Thea Musgrave

Commissioned by the sound festival for The Scottish Flute Trio. First performance: November 13, 2008. Duff House, Banff, Scotland. In this work all three players in turn play each of the three instrum...

Commissioned by the sound festival for The Scottish Flute Trio. First performance: November 13, 2008. Duff House, Banff, Scotland. In this work all three players in turn play each of the three instru...

Thea Musgrave decided to write some pieces for pairs of instruments, partly for use in teaching and partly for the fun of hearing two of the same instruments performing together as they do in Mozart o...

Four short movements for two Bassoons. Composer's Note. Take Two Bassoons is planned as one of a series of light-hearted works for pairs of instruments, written with advice from performers who are al...

Elegy for viola and cello was written in April 1970 for Peter Mark and Geoffrey Rutlowski while the composer was guest professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Duration 8 minutes.

This work was written in 1958. It was commissioned by the University of Glasgow under the terms of the McEwen Bequest.

This work was written in 1958. It was commissioned by the University of Glasgow under the terms of the McEwen Bequest.

Musgrave 'Impromptu No. 1' arranged for Flute and Oboe. Performing Score edition.

This was commissioned by the Department of Music, University College, Cardiff, in association with the Welsh Arts Council. It was written in the summer of 1970 in Santa Barbara where the composer had...

This very short work, written in 1997, is for unaccompanied viola. It is intended as a moment of peaceful contemplation after the day's activities cease.

Thea Musgrave's D. E. S. - In Celebration was composed in 2016 and is arranged for solo Cello. Duration approximately 3 minutes.

Composer's NoteNarcissus wanders through the forest, observing, enjoying... unselfconscious but self-absorbed. He sees as pool of water and then as he approaches notices his reflection in the water. H...

Thea Musgrave's Circe. An incantation for three flutes.

Composed for Horn In F, for Margaret Kitchin and Barry Tuckwell.

A work for unaccompanied oboe wrriten for Nicholas Daniel, who gave the world premiere at Thea Musgrave's 90th birthday concert at St Mary the Virgin, New York City, May 27, 2018.

This short work was written to celebrate an important birthday of Nicholas Daniel. It starts in a languorous Eb major and travels to a joyous A major sunlight.

Walking down a darkened street it's hard to resist looking in through lighted windows and catching a glimpse of other people's lives. The imagination lingers...Night Windows is the title of a painting...

Colloquy was written for Manoug Parikian and Lamar Crowson for their recital at the Cheltenham Festival in 1960. There are four concise movements. The first, a fast movement with vigorous rhythmic mot...

Musgrave Thea Five Songs For Spring Baritone Voice & Piano Accomp

Five Love Songs are scored for Soprano and Guitar They were composed in 1955, making them one of the composer's earliest published works. They are dedicated to the Soprano Flore Wend and the guitarist...

A Suite O Bairnsangs, poems by Maurice Lindsay. Arranged for high voice and piano. Commissioned for Scottish Festival 1953.