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Roy Harris

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Birth
Saturday, February 12, 1898
Lincoln County
United States
Groups
United States
Modern composers
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Death
Monday, October 1, 1979
Sta. Monica
United States
Age: 
81

Composition list

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Sacred music

Mass: male choir-organ • (1947) • Masses
Sanctus: choir • (1935) • Ordinaire de la messe
Psaume 150 • (1957) • Psalms
Cantate de Paques: choir-brass-organ • (1944) • Cantates sacrées

Chamber music

Quintet: piano-strings • (1940) • Chamber music piano-strings
Childhood Memories of Ocean Moods: piano-string quartet-double bass • (1966) • Chamber music piano-strings
Concerto: clarinet-piano-string quartet • (1927) • Chamber music piano-strings-winds
Chansons pour un Jour de Pluis: string quartet • (1925) • Chamber music strings
Quartet 1: strings • (1930) • Chamber music strings
Quatuor 2 '3 Variations sur un thème': strings • (1933) • Chamber music strings
Quartet 3: strings • (1948) • Chamber music strings
Quintet: 2 violins-2 violas-cello • (1939) • Chamber music strings
Concerto: string sextet • (1932) • Chamber music strings
Trio: piano-violin-cello • (1934) • Trios instruments identiques
Charmantes Petites Pieces: violin-piano • (1944) • Duos instruments différents
Poeme: violin-piano • (1935) • Duos instruments différents
Sonata: violin-piano • (1945) • Duos instruments différents
Soliloque et Danse: viola-piano • (1938) • Duos instruments différents
Duo: cello-piano • (1964) • Duos instruments différents
Etudes Lyriques: woodwinds-piano • (1948) • Duos instruments différents
4 Minutes et 20 Secondes: flute-string quartet • (1942) • Chamber music strings-winds

Symphonic music

Elegie et Danse • (1958) • Other dances
Fanfare pour les Forces: brass • (1941) • Marches et Fanfares
Marche en Temps de Guerre: orchestra • (1943) • Marches et Fanfares
Andante: orchestra • (1926) • Symphonic movements
Andantino: orchestra • (1931) • Symphonic movements
Time Suite: orchestra • (1936) • Suites
Choral: strings • (1932) • Songs
Melodie: small orchestra • (1946) • Songs
Ode à l'Amitie: orchestra • (1944) • Songs
Ode à la Verite: orchestra • (1941) • Songs
Ode àla Consonnance: orchestra • (1957) • Songs
Symphonie 1 'Symphonie 1933' • (1933) • Symphony
Symphony 2 • (1935) • Symphony
Symphony 3 • (1937) • Symphony
Symphonie 4 "Chant populaire": with choir • (1939) • Symphony
Symphony 5 • (1942) • Symphony
Symphonie 6 "'Gettysburg" • (1944) • Symphony
Symphony 7 • (1952) • Symphony
Symphonie 8 "San Francisco" • (1962) • Symphony
Symphony 9 • (1962) • Symphony
Symphonie "Epigramme" • (1954) • Symphony
Symphonie "West Point": winds • (1952) • Symphony
Symphonie 10 "Abraham Lincoln": ch.-brass-perc.-2 pianos amp. • (1965) • Symphony
Symphony 11 • (1967) • Symphony
Symphonie 12 "Père Marquette" • inachevé • (1968) • Symphony
Symphony 13 • Symphony
Symphony 14 • (1975) • Symphony
4 Minutes et 20 Secondes: orchestra • (1934) • Pièces
Fantaisie: orchestra • (1954) • Pièces
Oeuvre: orchestra • (1941) • Pièces
Prelude et Fugue: strings • (1936) • Pièces
Rythmes d'Aujourd'Hui: orchestra • (1943) • Pièces
Rythmes Populaires d'Aujourd'Hui: winds • (1943) • Pièces
Symphony Tone Poem "Ad majorem gloriam": winds • (1948) • Pièces
Toccata: orchestra • (1931) • Pièces
Concerto 'Cumberland': orchestra • (1952) • Concerto grosso

