HISTORY
A complete listing of Peggy Glanville-Hicks' compositions.
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Carlos Among the Candles
Year: 1962
Opera for solo male voice and orchestra. Text by Wallace Stevens.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Choral Suite
Year: 1937
Instrumentation: Female voices, oboe and string orchestra. Text by John Fletcher (Five Poems, 1579)
Rights:L'Oiseau Lyre
Choral Suite
Year: 1932
Text by David McKee Wright.
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Clouds
Year: 1938
Film Score.
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Come Sleep
Year: 1931
Instrumentation: Voice, piano
Duration: 3 min.
Rights:L'Oiseau Lyre
Concertino Antico
Year: 1955
Instrumentation: Harp, 2 violins, viola, violoncello
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Concertino da Camera
Year: 1946
Instrumentation: Flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano
Duration: 9 min.
Rights:L'Oiseau Lyre
Available: Score, American Music Centre Library
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Year: 1937
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Concerto in D minor for Violin and String Orchestra
(Mendelssohn arr.)
Year: 1952
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
African Story
Year: 1956
Film Music
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Akhnaton
Year: 1957
Opera
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Aria Concertante
Year: 1945
Instrumentation: Tenor, women’s chorus, oboe, piano, gong.
Text by Mario Monteforte-Toledo.
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Ballade
i. Yet in No Sleep
ii. How Is This Garden
iii. But No! A slow Unchanging Circle
Year: 1945
Three songs for voice and piano.
Text by Paul Bowles, 1930.
Rights: Hargail Music Press
Available: Score, American Music Centre Library
Be Still You Little Leaves
Year: 1938
Instrumentation: Voice, piano
Rights:L'Oiseau Lyre
Beckett
Year: 1990
Opera in two acts.
Text by Wendy Beckett
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Birthday Piece for Miss Annmarie HarrisYear: 1984
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Caedmon
Year: 1933
Opera in one act of three scenes, for soloist, chorus and orchestra.
Text by the composer.
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Night is the Colour of a Woman's Arm
Year: 1955
Instrumentation: Soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Text by Wallace Stevens.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Not All the Knives of the Lamp Posts
Year: 1955
Instrumentation: Soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Text by Wallace Stevens.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Pastoral
Year: 1951
Instrumentation: SSAA choir, clarinet
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Pastoral for Piano
Year: 1935
Instrumentation: piano
Duration: 2 min
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Title: Piano Sonata
Year: 1934
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Poem for Chorus and Orchestra
Year: 1933
Text by John Fletcher.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Postman's Knock
Year: 1938
Ballet for chamber orchestra
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Pre Columbian Prelude and Presto
Year: 1957
Instrumentation: Piccolo, flutes, pan pipes, whistles, owl, armadillo, maracas, scraper, drums, conch, handclapping.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Prelude and Scherzo
Year: 1937
Instrumentation: Large orchestra.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Prelude for a Pensive Pupil
Year: 1958
Instrumentation: Piano
Rights: Lawson Gould/ Allans Music Publishing (AUS)
Prelude for Orchestra
Scene I: Ballet of Ritual Dancers;
Scene II: Nocturne and Caedmon’s Song;
Scene III: Early morning
Year: 1936
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Profiles from China
Year: 1945
Instrumentation: Voice, piano
Duration: 7 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Available: score, American Music Centre
Quintet for Piano and Woodwind
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Rationalists! Wearing Square Hats
Year: 1955
Instrumentation: Soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Text by Wallace Stevens.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Rest
Year: 1931
Instrumentation: Voice, piano
Duration: 3 min
Rights: L'Oiseau Lyre
The Robot
Year: 1936
Music for an abstract cartoon film, produced in London.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Sappho
Year: 1963
Instrumentation: opera in 3 acts
Duration: 135 min
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Available: score, American Music Centre
Saul and the Witch of Endor
Year: 1959
Instrumentation: Ballet for trumpet, percussion, strings.
Duration: 20 mins.
Rights: C F Peters Corp
Available: score, Australian Music Centre
Concert version see 'Drama for Orchestra' (Peters 66124)
Scary Time
Year: 1958
Music for an animated documentary film on the Suez crisis, produced for UNICEF. For clarinet, violin, percussion.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Season in Hell
Year: 1966
Ballet for orchestra. After the poem ‘Une saison en enfer’ by Arthur Rimbaud.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Sheiling Song
Year: 1932
Instrumentation: Voice and piano.
Text by Fiona McLeod.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Sidi Amar in Winter
Year: 1947
Three songs. Text by Paul Bowles.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Sinfonia Da Pacifica
Year: 1953
Instrumentation: Orchestra
Duration: 13 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Available: Material available in original manuscript form from Rental Library, NY office
Sinfonietta no. 1 for Orchestra
Year: 1934
Instrumentation: Small orchestra
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Sinfonietta no. 2
Year: 1938
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Sonata for Harp
Year: 1951
Instrumentation: harp
Duration: 10 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Available: score, American Music Centre
Concerto no. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
Year: 1936
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Concerto Romantico
Year: 1956
Instrumentation: Viola, orchestra
Duration: 21 mins.
Rights: C F Peters Corp
Available: Score and parts available for rental (Peters 66123); AUS: Allans Publishing.
Dance Cantata
Year: 1946
Instrumentation: Tenor, baritone, narrator, spoken and singing chorus and orchestra.
Rights:PGH Composers' Trust
Drama for Orchestra
Year: 1961
Instrumentation: Clarinet, trumpet, timpani, percussion, piano, xylophone, strings
Duration: 17 mins.
