro (1982–97) and two songs from Five Images after Sappho (1999), published by Chester Music.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .S25 F58 — provisional local shelf number, placing this volume with voice-and-orchestra scores by its Two Songs from Five Images after Sappho. Not a verified LC call number; Giro, included in the same volume, is for orchestra alone.

Score and publisher

Bound compilation of scores and a work list. Chester Music Limited, London. The supplied pages give 8/9 Frith Street, London W1D 3JB, and the Music Sales distribution centre in Bury St. Edmunds; these are historical imprint details. Publication date, pagination and edition number remain unconfirmed.

Contents

Giro, for orchestra (1982–97); two songs from Five Images after Sappho (1999): 1. Tell Everyone; 2. Without Warning; as listed in this copy. The volume includes two songs, rather than the complete five-song cycle. The appended publisher’s work list is incidental material, not a separate cataloged work.

Giro: scoring in this copy

2 flutes (2nd doubling alto flute), 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), 2 B-flat clarinets (2nd doubling B-flat bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon); 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 2 trombones; one percussionist, harp, piano and strings.

Giro: percussion

2 tamtams (medium and large), vibraphone, marimba and tubular bells.

Giro: notation

The supplied scoring page marks alto flute, cor anglais, clarinets, bass clarinet and horns as notated in C.

Giro: duration and revised-version premiere

Approximately 10 minutes. Revised version first performed on 29 June 1997 in Porvoo, Finland, by the Avanti! Ensemble, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, as stated in this copy.

Giro: scoring reference

The photographed score specifies 2 horns, consistent with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s work note. The publisher’s current online shorthand lists 4 horns; the copy’s scoring is retained here.

Sappho selections

For soprano and ensemble, setting Sappho. The publisher lists the complete cycle for flute/piccolo, oboe/cor anglais, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon/contrabassoon, 2 horns, percussion, harp, piano/celesta and five individual strings. Scoring and sung text details for these two selections await their internal pages; the complete cycle’s 20-minute duration is not assigned to this excerpt volume.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, compilation contents, Giro title and scoring pages. Supplemental references: Los Angeles Philharmonic work note and publisher’s Sappho catalogue entry. Entry added 18 October 2026.

047

Noa, Op. 78

Erik Bergman

For baritone, mixed choir and orchestra (1976).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .B47 N63 — provisional, locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and publisher

Full score reproducing handwritten notation. Novello & Co., confirmed by the supplied cover, which lists the Music Sales distribution centre, Newmarket Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3YB, and the London office at 8/9 Frith Street, W1V 5TZ. These are historical imprint details. Autograph status is not established; this copy’s publication date, edition number and pagination remain unconfirmed.

Voices

Solo baritone and mixed choir; SATB according to the publisher.

Orchestra

2 flutes (both also playing piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 B-flat clarinets, 2 bassoons (2nd also contrabassoon); 3 trumpets in B-flat, 4 horns in F, 3 trombones, tuba; percussion for 4 performers, harp and strings.

Percussion

4 timpani, crotales, suspended cymbal, 5 gongs, medium and low tamtams, small drum without snares, 2 bongos, snare drum, bass drum, 2 temple blocks, wooden board, sandblocks, flexatone, tubular bells, marimba, xylorimba and vibraphone. This combined list follows the supplied handwritten instrumentation page, bracketed for 4 performers; individual assignments and pitched-percussion specifications await the internal parts.

Notation

Score in C, as stated on the instrumentation page.

Duration

Approximately 25 minutes, confirmed by this copy.

Text and language

Hebrew text selected by the composer, according to the publisher. The work concerns Noah and the Flood.

Commission

Finnish Radio, according to the publisher’s work catalogue.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Composition year, choir voicing, text language and commission supplemented by the publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

048

The Jogger and the Dinosaur

Morton Gould

Music and text by Morton Gould (1992), for rapper (narrator) and orchestra in seven scenes; duration approximately 22 minutes.

Physical location

VA.D5

Publisher / edition

G. Schirmer, Inc. (publisher confirmed by the publisher’s work catalogue). Supplied title page does not establish this copy’s publication date, pagination or edition identifiers.

Instrumentation

Rapper / narrator; orchestra: 2 flutes (including piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon; 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba; 2 percussionists; strings. Optional dancers, mimes and puppeteers. Instrumentation supplemented from the publisher’s catalogue.

Commission / premiere

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Association for the Pittsburgh Youth Orchestra. First performance: 4 April 1993, Pittsburgh Youth Orchestra, Barbara Yahr conducting, as stated on the supplied title page.

Dedication

To the composer’s grown children and growing grandchildren; for children, young and old.

Copy notes / language

Original text in English. Attached handwritten German-language note concerns a German translation; translator and exact wording have not been confirmed.

LC-style shelf number

M1625 .G68 J64 — provisional, locally assigned; not a verified Library of Congress call number. M1625 covers recitations with orchestra or other instrumental ensemble.

Cataloged from the supplied title-page photograph; supplementary details from the publisher’s work catalogue and classification guidance from Yale Library. Entry added 18 October 2026.

049

Oltra Mar

Kaija Saariaho

Seven preludes for the new millennium, for orchestra and choir (1998–99). Duration approximately 22 minutes.

Physical location

VA.D5

Publisher / edition

Chester Music Limited, London. Spiral-bound score in publisher’s hire / perusal cover. Publication date, pagination and edition identifiers are not established by the supplied photographs.

Instrumentation

Mixed choir (SATB) and large orchestra: 4 flutes (including piccolo and alto flute), 4 oboes, 4 clarinets, 4 bassoons; 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba; 3 percussionists and timpani; harp, piano and strings. Instrumentation supplemented from the publisher’s catalogue.

Movements

I. Départ; II. Amour; III. Vagues; IV. Temps; V. Souvenir de vagues; VI. Mort (in memory of Gérard Grisey); VII. Arrivée.

Texts / language

Texts by Abou Saîd and Amin Maalouf, and a traditional African death-song text, in French; wordless choral writing in the sea / journey movements. The supplied text page identifies Abou Saîd beneath Amour.

Commission / premiere

Commissioned as a Message for the Millennium by the New York Philharmonic, with support from the Francis Goelet Fund, as stated in this score. First performed 11 November 1999 by the New York Philharmonic and Westminster Symphonic Choir, conducted by Kurt Masur.

LC-style shelf number

M1530 .S23 O48 — provisional, locally assigned; not a verified Library of Congress call number.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and text-page photographs; supplementary instrumentation, duration and text information from the publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

050

song was sweeter even so

Anthony Davis

Work for chamber ensemble and voice on tape (1987); duration approximately 17 minutes.

Physical location

VA.D5

Publisher / edition

Green-covered score; title page bears © 1987 Anthony Davis. G. Schirmer, Inc. is identified as publisher in the composer’s catalogue and the publisher’s rental catalogue; no publisher imprint is visible in the supplied photographs. This copy’s publication date, pagination and edition identifiers remain unconfirmed.

