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Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison
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Birth
Monday, 14 May 1917
Portland, Oregon
United States
Groups
United States
Modern composers
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Death
Sunday, 2 February 2003
Lafayette, IN
United States
Age: 
85

Composition list

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Opera and lyrical music

Mariage de la Tour Eiffel (Le) • (1949) • Operas
Only Jealousy of Emer (The) • (1949) • Operas
Almanach des Saisons: ballet • (1950) • Ballets
Ariadne: flute-percussion • (1987) • Ballets
Changing World: ballet • (1936) • Ballets
Green Mansions: ballet • (1939) • Ballets
Io et Promethee: ballet • (1951) • Ballets
Johnny Appleseed: ballet • (1940) • Ballets
Omnipotent Chair: ballet • (1940) • Ballets
Orphee: ballet • (1969) • Ballets
Perilous Chapel: flute-cello-2 drums-harp • (1948) • Ballets
Praises for Hummingsbirds and Hawks: ballet • (1951) • Ballets
Solstice: ballet • (1949) • Ballets
Something To Please Everyybody: ballet • (1939) • Ballets
Western Dance: ballet • (1948) • Ballets
Jeune Cesar (Le) • (1971) • Chamber operas
Rapunzel • (1954) • Chamber operas
Cantate de Paques: Alto-Tenor-choir-orchestra • (1946) • Cantates profanes : soli-chœur-orchestre
Hommage to Pacifica: Soprano-choir-gamelan • Autres œuvres : soli-chœur-orchestre
Political Primer (A): soloists-choir-orchestra • (1951) • Autres œuvres : soli-chœur-orchestre
Scenes • (1980) • Autres œuvres : soli-chœur-orchestre
Fille de Jephte (La): Narrator-danseurs-2 flutes-percussion • (1963) • Musiques de scène - Masques
Musiques de scène • Musiques de scène - Masques

Sacred music

Messe "A Saint-Antoine": SATB-trumpet-harp-strings • (1954) • Masses
Sanctus: Alto-piano • (1946) • Ordinaire de la messe
Alma Redemptoris Mater: Baryton-violin-trombone-tack piano • (1949) • Antiennes - Antiphones - Répons

Chamber music

Chants dans la Foret: piccolo-violin-piano-percussion • (1992) • Chamber music piano-strings-winds
Scene from W.Morris: flute-violin-viola-cello-harp-piano • (1955) • Chamber music piano-strings-winds
Piece: string quartet • (1979) • Chamber music strings
Suite 2: string quartet • (1950) • Chamber music strings
Concerto "In slendro": violin-celesta-2 tackpianos-percussion • (1961) • Chamber music strings
Concerto: violin-5 percussion • (1959) • Chamber music strings
Motet pour le Jour de l'Ascension: 7 strings • (1946) • Chamber music strings
Siciliana: wind quintet • (1945) • Chamber music winds
Schoenbergiana: 6 woodwinds • (1945) • Chamber music winds
Musique: violin-sheng-fang-hsiang • (1969) • Trios instruments identiques
Trio: piano-violin-cello • (1989) • Trios instruments identiques
Trio Varie: violin-piano-percussion • (1987) • Trios instruments identiques
Trio: strings • (1946) • Trios instruments identiques
Quintal Taryung: 2 flutes-chango • (1961) • Trios instruments identiques
Air: flute-cello-percussion • (1947) • Trios instruments identiques
Air pour le Poete: flute-violin-percussion • (1987) • Trios instruments identiques
Cantique 3: flute-guitar-percussion • (1941) • Trios instruments identiques
Piece (Courte) de "'Lazarus laughed": flute-cello-célésta • (1999) • Trios instruments identiques
Beverly's Troubadour Piece: harp-2 percussion • (1968) • Trios instruments identiques
Concerto: organ-percussion • (1973) • Duos instruments différents
Duo (Grand): violin-piano • (1985) • Duos instruments différents
Concerto: violin-orch. percussion • (1959) • Duos instruments différents
Suite: cello-harp • (1949) • Duos instruments différents
Serenade: guitar-percussion • (1978) • Duos instruments différents
Suite 1: guitar-percussion • (1976) • Duos instruments différents
Suite 2: guitar-percussion • (1992) • Duos instruments différents
Avalokiteshvara: harp-jahlataranga • (1965) • Duos instruments différents
Concerto 1: flute-percussion • (1939) • Duos instruments différents
Musique pour Remy: flute-parcussions • (1998) • Duos instruments différents
Prelude: piri-harmonium • (1962) • Duos instruments différents
En Memoire de Victor Jowers: clarinet-piano • (1968) • Duos instruments différents
Majestic Fanfare: trumpets-percussion • (1963) • Duos instruments différents
Chapelle Dangereuse: flute-cello-drums-harp • (1948) • Chamber music strings-winds
Cantique 3: ocarina-guitar-5 percussion • (1941) • Chamber music strings-winds
Bomba • Chamber music various instruments
Rhymes with Silver • (1996) • Chamber music various instruments
Chant de Queztecoatl: 4 percussion • (1940) • Chamber music various instruments
Double Music: 4 percussion - with Cage • (1941) • Chamber music various instruments
Fugue pour Percussion: 4 percussion • (1941) • Chamber music various instruments
Clays's Quintet (The) • Chamber music various instruments
Cantique 1: 5 percussion • (1940) • Chamber music various instruments
Mariage à la Tour Eiffel (Le) • (1949) • Chamber music various instruments