Rights:C F Peters Corp
Available: Score (no parts) available for rental (Peters 66124); percussion, strings (For ballet version see 'Saul and the Witch of Endor' (Peters 66129)
Etruscan Concerto
Year: 1945
Instrumentation: Piano, orchestra
Duration: 14 min
Rights: C F Peters Corp
Available: score, hire and sale; parts rental only (Peters 66125); Score in American Music Centre Library.
Five SongsHe would not stay (1944)
Homespun collars
Mimic heaven (1944)
Stars
Unlucky love
Year: 1944
Instrumentation: voice, piano
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Frolic
Year: ca. 1931
Instrumentation: voice, piano
Duration: 1 min
Rights: L'Oiseau Lyre
Girondelle for Giraffes
Year: 1978
Instrumentation: Double bass, drum, flute, suspended cymbal, trombone
Duration: 3 min
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Available: Australian Music Centre (score)
Glacier
Year: 1938
Music for a documentary film.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Glittering Gate
Year: 1956
IOpera
Duration: 26 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales Deshon Music Inc
He Reproves the Curlew
Year: 1932
Instrumentation: Voice, piano.
Text by William Butler Yeats.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Hylas and the Nymphs
Year: 1935
Ballet for flute, harp, strings and percussion
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
In Midwood Silence
Year: 1935
Instrumentation: Soprano, oboe, string quartet
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Jephthah's Daughter
Year: 1963
IBallet for chamber orchestra.
Duration: 25 mins.
Rights:C F Peters Corp
Query whether score /parts still exist (Peters); Ballet version for large orchestra see 'Tragic Celebration' (Peters 66131)
Ireland
Year: 1931
Instrumentation: Choir.
Text by David McKee Wright
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Killer of Enemies
Year: 1946
Ballet in two acts for narrator, woodwinds, percussion. Text by Erick Hawkins.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Letters from Morocco
Year: 1952
Instrumentation: Tenor voice, orchestra
Duration: 16 min
Rights: C F Peters Corp Score and parts available for rental (Peters 66126)
Masque of the Wild Man
Year: 1958
Duration: 18 mins.
Rights: C F Peters Corp
Available: Score and parts for rental (Peters 66128)
Ballet for chamber orchestra; flute, harp, piano. Celesta, timpani, percussion, strings; ballet version for large orchestra see Tapestry (Peters 66130)
Meditation for Orchestra
Year: 1956
Instrumentation: Orchestra
Duration: 12 min
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Mountain Regions(Gymnopedie III)
Year: 1953
Instrumentation: Harp, strings
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Musica Antiqua no. 1
Year: 1957
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, harp, marimba, 2 percussion, timpani.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Available: Score, Australian Music Centre
Nausicaa
Year: 1961
Opera
Rights: Belwin Mills, (Warner Chappell for print)
Sonata for Harp, Flute and Horn
Year: 1950
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Sonata for Piano and Percussion
Year: 1951
Instrumentation: Piano, percussion
Duration: 12 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Available: Original manuscript from Rental Library, NY office.
Sonatina
Year: 1938
Instrumentation: Flute (or recorder) and piano or for treble recorder or flute and piano
Duration: 7 min
Sonatina for Piano
Year: 1939
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Song in Summer
Year: 1935
For chorus and orchestra.
Text by John Fletcher.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Spanish Suite
i. Pavan: In the Lion’s Court
ii. Serenade: Three Donkeys
iii. Siesta: Afternoon Impression
iv. Fandango: Traditional Movements of Dance
v. Nocturne: Low Sky, so named after the peasants of Granada for the City of Lights seen below from the rock citadel
Year: 1935
Instrumentation: Chamber ensemble
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
String Quartet no. 1
Year: 1937
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Tapestry for Orchestra
Year: 1958
Instrumentation: Woodwinds, brass, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta, piano, strings
Duration: 18 mins
Rights: C F Peters Corp
Available: Score (no parts) for rental (Peters 66130) Ballet: Timpani, percussion, harp, strings, piano; Ballet version see 'The Masque of the Wild Man' (Peters 66128)
Tel
Year: 1950
Music for a cartoon film produced by Film Graphics Inc.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
They Are Not Long
Year: 1932
Instrumentation: Voice and piano.
Text by Ernest Dowson.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Year: 1948
Instrumentation: Voice, piano
Duration: 13 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Thomsoniana
Year: 1949
Instrumentation: Voice, horn, piano
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Available: score, Australian Music Centre
Three Gymnopedies
Year: 1953
Instrumentation: Harp, celeste, strings
Duration: 9 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Available: Original manuscript form from Rental Library, NY office
Three Preludes for Piano
Year: 1932
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
To the Moon
Year: 1932
Instrumentation: Voice and piano.
Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Tragic Celebration
Year: 1964
Instrumentation: Orchestra
Duration: 25 mins
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust; reassigned to the Estate by publisher
Available: Score (no parts) for rental (Peters 66131); score also held at AMC; Ballet for alto clarinet, timpani, percussion, harp, strings; Ballet version for orchestra see 'Jephthah's Daughter' (Peters 66128)
The Transposed Heads
Year: 1953
Opera in six scenes
Duration: 75 min
Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales/WISE MUSIC
Available: Original manuscript form from Rental Library, NY office; Score in American Music Centre Library.
Triad
Year: 1958
Ballet for small instrumental ensemble.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Trio for Pipes
Year: 1934
Instrumentation: Treble pipe in D, alto pipe in G or A, tenor pipe in D.
Rights: L'Oiseau Lyre
Tulsa
Year: 1949
Music for a documentary film produced by the U.S. State Department for circulation in occupied territories.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Violin Solo
Year: 1932
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Widow Bird
Year: 1932
Instrumentation: Voice, piano.
Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust
Wild Bells
Year: 1965
Instrumentation: Orchestra
Rights: PGH Composers' Trust