Jennifer Higdon: String Works

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Amazing Grace

Instrumentation: string quartet
Year completed: 2003
Duration: 6 minutes

Autumn's Cricket

Instrumentation: string quartet
Year completed: 1987
Duration: 30 minutes

Celebration Fanfare

Instrumentation: string orchestra
Year completed: 2003
Duration: 3 minutes

An Exaltation of Larks

Instrumentation: string quartet
Year completed: 2005
Duration: 14 minutes

Impressions

Instrumentation: string quartet
Year completed: 2003
Duration: 26 minutes
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Legacy

Instrumentation: violin, piano (version B)
Year completed: 1999 (violin and piano arrangement completed 2003)
Duration: 8 minutes
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Piano Trio

Instrumentation: violin, cello, piano
Year completed: 2003
Duration: 15 minutes

Quiet Art

Instrumentation: string octet (4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos)
Year completed: 2006
Duration: 8 minutes
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Scenes from the Poet's Dreams

Instrumentation: piano quintet (piano left hand, string quartet)
Year completed: 1999
Duration: 24 minutes
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The Singing Rooms

Instrumentation: solo violin, SATB chorus, orchestra
Text: Jeanne Minahan
Year completed: 2007

Sky Quartet

Instrumentation: string quartet
Year completed: 1997 (revised 2001)
Duration: 24 minutes

Soliloquy

Instrumentation (3 scorings):

• English horn, string orchestra
  
• Cello, string orchestra
  
• Clarinet, string quartet
  

Year completed: 1989 (arranged for clarinet and string quartet in 2004)
Duration: 7 minutes

Sonata for Viola and Piano

Instrumentation: viola, piano
Year completed: 1990
Duration: 22 minutes
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Southern Harmony

Instrumentation: string quartet
Year completed: 2003

"String" from Concerto for Orchestra

Instrumentation: string orchestra
Year completed: 2002
Duration: 30 minutes
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String Poetic

Instrumentation: violin, piano
Year completed: 2006
Duration: 18 minutes
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String Trio

Instrumentation: violin, viola, cello
Year completed: 1988
Duration: 17 minutes

To The Point

Instrumentation: string orchestra
Year completed: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes

Voices

Instrumentation: string quartet
Year completed: 1993
Duration: 18 minutes
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Higdon Chamber Works including strings:

• Celestial Hymns - clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano
  
• Dark Wood - bassoon, violin, cello, piano
  
• DASH - clarinet, violin, piano (version A)
  
• Light Refracted - clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano
  
• Smash - flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano
  
• Trio Song - 2 flutes, cello
  
• wisssahickon poeTrees - flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion
  
• Zaka - flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
  
• Zango Bandango - flute, clarinet, violin, cello, marimba, piano