Instrumentation

Flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, violoncello, percussion and voice on tape, according to the publisher’s rental catalogue. The supplied photographs do not include an instrumentation page. Presence of accompanying tape / audio materials with this copy has not been established.

Text / language

Thulani Davis; English, according to the publisher’s catalogue.

Commission

Commissioned by the Experimental Music Studio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, through a New Works grant from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts & Humanities, as printed on the supplied title page.

LC-style shelf number

M1473 .D38 S66 — provisional, locally assigned for an electroacoustic work; not a verified Library of Congress call number.

Cataloged from supplied cover and title-page photographs, supplemented by the composer’s chamber catalogue and the publisher’s rental catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

051

Johnny reitet westwärts

Jens-Peter Ostendorf

Musikalischer Western für großes Orchester und Erzähler — a musical western for large orchestra and narrator. Approximately 21 minutes; the publisher’s rental catalogue dates the work 1976.

Physical location

VA.D5

Publisher / edition

Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg. Edition Sikorski 1434. Studienpartitur (study score), red cover. This copy’s publication date and pagination are not established by the supplied photographs.

Instrumentation

Narrator; piccolo doubling flute III, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon; 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B-flat, 3 trombones; percussion and additional instruments; piano; strings (violins I and II, violas, violoncellos, double basses).

Percussion / additional instruments

The supplied score lists a two-player percussion group: timpani, bass drum, triangle, cymbals, Chinese cymbals, temple blocks, tom-tom, tam-tam, cassettina, bongos, coconut shells and ratchet. It additionally lists xylophone, vibraphone, bells, glockenspiel, harmonica, slide whistle, kazoo (mirliton), caccavello infantile and piano. The wider player allocation requires consultation of the score; the publisher’s rental catalogue gives timpani plus three percussionists.

Text / educational material

German title and descriptive material. Text credited to the composer in the publisher’s catalogue. A printed note states that a teaching commentary for schools and children’s concerts is available on request; its presence with this copy has not been established.

LC-style shelf number

M1625 .O85 J64 — provisional, locally assigned for narration with orchestra; not a verified Library of Congress call number.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title, instrumentation and educational-note photographs; supplementary date, duration and text credit from the publisher’s rental catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

052

Five Images after Sappho

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Complete five-song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble (1999); approximately 20 minutes. Separate volume from the previously cataloged Giro / Two Songs compilation.

Physical location

VA.D5

Publisher / edition

Chester Music Limited, London. Perusal score. The cover states that it may not represent the composer’s final intentions; a handwritten German annotation reads “unkorrigiert! Errata-Liste beachten” (uncorrected; consult the errata list). The supplied photographs do not establish whether an errata list accompanies this copy. Publication date and total pagination remain unconfirmed.

Contents

1. Tell Everyone; 2. Without Warning; 3. It’s No Use; 4. The Evening Star; 5. Wedding.

Instrumentation

Soprano; flute doubling piccolo, oboe doubling English horn, clarinet in B-flat doubling bass clarinet in B-flat, bassoon doubling contrabassoon, 2 horns in F; percussion; piano doubling celesta; harp; 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass.

Percussion

Tubular bells, vibraphone, glockenspiel, congas, marimba and Thai nipple gongs, as listed in this score.

Text / language

After Sappho; English.

Dedication / commission / premiere

Written for Dawn Upshaw. Commissioned by the Ojai Festival and London Sinfonietta, with support from Linda Attiyeh, Betty Freeman, the Arts Council of England and the Finnish Embassy, London. First performed 4 June 1999 at the Ojai Festival, California, by Laura Claycomb (soprano) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, as stated in this score.

LC-style shelf number

M1613.3 .S25 F58 — provisional, locally assigned for solo voice with chamber ensemble; not a verified Library of Congress call number.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title, contents and instrumentation photographs; date and duration supplemented from the publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

053

Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham

Robert Kapilow

For soprano, boy soprano and orchestra. Text by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss); music by Robert (Rob) Kapilow. Work dated 1992 in the publisher’s catalogue; duration approximately 18 minutes.

Physical location

VA.D5

Publisher / edition

G. Schirmer, Inc.; distributed by Hal Leonard. Full score, orange illustrated cover. This copy’s publication date, pagination and edition identifiers are not visible in the supplied photographs.

Instrumentation

Soprano soloist, boy soprano soloist; 2 flutes (first doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat, 2 bassoons; 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in B-flat, 2 trombones; 2 percussionists; piano; strings.

Percussion

Vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, suspended cymbals, choke cymbal, hi-hat, sizzle cymbal, ride cymbal, gong, tom-toms, floor tom-tom, snare drum, bass drum, cowbell, mark tree, ratchet, toy crash cymbals, train whistle and triangle, as listed in this score.

Text / language

Dr. Seuss’s children’s story, in English. Musical / theatrical setting for two solo voices and orchestra.

LC-style shelf number

M1500 .K37 G74 — provisional, locally assigned in the opera / music-theatre grouping; not a verified Library of Congress call number.

Cataloged from supplied cover and instrumentation photographs; work date and duration supplemented from the publisher’s work catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

054

Sixty-odd Pages

Paweł Szymański

For chamber orchestra (1991); duration approximately 15 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Publisher / edition

Chester Music Limited, London. Spiral-bound score in publisher’s hire / perusal cover. Publication date, total pagination and edition identifiers are not visible in the supplied photographs.

Instrumentation

Flute doubling piccolo, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon; horn in F, trumpet in D-flat (always muted), trombone (always muted); 2 percussion parts; 12 violins, 6 violas, 4 violoncellos and 4 double basses (third and fourth with five strings), as listed in this score.

Percussion

Part I: marimba and vibraphone (motor always off). Part II: whip, 3 tam-tams (small, medium and large) and bass drum.

Commission

Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden, as printed on the supplied title page.

Notation / performance notes

Transposing instruments are notated in transposition, rather than at sounding pitch. Trumpet and trombone use conical mutes throughout; horn uses a conical mute where marked. The score also includes instructions for bowed vibraphone and flexible wind tone / pitch effects.

LC-style shelf number

M1045 .S99 S59 — provisional, locally assigned for an individual orchestral work; not a verified Library of Congress call number.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title, instrumentation and notation photographs. Work year supplemented from the publisher’s composer catalogue; approximate duration from SWR’s work archive. Entry added 18 October 2026.

055

Six Japanese Gardens

Kaija Saariaho

For solo percussion and electronics; title page dated 1993/95. Approximately 19 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Publisher / edition

Chester Music Limited, London. Spiral-bound score in publisher’s hire / perusal cover. This copy’s publication date, pagination and edition identifiers are not established by the photographs.

