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Douglas Gordon Lilburn
Compositions
| 1932 | Opus 1 a sonata for piano in 3 movements |
| 1936 | Forest tone poem for ochestra. Winner of Percy Grainger Competition in 1936. |
| 1937 | Choral Sketches for baritone, male chorus and SATB |
| 1937 | Drysdale Overture for Orchestra. Winner in orchestra class of NZ Centennial Celebrations Music Conpetition in 1940. |
| 1939 | Phantasy for String Quartet ("Westron Wynde"). Winner of the Cobbett Prize in 1939. |
| 1939 | Harvestmen a-singing: for unaccompanied chorus |
| 1939 | Festival Overture for orchestra. Awarded second prize in orchestral class of NZ Centennial Celebrations Music Competition in 1940 |
| 1939 | Prodigal Country for baritone, chorus and orchestra. Winner in choral class of NZ Centennial Celebrations Music Conpetition in 1940 |
| 1939 | Sonata for Pianoforte No. 11 in F# minor, in two movements. |
| 1939 | A sonata for piano in three movements |
| 1940 | Summer's Sadness for baritone and piano |
| 1940 | Aotearoa Overture for orchestra. Written for the NZ Centennial Matinee in London. |
| 1941 | Suite for strings |
| 1941 | Short piano pieces: a collection of manuscripts and sketches |
| 1942 | Allegro for strings. |
| 1942 | Two Concert Overtures for String Orchestra. No.l in D, No. II in Bflat. |
| 1942 | Landfall in Unknown Seas for strings and narrator. Test by Allen Curnow. Written to commemorate the tercentenary of discovery of NZ by Tasman. |
| 1942 | Canzonetta for violin and viola No. 1 |
| 1942 | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for a cappella choir. For use by the Christchurch Cathedral choir |
| 1942 | Five Bagatelles for Piano. |
| 1943 | Hamlet: incidental music for string orchestra |
| 1943 | Sinfonia in D for strings |
| 1943 | Sonata in C for violin and piano |
| 1943 | Sonata in Eflat for violin and piano. |
| 1943 | Canzonetta for violin and viola No. 2 |
| 1943 | Hamlet incidental music for three violins and tubular bell. |
| 1944 | Diversions for piano |
| 1944 | Evening Service for SATB chorus |
| 1944 | Music for Waitaki Boys' High School Song. Words by Frank Milner, revised by Walter Brookes. |
| 1944 | Prelude and Fugue in G minor for organ. Winner of the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in 1944 |
| 1944 | Othello incidental music (violin and piano) for University of Canterbury Drama Society |
| 1944 | Willow song: for mezzo-soprano amd piano |
| 1944 | Willow song: for mezzo-soprano and string quartet arrangement by Lilburn |
| 1944 | Distant Point incidental music for Canterbury Repertory Society production |
| 1944 | Allegro Concertante for violin and piano in A Phrygian Mode in one movement. |
| 1944 | Four Preludes for piano |
| 1945 | String Trio |
| 1945 | A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music for flute, cornet & two french horns. |
| 1945 | King Henry V incidental music for two trumpets. |
| 1945 | Elegy for soprano, contralto, and strings |
| 1945 | A song for Otago University. Poetry by J.K.Baxter |
| 1946 | Sonatina for piano |
| 1946 | String Quartet in E minor |
| 1946 | A Song of islands originally titled Song of the Antipodes for orchestra |
| 1946 | Chaconne for piano |
| 1946 | Cambridge Overture for strings. Commissioned for the first Cambridge Summer School of Music |
| 1946 | Macbeth incidental music for Univ. of Canterbury Drama Society |
| 1946 | O Fons Bandusiae for voice and piano |
| 1946 | Song Thinking of her Dead for tenor and piano |
| 1947 | Diversions for String Orchestra |
| 1947 | Backblocks Hospital incidental music for National Film documentary |
| 1947 | The Infernal Machine incidental music for play by Cocteau |
| 1947 | Li Po in Spring - Voice and piano |
| 1947 | Canon for 2 clarinets |
| 1947 | Diversion for two clarinets and two trumpets in Bflat |
| 1947 | Summer Afternoon for mezzo-soprano and piano |
| 1948 | Sonatina for clarinet and piano |
| 1948 | Prelude for piano |
| 1948 | Rhythm and Movement - incidental music for National Film documentary |
| 1948 | Variations on a Theme by Douglas Lilburn written at Cambridge Summer Music School. Variation 1) Farquhar, 2) Dellow, 3) Carr, 4) Franchi, 5) Tremain. |
| 1948 | Infant Schools incidental music for Nationl Film documentary |
| 1948 | Moths and Candles: a dance for children. From Infant Schools documentary |
| 1948 | Journey for Three - incidental muic for National Film feature film |
| 1948 | Two Diversions for piano |
| 1948 | The Islands settings for voice and piano of two poems |
| 1949 | Symphony No. 1 for orchestra |
