1931 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1931.
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- January 24
- Mary Garden makes her last appearance with Chicago Opera, before retiring to her native Scotland.[1]
 - The Romen Theatre opens as a studio in Moscow.
 
 - May 14 – After conducting a concert in memory of Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna, Arturo Toscanini is attacked by a crowd for having refused to perform the fascist Italian national anthem on the program.[2]
 - May 21 – RCA Victor's first commercially issued 33⅓ rpm record, "Salon Suite, No. 1" by The Victor Salon Orchestra, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, is recorded.[3]
 - July 22–28 – The ninth annual ISCM Festival of Contemporary Music takes place in London and Oxford, with concerts of orchestral, choral, and chamber music.[4]
 - October 20 – The Indian Music Circle, dedicated to the revival of Indian classical music, is inaugurated with a ceremony held in the Jinnah Memorial Hall, Bombay.[5]
 - December 31 – Record sales dropped 75% from 1929
 
Published popular music
    
- "Adios" w. Eddie Wood m. Enric Madriguera
 - "All of Me" w.m. Seymour Simons & Gerald Marks
 - "As Time Goes By" w.m. Herman Hupfeld
 - "At Your Command" w.m. Harry Barris, Bing Crosby & Harry Tobias
 - "Black Jazz" m. Gene Gifford
 - "Blah, Blah, Blah" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by El Brendel in the film Delicious
 - "Blues in My Heart" w. Irving Mills m. Benny Carter
 - "Bend Down, Sister" w. Ballard MacDonald & David Silverstein m. Con Conrad. From the musical film Palmy Days.
 - "Brighter Than The Sun" w. Anona Winn m. Ray Noble
 - "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney
 - "By The River Sainte Marie" w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Warren
 - "Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear" w. (Eng) Dorothy Dick w.m. Bert Reisfeld, Mart Fryberg & Rolf Marbet
 - "Close Your Eyes" D. Carter – H. M. Tennent
 - "Come to Me" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
 - "Concentratin' On You" w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller
 - "Crosby, Columbo And Vallee" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
 - "Cuban Love Song" w.m. Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh & Herbert Stothart
 - "Dancing In The Dark" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
 - "Delishious" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
 - "Doin' What I Please" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas Waller
 - "Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away" w. Sammy Timberg m. Samuel Lerner. Introduced by Mae Questel and Rudy Vallee in the Betty Boop animated short Musical Justice (1931)
 - "Down Sunnyside Lane" Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly
 - "Dream a Little Dream of Me" w. Gus Kahn m. Fabian Andre & Wilbur Schwandt
 - "An Evening In Caroline" w.m. Walter Donaldson
 - "A Faded Summer Love" w.m. Phil Baxter
 - "Goodnight, Sweetheart" w.m. Ray Noble, James Campbell & Reg Connelly
 - "Got A Date With An Angel" w. Clifford Grey & Sonny Miller m. Jack Waller & Joseph Tunbridge
 - "Got the Bench, Got the Park" w.m. Al Sherman, Al Lewis & Fred Phillips
 - "Green Eyes" w. (Eng) E. Rivera & Eddie Woods (Sp) Adolfo Utrero m. Nilo Menendez
 - "Guilty" w. Gus Kahn m. Richard A. Whiting & Harry Akst
 - "Hang Out The Stars In Indiana" w. Billy Moll m. Harry Woods
 - "He Played His Ukulele As The Ship Went Down" w.m. Arthur Le Clerq
 - "Heartaches" w. John Clenner m. Al Hoffman
 - "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye" w. Edward Heyman m. John Green. Introduced by Frances Langford in the musical Here Goes the Bride
 - "Help Yourself to Happiness" w.m. Mack Gordon, Harry Revel and Harry Richman. Introduced by Harry Richman in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1931
 - "Hold My Hand" w. Douglas Furber m. Noel Gay
 - "Home" w.m. Peter Van Steeden, Harry Clarkson & Geoff Clarkson
 - "Hoops" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
 - "I Apologize" w.m. Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart & Ed Nelson
 - "I Don't Know Why" w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert
 - "I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)" w. Billy Rose & Mort Dixon m. Harry Warren
 - "I Heard" w.m. Don Redman
 - "I Love Louisa" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
 - "I Surrender, Dear" w. Gordon Clifford m. Harry Barris
 - "If You Should Ever Need Me" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
 - "I'll Be Good Because Of You" w.m. Ray Noble & Alan Murray
 - "I'm All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart" Fisher, Unger, Stern
 - "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" w. Alex Hill m. Fats Waller
 - "I'm Gonna Get You" w.m. Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias & Jules Lemare
 - "I'm Good For Nothing But Love" Ballard, Maltin
 - "I'm Through with Love" w. Gus Kahn m. Matty Malneck & Fud Livingston
 - "It isnae me" w. Sally Holmes m. Edward Elgar[6]
 - "It's the Darndest Thing" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
 - "It's the Girl" w. Dave Oppenheim m. Abel Baer
 - "It's You!" Razaf, Waller
 - "I've Got Five Dollars" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
 - "Jazz Nocturne" m. Dana Suesse
 - "Just One More Chance" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
 - "Kicking The Gong Around" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
 - "A Lady Must Live" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced by Jeanne Aubert in the musical America's Sweetheart