Instrumentation

Solo percussion with live electronics: triangle, metal plate, wood block, log drum, stones, small suspended cymbal, suspended cymbal, 3 suspended finger cymbals, zen cymbals, 2 gongs, crotales (one octave), Chinese drum, tambourine, 3 timpani and tam-tam, as printed in this copy.

Electronics / copy notes

This copy’s historical equipment list specifies Macintosh with Digidesign Soundtools or ProTools II, MIDI interface, Yamaha SPX1000, Lexicon LXP15, sustain pedal with MIDI triggering interface, directional microphones, PA mixer and stereo amplification. These describe the printed version, rather than a verified current performance setup. Accompanying audio / software materials have not been confirmed.

Contents

Tenju-an Garden of Nanzen-ji Temple; Many Pleasures (Garden of the Kinkaku-ji); Dry Mountain Stream; Rock Garden of Ryoan-ji; Moss Garden of the Saiho-ji; Stone Bridges.

Library of Congress call number

M146 .S — verified in the LC catalogue for the Chester Music ©2005 edition. Used here as a reference shelf number for the same work; the supplied copy has not been established as that edition.

Library of Congress control number (LCCN)

2006483930. LC describes 11 leaves of music with a CD-ROM; those physical details are not assigned to this copy without further evidence.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title and instrumentation / equipment photographs. Contents, duration and call number checked directly against the Library of Congress record. Entry added 18 October 2026.

056

Sebastian im Traum (Dream of Sebastian)

Hans Werner Henze

Salzburger Nachtmusik auf eine Dichtung von Georg Trakl, for orchestra (2003–4); approximately 15 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Publisher / edition

Chester Music Limited, London. Spiral-bound full score in publisher’s hire / perusal cover. Publication date, pagination and edition identifiers of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Instrumentation

3 flutes (second doubling piccolo; third doubling alto flute), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (I in B-flat, II in A, III in B-flat doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon); 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 4 trombones (first alto trombone), tuba; timpani, 4 percussionists; 2 harps, celesta, piano; strings. Scoring follows this copy, including its three trumpets.

Percussion

I: vibraphone. II: 3 suspended cymbals (small, medium, large), 4 tam-tams, Abendglocken, temple block, crotales. III: bass drum with cymbals, wood block. IV: snare drum, 3 tom-toms, low tam-tam, metal block, castanets.

Notation

Score in C. An accidental applies only to the note it immediately precedes; a horizontal line indicates a tie.

Commission / premiere

Commissioned by the Eduard van Beinum Stichting, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle-Gesellschaft and New York Philharmonic. First performed 22 December 2005 at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons, as printed in this copy.

Library of Congress call number

M1045.H529 S38 2007 — verified for the Chester Music ©2007 study-score edition. The 2007 date identifies that LC edition; it is not confirmed as this copy’s publication date.

Library of Congress control number (LCCN)

2009494521. LC describes a 49-page study score; those physical details have not been assigned to this copy.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title and instrumentation photographs; call number verified directly in the Library of Congress catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

057

Gambit

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Copies held: 2. Both copies are located at VA.F4. Second physical copy confirmed by the owner on 19 October 2026.

For orchestra (1998). Duration approximately 10 minutes, as printed in this copy.

Physical location

VA.F4

Publisher / edition

Chester Music Limited, London. Spiral-bound perusal score with publisher’s stamp. Publication date, pagination and edition identifiers of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Instrumentation

2 flutes, piccolo, 3 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat (second doubling E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet; 2 bassoons, contrabassoon; 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 2 trombones (second may be played on bass trombone), bass trombone, tuba; timpani, 3 percussionists; piano, harp; strings (16.14.12.10.8 players). This copy does not list the additional contrabass clarinet in the publisher’s current online scoring.

Percussion

I: vibraphone, 4 wood blocks, bass drum. II: marimba, 4 temple blocks, 4 log drums, clashed cymbals. III: 2 congas, large claves, large tam-tam, glockenspiel.

Notation

Clarinets in B-flat / E-flat and horns in F are marked as notated in C in the score.

Premiere / dedication

First performance: 6 June 1998, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, as printed in this score. Dedicated to Magnus Lindberg on his fortieth birthday, according to the publisher.

LC-style shelf number

M1045 .S25 G36 — provisional, locally assigned; not a verified Library of Congress call number. Direct LC keyword search for Salonen Gambit on 18 October 2026 returned a sound-recording record, but no printed-score record was found. No recording call number has been applied to this score.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title and scoring photographs. Supplementary dedication and scoring comparison from the publisher’s catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

058

LA Variations

Esa-Pekka Salonen

For large orchestra (1996); approximately 20 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Publisher / edition

Chester Music Limited, London. Spiral-bound orchestral score in publisher’s hire / perusal cover. Supplied photographs show cover and a score page; publication date, pagination and edition identifiers of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Instrumentation

Supplemented from the publisher and Los Angeles Philharmonic: piccolo, 2 flutes (including alto flute), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets (including E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, 3 percussionists; harp, celesta, synthesizer / sampler; strings (minimum 16.14.12.10.8). This copy’s complete instrumentation page has not been supplied.

Commission / dedication / premiere

Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and dedicated to Ernest Fleischmann. World premiere 16 January 1997, Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, according to the orchestra’s work notes.

Library of Congress call number

M1003.S17 L38 2011 — verified directly for the Chester Music ©2011 edition. The year identifies that LC edition; this copy’s publication date has not been confirmed.

Library of Congress control number (LCCN)

2013465173. LC describes a 91-page score; pagination and ISBN have not been assigned to this copy without confirmation.

Cataloged from supplied photographs, supplemented by the publisher, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Library of Congress record. Entry added 18 October 2026.

059

Phoenix Rising

Thea Musgrave

For orchestra (1997). Single movement, approximately 23 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Publisher / edition

Novello & Co., London. Full score in publisher’s hire-material cover, with hire stamp. Cover has handwritten annotations, including an apparent April 1998 errata note and initials; exact wording is not fully confirmed. Publication date, pagination and edition identifiers of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Instrumentation

2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon; 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, 4 percussionists; 2 harps; strings, as listed in the supplied instrumentation page. The full percussion inventory and seating diagram are cropped in the photograph.

Commission / dedication / premiere

Commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation and dedicated to Andrew Davis. First performed 18 February 1998 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis, as stated in this score and confirmed by the publisher.

Performance notes

The composer’s note describes spatially separated percussion and onstage / offstage soloists, including a solo horn initially offstage. A seating diagram is included in this copy.

LC-style shelf number

M1045 .M88 P46 — provisional, locally assigned; not a verified Library of Congress call number. Direct LC catalogue keyword search for Musgrave Phoenix rising on 18 October 2026 returned no results.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title, composer’s-note and instrumentation photographs; duration and premiere corroborated by the publisher’s catalogue. Entry added 18 October 2026.