Concertante music

Elegie et Pean: viola-orchestra • (1948) • Autres pièces concertantes pour alto
Theme et Variations: accordion-orchestra • (1945) • Autres pièces concertantes pour accordéon
Ces Temps-CI: piano-orchestra • (1963) • Autres pièces concertantes pour piano
Fantaisie: piano-orchestra • (1954) • Autres pièces concertantes pour piano
Fantasia: piano-winds • (1943) • Autres pièces concertantes pour piano
Piece Radio: piano-small orchestra • (1946) • Autres pièces concertantes pour piano
Choral: organ-brass • (1943) • Autres pièces concertantes pour orgue
Fantaisie: organ-brass-timpani • (1964) • Autres pièces concertantes pour orgue
Concerto: 2 pianos-orchestra • (1946) • Concertos for 2 pianos
Concerto "Passacaille": piano-winds • (1942) • Piano concertos
Concerto: amplified piano-brass-percussion-double bass • (1968) • Piano concertos
Concerto: piano-orchestra • (1941) • Piano concertos
Concerto: violin-orchestra • (1950) • Violin concertos

Opera and lyrical music

Guerre: ballet • (1945) • Ballets
What So Proudly we Hailed: ballet • (1942) • Ballets
Un Dixieme d'une Nation: film music • (1940) • Film score

Vocal music

Peace and Good Will to All: choir-brass-perc.-organ • (1970) • Cantates : choeur-instruments
Give me the Splendid Silent Sun • (1956) • Cantates : voix-orchestre
Choirs • Choral pieces isolated
Fantaisie: choir-3 pianos • (1925) • Choral pieces isolated with instruments
Choeurs avec orchestre • Choral pieces isolated with orchestra
Chants de Democratie • (1927) • Cycle choral avec instruments
Walt Whitman Suite: choir-strings-2 pianos • (1944) • Cycle choral avec orchestre
Mélodies • Mélodies isolées
Abraham Lincoln Walks AT Midnight • (1953) • Mélodies isolées : voix-instruments
Chant de Mariage: Baryton-string trio-organ • (1947) • Mélodies isolées : voix-instruments
Lamentation: 1 voices-viola-piano • (1944) • Mélodies isolées : voix-instruments
Cantique du Soleil: Soprano-chamber orchestra • (1961) • Mélodies isolées : voix-orchestre

Instrumental music

Suite (Petite): piano • (1938) • Suites
Suite: piano • (1944) • Suites
Ballades Americaines: piano - 2 Livres • (1946) • Love songs
Choral: organ • (1944) • Sacred songs
Piece: piano • Pièces
Piece Heureuse pour Shirley (Une): piano • Pièces
Orchestrations: piano • (1972) • Pièces à titre
Toccata: piano • (1950) • Pièces académiques
Etude pour les Pedales: organ • (1965) • Pièces de caractère
Variations Chorales sur un Theme Irlandais: piano • (1942) • Variations
Variations sur "Un amour véritable ne pleure pas": piano • (1944) • Variations
Sonata: piano • Op. 1 • (1928) • “Sonates”

Compositions sorted on opus (if available)

inachevé

Symphonie 12 "Père Marquette" • (1968) • Symphony

Op. 1

Sonata: piano • (1928) • “Sonates”

Sheet music for Roy Harris

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Symphony No. 3 (in 1 movement) — Roy Harris

Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary, Symphony
Study Score No. 22. Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Study Score. Classical, Contemporary, Symphony. 110 pages. G. Schirmer #ED38974. Published by G. Schirmer (HL.50338900).
Price: $45.00

Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (1959) — Roy Harris

Orchestra, Vocal — — Classical, Contemporary
Study Score. Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Study Score. Classical, Contemporary. 148 pages. G. Schirmer #AMP96231-147. Published by G. Schirmer (HL.50237760).
Price: $30.00

Concerto For Violin And Orchestra — Roy Harris

violin, piano — solo part with piano reduction —
Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Solo part with piano reduction. With Standard notation. 16 + 41 pages. Carl Fischer Music #B3454. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.B3454).
Price: $65.00

Sonata — Roy Harris

Piano — — Classical, Contemporary, Sonata
Piano Solo. Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Piano Large Works. Classical, Contemporary, Sonata. 20 pages. G. Schirmer #AMP7728. Published by G. Schirmer (HL.50224550).
Price: $19.00

Symphony No. 9 (1962) — Roy Harris

Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary, Symphony
Full Score. Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Study Score. Classical, Contemporary, Symphony. 140 pages. G. Schirmer #AMP6632-138. Published by G. Schirmer (HL.50236940).
Price: $85.00

Symphony No. 7 — Roy Harris

Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary, Symphony
Full Score. Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Study Score. Classical, Contemporary, Symphony. 118 pages. Published by G. Schirmer (HL.50488523).
Price: $40.00