 - "Lady Of Spain" w.m. Robert Hargreaves, Tolchard Evans, Stanley J. Damerell & Henry J. Tilsley
 - "Lies" w. George E. Springer m. Harry Barris
 - "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
 - "Little Girl" w.m. Madeline Hyde & Francis Henry
 - "Love Is Sweeping The Country" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
 - "Love Letters In The Sand" w. Nick Kenny & Charles Kenny m. J. Fred Coots
 - "Lullaby Of The Leaves" w. Joe Young m. Bernice Petkere
 - "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" w.m. Noël Coward
 - "Makin' Faces At The Man In The Moon" w.m. Max Rich, Kate Smith, Al Hoffman & Ned Washington
 - "Mama Inez" w. (Eng) L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Eliseo Grenet
 - "Maria, My Own" w. (Eng) L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Ernesto Lecuona
 - "Marta" w. (Eng) L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Moises Simons
 - "Mary (I'm in Love with You)" w.m. J. Fred Coots & Ozzie Nelson
 - "Mausie" w. (Eng) Harry Graham m. Paul Abraham
 - "Me!" w.m. Irving Berlin
 - "(There Ought to Be a) Moonlight Saving Time" w.m. Irving Kahal & Harry Richman
 - "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes" Koehler, Pola, Golden
 - "My Song" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
 - "Nevertheless" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
 - "Now's The Time To Fall In Love" w.m. Al Sherman & Al Lewis
 - "Of Thee I Sing" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
 - "Oh, Monah" w.m. Ted Weems & Joe "Country" Washburn
 - "One More Time" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson.
 - "Ooh That Kiss" w. Mort Dixon & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
 - "Out Of Nowhere" w. Edward Heyman m. John Green
 - "Paradise" w. Nacio Herb Brown & Gordon Clifford m. Nacio Herb Brown
 - "Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)" w.m. Will Jason & Val Burton
 - "Pied Piper Of Hamelin" w.m. Noel Gay
 - "Poor Pierrot" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
 - "Prisoner Of Love" w. Leo Robin m. Russ Columbo & Clarence Gaskill
 - "River, Stay 'Way From My Door" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
 - "Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On" w.m. James McCaffrey, Eugene West & Dave Ringle
 - "Running Between The Raindrops" w. James Dyrenforth m. Carroll Gibbons
 - "Sally" w.m. William Haines, Harry Leon & Leo Towers
 - "Shadrack" w.m. Robert MacGimsey
 - "She Didn't Say Yes" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Bettina Hall in the musical The Cat and the Fiddle.
 - "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile" w. Charles O'Flynn & Jack Meskill m. Max Rich
 - "Somebody from Somewhere" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by Janet Gaynor in the film Delicious
 - "Sweet And Lovely" w.m. Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias & Jules Lemare
 - "Thanks To You" w. Grant Clarke m. Pete Wendling
 - "That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine" w.m. Jimmy Long & Gene Autry
 - "That's My Desire" w. Carroll Loveday m. Helmy Kresa
 - "This Is The Missus" w.m. Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
 - "The Thrill Is Gone" w.m. Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
 - "Till The Real Thing Comes Along" w.m. Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin & L. E. Freeman
 - "Twentieth Century Blues" w.m. Noël Coward
 - "Under the Bridges of Paris" w. (Fr) Jean Rodor, (Eng) Dorcas Cochran m. Vincent Scotto
 - "Underneath The Arches" w.m. Reg Connelly & Bud Flanagan
 - "Wabash Moon" w.m. Dave Dreyer & Morton Downey
 - "Was I?" w. Charles Farrell m. Chick Endor from the revue Ziegfeld Follies Of 1931
 - "Was That The Human Thing To Do?" w. Joe Young m. Sammy Fain
 - "We'll Be The Same" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
 - "Were You Sincere" w. Jack Meskill m. Vincent Rose
 - "When I Take My Sugar To Tea" w.m. Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal & Pierre Norman Connor
 - "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" w.m. Leon Rene, Otis Rene & Clarence Muse
 - "When The Bloom Is On The Sage" w.m. Nat Vincent & Fred Howard Wright
 - "When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain" w.m. Howard Johnson, Harry Woods & Kate Smith
 - "When Your Lover Has Gone" w.m. E. A. Swan
 - "When Yuba Plays The Rumba On The Tuba" w.m. Herman Hupfeld
 - "Where The Blue Of The Night" w.m. Roy Turk, Bing Crosby & Fred E. Ahlert
 - "Who Cares?" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by William Gaxton and Lois Moran in the musical Of Thee I Sing
 - "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" w. Ted Koehler & Billy Moll m. Harry Barris
 - "Yes, Yes, My Baby Said Yes, Yes" Cliff Friend, Con Conrad. Introduced by Eddie Cantor in the film Palmy Days
 - "You Are My Heart's Delight" w. Harry Graham m. Franz Lehár Music 1923
 - "You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)" w.m. Con Conrad, Gladys Du Bois, Russ Columbo & Paul Gregory
 - "You Can't Stop Me From Loving You" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols
 - "You Forgot Your Gloves" w. Edward Eliscu m. Ned Lehac. Introduced by Constance Carpenter and Carl Randall in the revue The Third Little Show
 - "You Rascal You" w.m. Sam Theard
 - "You Try Somebody Else" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
 - "You're Blasé" w. Bruce Sievier m. Ord Hamilton
 - "You're My Decline And Fall" George Posford
 - "You're My Everything" w. Mort Dixon & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
 - "Yours" (orig. "Quiéreme Mucho") w. (Eng) Jack Sherr (Sp) Augustin Rodriguez m. Gonzalo Roig
 