060

Lonh

Kaija Saariaho

For soprano and electronics (1996). Chester Music; spiral-bound hire score. The title page is marked “first version 25.7.96”; the cover bears the handwritten reference E 63/96.

Physical location

VA.F4

Library of Congress call number

M1613.3.S198 L6 1996 — verified against the LC record for the 1996 Chester Music special-order full score.

LCCN

2001389811

Forces

Solo soprano and electronics.

Text and notation

Old Provençal text associated with Jaufré Rudel. The notation notes credit Jacques Roubaud’s interpretation of pronunciation and describe whispered, spoken, breath-inflected and sung sounds, gradual phoneme transitions, glissandi and vibrato indications. The notes mention an accompanying cassette of Roubaud reading the text; its presence with this copy has not been confirmed.

Edition reference

The LC record describes a 1996 special-order full score of 16 pages, 42 cm. LC adds “fol.” to its holdings call number as a format designation.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title-page and notation photographs; call number checked directly in the Library of Congress catalog. Entry added 18 October 2026.

061

Aile du songe

Kaija Saariaho

Concerto for flute and orchestra (2001). Chester Music; spiral-bound perusal score. Duration printed in this copy: approximately 18 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Library of Congress call number

M1020.S13 A4 2002 — verified LC reference number for the 2002 Chester Music miniature-score edition; the publication date and exact edition of this perusal copy are not confirmed by the supplied photographs.

LCCN

2003502920

Forces

Solo flute; 3 percussionists plus timpani; celesta; harp; strings (7.6.5.4.4 desks, as printed). The orchestral accompaniment has no wind section.

Percussion

Player 1: crotales, suspended cymbal, maracas, small gong, glockenspiel, tam-tam, tambourine, small triangle, guiro, frame drum, Chinese cymbal, claves. Player 2: suspended cymbal, triangle, bass drum (soft skin, no audible pitch), guiro, xylophone, maracas, glockenspiel, sandpaper blocks, tubular bells. Player 3: tam-tam, vibraphone, suspended cymbal, maracas, glass/metal/shell wind chimes, marimba, bass drum. Timpani are listed separately as item 4. Three suspended cymbals of different sizes are specified.

Sections

I. Aérienne: Prélude; Jardin des oiseaux; D’autres rives. II. Terrestre: Oiseau dansant; L’oiseau, un satellite infime de notre orbite planétaire.

Commission and premiere

Commissioned by the Flanders Festival, the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. First performed on 12 October 2001 at the Flanders Festival in Brussels by Camilla Hoitenga, flute, and the Vlaams Radio Orkest, conducted by Marin Alsop.

Cataloged from supplied title-page and scoring photographs. LC reference checked directly: 2003502920, describing a 75-page miniature score, 30 cm, ©2002. Entry added 18 October 2026.

062

Havoc, Op. 83

Giles Swayne

For twenty-eight mixed voices and small orchestra (1999). Novello; spiral-bound score. Duration printed in this copy: approximately 75 minutes. Dedicated to Susan Bradshaw.

Physical location

VA.F4

Local call number

M1530 .S93 H38 — locally assigned using LC-style classification; not an LC-issued call number. A direct LC catalog search for Swayne Havoc on 18 October 2026 returned no results.

Soloists and continuo

Solo countertenor; solo flute doubling alto and bass flutes. Continuo: celesta, marimba, baroque double harp and theorbo.

Voices

28 amplified voices, including 6 principals (soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, baritone, bass) and SATB chorus.

Small orchestra / band

Piccolo; E-flat clarinet; B-flat clarinet; bass clarinet; soprano/tenor saxophone; alto/baritone saxophone; contrabassoon; 2 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones (first and second tenor/bass, third contrabass); 2 violins; 2 cellos; 3 double basses; percussion (2 players).

Amplification

The 28 voices, countertenor, solo flute and continuo group are individually amplified and electronically treated. The band receives slight general amplification for balance.

Percussion

2 woodblocks, set of 5 temple blocks, large deep temple block (mokubio), guiro, 2 ratchet-type football rattles, small maracas, handsaw and wooden box; 2 sets of 5 suspended cymbals, 3 tam-tams (small, large, very large), small triangle, flexatone, brake drum, C-sharp handbell, 5 Paiste tuned gongs, vibraphone; 5 tom-toms, snare drum, tenor drum, bass drum and drum kit.

Cataloged from supplied title, dedication, instrumentation and percussion photographs. Entry added 18 October 2026.

063

Aura

Magnus Lindberg

For orchestra (1993–94), in memoriam Witold Lutosławski. Commissioned by Suntory Limited for the Suntory International program for music composition in 1994. Approximately 40 minutes (LC record).

Physical location

VA.F4

Library of Congress call number

M1045.L738 A8 2001 — verified LC reference number for the Chester Music edition ©2001. The publisher and publication date of this physical copy are not visible in the supplied photographs.

LCCN

2003502934

Instrumentation

2 flutes and piccolo; 2 oboes and cor anglais; 2 B-flat clarinets, E-flat clarinet doubling third B-flat clarinet, and B-flat bass clarinet; 2 bassoons and contrabassoon; 4 horns in F; 3 trumpets in C (third doubling bass trumpet in E-flat); 3 trombones (third tenor-bass); tuba; timpani; 3 percussionists; harp; piano doubling celesta; strings (recommended 16.14.12.10.8).

Percussion

Player 1: vibraphone, mark tree, claves, bongos, bass drum, opera gong. Player 2: marimba, woodblocks, bongos, snare drum, opera gong. Player 3: crotales, glockenspiel, triangle, 3 temple bells, 2 suspended cymbals, Chinese cymbal, tam-tam (preferably two: medium and large), 4 tom-toms.

Notation

Score uses usual instrumental transpositions. Accidentals apply throughout each bar only at the written octave.

Cataloged from supplied title and instrumentation photographs. Checked directly against LC record 2003502934, describing a 194-page score, 31 cm, Chester Music ©2001. Entry added 18 October 2026.

064

Corrente II

Magnus Lindberg

For orchestra (1991–92, as printed in this copy). Chester Music; perusal score. Commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Duration: approximately 18 minutes (publisher).

Physical location

VA.F4

Library of Congress call number

M1045.L738 C62 2002 — verified LC reference number for the Chester Music edition ©2002; this perusal copy’s publication date is not visible in the photographs.

LCCN

2006483929

Instrumentation

2 oboes and cor anglais in F; 2 B-flat clarinets (second doubling E-flat clarinet) and B-flat bass clarinet; 2 bassoons and contrabassoon; 4 horns in F; 2 trumpets in C; 3 trombones (third tenor-bass); timpani; 1 percussionist (vibraphone, large tam-tam, glockenspiel, bass drum); harp; piano; strings (recommended 14.12.10.8.6). No flutes or tuba.