Instrumental music

Scenes de "Neck chand" • Album à titre
Suite (Petite): piano • (1949) • Suites
Suite: piano • (1943) • Suites
Suite: percussion • (1941) • Suites
Prelude et Sarabande: piano • (1937) • Old dances
Valse "A Evelyn Hinrichsen": guitar • (1977) • Danses de salon
Serenade: guitar • (1952) • Love songs
Prieres pour Michel Archange: piano • (1946) • Sacred songs
CantiiQue 1: percussion • Sacred songs
Pieces: guitar • Pièces
Pieces: harp • Pièces
Pieces: psaltérion • Pièces
Solo: harp • (1968) • Pièces
Summerfield Set (A): piano • (1988) • Pièces à titre
Garden AT One and a Quarter Moon (The): psaltérion • (1969) • Pièces à titre
Music Palace: guitar • Pièces à titre
Livre: guitar • Pièces académiques
Complainte et Variations sur une Chanson de Palestine: guitar • (1978) • Variations
Sonatas: piano • (1938) • “Sonates”
Sonatas: cembalo • (1943) • “Sonates”
Sonate "Wesak": psaltérion • “Sonates”
Sonata: psaltérion • (1969) • “Sonates”
Symphonies: percussion • “Sonates”

Symphonic music

Serenade pour Betty Freeman et Franco Assetto • (1978) • Sérénades
Suite 1: cordes • (1947) • Suites
Suite 2: strings • (1948) • Suites
Suite: strings • (1960) • Suites
Mariage à la Tour Eiffel (Le) - suite • (1949) • Suites d'oeuvres lyriques
Praises for Hummingbirds and Hawks - suite • (1951) • Suites de ballets
Solstice - suite • Suites de ballets
Alleluia: orchestra • (1944) • Songs
Elegie à la Memoire de Calvin Simmons • Songs
Threnodie pour Carlos Chavez • Songs
Symphony 1 • (1961) • Symphony
Symphonie 2 "'Elégiaque" • (1975) • Symphony
Symphony 3 • (1982) • Symphony
Symphony 4 • (1995) • Symphony
Symphonie "De symphonies" • (1956) • Symphony
Symphonie "En style libre" • (1960) • Symphony
Pastorales: 4 woodwinds-harp-strings • (1952) • Pièces

Concertante music

Suite: violin-piano-small orchestra • (1951) • Other concertante pieces for piano and strings
Main Bersama-Sama: gamelan • (1978) • Autres pièces concertantes pour cor
Musique: violin-instruments • (1969) • Autres pièces concertantes pour violon
Philemon et Baucis: violin-gamelan • Autres pièces concertantes pour violon
Suite: violin-gamelan américain • (1973) • Autres pièces concertantes pour violon
Threnodie pour Carlos Chavez: violin-gamelan • (1979) • Autres pièces concertantes pour violon
Pieces: French horn-violin-gamelan • (1979) • Concertos pour Corde et vent
Concerto: pipa-string orchestra • Guitar concertos
Concerto: piano-gamelan javanais • (1987) • Piano concertos
Concerto: piano-orchestra • (1985) • Piano concertos
Concerto (Double): violin-cello-gamelan javanais • (1982) • Concertos pour Plusieurs cordes
Cornish Lancaran: saxophone-gamelan • Saxophone concertos
Bubaran Robert: trumpet-gamelan • Trumpet concertos