Top Popular Recordings
    
The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1931:[7]
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label | Recorded | Released | Chart Positions | 
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| 1 | Don Azpiazu and His Havana Casino Orchestra | "The Peanut Vendor" | Victor 22321 | February 10, 1930 | March 5, 1930 | US BS 1931 #1, US #1 for 7 weeks, 28 total weeks[8] | 
| 2 | Wayne King and His Orchestra | "Goodnight, Sweetheart" | Victor 22425 | May 12, 1930 | June 10, 1930 | US BS 1931 #2, US #1 for 7 weeks, 15 total weeks | 
| 3 | Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees | "You're Driving Me Crazy" | Columbia 2297D | September 10, 1930 | October 1930 | US BS 1931 #33, US #3 9 total weeks, 58,458 sales[9] | 
| 4 | Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra | "Mood Indigo" | Columbia 2297D | September 10, 1930 | October 1930 | US BS 1931 #30, US #3, 10 total weeks, 48,191 sales[10], Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975 | 
| 5 | Leo Reisman and His Orchestra | "Body and Soul" | Victor 22537 | October 10, 1930 | November 1930 | US BB 1930 #3, US #15 for 1 weeks, 2 total weeks, 45,098 sales | 
| 6 | Gus Arnheim Coconut Grove Orchestra (Vocal Donald Novis) | "Sweet And Lovely" | Victor 22770 | July 19, 1931 | August 1931 | US BS 1931 #3, US #1 for 6 weeks, 14 total weeks, 20,527 sales[11] | 
| 7 | Leo Reisman and His Orchestra | "Just a Gigolo" | Victor 22606 | January 5, 1931 | March 1931 | US BB 1930 #180, US #15 for 1 weeks, 2 total weeks, 39,618 sales | 
| 8 | Bud Billings (Frank Luther) and Carson Robison | "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver" | Victor 22588 | November 26, 1930 | January 23, 1931 | US BS 1931 #48, US #4 for 1 week, 12 total weeks, 38,805 sales | 
| 9 | Wayne King and His Orchestra | "The Waltz You Saved for Me" | Victor 22575 | November 7, 1930 | April 1931 | US BS 1931 #47, US #4 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 38,450 sales | 
| 10 | Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians | "Love For Sale" | Victor 22598 | December 24, 1930 | March 1931 | US BS 1931 #168, US #14 for 1 week, 2 total weeks, 34,465 sales | 
| 11 | Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees | "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" | Victor 22611 | January 13, 1931 | April 1931 | US BS 1931 #53, US #4 for 1 week, 7 total weeks, 32,716 sales | 
| 12 | Mills Brothers | "Tiger Rag" | Brunswick 6197 | October 9, 1931 | November 1931 | US BS 1931 #4, US #1 for 4 weeks, 13 total weeks | 
| 13 | Wayne King and His Orchestra | "Dream a Little Dream of Me" | Victor 22643 | February 18, 1931 | May 1931 | US BS 1931 #5, US #1 for 4 weeks, 12 total weeks, 30,755 sales[12], ASCAP song of 1930 | 
| 14 | Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians | "By the River St. Marie" | Columbia 2401D | February 10, 1931 | March 1931 | US BS 1931 #6, US #1 for 3 weeks, 11 total weeks | 
| 15 | Bing Crosby | "At Your Command" | Brunswick 6145 | June 24, 1931 | July 25, 1931 | US BS 1931 #7, US #1 for 3 weeks, 9 total weeks | 
| 16 | Bing Crosby | "Out of Nowhere" | Brunswick 6090 | March 30, 1931 | April 1931 | US BS 1931 #8, US #1 for 3 weeks, 8 total weeks | 
| 17 | Gus Arnheim Coconut Grove Orchestra v_Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby) | "The Little Things In Life" | Victor 22580 | November 25, 1930 | December 1930 | US BS 1931 #57, US #4 for 1 week, 5 total weeks, 29,066 sales | 
| 18 | Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians | "(There Ought to Be a) Moonlight Saving Time" | Columbia 2457D | April 29, 1931 | May 1931 | US BS 1931 #9, US #1 for 3 weeks, 8 total weeks | 
| 19 | Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees | "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba" | Victor 22742 | June 15, 1931 | August 1931 | US BS 1931 #26, US #2 for 1 week, 7 total weeks, 27,402 sales | 
| 20 | Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians | "Dancing in the Dark" | Victor 22708 | May 18, 1931 | July 1931 | US BS 1931 #28, US #3 for 1 week, 11 total weeks, 26,928 sales | 
| 21 | Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians | "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" | Victor 22707 | May 4, 1931 | June 1931 | US BS 1931 #10, US #1 for 3 weeks, 6 total weeks, 20,769 sales[13] | 
| 22 | Bing Crosby | "Just One More Chance" | Brunswick 6120 | May 4, 1931 | June 1931 | US BS 1931 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 19 total weeks | 
| 23 | Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians | "Goodnight, Sweet Heart" | Columbia 2457D | October 8, 1931 | November 1931 | US BS 1931 #12, US #1 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks | 
| 24 | Kate Smith | "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain" | Columbia 2516D | August 17, 1931 | September 1931 | US BS 1931 #14, US #1 for 2 weeks, 8 total weeks | 
| 25 | Isham Jones Orchestra | "Star Dust" | Brunswick 4856 | May 15, 1930 | September 1930 | US BS 1931 #15, US #1 for 1 week, 20 total weeks | 
Top Blues Recordings
    
- "Devil Got My Woman" – Skip James
 - "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues" – Skip James
 - "I'm So Glad" – Skip James
 - "Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head" – Lonnie Johnson
 - "Southern Can is Mine" – Blind Willie McTell
 - "Broke Down Engine Blues" – Blind Willie McTell
 - "Georgia Rag" – Blind Willie McTell
 
Classical music
    
- Jean Absil – Trio for violin, cello, and piano, op. 7
 - Joseph Achron – Quartet for Cello, Trumpet, Horn, and Piano, Golem
 - Jehan Alain –
 
- Dans le rêve laissé par la ballade des pendus de Villon, for piano
 - En dévissant mes chaussettes, for piano
 - Heureusement, la bonne fé sa marraine y mit bon ordre, for piano
 - Histoire dur des tapis, entre des murs blancs, for piano
 - Lumière qui tombe d'un vasistas, for piano
 - Mélodie-sandwich, for piano
 - Nocturne, for piano
 - Petite rhapsodie, for piano
 - Verset-choral, for piano
 - 26 septembre, 1931, for piano
 
- Karel Albert – Oedipus a Colonus, incidental music for the play by Sophocles
 - Franco Alfano –
 
- Due intermezzi, for strings
 - Vesuvius (Hic est illa Napolis), ballet, for orchestra
 
- Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsody No. 3 (Dalarapsodien), for orchestra, op. 47
 - Hendrik Andriessen –
 
- Hymnus "Te Joseph celebrent", for soprano, baritone, and organ
 - Missa pro defunctis, for three voices and organ
 - "O quam suavis est", for two voices and organ
 - Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano
 
- George Antheil – Six Little Pieces, for string quartet
 - Hans Erich Apostel – Fünf Lieder, for low voice and piano or orchestra, op. 3
 - Dina Appeldoorn – Zes kantoj
 - Blaž Arnič – Concerto for Organ and Percussion
 - Kurt Atterberg – Suite No. 8, for orchestra (Suite pastorale in modo antico), op. 34
 - Georges Auric –
 
- À nous la liberté (music for the film by René Clair),
 - La concurrence (ballet)
 - Le quatorze juillet (incidental music for the play by Romain Rolland)
 