Notation

Usual instrumental transpositions. Accidentals apply throughout each measure only at the written octave.

Related work

Based on Corrente for 16 instruments, but a separate orchestral work. The chamber-orchestra Corrente is cataloged separately as entry 005.

Cataloged from supplied cover and instrumentation photographs. Checked directly against LC record 2006483929, describing a score of iv, 110 pages, 31 cm, ©2002. Duration checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 18 October 2026.

065

Concerto for the Viola Section

Benedict Mason

For viola section and orchestra (1990). Chester Music; spiral-bound perusal score, with a cover notice that it may not represent the composer’s final intentions. Commissioned by the BBC. Approximately 25 minutes (publisher).

Physical location

VA.F4

Local call number

M1040 .M37 C66 — provisional locally assigned LC-style number for multiple solo instruments with orchestra; not an LC-issued number. Direct LC catalog title/composer search returned no matching record on 18 October 2026.

Strings and soloists

Strings: 6.5.7.4.3 desks; second viola doubles viola d’amore. Violas sit in their usual orchestral position, amplified if necessary, and enter as soloists with the conductor. A high soprano sits as fourth clarinet, pretending to play clarinet; a low bass voice sits by the first trombone, pretending to play trombone.

Wind and brass

3 flutes, all doubling piccolo; 3 oboes, second and third doubling cor anglais; 3 clarinets, second and third doubling bass clarinet and second also E-flat clarinet; 3 bassoons, second and third doubling contrabassoon. 4 horns: first and second double historical hand horns, third and fourth Wagner tubas. 3 trumpets, third doubling flugelhorn; 3 trombones, first doubling alto trombone; tuba doubling euphonium.

Keyboards and harps

2 pianos: first doubles celesta, second doubles DX7 (iiFD, as printed); 2 harps.

Percussion

Timpani and extensive percussion including 2 marimbas, xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel, crotales, tubular bells, cowbells, steel drums, temple blocks, toms, timbales, bongos, congas, log drum, tam-tam, plate bells, pitched gongs, slide whistles, Acme sirens, vibraslaps, flexatones, fishing reels, triangle, anvil, bass and side drums, cymbals, cabaza, maracas, tambourines, castanets, sleigh bells, ratchet, whip, chocalho, referee’s whistle, electric siren and corrugated plastic tubes. Publisher specifies 6 percussionists. Slide whistles specified as Barnes and Mullins Swanee Flutes.

Performance directions

Bongo positioned far stage left and woodblock far stage right. Second trombone operates a cue light for offstage alto trombone and euphonium. Metal practice mutes required for all strings.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title and “Dramatis personae” photographs. Work date, commission, duration and percussion player count checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 18 October 2026.

066

Ohne Missbrauch der Aufmerksamkeit

Benedict Mason

First Music for Concert Halls (1993), for actor, solo horn and orchestra. Chester Music; spiral-bound perusal score. Cover notice states that the score may not represent the composer’s final intentions. Approximately 20 minutes (IRCAM work record).

Physical location

VA.F4

Local call number

M1625 .M37 O46 — provisional locally assigned LC-style number for spoken voice with orchestra; not an LC-issued number. Direct LC catalog search for Mason Aufmerksamkeit returned no results on 19 October 2026.

Instrumentation

Actor and solo horn; 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons; 6 orchestral horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; percussion (5 players), organ; strings: 12 first violins, 12 second violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos and 7 basses, as printed in this copy.

Percussion

5 triangles or flexatones; 5 pairs of claves; 5 tambourines; 5 whips; 5 individual tubular bells at specified pitches; 5 large guiros with contrasting sounds; large paired cymbals; 10 ping-pong balls; 5 whistles; 5 woodblocks.

Commission and premiere

Commissioned by Hessischer Rundfunk. First performed on 7 May 1993 by the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt under Ingo Metzmacher, with Udo Samel (actor) and Stefan Dohr (solo horn).

Acknowledgments

The score acknowledges Ernstalbrecht Stiebler of Hessischer Rundfunk and Nina Goslar of Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen for extensive preparations.

Cataloged from supplied cover, title, premiere, orchestration and percussion photographs. Year, subtitle and duration checked against the IRCAM work record. The photographed score specifies 7 basses; IRCAM lists 8. Entry added 19 October 2026.

067

Cinq reflets de L’amour de loin

Kaija Saariaho

For soprano, baritone and orchestra (2001), with words by Amin Maalouf. Chester Music; spiral-bound perusal full score. Duration printed in this copy: approximately 30 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Local call number

M1500 .S23 C56 — provisional locally assigned LC-style number for orchestral opera excerpts; not an LC-issued call number. Direct LC search for Saariaho Cinq reflets on 19 October 2026 located a sound recording, but no printed-score record.

Contents

I. Outremer (soprano); II. Songe (soprano and baritone); III. L’Amour de loin (baritone); IV. Si la mort pouvait attendre (soprano and baritone); V. Vers toi qui es si loin (soprano).

Instrumentation

Solo soprano and baritone; 4 flutes (second doubling alto flute, third piccolo, fourth piccolo and alto flute); 3 oboes (third doubling cor anglais); 3 B-flat clarinets (third doubling B-flat bass clarinet); 3 bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon); 4 horns in F; 2 trumpets in C; 3 trombones; tuba; 4 percussionists; timpani; 2 harps; piano; strings, as printed in this copy.

Notation

Transposed score: transposing instruments written as played. Crotales sound two octaves above the written notes.

Commission and premiere

Commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra–Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation. First performed on 7 November 2002 by Taïna Piira (soprano), Gerald Finley (baritone), and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Cataloged from supplied title and scoring photographs; composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 19 October 2026.

068

Sneaker Wave

Joby Talbot

For orchestra (2004). Chester Music; spiral-bound perusal score. Duration printed in this copy: approximately 13 minutes; current publisher and composer listings give 15 minutes.

Physical location

VA.F4

Local call number

M1045 .T35 S64 — provisional locally assigned LC-style number; not an LC-issued call number. Direct LC catalog search for Talbot Sneaker Wave returned no results on 19 October 2026.

Instrumentation

3 flutes (second and third doubling piccolo); 2 oboes and cor anglais; 2 clarinets and bass clarinet; 3 bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon); 4 horns; 3 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; 3 percussionists; celesta, piano, optional organ, harp and strings. The celesta player also doubles piano, playing four hands with the pianist.

Percussion

Suspended cymbal; large Chinese cymbal; 2 tam-tams; claves; crotales; bass drum; bell plates; tubular bells; bass bell; glockenspiel; vibraphone; xylophone; marimba.

Commission and premiere

BBC commission. First performed at a BBC Promenade Concert on 2 September 2004 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn.

