Quartets

This page contains the following categories of selected music manuscripts:

Woodwind Quartets (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon)
Flute Quartets (four flutes)
Other Quartets with Flute

Titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog and special collection findings aids when available.

Woodwind Quartets

Selected list of manuscript scores for standard woodwind quartet instrumentation (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon), including auxiliary doubling instruments.

Divertimenti by Frank Bridge
Call Number: ML29c.B85 (Case)
Published/Created: 1934-1938
Holograph score in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection.
8 Etudes and a Fantasy by Elliott Carter
Call Number: ML96 .C288 (Case) / Microfilm, MUSIC-1816
Published/Created: 1949
Holograph sketches. Digitized content available online.
Sonata a quattro by Gian Francesco Malipiero
Call Number: ML29c .M25 (Case)
Published/Created: 1954
Holograph score. Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress.
Three Canons for woodwinds by Wallingford Riegger
Call Number: ML29c .R55 Case
Published/Created: 1930
A set of three canons for different instrument combinations. The first canon is for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. The second canon is for flute and clarinet. The third canon is for piccolo, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Holograph score in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection.

Flute Quartets

Selected list of manuscript scores for standard flute quartet instrumentation (four flutes), including all auxiliary instruments.

Rondo capriccioso by Robert Russell Bennett
Call Number: ML96 .B4673 no. 21 Case
Published/Created: circa 1961-1962
For four flutes. Holograph score in ink.
Quartet by Joseph Goodman
Call Number: ML96 .G59 no. 19 Case
Published/Created: 1990
For piccolo, flute in C, alto flute in G, bass flute. Holograph score.

Other Quartets with Flute

Selected list of manuscript scores for flute with three other performers.

Piri by Henry Brant
Call Number: ML96 .B695 (Case)
Published/Created: 1954
For flute, harp, piano, and glockenspiel. Facsimile score with composer's manuscript revisions in pencil. Later used (with revisions) as middle movement of Angels and Devils revised version. Composer's note concerning the work inserted.
Threnody I: Igor Stravinsky, in Memoriam by Aaron Copland
Call Number: Aaron Copland Collection, Box 43
Published/Created: 1971
For flute/alto flute, violin, viola, cello. Holograph full score and sketches.
Threnody II : in memoriam, Beatrice Cunningham by Aaron Copland
Call Number: Aaron Copland Collection, Box 43
Published/Created: 1973
For alto flute, violin, viola, and cello. Holograph sketches and full score, facsimile full score, and copyist manuscript full score
Eleven echoes of autumn: Echoes I by George Crumb
Call Number: George Crumb Papers, Box 2
Published/Created: 1965
For violin, alto flute, clarinet, and piano. Box 2 contains holograph sketches and drafts.
Quartet for flute, oboe, cello & harpsicord by Henry Cowell
Call Number: ML96 .C823 (Case)
Published/Created: 1954
For flute, oboe, cello, and harpsicord. Holograph score.
Upon Enchanted Ground by Alan Hovhaness
Call Number: ML96 .H853 no. 92 (Case)
Published/Created: 1951
For flute, cello, tam-tam, and harp. Holograph score.
Chansons madécasses by Maurice Ravel
Call Number: ML29c .R35 (Case)
Published/Created: 1925
For mezzo-soprano or tenor, flute doubling piccolo, cello, and piano. Holograph score and parts. In the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection.

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