- Radiogramma, for piano
 - Uchben X'coholte, for soprano and chamber orchestra
 
- Grażyna Bacewicz – Suite, for string orchestra
 - Henk Badings –
 
- Sextet, for alto voice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and piano
 - Sonata, for violin and piano [unnumbered, precedes Sonata No. 1]
 - String Quartet No. 1
 
- Dover Beach, for mezzo-soprano or baritone and string quartet, op. 3
 - Pieces for Carillon: Round, Allegro, Legend
 - The School for Scandal (overture), for orchestra, op. 5
 
- Duos (Forty-four), for two violins
 - Hungarian Sketches, for orchestra
 - Piano Concerto No. 2
 - Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra
 
- Marion Bauer – "Here at High Morning", for male chorus, op. 27
 - Arnold Bax
 
- Northern Ballad No. 1, for orchestra
 - Red Autumn, for piano duo
 - Symphony No. 4
 - The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew, for orchestra
 - Valse, for harp
 
- "Christ in the universe", for alto, tenor, four-part choir, and orchestra, or organ, op. 132
 - "Juni", for four-part choir and piano (also version for three-part female choir), op. 51, no. 3
 - Prelude, for violin, cello, and piano
 - Sea Fever and The Last Prayer, for four-part male choir and piano, op. 126, nos. 1 and 2
 - "When the last sea is sailed", for four-part male choir and piano, op. 127
 
- Concerto Grosso, for orchestra
 - Entrückung, for baritone and piano
 - Pan, for soprano and orchestra
 
- La poulette grise, for two children's choirs, trumpet, and two pianos
 - Sonata No.1, for violin and piano
 
- Concerto, for two trumpets and string orchestra
 - Concert Overture, for orchestra
 - Fünf Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers, for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, op. 3
 - Toccatas (two), for piano
 - Trio, for violin, viola, and cello
 - Zwei estnische Nationaltänze, for piano (later destroyed)
 
- Marc Blitzstein – Piano Concerto
 - Paul Bowles –
 
- In the Platinum Forest, for medium voice and piano
 - Sonata, for oboe and clarinet
 - Tamanar, for piano
 
- Luis de Freitas Branco – Lembrança, for four-part male choir
 - Havergal Brian –
 
- The Battle Song, symphonic poem, for brass band
 - Symphony No. 2 in E minor
 
- Frank Bridge – Phantasm, for piano and orchestra
 - Benjamin Britten –
 
- Christ’s Nativity, Christmas Suite, for SATB choir
 - Fugue in A major, for piano
 - Plymouth Town, ballet, for orchestra
 - Rhapsodies, for violin, viola, and piano
 - String Quartet in D
 - Tit for Tat , for voice and piano
 - Twelve Variations, for piano
 
- Fantasie, for organ, op. 32
 - Kleine Stücke, for piano, op. 31
 - Te Deum, for two-voice chorus, trumpet, trombone, timpani, and organ, op. 33
 - Vierundzwanzig Melodien aus den Hassler’schen Choralgesängen, for four-voice choir, op. 30
 
- John Alden Carpenter – Song of Faith, for SATB choir and orchestra
 - Julián Carrillo –
 
- Estudio (A media noche en oriental), for ¼-tone guitar
 - Estudios, for ⅓-tone arpa-citara
 - Preludios, for mictotonal arpa-citara
 - Sonata "Amanecer en Berlin 13", for ¼-tone arpa-citara
 - Symphony No. 3 "Colombia"
 
- Elliott Carter – Philoctetes (incidental music for the play by Sophocles), for tenor, baritone, male chorus, oboe, and percussion
 - Alfredo Casella –
 
- La donna serpente, Suite No. 1, op. 50 bis
 - La donna serpente, Suite No. 2, op. 50 ter
 
- Ballade des biens immeubles, for voice and piano, op. 68
 - Concerto "I profeti", for violin and orchestra, op. 66
 - The Lark, for violin and piano, op. 64
 - Mi–la, for piano
 - Film Studies (Two), for piano, op. 67
 
- Juan José Castro – Symphony No. 1
 - Abram Chasins – Parade, for orchestra
 - Francesco Cilea – Suite No. 2, for orchestra
 - Philip Greeley Clapp –
 
- A Highly Academic Diversion on Seven Notes, for orchestra
 - Symphony No. 9 in E♭ major (The Pioneers)
 
- Arnold Cooke – Passacaglia, Scherzo, and Finale, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartet
 - Aaron Copland – Miracle at Verdun, incidental music for the play by Hans Chlumberg, chamber orchestra
 - Henry Cowell –
 
- 479 [Gig], for piano
 - Competitive Sport, for piano
 - Heroic Dance, for ten instruments
 - "How Old Is Song?", for voice and piano
 - Rhythmicana, for rhythmicon and orchestra
 - Steel and Stone, original version, for piano?
 
- Jean Cras – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
 - Ruth Crawford Seeger – String Quartet
 - Nancy Dalberg – Tre danske Duetter, for voices
 - Georges Dandelot – Chansons de Bilitis, for voice and piano, second set
 - Johann Nepomuk David – Kleine Präludien und Fugen, in A minor and G major, for organ
 - Maurice Delage – Deux fables de Jean de La Fontaine, for voice, flute, oboe, two clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, piano, and string quartet
 - Frederick Delius –
 
- Fantastic Dance, for orchestra
 - Irmelin Prelude, for orchestra*Marcel Dupré –
 - Chorales (79), for organ, op. 28
 - Pieces (Seven), for organ, op. 27
 
- Ballade, for piano and chamber orchestra
 - Printemps, for piano
 
- George Dyson – The Canterbury Pilgrims (G. Chaucer), for soprano, tenor, baritone, choir, and orchestra
 - Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté –
 
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (revised version)
 - Grave funèbre, for violin and chamber orchestra
 
- Blasmusik No. 1, for wind orchestra
 - Blasmusik No. 2, for wind orchestra
 - Furchtlosigkeit und Wohlwollen, oratorio for tenor, mixed chorus, and orchestra
 - Musica per banda, for wind orchestra
 