Composer’s acknowledgments

Printed note dated 14 June 2004 thanks Christopher Austin for advice during composition and Jerry and Eos Chater for encouragement.

Cataloged from supplied title, instrumentation and cover photographs. Duration comparison checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 19 October 2026.

69

Capriccio Spettrale

Simon Holt

For ten players (1988). This copy’s revision status is not established.

Physical location

VA.F5

Local call number

M962 .H65 C37 — locally assigned using LC classification; not a verified LC-issued number. M962: separate works for nine or more stringed and wind instruments.

Publisher / edition

Chester Music. Special Order Edition. Publication date and edition identifiers not established from supplied photographs.

Score format

Landscape spiral-bound full score; reproduction of manuscript notation.

Duration

Approximately 12 minutes (publisher).

Instrumentation

Flute doubling alto flute; clarinet in B-flat doubling bass clarinet; horn; trumpet doubling piccolo trumpet; 2 violins; 2 violas; cello; double bass. Score in C; double bass sounds an octave lower, as noted in this copy.

Dedication

For Bill Colleran, as written on the photographed instrumentation page.

Catalogued from owner-supplied cover and internal-page photographs. Work details and duration checked against Wise Music Classical. Local classification checked against the LC music schedule. Pagination, ISBN and plate number remain unconfirmed.

70

Kites

Simon Holt

For wind quintet and string quintet (1983). ©2001 Chester Music Ltd printed on the photographed music page.

Physical location

VA.F5

Local call number

M962 .H65 K58 — locally assigned using LC classification; not a verified LC-issued number. M962: separate works for nine or more stringed and wind instruments.

Publisher / edition

Chester Music. Special Order Edition. Publication date and edition identifiers not established from supplied photographs.

Score format

Landscape spiral-bound full score; reproduction of manuscript notation.

Duration

Approximately 15 minutes (publisher).

Instrumentation

Flute doubling piccolo; oboe doubling cor anglais; clarinet; bassoon; horn; 2 violins; viola; cello; double bass. Publisher’s complete scoring; the photographed opening shows clarinet in A.

Catalogued from owner-supplied cover and internal-page photographs. Work details and duration checked against Wise Music Classical. Local classification checked against the LC music schedule. Pagination, ISBN and plate number remain unconfirmed.

071

Lilith

Simon Holt

For eight players (1990). Chester Music Special Order Edition, full score.

Physical location

VA.F5

Local call number

M882 .H65 L55 — locally assigned using LC classification; not a verified LC-issued call number. M882: an individual original octet for stringed, wind and plucked instruments.

Publisher / edition

Chester Music. Special Order Edition. This copy’s publication date, plate number, ISBN and pagination are not established from the supplied photographs.

Score format

Landscape spiral-bound full score.

Duration

Approximately 9 minutes, as printed in this copy. The current publisher catalogue lists 11 minutes.

Year of composition

1990

Instrumentation

Flute doubling piccolo and alto flute; E-flat clarinet doubling clarinet in A and bass clarinet; horn; harp; violin; viola; cello; double bass.

Commission and first performance

Commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for the 1990 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. First performed 30 November 1990, Huddersfield, as printed in this copy.

Catalogued from owner-supplied cover and instrumentation-page photographs. Work details checked against Wise Music Classical; local classification checked against the Library of Congress music schedule.

072

Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra

Rolf Wallin

Concerto for solo timpani and orchestra. Chester Music full score.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1039.4.T55 W35 C66

Classification status

Locally assigned using the Library of Congress class for timpani concertos; an LC-issued call number for this edition has not been verified.

Score format

Full score, spiral-bound; score in C.

Year of composition

1998 according to the composer and IRCAM. The current publisher catalogue lists 1988, a conflicting date.

Duration

Approximately 20 minutes (publisher and IRCAM); the composer lists 17 minutes.

Instrumentation

Solo timpani; 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons; 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; 4 percussionists; harp, keyboard and strings. Publisher shorthand: 3333/4431/4perc/hp.kbd/str. IRCAM identifies the keyboard as piano. The photographed opening page includes piccolo, English horn, bass clarinet and contrabassoon; exact doubling assignments and the complete percussion inventory remain unverified.

Publisher

Chester Music Ltd.

Copyright in this copy

© 2001 Chester Music Ltd., visible on the opening page; publication date not independently confirmed.

Commission

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Copy details

Red and black Chester Music cover; portrait format when upright. Pagination, plate number and ISBN not visible in supplied photographs.

Sources: supplied cover and opening-page photographs; publisher catalogue; composer catalogue; IRCAM; LC Schedule M.

073

A Symphony of Three Orchestras

Elliott Carter

Symphony for three spatially separated orchestral groups.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1001 .C37 S96

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1001 for orchestral symphonies; a complete LC-issued call number for this edition has not been verified.

Score format

Full score; transposed score, as marked on the photographed opening page.

Year of composition

1976

Duration

Approximately 17 minutes.

Instrumentation: Orchestra I

3 horns in F; 3 trumpets in B-flat; 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba; timpani (5 instruments); violins 7–8 desks (14–16 players), violas 3–4 desks (6–8 players), cellos 2–3 desks (4–6 players), basses 1–2 desks (2–4 players).

Instrumentation: Orchestra II

E-flat clarinet, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet (also B-flat clarinet 2); percussion, 2 players: vibraphone, chimes, xylophone, marimba, long drum with snares, low tom-tom; piano; violins 2 desks (4 players), cellos 2–3 desks (4–6 players), basses 1 desk (2 players).

Instrumentation: Orchestra III

Piccolo; 2 flutes (also piccolos 2 and 3); 2 oboes; English horn (also oboe 3); 2 bassoons; contrabassoon (also bassoon 3); 2 horns in F; percussion, 1 player: anvil, bell tree, 2 suspended cymbals (high and low), 2 snare drums (high and low), tambourine, 2 tam-tams (small and large); violins 7–8 desks (14–16 players), violas 3–4 desks (6–8 players), basses 1–2 desks (2–4 players).

Instrumentation source note

Transcribed from this copy’s printed instrumentation page. It lists 3 trumpets in Orchestra I; online publisher and composer shorthand list 2. The physical copy is followed here.

Publisher

Associated Music Publishers, New York / London.

Edition research

Library records identify an AMP edition ©1978, 86 pages, 35 cm. The exact printing, pagination and copyright date of this copy remain unconfirmed from the supplied photographs.

Dedication

To the New York Philharmonic and Pierre Boulez, its music director.

First performance

17 February 1977, Avery Fisher Hall, New York; New York Philharmonic, conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Sources: supplied cover and instrumentation photographs; composer catalogue; publisher catalogue; CiNii edition record; Library of Congress Schedule M.

074

Visions fugitives, Op. 22: Fifteen Pieces

Sergei Prokofiev

Fifteen piano miniatures arranged for string orchestra by Rudolf Barshai. Cover spelling: Prokofieff.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1160 .P76 op.22

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1160 for arrangements for string orchestra. A complete LC-issued call number for this copy has not been verified.