Toccata — Roy Harris

Piano — score —
For Solo Piano. Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Score. With Standard notation. 12 pages. Carl Fischer Music #P2679. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.P2679).
Price: $6.00

Horn of Plenty (1964) — Roy Harris

Orchestra — — Classical, Contemporary
Study Score. Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Study Score. Classical, Contemporary. 56 pages. G. Schirmer #AMP6718-55. Published by G. Schirmer (HL.50236680).
Price: $30.00

Elegy For Orchestra Study Sc — Roy Harris

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Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Study Score. 32 pages. Associated Music Publishers, Inc #AMP96126. Published by Associated Music Publishers, Inc (HL.50488648).
Price: $15.00

Concerto for Violin / Orchestra — Roy Harris

— listening CD —
Composed by Roy Harris (1898-1979). Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.FECD-0005).
Price: $12.00

Find scores for Roy Harris at Sheet Music Plus.
Music: 

Principal works: - Several symphonies, of which the third (3) symphony is most important. An american classic - played most often in concert hall. Leonard Bernstein is best interpreter. Could also be well interpreted by Leonard Slatkin & Gerard Schwarz. 4th symphony - "Folksong" played occasionally. To my knowledge one recording exists made in the 50’s on Vanguard by Vladimir Goldschmitt. Now available on CD. Written in 1940 for a teachers’ convention.

(Contributed by Ralph Barrocas - U.S.A. - <RBarrocas@aol.com>)

Maurice Abravenal recorded Harris’ 4th symphony on Everest label during the LP era. It is now on CD by others but the interpretation is inferior. Harris wrote 11 symphonies of which the last was subtitled "Abraham Lincoln". His 8th and 9th Symphonies are on CD. It is a shame that the last 2 symphonies have yet to be heard. Harris is my favorite American composer, though he was not as consistently good as Copland. BTW Varese-Saraband recorded a great deal of his music on LP and Louisville Records also has a number of works including his very tuneful violin concerto.

(Contributed by <drexelr@earthlink.net>)

Symphonies

  • Symphony - Our Heritage (1926) [only the Andante movement survives]
  • Symphony - American Portrait (1928-29)
  • Symphony 1933 [generally considered to be Symphony No.1] (1933)
  • Symphony No.2 (1934)
  • Symphony for Voices (1935)
  • Symphony No.3 (1938-9)
  • Symphony No.4 ‘Folksong Symphony’ for chorus and orchestra (1940-42)
  • Symphony No.5 (1942)
  • Symphony No.6 ‘Gettysburg) (1943-4)
  • Symphony for Band ‘West Point’ (1952)
  • Symphony No.7 (1952-55)
  • Symphony No.8 ‘San Francisco’ (1961-2)
  • Symphony No.9 (1962)
  • Symphony No.10 ‘Abraham Lincoln’ for high school chorus, speaker, brass, 2 amplified pianos and percussion (1965)
  • Symphony No.11 (1967)
  • Symphony No.12 ‘Pere Marquette’ for tenor/speaker and orchestra (1968-9)
  • Bicentennial Symphony 1976 for chorus and orchestra [Symphony No.13](1975-6)

(Contributed by Malcolm MacDonald <macval@compuserve.com>)

The Abravanel recording of the Harris Folksong Symphony was released on an Angel LP in the mid-1970s in quadraphonic sound, never on compact disc. We badly need this to be released on CD. The Golschmann recording, made in Vienna in 1958, is in excellent stereo and is a remarkably good recording, considering the date and venue. It is available on CD from the Vanguard/Omega label.

Albany Records has recently (October 2002) released a wonderful world-premiere recording of the Harris Symphony No. 2, with the Albany Symphony, David Allen Miller conducting. Highly recommended.

Also available on Albany, a CD of choral music, including the Symphony for Voices on words of Walt Whitman and the substantial Mass for Men’s Voices.

(Contributed by <JProffitt@kuhf.org>)

Prémières pour Roy Harris

Friday, 24 February 1939
Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in Boston, USA.
Thursday, 13 April 1944
Premiere of Symphony no. 6 “Gettysburg”, in Boston, USA.
Links: 
http://www.royharrisamericancomposer.com/
Submitted by Jean-Paul Giraudet on 2006-05-18 10:18.
Last modified: 
2014-06-05 15:50

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