- Lied der roten Flieger, for voice and small orchestra or piano
 - Das Lied vom vierten Mann, for voice and small orchestra or piano
 - Die Mutter, for choir and orchestra, op. 25
 - Songs (Four) from the film Niemandsland
 - Songs (Three) from the film Kuhle Wampe, oder Wem gehört die Welt?, op. 27
 - Songs (Three) from the film Das Lied vom Leben, op. 36
 - Streiklied, for voice and small orchestra or piano
 - Suite No. 2, for orchestra, (from the film Niemandsland), op. 24
 - Suite No. 3, for orchestra (from the film Kuhle Wampe), op. 26
 
- Edward Elgar – Soliloquy, for oboe and orchestra
 - Heino Eller –
 
- Elegy, for harp and string orchestra
 - String Quartet No. 2
 
- Ulvi Cemal Erkin – Beş damla, for piano
 - Ferenc Farkas –
 
- Alla danza ungherese, for orchestra
 - Canephorae, five pieces for piano or organ
 - Passacaglia, for organ
 - Pastorali, for voice and piano or chamber orchestra
 - Quaderno Romano, six pieces for piano
 - Sonatina No. 2, for violin and piano
 
- Samuel Feinberg – Piano Concerto No. 1
 - Jacobo Ficher – Sonata, for flute, viola, and piano, op. 18
 - Gerald Finzi – To Joy, for voice and piano, op. 13
 - Wolfgang Fortner –
 
- Grenzen der Menschheit, for baritone, five-part choir, and orchestra
 - Lied der Welt, for male choir
 
- Isadore Freed – String Quartet
 - Noël Gallon – Sonatine, for piano
 - Alejandro García Caturla –
 
- El caballo blanco, for four-part mixed choir
 - Rumba, for chamber orchestra
 - Suite cubana No. 1, for chamber orchestra (also chamber version for flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, and timpani)
 - Yamba-O, for orchestra
 
- Luiz Cosme –
 
- Acalanto, for soprano and piano
 - Aquela china, for voice and piano
 - Balada para os carreteiros, for baritone and piano
 - Mãe d'agua canta, for violin and piano, or for string quartet
 
- Roberto Gerhard – Sis cançons populars catalanes, for soprano or tenor and orchestra
 - George Gershwin – Second Rhapsody, for piano and orchestra
 - Vittorio Giannini –
 
- Madrigal, for four solo voice and string quartet
 - Quintet, for two violins, viola, cello, and piano
 - Suite, for orchestra
 - Trio, for violin, cello, and piano
 
- The Flooded Stream, for voice and piano
 - The Orchard Sings to the Child, for voice and piano
 - Padraic the Fidiler, for voice and piano, with violin ad libitum
 - Pieces (two), for clarinet and piano
 
- Alexander Glazunov – "Concerto ballata" in C major, for cello and orchestra, op. 108
 - Reinhold Glière – Comedians (ballet)
 - Radamés Gnattali –
 
- Para meu Rancho, for voice and piano
 - Poemas (Tres), for voice and piano
 - Rapsódia brasileira, for piano
 - Leopold Godowsky –
 - Capriccio, for piano left-hand
 - Etude (paraphrase of Adolf Henselt), in F♯ major, for piano, op. 2 no. 6
 
- Die Herde sucht (incidental music)
 - Zwei Betrachtungen (later retitled Letzte Kapitel), for speaker, chamber choir, piano, and percussion, op. 15
 
- Autumn Crocus (incidental music)
 - Songs (Two), op. 49
 - Songs (Four), op. 53
 
- Lisbon (Dublin Bay) (second setting)
 - Tribute to Foster
 
- Alexander Gretchaninov – Sonata, for piano, op. 129
 - Ferde Grofé –
 
- Grand Canyon Suite, for orchestra
 - Knute Rockne, symphonic poem, for orchestra
 
- Concerto No. 1, for piano and orchestra
 - Poemas de Macunaíma, for voice and orchestra
 - Sonata No. 1, for cello and piano
 - Trio, for violin, viola, and cello
 
- Fantazie No. 1, for nonet, op. 40
 - Toccata quasi una fantasia, for piano, op. 38
 
- Aurora Borealis, overture for orchestra
 - San Francisco, suite for orchestra, in C major, op. 121
 - Youth Triumphant, overture for band
 
- Johan Halvorsen – Danses norvégiennes Nos. 3–6, for violin and orchestra [originally with piano accompaniment, 1930]
 - Roy Harris –
 
- American Portrait (revised version)
 - Andantino, for orchestra
 - Concert Piece, for orchestra
 - Toccata, for orchestra
 
- Sonatina, for piano
 - Tanzsuite, for wind quintet
 
- Alfred Hill – Mass in E♭ major
 - Paul Hindemith –
 
- Duette, for two violins
 - Einige Klavierstücke, for piano
 - Fünf-und-Vierzig Stücke, for 1 and 2 violins
 - Konzertstück, for trautonium and strings
 - Musik zu einem abstrakten Fischinger-Film, for string trio
 - Musik zu einen Trickfilm, for piano
 - Reklamefilm Clermont de Fouet, for string trio
 - Spiel- und Hörschule
 - "Der Tod", for TTBB choir
 - Das Unaufhörliche (oratorio), for soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, mixed choir, children’s choir, orchestra, and organ
 
- Allegro affettuoso, for piano
 - Allegro sostenuto, for violin and piano
 - Chamber Music No. 1, for chamber orchestra
 - Choral Pieces, for children's chorus
 - Concerto for chamber orchestra
 - Concerto, for solo piano
 - Duets, for two recorders
 - Provinsen [The Provinces], for soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, choir, flute, oboe, violin, and cello
 - Requiem, for children's voices, children's chorus, and chamber orchestra
 
- Gustav Holst – Twelve Welsh Folk Songs, for choir, H183
 - Arthur Honegger – Cris du monde (oratorio), for solo voices, children's chorus, mixed chorus, and orchestra
 - Alan Hovhaness – Boreas and Mount Wildcat, for orchestra op. 2a
 - Mary Howe –
 
- Dirge, for orchestra
 - Der Einsame, for voice and piano
 - Liebeslied, for voice and piano
 - Mailied, for voice and piano
 - Schlaflied, for voice and piano
 - Suite mélancolique, for violin, cello, and piano
 - Whimsy, for piano
 
