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Philip Glass - Works: Encyclopedia II - Philip Glass - Works

Philip Glass - Works for the Philip Glass Ensemble. 600 Lines (1967) Music in Fifths (1969) Music in Similar Motion (1969) Music with Changing Parts (1970, recorded 1973) Music in Twelve Parts (1971-1974) North Star (1977) Dance (1979, with Lucinda Childs and Sol LeWitt) Glassworks (198 ...

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Philip Glass, Philip Glass - Life and Work, Philip Glass - Beginnings education and influences, Philip Glass - Minimalism: From Strung Out to Music in 12 Parts, Philip Glass - The Portrait Trilogy: Einstein on the Beach Sathyagraha and Akhnaten, Philip Glass - Theatre music: Glass and Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass - Postminimalism: From the Violin Concerto to the Symphony No.3, Philip Glass - Music for Piano: Metamorphosis and the Etudes, Philip Glass - A second opera triptych: Orphée La Belle et la Bête and Les Enfants Terribles, Philip Glass - Influences and connections, Philip Glass - Music for film, Philip Glass - New Directions: Symphonies Chamber Operas and Concertos, Philip Glass - Recent works: Waiting for the Barbarians and the Symphony No.8, Philip Glass - Works, Philip Glass - Works for the Philip Glass Ensemble, Philip Glass - Operas, Philip Glass - Chamber operas music theatre, Philip Glass - Works for solo piano, Philip Glass - Works for two pianos, Philip Glass - Chamber music, Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments, Philip Glass - Symphonies, Philip Glass - Other works for orchestra with chorus and voices, Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments and orchestra Concertos etc., Philip Glass - Vocal works, Philip Glass - Works for chorus, Philip Glass - Works for organ, Philip Glass - Other Works, Philip Glass - Film scores, Philip Glass - Selected discography, Philip Glass - Minimalist works, Philip Glass - For piano, Philip Glass - Concertos symphonies etc., Philip Glass - Chamber Music and Albums with other Musicians, Philip Glass - Operas

Philip Glass, Philip Glass - A second opera triptych: Orphée La Belle et la Bête and Les Enfants Terribles, Philip Glass - Beginnings education and influences, Philip Glass - Chamber Music and Albums with other Musicians, Philip Glass - Chamber music, Philip Glass - Chamber operas music theatre, Philip Glass - Concertos symphonies etc., Philip Glass - Film scores, Philip Glass - For piano, Philip Glass - Influences and connections, Philip Glass - Life and Work, Philip Glass - Minimalism: From Strung Out to Music in 12 Parts, Philip Glass - Minimalist works, Philip Glass - Music for Piano: Metamorphosis and the Etudes, Philip Glass - Music for film, Philip Glass - New Directions: Symphonies Chamber Operas and Concertos, Philip Glass - Operas, Philip Glass - Other Works, Philip Glass - Other works for orchestra with chorus and voices, Philip Glass - Postminimalism: From the Violin Concerto to the Symphony No.3, Philip Glass - Recent works: Waiting for the Barbarians and the Symphony No.8, Philip Glass - Selected discography, Philip Glass - Symphonies, Philip Glass - The Portrait Trilogy: Einstein on the Beach Sathyagraha and Akhnaten, Philip Glass - Theatre music: Glass and Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass - Vocal works, Philip Glass - Works, Philip Glass - Works for chorus, Philip Glass - Works for organ, Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments, Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments and orchestra Concertos etc., Philip Glass - Works for solo piano, Philip Glass - Works for the Philip Glass Ensemble, Philip Glass - Works for two pianos, Minimalist music, Arvo Pärt, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, John Coolidge Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michael Snow, Peter Greenaway, Ira Glass (his second cousin), Kronos Quartet

Philip Glass: Encyclopedia II - Philip Glass - Works

Philip Glass - Works

Philip Glass - Works for the Philip Glass Ensemble

600 Lines (1967)
Music in Fifths (1969)
Music in Similar Motion (1969)
Music with Changing Parts (1970, recorded 1973)
Music in Twelve Parts (1971-1974)
North Star (1977)
Dance (1979, with Lucinda Childs and Sol LeWitt)
Glassworks (1982)
Orion (2004)

