List of compositions by Betsy Jolas

This is a list of compositions by the Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas (born 1926). Her music is published by Éditions Alphonse Leduc, Éditions Billaudot and Éditions Salabert, amongst others.

Betsy Jolas in 2006

Opera and stage works

• Le Pavillon au Bord de la Rivière (1975), chamber opera in 4 acts
• Schliemann (1982–83), opera in 3 acts
• Le Cyclope (1986), chamber opera in 1 act
• Ajax (1960), incidental music for the play by Sophocles
• Les troyennes (1961), incidental music for the play by Euripides
• La dernière existence au camp de Tatenberg, incidental music for the play by Armand Gatti

Orchestra

• D'un opéra de voyage (1967) for chamber orchestra
• Quatre Plages (1967) for string orchestra
• Well Met (1973) for string orchestra
• Tales of a summer sea (1977) for orchestra
• Cinq pièces pour Boulogne (1982) (2 versions)
• Just a Minute! (1986)
• Well Met 04 – Pantomime for 12 strings (2004)
• B Day (2006) for symphony orchestra
• A Little Summer Suite (2015)
• Well Met Suite (2016)

Solo works with orchestra or ensemble

• Points D'Aube (1968) for viola and ensemble
• Musique d'hiver (1971) for organ and small orchestra
• États (1967) for violin and 6 percussionists
• Trois Rencontres (1973) for solo string trio and symphony orchestra
• How-Now (1973) for 8 instruments
• Onze Lieder (1977) for trumpet and chamber orchestra
• Stances (1978) for piano and orchestra
• Points d'or (1982) for saxophonist (playing soprano, alto, tenor, baritone) and 15 instruments
• Frauenleben (1992) for viola and orchestra
• Lumor, 7 Lieder spirituels for a saxophonist (playing soprano and tenor) and orchestra (1996)
• Petite symphonie concertante (1997) for conducting violin and orchestra
• Wanderlied (2003) for cello and 15 instruments
• Histoires Vraies (2015) for trumpet and orchestra
• Side Roads (2017) for cello and strings

Works for large ensemble

• Figures (1965) for 9 instruments
• J.D.E. (1966) for 14 musicians
• D'un opéra de poupée en sept musiques (1982) for 11 instruments
• Préludes, Fanfares, Interludes, Sonneries (1983) for wind band
• Sonate à 8 (1998) for cello octet

Chamber music

• Sonate à Trois (1956) for recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord
• Quartet No. 1 (1956)
• Quartet No. 3, 9 études for string quartet (1973)
• O Wall (1976) for wind quintet
• Trio (1988) for piano trio
• Quartet No. 4 – Menus Propos (1989) for string quartet
• Trio "Les Heures" (1991) for string trio
• Musique pour Xavier (1993) for clarinet, tenor saxophone and violin
• Quartet No. 5 (1994) for string quartet
• Music for here (1994) for solo bassoon with accompaniment of viola and cello
• Quartet No. 6 (1997) for clarinet and string trio
• Petite sonnerie de juin (1997) for horn, trumpet and trombone
• Trio sopra et sola facta (1999–2000) for violin, clarinet and piano
• Titivillus (2000) for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano or 2 flutes and piano
• Ah! Haydn (2007) for piano trio
• Quatuor VII (Afterthoughts) (2018) for trumpet, violin, viola and cello

Duos

• Trifolium (1947) for flute and piano
• Remember (1971) for cor anglais (or viola) and cello
• Four Duos (1978) for viola and piano
• Trois études campanaires (1980) for carillon and keyboard
• Quatre pièces en marge (1983) for cello and piano
• Three Duos (1983) for tuba and piano
• Music for Joan (1988) for vibraphone and piano
• Petites musiques de chevet (1989) for clarinet and piano
• E.A petite suite variée (1991) for trumpet in C and vibraphone
• Études aperçues (1992) for vibraphone and 5 cow bells
• Musique pour Delphine (1992) for violin and cello
• Quoth the raven, 3 pieces for clarinet and piano (1993)
• Frauenleben (1994) for viola and piano
• Music to go (1995) for viola and cello
• Come follow (2001) for bassoon and viola
• Lovemusic (2005) for flute and bass clarinet
• Suite: Puer apud magistros exercentur (2007) for 2 alto saxophones
• Allô! for 2 saxophones
• Oh là! for 2 saxophones
• Scat for 2 saxophones
• Ardente for viola and piano
• Femme le soir (2018) for cello and piano