- "Delicates so dainty", unison voices and piano
 - "A Maid Peerless", for SSAA choir and orchestra
 - Severn, for SATB choir
 - "Sweet Content", for unison voices and piano
 - Three Folksongs, for voice and piano
 
- Les cinq gentlemen maudits, music for the film by J. Duvivier
 - S.O.S. Foch, music for the film by J. Arroy
 - Symphonie marine, for orchestra
 
- Chanson en forme de canon à l’octave, for soprano and baritone, op. 102
 - Chant de nourrice, for three equal voices, op. 103
 - Cinq chansons folkloriques et deux rigaudons à une voix, for voice and piano
 - Le forgeron, for three-part choir and string quartet, op. 104
 - String Quartet No. 4 (unfinished)
 - La vengeance du mari, soprano, two tenors, four-part choit, small wind band or piano, op. 105
 
- John Ireland – Songs Sacred and Profane, for voice and piano
 - Charles Ives – The Fourth of July, from A Symphony: New England Holidays (revised version)
 - Gordon Jacob –
 
- Passacaglia on a Well-Known Theme, for orchestra
 - Songs (Three), for soprano and clarinet
 
- Dorothy James – Symphonic Fragments (Three), for orchestra
 - André Jolivet –
 
- Études (Six), for piano
 - Mélodies sur des poésies anciennes (Quatre), for voice and piano or chamber orchestra
 - Prière des 13 hommes dans la mine, for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano
 - Rondels de François Villon (Trois), for voice and piano
 - Suite, for viola and piano
 
- Pièces en trio, for violin, cello, and piano, op. 95,
 - String Quartet No. 5, op. 95
 
- Manolis Kalomiris – I symphonia ton anidheon ke ton kalon anthropon [Symphony of Simple and Kind-Hearted People], for choir and orchestra
 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert –
 
- Music for Organ, op. 145
 - Passacaglia and Fugue on BACH, op. 150
 - Sempre semplice, for organ, op. 142, no. 2
 
- Albert Ketèlbey – In the Mystic Land of Egypt
 - Aram Khachaturian – Double Fugue, for string quartet
 - Uuno Klami –
 
- Hommage à Haendel, for orchestra
 - Kohtauksia nukketeatterista [Scenes from a Puppet Theatre], for orchestra
 - Rag-Time and Blues, for two violins, clarinet, trumpet, and piano
 - Tsheremissiläinen fantasia [Cheremis Fantasia], for cello and orchestra
 
- Lev Knipper – Negrityonok Sėbi [Little Negro Sebi], ballet for orchestra, op. 24
 - Zoltán Kodály –
 
- Mátrai képek, for mixed choir
 - Nagyszalontai köszöntő, for mixed choir or treble choir
 - Prelude, for organ
 
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, op. 25
 - Charles Koechlin –
 
- Chorals (22), op. 117
 - Chorals dans les modes du moyen-âge (Cinq), for orchestra, op. 117bis
 
- Bagatelles (Four), for piano four-hands, op. 70
 - Durch die Nacht, song cycle, for soprano and orchestra, op. 67a
 - Die Nachtigall, concert aria, for coloratura soprano and orchestra, op. 68a
 - Gesänge des späten Jahres, for voice and piano, op. 71
 - Theme and Thirteen Variations, for orchestra, op. 69
 
- Paul Ladmirault – En Fôret
 - László Lajtha – Concerto, for violin and orchestra, op. 15
 - Constant Lambert –
 
- Concerto for Piano & 9 Instruments
 - Salome (incidental music for the play by Oscar Wilde), for clarinet, trumpet, cello, and percussion
 
- Lars-Erik Larsson – Duo, for violin and viola, op. 6
 - Marc Lavry – Jewish Suite, for string quartet
 - Jón Leifs –
 
- Íslendingaljóð [Poems of Icelanders], for male choir, op. 15a
 - Íslenskir söngdansar [Icelandic Dance-Songs], for voices with ad lib instrumental accompaniment, op. 17a
 - Ný rímnadanslög [New Icelandic Dances], for piano, op. 14b
 - Preludes (Three), for organ, op. 16
 - Sjávarvísur [Ocean Verses], for male choir, op. 15b
 
- George Frederick McKay – Trio, for violin, cello, and piano
 - Alexander Mackenzie – Partsongs (Two), for four-part mixed choir and piano, op. 92
 - Elizabeth Maconchy –
 
- A Hymn to Christ, A Hymn to God the Father, for double choir
 - The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo, for choir and orchestra
 - The Willow Plate (dramatic work in three parts, unfinished)
 
- Concerti, for orchestra
 - Epitaffio, for piano
 - String Quartet No. 3 "Cantari alla madrigalesca"
 
- Igor Markevitch – Serenade for Three Instruments
 - Frank Martin – La nique à Satan (spectacle populaire), for baritone, children's choir, female choir, male choir, wind instruments, 2 pianos, percussion, and contrabass
 - Bohuslav Martinů –
 
- Borova, for oboe, clarinet, trumpet, piano, and strings
 - Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
 - Doux esquisses, for piano
 - Jeux, for piano
 - Partita (Suite No. 1), for string orchestra
 - Sept études rhythmiques, for violin and piano
 - Seven Arabesques, for violin and piano
 - Slavnostní ouvertura k sokolskému sletu, for orchestra
 - Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano
 - "Staročeská říkadla", for women's choir
 - Untitled Pieces (four), for piano
 
- Leichte Klavierstücke (Zwei), in B♯ major and A minor, for piano
 - Sonata minacciosa in F minor, for piano, op. 53, no. 2
 
- Festliches Präludium, for organ
 - Höstkvällen, for voice and piano, op. 170, no. 2
 - Hvarje årstid, for voice and piano, op. 171
 - Långt från land, for voice and piano
 - Lohdutus [Consolation], for chamber orchestra, op. 168
 - Muistathan [Do you remember?], for voice and piano (composed under the pseudonym Eero Mela)
 - Runebergsånger, for voice and piano, op. 172
 - Sånger till ord av Jarl Hemmer, for voice and piano, op. 162
 - Sonata, for flute and harp, op. 135b
 - Sonatina No. 2, for piano, op. 135a
 - Törnet, for voice and piano, op. 170, no. 3
 
