Listing of works
A complete listing of Peggy Glanville-Hicks' compositions.
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 Harris | Year: 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 |
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 |
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 Songs |
He would not stay (1944) Homespun collars Mimic heaven (1944) Stars Unlucky love Year: 1944 Instrumentation: voice, piano Rights: G Schirmer/Music Sales |
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) |
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 |
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 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 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 Available: score, American Music Centre |
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 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 |
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 Available: Original manscript 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 Available: Original manscript 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 |