| 1949 | Sonata for piano in 3 movements |
| 1949 | This is New Zealand orchestral music for a BBC documentary |
| 1949 | The Trojan Women incidental music for play |
| 1950 | Sonata for violin and piano |
| 1950 | Prelude for piano from Three Sea Changes |
| 1950 | Cornet Rilke incidental music for string quartet to a reading produced by NZBS |
| 1950 | Lines in Autumn songs for messo-soprano and piano |
| 1951 | Elegy song cycle for baritone and piano |
| 1951 | Prelude for piano |
| 1951 | Symphony No. 2 for orchestra revised 1974 |
| 1952 | Sonata for Piano (revised 1956) |
| 1952 | Four Hand work: for piano four hands |
| 1952 | Hamlet incidental music to Wellington Rep production |
| 1952 | Incidental music for a reading of poetry in Auckland Univ. College for violin and piano |
| 1953 | Dandy Dick incidental music for NZ Players' production |
| 1953 | Sings Harry song cycle for tenor and piano |
| 1954 | Sings Harry arranged for baritone and piano |
| 1954 | Sings Harry arranged for tenor and guitar |
| 1954 | Duos for two violins |
| 1954 | Clear Sky and The Picnic two songs for soprano and piano |
| 1954 | Piano Piece for four hands. Allegro non troppo |
| 1955 | Suite for solo viola (performance MS missing) |
| 1955 | Pieces in serial technique for various string combinations. Done at Tanglewood for Roger Sessions |
| 1955 | Pardon goddess of the night: for SATB chorus |
| 1955 | Suite for Orchestra |
| 1955 | St Joan incidental music for NZ Players production |
| 1956 | A Birthday Offering for orchestra Commissioned by the National Symph. Orch. for its 10th birthday |
| 1957 | Wind Quintet |
| 1957 | Quartet for Brass Instruments |
| 1957 | Merchant of Venice incidental music for NZ Players production |
| 1958 | Two duos for violin and viola |
| 1958 | Three Songs for Baritone and Viola |
| 1958 | Three Poems of the Sea for string orchestra and narrator |
| 1959 | Suite for Brass Band in 4 movements |
| 1960s | Homnnage a' D.A.F.: for piano (for David Farquhar's composition class) |
| 1961 | Symphony No. 3 for orchestra |
| 1961 | Grand Canyon Uprun for wind quartet. music for private film |
| 1961 | The Axe incidental music to radio play by Curnow |
| 1961 | Processional Fanfare for the final congregation of the University of New Zealand |
| 1962 | Sonatina No. 2 for piano |
| 1962 | Canzona - The Flowers of the Sea. Arrangement of the 5th song of Sings Harry |
| 1962 | Henry IV parts I and II. Incidental music for NZBC play |
| 1962 | Piano pieces and sketches |
| 1964 | The Pitcher and the Well incidental music for NZBC play, Uses sound images of electronic derivation |
| 1965 | Canon for 6 hands for piano |
| 1965 | Gamelan for 6 hands, piano |
| 1965 | Canonic studies for piano Homage to J.S. Bach |
| 1965 | Fred's Birthday for piano |
| 1965 | The Return - Electronic Sound Image to poetry by Alistair Campbell |
| 1966 | Nine Short Pieces for Piano |
| 1966 | The Spiral Tatoo incidental music for NZBC production |
| 1966 | Fragments of a Poem |
| 1967 | Poem in Time of War |
| 1967 | Study from One Note |
| 1967 | Cicadas, Oscillators and Tree Frogs |
| 1967 | The Golden Lover incidental music for Downstage Theatre. Play by Douglas Stewart |
| 1967 | He Mane Toa Maori Theatre Trust production |
| 1967 | Hot Spring incidental music for Downstage production of play by Adele Schafer |
| 1968 | Three bars for the blood and bone for piano |
| 1968 | Three Studies for Gustav Ciamaga |
| 1969 | He Tohu O Waharoa incidental music to a play by James Ritchie |
| 1969 | Sumner Voices |
| 1969 | Five Toronto Pieces |
| 1969 | 16 pieces for guitar Published with Canzona |
| 1970 | Expo 70 Dance Sequence |
| 1971 | Lilburn vs Putney, Staircase Music and Glass music (an end-of-term entertainment in the music room) |
| 1972 | Three Inscapes |
| 1972 | One movement of 3 for viola |
| 1973 | Occasional Pieces for Piano |
| 1973 | Wide open Cage incidental music for play by J.K. Baxter |
| 1974 | Two pieces for guitar |
| 1974 | Welcome Stranger a ballet commissioned by the NZ Ballet Conpany |
| 1975 | Sounds and Distances |
| 1975 | Lines and Distances |
| 1976 | Carousel |
| 1976 | Winterset |
| 1977 | Tryptych |
| 1977 | Of Time and Nostalgia |
| 1979 | Soundscape with Lake and River |
| 1980 | Four Canzonas for strings written for solo violin and string quartet arrangement of incidental music for plays between 1943-1950 |
| 1985 | Processional Fanfare arranged for 3 trumpets and small orchestra from 1961 original conposed for 3 trumpets with organ |
| 1987 | Grand Canyon Uprun: a suite for woodwind quartet. Arrangement of original 1961 composition |
