This international volume in the Spectrum series contains twenty-five pieces written by contemporary composers from twenty-five different countries. It demonstrates how the language and tradition of Western classical music have been absorbed and adopted by composers around the world. The pieces in Spectrum 3 range from Grade 3 to Grade 7 standard.

• Distant Song [Peteris Plakidis]
• White Light Chorale [Param Vir]
• Lavender Field [Karen Tanaka]
• n mambo [Javier Alvarez]
• Lied im Berg [Detlev Glanert]
• Still, Suspended [Sohrab Uduman]
• Silent Island [Victoria Borisova-Ollas]
• King Lear's Distant War [Aulis Sallinen]
• la pierre magenta [Joyce Beetuan Koh]
• Root Position [Gerald Barry]
• Apteryx [Lyell Cresswell]
• Bergen [Toek Numan]
• Earring [Julia Wolfe]
• tempo absurdo [Alexandre Lunsqui]
• Song for a Penny [Peter Sculthorpe]
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