Solo works

• Episode No. 1 (1964) for flute
• Fusain (1971) for bass flute and piccolo
• Chanson d'approche (1972) for piano
• Autour (1972) for harpsichord
• B for Sonata (1973) for piano
• Scion (1973) for cello
• Tranche (1976) for harp
• Musique de jour (1976) for organ
• Episode No. 2 "ohne Worte" (1977) for flute
• Auprès (1980) for harpsichord
• Pièce pour Saint Germain (1981) for piano
• Calling E.C. (1982) for piano or two pianos
• Episode No. 3 (1982) for trumpet in C
• Episode No. 4 (1983) for tenor saxophone
• Petite suite sérieuse pour concert de famille (1983) for piano
• Episode No. 5 (1983) for cello
• Episode No. 6 (1984) for viola
• Episode No. 7 "night away" (1984) for electric guitar
• Episode No. 8 (1984) for double bass
• Tango Si (1984) for piano
• Une journee de Gadad, children's suite for piano (1984)
• Signets, hommage à Maurice Ravel (1987) for piano
• Episode No. 9 "Forte magnum colaraturum" (1990) for clarinet
• Pièce pour piano (1997)
• Petite Fantaisie for Leo (2001) for flute
• Pièces jay (2001) for piano
• O Bach! (2007) for piano
• Leçons du petit jour (2007) for organ
• 3 x Toi (2018) for piano – dedicated to Nicolas Hodges

Chorus

• Mass (1945) for choir, soloists and orchestra
• Motet I – To everything, there is a season (1947) for 7 women's voices
• Madrigal (1948) for choir
• Arbres (1950) for mixed choir a cappella
• Et le reste à l'avenant (1950) for mixed choir a cappella
• Everyone sings (1955) for double women's choir féminin et brass
• Enfantillages (1956) for women's or children's choir in 3 equal voices
• L'oeil égaré dans les plis de l'obéissance au vent, cantate radiophonique (1961) for soprano, contralto, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra
• Dans la chaleur vacante, cantate radiophonique (1963) for choir and orchestra
• Mots (1963) for vocal quintet and ensemble
• Motet II (1965) for chorus and ensemble
• Diurnes (1970) for mixed chorus of 12 to 72 voices
• Sonata for 12 mixed voices a cappella (1970)
• Perriault le déluné, comédie-madrigal for mixed choir of 3 times 4 voices a cappella (1993)
• Für Celia affettuoso (1998) for choir in 6 voices
• Motet III "Hunc igitur terrorem" (1999) for 5 solo voices, choir and Baroque orchestra
• Enfantillages (2000) new version with flute and women's or children's choir
• Autres enfantillages (2000) for children's or women's choir with clarinet ad libitum
• Chant dormant (2001) for choir
• Concerto-Fantaisie "O night, oh" (2001) – for mixed choir of 32 voices and concertante piano
• Motet IV "Ventosum Vocant" (2002) for soprano and quintet
• Femme en son jardin (2010) for vocal quartet, viola, cello and piano
• Orça for choir a cappella
• Savez-Vous Qui Est Mon Ami for chorus of three mixed voices

Vocal

• Plupart du temps I, 6 melodies for mezzo-soprano and piano (1949)
• Chansons pour Paule (1951) for mezzo-soprano and piano
• Cinq poèmes de Jacques Dupin (1959) for soprano et piano or orchestra
• Mots (1963) for soprano and ensemble
• Quartet No. 2 (1964) for soprano and string trio
• Mon Ami (1974) for voice and piano
• Caprice for one voice (1975) for any male or female voice and piano, without pianist
• Caprice for two voices (1978) for mezzo-soprano and counter-tenor or contralto
• Liring Ballade (1980) for baritone and orchestra
• Plupart du temps II (1989) for tenor, tenor saxophone and cello
• Sigrancia-Ballade (1995) for baritone and orchestra
• Lovaby, concert aria from the opera Schliemann (2000) for soprano and orchestra
• Titivillus (2000) for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano or 2 flutes and piano
• Motet IV "Ventosum Vocant" (2002) for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp, violin and cello.
• L' Ascension du Mont Ventoux (2004) for soprano, narrator, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and harp
• D'un journal d'amour for soprano and viola (2009)
• Sur do: Hommage à Purcell pour quatuor vocal, alto et violoncelle (2010)
• Rambles for narrator/speaker, flute, clarinet, harp, violin and cello
• L'oeil égaré for baritone and piano
• Fredons for soprano and ensemble

Reworkings of early music

• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 11 for string quartet, double bass, wind quintet, harp and piano or orchestra
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 20 for wind quintet, string trio, viola, harp or orchestra
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 47 for flute, clarinet, 2 violins, 2 violas and cello
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 68 for flute, clarinet, 2 violins, 2 violas and cello
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 84 for flute, bassoon, piano and string quartet
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 92 for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and string quartet or orchestra
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 97 for wind quintet, string trio
• Heinrich Schütz / 8 Psaumes de Becker / No. 121 for flute, piano and string quartet or orchestra
• Lassus Ricercare (1970) for brass, percussion, harp and pianos
• Orlandus Lassus / 3 Psaumes de Ulenberg
• Pierluigi Palestrina / Assumpta est Maria motet, for flute, clarinet, harp and string trio
• Guillaume Dufay / Flos Florum motet for wind quintet
• Johannes Brasart / O Flos Fragrans motet for wind quintet
• Josquin des Prés / Suite brève
• Jean Sébastien Bach / 14 Goldberg canons for flute, oboe, clarinet, string trio and double bass
• Jean Sébastien Bach – Contrapunctus IV (The Art of Fugue) (2001) for chamber orchestra and vocal quartet