Score format

Full score (Partitur), spiral-bound.

Year of composition

1915–1917, original piano work.

Arrangement

Rudolf Barshai, 1962, according to BIS Records.

Duration

Approximately 20 minutes (publisher); IRCAM lists 22 minutes.

Instrumentation

String orchestra: violins I and II, violas, cellos and double basses. Exact minimum string numbers are not specified in the consulted publisher listing.

Contents

15 of the original 20 pieces: Nos. 1–6 and 8–16. Publisher materials also use Op. 22a for this arrangement.

Publisher / hire source

Hans Sikorski, Hamburg, rental-material stamp on this copy. Current Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski catalogue identifies VAAP as publisher and lists the arrangement for hire.

Copy markings

Cover label “15 Stücke”; red “Satz 3” stamp and rental-property stamp. “Satz 3” is recorded as a copy marking, not a claim that this volume contains only movement 3.

Edition details

Publication date, pagination, plate number and ISBN not visible in the supplied cover photograph.

Sources: supplied cover photograph; publisher catalogue; IRCAM; BIS Records; LC Schedule M.

075

The Tempest: Suite from the ballet

Arne Nordheim

Suite for soprano, baritone, orchestra and stereo tape.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1524 .N67 T4

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1524 for ballet excerpts with original accompaniment; no complete LC-issued call number for this edition has been verified.

Score format

Full score, Edition Wilhelm Hansen.

Year of composition

1979 (suite, publisher catalogue).

Duration

Approximately 52 minutes, printed in this copy and confirmed by the publisher.

Solo voices and language

Soprano and baritone, both amplified with microphones; English (publisher catalogue).

Woodwinds

2 flutes, both doubling piccolo; oboe; English horn; B-flat clarinet doubling E-flat clarinet; B-flat bass clarinet; bassoon; contrabassoon.

Brass

Horn in F; trumpet in C; trombone.

Percussion

Timpani and 3 percussionists. I: vibraphone, 6 Javanese gongs (pitches specified in staff notation), 3 triangles, 2 bongos, medium tam-tam. II: tubular bells, glockenspiel, 3 cymbals, 2 timbales, large tam-tam. III: marimba (xylophone), crotales (range shown in staff notation), 3 woodblocks, 2 congas, very large tam-tam. Pitch sets have not been independently transcribed into letter names.

Other instruments

Harp, celesta, electric piano; strings: violins I and II, violas, cellos, double basses.

Electronics and placement

Equipment for two-track stereo tape playback. The score directs tape and amplified singing to be distributed to the left and right of the podium, with baritone on the audience’s left and soprano on the audience’s right.

Publisher

Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen.

Edition details

Publication date, pagination, plate number and ISBN not confirmed from supplied photographs.

Sources: supplied cover, title and orchestration pages; publisher catalogue; LC Schedule M.

076

Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra

Michael Nyman

Concerto for solo trombone and orchestra, written for Christian Lindberg.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1032 .N96 C66

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1032 for trombone concertos with orchestra, scores and parts. A complete LC-issued call number for this edition has not been verified.

Score format

Full score, spiral-bound. At sounding pitch except the usual octave transpositions for piccolo and double bass.

Year of composition

1995, printed on the title page; composed February–September 1995 according to the composer’s programme note.

Duration

Approximately 22 minutes, printed in this copy and confirmed by the publisher.

Soloist

Trombone.

Woodwinds

4 flutes (4th doubling piccolo); 3 oboes; English horn; E-flat clarinet; 2 B-flat clarinets; bass clarinet; 4 bassoons.

Brass

2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 orchestral trombones and tuba, in addition to the solo trombone.

Percussion I

Vibraphone, tubular bells, glockenspiel, 2 brake drums, gongs in C and G, metal filing cabinet.

Percussion II

Crotales, glockenspiel, 2 cowbells, 4 suspended cymbals, steel drum, low gongs in C and G, metal filing cabinet, 5 suspended saucepans, tam-tam.

Percussion III

Steel drums, medium tam-tam, metal filing cabinet, biscuit-tin maracas, 2 brake drums, 5 suspended saucepans.

Other instruments

Piano and strings. Three percussion players in total; instrumentation transcribed from the supplied score page.

Publisher

Chester Music Ltd.

Commission

BBC Symphony Orchestra; the composer’s note relates the commission to the 300th anniversary of Purcell’s death.

Edition details

Publication date, pagination, plate number and ISBN not visible in the supplied photographs.

Sources: supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages; publisher catalogue and composer’s programme note; LC Schedule M.

077

Tides

Rolf Wallin

For six percussion soloists and orchestra.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1038 .W35 T53

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1038 for percussion soloists playing multiple instruments with orchestra, scores and parts. A complete LC-issued call number for this edition has not been verified.

Score format

Full score, spiral-bound, Chester Music.

Year of composition

1998 (publisher catalogue).

Duration

Approximately 25 minutes (publisher).

Soloists

6 percussionists. This copy refers the reader to the following page for the solo percussion instrumentation and orchestral placement. That page was not supplied, and the detailed setup has not been verified in the consulted public sources.

Woodwinds

Piccolo; 2 flutes (2nd also piccolo 2); 3 oboes; E-flat clarinet; 2 B-flat clarinets (2nd also B-flat contrabass clarinet); 2 bassoons; contrabassoon.

Brass

4 horns; 3 trumpets in C; 2 tenor trombones; bass trombone; bass tuba.

Strings

String orchestra; exact section sizes not specified on the supplied instrumentation page.

Scoring source note

Detailed orchestral scoring transcribed from this copy. The publisher’s shorthand is 3333/4431/str, which differs from the photograph’s explicit brass list of 3 trumpets. This catalogue follows the physical copy and flags the discrepancy.

Commission

Kroumata Percussion Ensemble.

Publisher

Chester Music Ltd.

Edition details

Publication date, pagination, plate number and ISBN not visible in supplied photographs.

Sources: supplied cover, title and orchestration photographs; publisher catalogue; LC Schedule M.

078

Helix

Esa-Pekka Salonen

For orchestra. A continuous orchestral process shaped as an accelerating spiral.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1045 .S25 H45

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1045 for orchestral pieces, general. A complete LC-issued call number for this edition has not been verified.

Score format

Full score, spiral-bound, Chester Music.

Year of composition

2005

Duration

Approximately 9 minutes, printed in this copy and confirmed by the publisher.

Woodwinds

3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo); 3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn); 2 B-flat clarinets; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon.

Brass

4 horns in F; 3 trumpets in C; 3 trombones; tuba.

Percussion

Timpani plus 5 percussion players: 1. vibraphone; 2. 4 suspended cymbals and glockenspiel; 3. 4 tom-toms; 4. bass drum; 5. tam-tam and snare drum.