- L’ensorceleuse, cantata for soprano, tenor, bass, and piano or orchestra
 - Fugue sur un sujet de Georges Hüe, for four unspecified instruments
 - Le tombeau resplendissant, for orchestra
 
- Darius Milhaud – Sonata for organ, op. 112
 - Ernest John Moeran –
 
- Suffolk Folksongs (Six), for voice and piano
 - Trio, for violin, viola, and cello
 - Whythorne's Shadow, for orchestra
 
- Federico Mompou – Comptines I–III, for voice and piano
 - Carl Nielsen –
 
- Allegretto, in F ,major, for two recorders
 - Commotio, for organ, op. 50
 - "Det som lysner over vangen", for voice and piano
 - Klaverstykke, for piano
 - "Kvadet om Nordens harpe", for TTBB choir
 - Ligbraendings–Kantate, for choir and orchestra
 - Paaske-aften (incidental music)
 
- Gösta Nystroem – Sinfonia breve (Symphony No. 1)
 - Carl Orff –
 
- Cantata (Werkbuch II), for choir, piano, and percussion
 - Catulli Carmina II, for choir
 
- Leo Ornstein – Preludes (Six), for cello and piano
 - Paul Paray – Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
 - Harry Partch –
 
- "By the Waters of Babylon", for voice and adapted viola
 - Potion Scene from Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), for voice and adapted viola
 
- Suite for Emperor and Galilean by Henrik Ibsen, for orchestra
 - Pieces (Three), for orchestra
 - Sonata, for vioin and piano
 
- Danslek ur Ran [Dance Game from Ran], for choir a capella or choir and piano
 - Jämtlandssången [Song of Jämtland], for unison choir and piano
 
- Lieder (Sechs), for voice and piano, op. 40
 - Sonette (Drei), op. 41
 
- Willem Pijper – Sonata, for unaccompanied violin
 - Mario Pilati –
 
- Canzoni popolari italiane (Quattro), for small orchestra
 - String Quartet in A major
 
- Walter Piston – Suite, for oboe and piano
 - Ildebrando Pizzetti – Introduzione all’Agamennone, for choir and orchestra
 - Quincy Porter –
 
- Songs for Helen on Nursery Rhymes (Twelve), for voice and piano
 - String Quartet No. 4
 
- Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob, for voice and piano
 - Concertino, for piano four hands
 - Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, for voice and piano
 - Sonata for Violin and Piano
 - Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne, for voice and piano
 
- Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 4, for left hand, written for Paul Wittgenstein
 - Sergei Rachmaninoff –
 
- Sonata no. 2, for piano, in B♭ minor, op. 36 (revised version)
 - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, for piano, op. 42
 
- Antiche danze ed arie per liuto, Suite No. 3, for string quartet
 - Belkis, regina di Saba (ballet), for orchestra
 - Maria egiziaca (trittico da concerto), for voices and orchestra
 
- Silvestre Revueltas –
 - Duo para pato y canario, for voice and small orchestra
 - Esquinas, for orchestra with soprano voice
 - "Ranas", for voice and piano
 - "El tecolote", for voice and piano
 - String Quartet No. 2
 - String Quartet No. 3
 - Ventanas, for orchestra
 - Wallingford Riegger –
 
- Canons for Woodwinds (Three), for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, op. 9
 - Fantasy and Fugue, for orchestra and organ, op. 10
 
- Preludes (Three), for piano
 - Serenata, for violin and eleven instruments or chamber orchestra
 - Symphony No. 2
 
- Joaquín Rodrigo – Serenata española, for piano
 - Amadeo Roldán –
 
- Tres toques, for orchestra
 - Curujey, son for choir, two pianos, and two percussionists
 
- Guy Ropartz – L'indiscret, ballet, for orchestra
 - Hilding Rosenberg –
 
- Female Choruses (Two)
 - Medea, incidental music for the play by Euripides
 - Song of Mourning and Pastoral (from the incidental music for Medea), female choir and piano
 
- A Flower Given to my Daughter, for voice and piano
 - Idylles (Deux), for voice and piano, op. 44
 - Sonata No. 1, for violin and piano, in D minor, op. 11 (revised version)
 
- Carl Ruggles – Sun-Treader, for orchestra
 - Harald Sæverud –
 
- Suite, for piano, op. 6
 - Variazioni piccole (50), for orchestra, op. 8
 
- Andrés Sas –
 
- Aire de siembra, for orchestra
 - Canciones románticas peruanas, for voice and piano, no. 1: "Arrullo de muñeca", op. 17, no. 1
 - Canciones simbólicas (Tres), for voice and piano, op. 14
 - Kcachampa, for orchestra
 - Prelude, for string quartet, op. 15
 - Suite peruana, for piano, op. 16
 
- Divertissement de chambre, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola, and piano
 - Polymètres, for voice and piano
 
- Franz Schmidt – Variationen über ein Husarenlied, for orchestra
 - Florent Schmitt –
 
- Choeurs (six), for four-part women’s choir, a capella or with orchestra, op. 81
 - Symphonie concertante, for piano and orchestra, op. 82
 
- Othmar Schoeck – Sonata in E major, for violin and piano, op. 46
 - Arnold Schoenberg –
 
- Four-part Mirror Canon
 - Klavierstück, op. 33b
 - Mirror Canon, for string quartet
 - Two-part Mirror Canon for Herrmann Abraham "Spiegle Dich im Werk"
 
- Erwin Schulhoff – Suite dansante en jazz, for piano
 - Cyril Scott –
 
- Concerto, for cello and orchestra
 - Trio No. 1, for violin, viola, and cello
 - Trio No. 2, for violin, viola, and cello
 
- Roger Sessions – Waltzes, for orchestra (lost)
 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji –
 
- Movement for Voice and Piano
 - Piano Symphony No. 0
 
- Vissarion Shebalin – Lenin, dramatic symphony for narrator, four vocal soloists, choir, and orchestra, op. 16
 - Nikos Skalkottas –
 
