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Mildred Cooper Couper (1887-1974)
Music Compositions

The sheet music is in the University of California, Santa Barbara archives
Twenty-four pieces are available on compact disc (CD) recording.
Music listed below is just a partial list of Mildred Couper's works

  PIANO MUSIC

Anacapa & Prelude - 2 pianos, 5 pages
Anacapa transcribed - 9 pages
Childhood - piano, 3 pages
Consolation - piano, 2 pages
Dirge - 2 pianos, 1/4 tone, 12 pages, published
Dirge - violin and piano, 6 pages
Elegy - 2 scores, string quartet, 8 pages
Epithalaneum - 2 pianos, 1 page
Fantasy - cello and piano, 8 pages
Gitanesca - 2 pianos, 9 pages
Irish Washerwoman variations - piano, 7 pages
Irish Washerwoman variations - 2 pianos, 10 pages
Mirage - 2 pianos, 2 pages
The Nine Muses - 1 piano, recording only, no sheet music
Pan Pipes - 2 pianos, 4 pages
Prelude - piano, 1 page
Rumba, 2 pianos, 1/4 tone, 8 pages
Sherzo - 2 pianos, 5 pages
Suite for Piano and Harpsichord - 22 pages
Wedding Music - Piano and violin, 2 pages
Xanadu (for Marco Millions) - 2 pianos, 1/4 tone, 14 pages

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

The Days of Our Years - violin, oboe, piano - 30 pages, bound
(Psalm 90, Verse 10: Genesis, A Child in their Midst, Song of Songs, Proverbs, Revelation)
The Nightingale - flute, oboe, 4 strings, 23 pages
Passacaglia - 17 pages, bound
(piano only, 5 pages; piano, clarinet, strings, 17 pages; full orchestra, 18 pages)
Pippa Passes (ala R. Browning) - flute and strings, 33 pages, bound
Quintet - And on Earth peace
(piano and strings, 39 pages; voice, 24 pages)
Song of Hymen, 8 pages

CHILDRENS MUSIC

Barnyard Cogitations (ala Ogden Nash) - piano, 6 pages
B.G. (for Marion Baring-Gould) - piano, 2 pages
Fur and Feathers (ala Ogden Nash) - piano, 11 pages
Musical Puzzle - Morse Code (for Marion Sachs) - piano, 2 pages
The Ugly Duckling - piano, 12 pages
Arullo del Burrito - piano, 1 page
The Dancing Bears - piano, 1 page
The Vulture - piano, 1 page
Pee Wee - piano, 1 page
The Skating Lesson - piano, 1 page
The Tambourine - piano, 1 page
Waltzing Mice - piano, 1 page
We are Seven Little Pieces - piano, published

 

VOICE

The New Colossus - Statue of Liberty Inscription - 4 pages
Psalm -  1 page
Scrambled Fables (three versions)
Sea-Drift Cycle (ala Walt Whitman)
Seven Old French Carols