Enviro Repertoire List
A compilation of composed, notated music with an environmental theme.
This is by no means exhaustive, and undoubtably more is being composed right now. The list is also a community effort, so if you have any suggestions of compositions to include, or any other contributions, please submit here:
Thank you! Together, let's make this a valuable resource for finding and programming more environmental music!
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Abrahamsen, Hans: Wald
Abrahamsen, Hans: Shnee
Adams, John Luther: Become Ocean
Adams, John Luther: Earth and the Great Weather
Anderson, Laurie: Landfall
Arnold, Martin: Coo Coo Bird
Arnold, Martin: Moonlight on the Bluff
B
Bailie, Joanna: To Be Beside the Seaside
Bartok, Bela: Romanian Folk Dances
Bartok, Bela: 44 Duos for Two Violins
Bates, Mason: Red River
Beethoven, Ludvig van: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24, "Spring"
Beethoven, Ludvig van: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral"
Braid, David: Great Bear River Blues
Brahms, Johannes: Sonata No. 1 for Piano and Violin "Rain Sonata"
Britten, Benjamin: Four Sea Interludes
C
Cage, John: The Seasons
Cameron, Allison: The Waning Moon
Cameron, Allison: Gibbous Moon
Cameron, Allison: Tree Ferns
Cameron, Allison:
di Castri, Zosha: ALBA
Catlin Smith, Linda: Wilderness
Catlin Smith, Linda: Nuages
Catlin Smith, Linda: Gold Leaf
Catlin Smith, Linda: Bloom
Catlin Smith, Linda: Forest
Catlin Smith, Linda: Vine
Catlin Smith, Linda: Rose With Thorns
Catlin Smith, Linda: Galanthus (Snowdrop)
Catlin Smith, Linda: Magnolia
Charke, Derek: After Chaos, the Earth and Love came into being
Charke, Derek: Aurora Dances
Charke, Derek: Symphony No. 2, "Earth Airs"
Charke, Derek: Song of the Tides
Charke, Derek: Break-Up
Charke, Derek: Feeling for Snow
Charke, Derek: Past Winters Solstice
Charke, Derek: What do the Birds Think
Charke, Derek: the world is itself a cargo carried
Charke, Derek: Concerto for Flute, "The Winds of Winter"
Charke, Derek: Tree Rings
Charke, Derek: Water Flows Serpentine
Charke, Derek: Oikos/Ecos
Charke, Derek: Tangled in Plastic Currents
Charke, Derek:
Chopin, Frederic: Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, "Raindrop"
Chopin, Frederic: Barcarolle, Op. 60
Crane, Laurence: See Our Lake
Croall, Barbara: Nbiidaasamishkaamin/We Come Paddling Here
Croall, Barbara: Nibi Nagamon/Water Song
Croall, Barbara: Giiwedin/North Wind
Croall, Barbara: Disaa-weshiinhyag/Cicadas
Croall, Barbara: Gichi Gamiing/Great Water
Croall, Barbara: Falling Leaves, Fallen Leaves
Croall, Barbara: If There Be Butterflies All Around
Croall, Barbara: Caribou Song
Croall, Barbara: Niiboowagizi-bineshiinhyag nagamod/There are many small birds singing
Croall, Barbara: Naawashkosiw/In the Middle of the Meadow
Croall, Barbara: Noodin/There is a Wind
Croall, Barbara: Tree People
Croall, Barbara: Dagwaagin/It is Autumn
Croall, Barbara: Stories from Coyote
Croall, Barbara: The Four Directions
Croall, Barbara: Dancing Like Butterflies
Croall, Barbara:
Crumb, George: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)
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Davidson, Tina: Blue Curve of the Earth
Davidson, Tina: River
Davidson, Tina: Beyond the Blue Horizon
Davidson, Tina: Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
Davidson, Tina: A Bright Flash of Wings
Davidson, Tina: Blue Like an Orange
Davidson, Tina: Blue Dawn
Davidson, Tina: Spring After Spring
Davidson, Tina: Speak to the Earth
Davidson, Tina: Listening to the Earth
Davidson, Tina:
Debussy, Claude: La Mer
Debussy, Claude: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Debussy, Claude: "The Snow is Dancing" from Children's Corner
Debussy, Claude: Clair de Lune
Debussy, Claude: "Nuages" from Nocturnes
Doolittle, Emily: Reedbird
Doolittle, Emily: Woodwings
Doolittle, Emily: Field Guide
Doolittle, Emily: Jan Tait and the Bear
Doolittle, Emily: migrations
Doolittle, Emily: sapling
Doolittle, Emily: Seven Duos for Birds or Strings
Doolittle, Emily: Songs of Seals
Doolittle, Emily: Vocalise (for Bees)
Doolittle, Emily: Social sounds from whales at night
Doolittle, Emily: Why the parrot repeats human words
Doolittle, Emily: music for magpies
Doolittle, Emily: four pieces about water
Doolittle, Emily: Ruby-throated Moment
Doolittle, Emily: night black bird song
Doolittle, Emily: suppose i was a marigold
Doolittle, Emily: Weather Songs
Doolittle, Emily: Three Summer Wassails
Downing, Andrew: Red River Fantasy
Dun, Tan: Water Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
E
Einaudi, Ludivico: Elegy for the Arctic
Evison, Fiona: This is my place
Enns, Leonard: Ten Thousand Rivers of Oil
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Fung, Vivian: Shifting Landscapes
G
Glass, Philip: Aguas de Amazonia
Goldmark, Rubin: In the Forest
Golijov, Osvaldo: Oceana
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Handel, G.F: Water Music
Hatch, Peter: Reaching for Nothing (Water's Thirst)
Hatch, Peter: Reveiller
Hatch, Peter: Forest for the Trees
Haydn, Joseph: The Seasons
Haydn, Joseph: The Creation
Ho, Vincent: Arctic Symphony
Ho, Vincent: Earthbeat
Ho, Vincent: Morning Song
Ho, Vincent: Nature Whispers...