Other instruments

Harp and strings.

Commission

BBC for the BBC Proms.

First performance

27 August 2005, Royal Albert Hall, London; World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Printed in this copy.

Dedication

To Valery Gergiev and the World Orchestra for Peace, according to the composer’s programme note.

Publisher

Chester Music Ltd.

Edition details

Publication date, pagination, plate number and ISBN not visible in the supplied photographs.

Sources: supplied cover and scoring photographs; publisher catalogue and composer’s programme note; Los Angeles Philharmonic; LC Schedule M.

079

Notes on Light

Kaija Saariaho

For solo violoncello and orchestra, orchestral version.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1016 .S22 N68

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1016 for violoncello with orchestra, scores and parts; not a verified LC-issued call number for this edition.

Score format

Full score, spiral-bound; transposed score. Crotales sound two octaves higher than written.

Year of composition

2006 (publisher catalogue). Exact revision of this copy unconfirmed.

Duration

Approximately 20 minutes printed in this copy; current publisher catalogue gives 30 minutes.

Soloist

Violoncello.

Woodwinds

4 flutes (flutes 3 and 4 doubling alto flute and piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 B-flat clarinets; bass clarinet; 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon).

Brass

4 horns in F.

Percussion

Timpani (1 set) and 4 percussionists. I: crotales with bow, xylophone, 3 suspended cymbals (small, medium, large). II: vibraphone with bow, tubular bells, glass chimes, 2 suspended cymbals (small, large). III: 2 suspended cymbals (medium, large), frame drum, marimba, tam-tam with bow, bell chimes. IV: bass drum, tam-tam, triangle.

Other instruments

Harp, celesta, piano and strings.

Scoring source note

Instrumentation transcribed from the supplied score page. The current main publisher entry omits the two oboes and harp/celesta/piano and describes different flute doublings; other publisher listings give the orchestral scoring matching this copy. This catalogue follows the physical copy.

Movements

I. Translucent, secret; II. On fire; III. Awakening; IV. Eclipse; V. Heart of Light (publisher).

Commission

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Music Director James Levine, as printed in this copy.

First performance

22 February 2007, Symphony Hall, Boston; Anssi Karttunen, cello; Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, as printed in this copy.

Publisher

Chester Music Ltd.

Edition details

Publication date, pagination, plate number and ISBN not visible in the supplied photographs.

Sources: supplied cover, title and instrumentation photographs; publisher catalogue; publisher scoring overview; LC Schedule M.

080

Circle Map

Kaija Saariaho

For orchestra and electronics, based on six quatrains by Rumi.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1045 .S22 C57

Classification status

Locally assigned using LC class M1045 for orchestral pieces, general. A complete LC-issued call number for this edition has not been verified.

Score format

Full score, spiral-bound; transposed score. Crotales sound two octaves higher than written.

Year of composition

2012

Duration

Approximately 25 minutes printed in this copy. Publisher sources variously list 26 and 30 minutes.

Woodwinds

3 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo; 3rd doubling alto flute); 2 oboes; 3 B-flat clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet); 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon).

Brass

4 horns in F; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba.

Timpani

Timpani with cymbal; range specified in the score.

Percussion I

Crotales with bow; xylophone; glockenspiel; small suspended cymbal with bow; metal plate; log drum; bass drum shared with player II; guiro; woodblock; sandpaper blocks; large cowbell; wood chimes; bamboo chimes.

Percussion II

Vibraphone with bow; medium suspended cymbal with bow; shared bass drum; light swish cymbal; 2 Chinese cymbals (medium, large).

Percussion III

Marimba; 2 suspended cymbals (medium, large, with bow); tam-tam with bow shared with player IV; medium sizzle cymbal with chains; finger cymbals; slit drum; tubular bells; large wind gong with bow.

Percussion IV

Temple block; small bongo; tom-tom; large tambourine; 2 suspended cymbals (small, large, with bow); mark tree; glass chimes; shell chimes; woodblock; small triangle; shared tam-tam.

Other instruments

Harp; piano with timpani mallet; celesta; strings. Four percussion players in addition to timpani.

Electronics

Keyboard player for the electronics part, specified in this copy. The composer’s note describes recorded Persian readings by Arshia Cont, processed and mixed live and diffused through six loudspeakers around the audience; electronics realized with Jean-Baptiste Barrière. This is separate from a live vocal soloist.

Texts / movements

Rumi: I. Morning Wind; II. Walls closing; III. Circles; IV. Days are Sieves; V. Dialogue; VI. Day and Night, Music. The electronic material uses spoken Persian.

Commission

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.

First performances

22 and 23 June 2012, Amsterdam; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, as printed in this copy.

Publisher

Chester Music Ltd.

Source differences

This entry follows the supplied orchestration page’s 3 flutes and 25-minute duration. The current publisher main listing gives 2 flutes and 30 minutes; its composer brochure confirms 3 flutes and gives 26 minutes.

Edition details

Publication date, pagination, plate number and ISBN not visible in supplied photographs.

Sources: supplied cover, title and instrumentation photographs; publisher catalogue and composer’s programme note; publisher brochure; LC Schedule M.

081

Labyrinth

Gian Carlo Menotti

An Operatic Riddle in One Act. English-language television opera with libretto by the composer.

Physical location

VA.F5

LC-style call number

M1500 .M54 L3 (locally assigned; exact Library of Congress call number unverified)

Year of composition

1963

Duration

Approximately 45 minutes

Score format

Orchestral full score, manuscript reproduction, comb bound. Completeness unconfirmed from supplied photographs.

Publisher

G. Schirmer Inc. Publisher of the work; this copy’s imprint and publication date are not shown.

Instrumentation

Flute doubling piccolo; oboe doubling English horn; clarinet doubling bass clarinet; bassoon; 2 horns, trumpet, trombone; percussion; piano; 3 violins, viola, cello, double bass. Publisher notation: 1(pic)1(ca)1(bcl)1/2110/perc/pf/3vn.va.vc.db. Exact percussion instruments and number of percussionists unverified.

Voices

Solo voices and chorus. Publisher lists 2 female roles, 5 male roles and 1 non-speaking role.

Commission and premiere

Commissioned by NBC. First televised 3 March 1963, NBC Opera, conducted by Herbert Grossman, with the NBC Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Synopsis

A honeymooning bride and groom at a hotel cannot find the key to their room.

Copy notes

Cover reads Labyrinth; opening page reads The Labyrinth, Allegro moderato. Opening orchestral introduction contains no vocal staves. Pagination, plate number, ISBN and edition date not established.

Sources: G. Schirmer / Wise Music catalogue; Indiana University Opera on Television archive; Paley Center broadcast archive; supplied cover and opening page. Classification M1500: complete opera scores; cutters assigned locally.