Philip Glass - Operas

Einstein on the Beach for the Philip Glass Ensemble (1976, with Robert Wilson)
Satyagraha (1980, libretto by Constance De Jong)
Akhnaten (1983)
the CIVIL warS, Rome Section (1984, with Robert Wilson)
The making of the representative for Planet 8 (1985-88, libretto by Doris Lessing, after her fourth novel from "Canopus in Argos")
White Raven (1991, with Robert Wilson)
The Voyage (1992, libretto by David Henry Hwang)
The marriages between zones three, four, and five (1997, libretto by Doris Lessing, after her second novel from "Canopus in Argos")
Galileo Galilei (2002), libretto by Mary Zimmerman and Arnold Weinstein.
Waiting for the Barbarians for voices, chorus and orchestra (2005, after the novel by J.M. Coetzee)

Philip Glass - Chamber operas music theatre

A Madrigal Opera for voices, violin and viola (1980)
The Photographer for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1982), based on the life of Edweard Muybridge.
The Juniper Tree (1985, with Robert Moran)
The Fall of the House of Usher (libretto after the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, 1987)
1000 Airplanes on the Roof for voice and ensemble (text by David Henry Hwang, 1988)
Hydrogen Jukebox for voices and ensemble (libretto by Allen Ginsberg, 1990)
Orphée for voices and chamber orchestra (1993, after the film by Jean Cocteau)
La Belle et la Bête for voices and the Philip Glass Ensemble or chamber orchestra (1994, after the film by Jean Cocteau))
Les Enfants Terribles, Dance Opera for voices and three pianos (1996, after Cocteau's novel and the film by Jean-Pierre Melville).
Monsters of Grace, chamber opera for the Philip Glass Ensemble (1998, with 3D digital footage directed by Robert Wilson, libretto from works of Jalaluddin Rumi)
In the Penal Colony for voices and string quintet (2000, libretto after the short story by Franz Kafka)
The Sound of a Voice for voices and chamber ensemble including pipa (2003, libretto by David Henry Hwang)

Philip Glass - Works for solo piano

How Now for piano (1968)
Two Pages (for Steve Reich) for piano (or electric organ) (1969)
Modern Love Waltz for piano (1977)
Fourth Series Part Four (Mad Rush) for piano (1979)
Trilogy Sonata for piano (1975/1979/1983, from Einstein, Sathyagraha and Akhnaten, arranged by Paul Barnes in 2001)
Cadenzas for Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21 (K. 467, 1786) (1987)
Metamorphosis for piano (1988)
Wichita Sutra Vortex for piano (1988)
The French Lieutenant Sleeps from The Screens for piano (1989)
Night on the Balcony from The Screens for piano (or harpsichord) (1989)
Tesra for piano (1993)
The Orphée Suite for piano (1993, transcribed by Paul Barnes in 2000)
12 Pieces for Ballet for piano (1993)
Overture from La Belle et la Bete for piano (1994, transcribed by Michael Riesman)
Etudes for piano, Volume 1 (1994-1995)
Music from the Hours for piano (2003, transcribed by Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly)
A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close, two pieces for piano (2005)

Philip Glass - Works for two pianos

In and Out Again for two pianos (1967)
Six Scenes from Les Enfants Terribles for two pianos (1996, transcribed by Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies)

Philip Glass - Chamber music

Three String Quartets (from the early 1960s, withdrawn)
Play for two saxophones (1965, music for Samuel Beckett's play)
Music for Ensemble and Two Actresses for wind sextet and two speakers (1965)
String Quartet No.1 (1966)
Music in the shape of a Square for two flutes (1967)
Head On for violin, cello and piano (1967)
Another Look at Harmony, Part III for clarinet and piano (1975)
Fourth Series Part Three for violin and clarinet (1978)
String Quartet No.2 Company (1983, composed for a dramatization of Samuel Beckett's novella)
Prelude to Endgame for timpani and double-bass (1984, for the play by Samuel Beckett)
String Quartet No.3 Mishima (1985)
String Quartet No.4 Buczak (1989)
Music from the Screens for chamber ensemble (1989, a collaboration with Foday Musa Suso)
Cymbeline for ensemble (1991, music for the play by William Shakespeare)
String Quartet No.5 (1991)
Love Divided By for flute and piano (1992)
In the Summer House for violin and cello (1993, music for the play by Jane Bowles)
Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (1995, also orchestral version, see Works for solo instruments and orchestra)
Dracula for string quartet (or piano and string quartet) (1998, music for the 1931 film)
Music from The Sound of a Voice for flute, pipa, violin, cello and percussion (2003)

Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments

Strung Out for violin (1967)
Gradus for saxophone (1968)
Arabesque In Memoriam for flute (1988)
France from The Screens for violin (1989)
Melodies for saxophone (1995)

Philip Glass - Symphonies

Symphony No. 1 Low (1992)
Symphony No. 2 (1994)
Symphony No. 3 for 19 string players (1995)
Symphony No. 4 Heroes (1996)
Symphony No. 5 Choral for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1999)
Symphony No. 6 Plutonian Ode for soprano and orchestra (2001)
Symphony No. 7 Toltec for orchestra and chorus (2004)
Symphony No. 8 (2005)

Philip Glass - Other works for orchestra with chorus and voices

Company for string orchestra (1983, composed for a dramatization of Samuel Beckett's novella)
The Olympian: Lighting of the Torch and Closing for orchestra and chorus (1984)
Two Interludes from the CIVIL warS for orchestra (1984)
Phaedra for string orchestra and percussion (1985)
In the Upper Room for chamber orchestra (1986, music for Twyla Tharp's dance piece)
The Light for orchestra (1987)
The Canyon for orchestra (1988)
Itaipu, a symphonic portrait for chorus and orchestra in four movements (1989)
Passages for chamber orchestra (a collaboration with Ravi Shankar) (1990)
Concerto Grosso for chamber orchestra (1992)
T.S.E. (T.S. Eliot) for voices and ensemble (1994, music for a theatre work by Robert Wilson))
Songs of Milarepa for baritone and chamber orchestra (1997)
Days and Nights of Rocinha, Dance for orchestra (1997)
Psalm 126 for orchestra and chorus (1998)
Dancissimo for orchestra (2001)
The Passion of Ramakrishna for chorus and orchestra (2006)

Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments and orchestra Concertos etc.

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1960, withdrawn)
Facades for two saxophones (or flute and clarinet) and string orchestra (1981)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1987)
Passages for saxophone quartet, string orchestra, piano and percussion (1989, arranged by Dennis Russel Davies, 2001)
Echorus for two violins and string orchestra (1995, version of the Etude No.2 for piano)
Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (1995)
Piano Concerto No. 1, for piano and string orchestra Tirol (2000)
Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra (2000)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2001)
Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra (2002)
Suite from The Hours for piano, string orchestra, harp and percussion (2002/2003)
Piano Concerto No. 2 After Lewis and Clark, for piano, Native American flute and orchestra (2004)

Philip Glass - Vocal works

Music for Voices (1970)
Hebeve Song for soprano, clarinet and bassoon (1983)
Songs from Liquid Days for voices and ensemble (texts by Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson, 1986)
De Cie for four voices (1988)
Planctus, Song for voice and piano (1997, for Natalie Merchant)

Philip Glass - Works for chorus

Another Look at Harmony, Part IV for chorus and organ (1975)
Fourth Series Part One for chorus and organ (1977)
Three Songs for chorus a-cappella (1984, texts by Octavio Paz and others)

Philip Glass - Works for organ

Fourth Series Part Two (Dance No.2) for organ (1978)
Fourth Series Part Four (Mad Rush) for organ (1979)
Voices for organ, didgeridoo and narrator (2001)

Philip Glass - Other Works

One Plus One for amplified tabletop (1968)
Pink Noise, acoustic installation (1987, with Richard Serra)

Philip Glass - Film scores

Godfrey Reggio's documentary film trilogy Koyaanisqatsi (1983), Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)
Hamburger Hill (John Irvin, 1987)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris, biopic based on Stephen Hawking's popular physics book) (1991)
Anima Mundi (Godfrey Reggio, 1992)
Candyman (1992) (based on the Clive Barker work), and its sequel Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
Jenipapo (including a song written for Suzanne Vega, 1995)
Kundun (Martin Scorsese, 1997)
The Truman Show ( Peter Weir, 1998)
Dracula (1998) (re-release of 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi)
Shorts (Michal Rovner, Shirin Neshat, Peter Greenaway and Atom Egoyan)
The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)
Fog of War (*Errol Morris, an interview of Robert McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2003)
Taking Lives (2004)
Secret Window (2004)
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)
Partition (Vic Sarin, a third collaboration with Ravi Shankar, 2005)
Neverwas (Joshua Michael Stern, 2005)
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (Paul Auster, 2006)

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