Vocal music

Haiku • (1968) • Choral pieces isolated with instruments
Joyous Procession and a Solemn Procession (A): cho.-tromb.-perc. • (1962) • Choral pieces isolated with instruments
Koro Sutro (La): choir 100 voices-cembalo-organ-gamelan américain • (1971) • Choral pieces isolated with orchestra
Nova Odo: choir-orchestra • (1962) • Choral pieces isolated with orchestra
Peace Piece 1 • (1968) • Choral pieces isolated with orchestra
Soejatmoko Set: voice-gamelan • (1989) • Cycle choral avec orchestre
May Song (The): Baryton-piano • Mélodies isolées
May Rain • (1941) • Mélodies isolées : voix-instruments
Peace Piece 2 • (1968) • Mélodies isolées : voix-instruments
Pied Beauty • (1941) • Mélodies isolées : voix-instruments
Vestiunt Silve: Sop.-flute-2 violas-harp • (1994) • Mélodies isolées : voix-instruments
Holly and Ivy: voice-harp-strings • (1951) • Mélodies isolées : voix-orchestre
Strict Songs • (1955) • Recueil oeuvres vocales : 2 voix et plus avec orchestre
Chants dans la Foret • Song collections
Fragments from Calamus: Alto/Bass-piano • (1946) • Song collections

Sheet music for Lou Harrison

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Lou Harrison Guitar Book — Lou Harrison

Guitar — —
Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Arranged by David Tanenbaum. With Standard notation. Columbia Music Company #494-01766. Published by Columbia Music Company (PR.494017660).
Price: $11.00

Lou Harrison's Music Primer — Lou Harrison

Book — Book — Modern
Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Books. Modern. Book. Edition Peters #EP66431. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP66431).
Price: $29.00

Music For Orchestra, Ensemble & Gamelan — Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; Diamond; Lou Harrison Gamelan Group; Gamelan Si Betty; Berkshire Chamber Singers; Cabri

— 4 listening CDs —
By Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; Diamond; Lou Harrison Gamelan Group; Gamelan Si Betty; Berkshire Chamber Singers; Cabri. By Lou Harrison (1917-2003). 4 listening CDs. Published by Nimbus Records (NX.NI2571-74).
Price: $29.00

Youthful Nights — Harrison Stone

Piano,Piano Solo — Solo Part — 21st Century
Composed by Harrison Stone. Arranged by Harrison Stone. 21st Century. Solo Part. 2 pages. Published by Harrison Stone (S0.37301).
Price: $5.00

Concerto For Pipa/string Orch — Lou Harrison

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Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Peermusic Classical. 28 pages. Peermusic #62347-690. Published by Peermusic (HL.229280).
Price: $24.00

String Quartet — Lou Harrison

String Quartet — Softcover — Classical, Contemporary
Score and Parts. Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Peermusic Classical. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. 40 pages. Peermusic #70113-759. Published by Peermusic (HL.148924).
Price: $36.00

Concerto for Organ with Percussion — Lou Harrison

Organ, Percussion — Softcover — Classical
Score. Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Peermusic Classical. Classical. Softcover. 80 pages. Peermusic #61951-527. Published by Peermusic (HL.228900).
Price: $29.00

Rhymes with Silver — Lou Harrison

Cello, Mixed Ensemble, Percussion, Piano, Viola, Violin, Chamber Ensemble — — Classical
Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Peermusic Classical. Classical. Peermusic #62063-790. Published by Peermusic (HL.229006).
Price: $50.00

Trio — Lou Harrison

violin, viola, cello — Set of parts — Modern
Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). String Trios. Modern. Set of parts. Edition Peters #EP6428. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6428).
Price: $22.00

Suite for Piano — Lou Harrison

piano — Score — Modern
Composed by Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Piano (Solo). Modern. Score. Duration 00:20:30. Edition Peters #EP6427. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6427).
Price: $22.00

Find scores for Lou Harrison at Sheet Music Plus.
Music: 
  • 4 Symphonies
  • Opera "Rapunzel"
  • Piano Concerto
  • Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra
  • Suite for String Orchestra
  • Suite for Violin with American Gamelan
  • Solstice
  • perilous Chapel
  • Lots of Percussion Music
Biography: 

Lou Harrison was in a way in the family of Cowell, Cage and McPhee.
He Favoured Balines Music like Mcphee but used more of Cage & Cowell’s
Inspiration. He is very interested in percussion instruments especially from
the far east. He wrote several concerts for percussion instruments so as the concerts for flute and percussion.
His Piano Concerto was Premiered by JazzMan Keith Jarret.

Links: 
http://www.harrisondocumentary.com/
Submitted by Jean-Paul Giraudet on 2010-11-24 14:26.
Last modified: 
2014-06-05 15:50

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