Horvat, Frank
Höstman, Anna: Harbour
Höstman, Anna: Lonesome Lake
Hovanhess, Alan: And God Created Whales
Husa, Karen: Apotheosis of this Earth
Hyde, Miriam: Water Nymph
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K
Kondo, Jo: Mulberry
Kondo, Jo: To the Headlands
Kondo, Jo: In the Woods
Kondo, Jo: Gardenia
Kondo, Jo: Snow's Falling
Kondo, Jo: Isthmus
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Lau, Kevin: Great North overture for brass band
Lau, Kevin: Postcards from a Blue Planet
Lau, Kevin: Race to the Midnight Sun
Lau, Kevin: River
Lim, Liza: Garden of Earthly Desire
Lim, Liza: The Four Seasons
Lim, Liza: An Ocean Beyond Earth
Lim, Liza: How Forests Think
Lim, Liza: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Liszt, Franz: Gondoliera
Lizee, Nicole: La Terre a des Maux
Louie, Alexina: Infinite Sky With Birds
Louie, Alexina: Music for Heaven and Earth
Louie, Alexina: The Ringing Earth
Louie, Alexina: The Eternal Earth
Louie, Alexina: Winter Music
Louie, Alexina: Music for a Thousand Autumns
Louie, Alexina: Out of the Night, Birdsong
Louie, Alexina: Summer Music
Louie, Alexina: The Raven
Louie, Alexina: Earth Cycles
Louie, Alexina: Love Songs for a Small Planet
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Maulevere, Charles: One Home, an Environmental Symphony
Maunders, Duncan: Songs About the Sea
Mascall, Richard: Petroglyphs
Messiaen, Olivier
Muhly, Nico: I Drink the Air Before Me
N
Nishimura, Cait: Lake Superior Suite
O
Oesterle, Michael: Perennials
Oesterle, Michael: Kingfisher
Oesterle, Michael: Kangaroo
Oesterle, Michael: Orangutan
P
Padding, Martijn: White Eagle
Prestini, Paola: Oceanic Fantasy
Prestini, Paola: Earthbound Mass
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R
Raff, Joachim: Symphony No. 3 "In the Forest"
Raff, Joachim: Symphony No. 7 "In the Alps"
Raum, Elizabeth: Four Elements for Violin and Trombone
Ravel, Maurice: "A Boat on the Ocean" from Miroirs
Ravel, Maurice: "Moths" from Miroirs
Ravel, Maurice: "Oiseaux Tristes" from Miroirs
Ravel, Maurice: Ondine
Reimer-Watts, Keenan: Scenes
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai: Fllight of the Bumblebee
Rowson, William: Short Variations on Waves
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Saariaho, Kaija: Neiges
Saariaho, Kaija: Lichtbogen
Saariaho, Kaija: Couleurs du vent
Saariaho, Kaija: Petals
Saariaho, Kaija: Trois Rivieres: Delta
Schafer, R. Murray: String Quartet No. 2 "waves"
Sharman, Rodney: Four Seasons One Tree
Sharman, Rodney: Small Flower
Sharman, Rodney: Dry Leaves
Sharman, Rodney: In Deepening Light
Sharman, Rodney: Narcissus
Sharman, Rodney: Morning Fog
Sigesmund, Darren: Kensington Ceilidh
Skarecky, Jana: Love for the Earth
Skarecky, Jana: The Beginning of the wind
Skarecky, Jana: Planet Earth
Skarecky, Jana: The Living Wind
Skarecky, Jana: O Earth
Skarecky, Jana: Pip the Puffin
Skarecky, Jana: Birds of Canada
Skarecky, Jana: Paddy the Beaver
Skarecky, Jana: Three Artist Songs
Skarecky, Jana: The Owl Babies
Skarecky, Jana: Song of the Four Seasons
Skarecky, Jana: Butterfly Songs
Skarecky, Jana: Sam the Snake
Skarecky, Jana: Australian Animals
Skarecky, Jana: Luminous Forest
Skarecky, Jana: Mountain Lake
Skarecky, Jana: Down River
Skarecky, Jana: Birds in the Hickory Tree
Skarecky, Jana: Water, Fire, Air, and Earth
Skarecky, Jana: Rose of Sharon
Skarecky, Jana: The Land Sings
Smetana, Bedřich: Vltava (The Moldau)
Sollima, Giovanni: Heimat Terra
Sollima, Giovanni: Tree Raga Song
Sollima, Giovanni: When We Were Trees
Sollima, Giovanni:
Southam, Ann: Rivers (Set 1, 2 and 3)
Staniland, Andrew: Four Elements for String Quartet
Strauss, Johann: Blue Danube Waltz
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Tagaq, Tanya: Sivunittinni
Taves, Heather: East Coast Suite
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr: The Seasons
Telemann, George Phillip: "Cricket" Symphony
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Vivaldi, Antonio: "Four Seasons" Concertos for Violin and Orchestra
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Wencheng, Lü: Autumn Moon Over Calm Lake
Wright, Danny: The Nature of Things
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THE LIST
In alphabetical order, by composer