- "O ti thel ē mana sou?" [Oh What Does Your Mother Want?], for voice and piano
 - Octet, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, two violins, viola, and cello
 - Piano Concerto No. 1
 
- Richard Strauss – Kampf und Sieg, for orchestra
 - Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto in D
 - Josef Suk – Mass in B♭ major, for SATB choir, strings, organ, and timpani (revised version)
 - Karol Szymanowski – Harnasie (ballet-pantomime), op. 55
 - Alexandre Tansman –
 
- Concertino, for piano and orchestra, 1931;
 - Danses polonaises (quatre), for orchestra
 - Symphony no. 3 (Symphonie concertante), for violin, viola, cello, piano, and orchestra
 
- La belle en dormant, for voice and piano
 - Chamber Music, for voice and piano
 - Serenade, for flute and violin
 - Stabat mater, for soprano and string quartet
 - String Quartet No. 1
 - Symphony No. 2
 
- Randall Thompson – Symphony No. 2 in E minor
 - Michael Tippett – Symphonic Movement, for orchestra
 - Henri Tomasi –
 
- Capriccio, for violin and orchestra
 - Chansons des sables, for voice and orchestra [from Tam-tam]
 - Chants de Cyrnos, for voice and orchestra or piano
 - Fantoches, for piano
 - Tam-tam, symphonic poem, for orchestra
 
- Eduard Tubin – Süit eesti motiividel [Suite on Estoninian Motifs], for orchestra
 - Joaquín Turina –
 
- El castillo de Almodóvar, for piano (also orchestrated), op. 65
 - El circo, for piano, op. 68
 - Jardín de niños, for piano, op. 63
 - Pieza romántica, for piano, op. 64
 - Quartet, for violin, viola, cello, and piano, op. 67
 - Radio Madrid, for piano, op. 62,
 - Rapsodia sinfónica, for piano and strings op. 66
 - Sonata for Guitar, op. 61
 
- Geirr Tveitt – Prillar, for orchestra
 - Edgard Varèse – Ionisation
 - Ralph Vaughan Williams –
 
- Abinger (I Vow to Thee My Country)
 - Mantegna (Into the Woods My Master Went)
 - Marathon (Servants of the Great Adventure)
 - Piano Concerto in C major
 - White Gates (Fierce Raged the Tempest)
 
- La ballade du désespéré, for soprano and orchestra, op. 61
 - Triptyque, for organ, op. 58,
 
- Caixinha de música quebrada, for piano
 - String Quartet No. 5 (Quarteto brasileiro no. 1)
 
- John Vincent – A Folk Song Symphony, for orchestra
 - William Walton –
 
- Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio)
 - "Make we joy in this fest" (traditional carol), set for SATB choir
 
- Kurt Weill – Mann ist Mann, incidental music to the play by Bertolt Brecht
 - Jaromir Weinberger –
 
- Ouverture zu einem ritterlichen Spiel, for orchestra
 - Passacaglia, for orchestra with organ
 
- Mitte des Lebens, for soprano, choir, and orchestra, op. 45
 - Piano Concerto, op. 49
 
- Ballade, for violin, oboe, and string orchestra
 - Feminine Conversations and Promenade of Respectable People, for piano
 - Prelude and Fugue, for string quartet
 - Scherzo burlesque, for piano and orchestra
 - Sextet, for woodwinds and piano
 - String Quartet No. 1
 
- Lieder (Acht), for voice and piano
 - Die Mausefalle, incidental music for the play by Gustav von Wangenheim, for instrumental ensemble
 
- Deux études de concert, for two pianos tuned in quarter tones, op. 19
 - Etude en forme de scherzo, for two pianos tuned in quarter tones, op. 20
 
- Riccardo Zandonai – Quadri di Segantini, for orchestra
 
Opera
    
- Paul Abraham – Die Blume von Hawaii (operetta), staged 24 July, in Leipzig, Neues Theater
 - George Antheil – Helen Retires (not performed until 1934)
 - Arthur Benjamin – The Devil Take Her, staged 1 December, London, Royal College of Music
 - Alfredo Casella – La donna serpente, op. 50 (not performed until 1932)
 - Gustave Charpentier – Orphée (unfinished)
 - Werner Egk – Der Löwe und die Maus (children's opera)
 - George Enescu – Œdipe, op. 23 (not performed until 1936)
 - Walter Goehr – Malpopita (written for radio broadcast; first live performance 2004)
 - Louis Gruenberg –
 
- The Emperor Jones, op. 36 (not staged until 1933)
 - Jack and the Beanstalk, op. 35, staged 20 November, Juilliard School, New York
 
- Jesús Guridi – La cautiva, staged 10 February, Calderón Theater, Madrid
 - Arthur Honegger – La belle de Moudon (operetta), staged 30 May, in Mézières, Théâtre du Jorat (Switzerland)
 - Jacques Ibert – Gonzague, staged 17 December, Monte Carlo
 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Zhenit′ba [The Marriage], op. 70, staged 18 October at the Radio Theatre, Moscow [first of the four acts is by Musorgsky]
 - Lev Knipper – Goroda i godï [Cities and Years], op. 22
 - Eduard Künneke – Nadja, op. 28, performed in Kassel
 - Gian Francesco Malipiero –
 
- Torneo notturno, staged 15 May at the Nationaltheater in Munich
 - I trionfi d’amore, triptych (unperformed except for the second opera, Mascherati, not staged until 1954)
 
- Italo Montemezzi – La notte di Zoraima, staged 31 January, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
 - Hans Pfitzner – Das Herz, op. 39, staged 12 November, simultaneously in Berlin and Munich
 - Jean Roger-Ducasse – Cantegril, staged 9 February at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart), Paris
 - Germaine Tailleferre – Zoulaina (never performed)
 - Deems Taylor – Peter Ibbetson, op. 20, staged 7 February, Metropolitan Opera, New York
 - Gabriel von Wayditch – Horus (not staged until 1939)
 - Egon Wellesz – Die Bakchantinnen, staged 20 June, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
 - Jaromir Weinberger – Milovaný hlas [Die geliebte Stimme], staged 28 February, Munich
 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – La vedova scaltra, staged 5 March, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome
 - Eugène Ysaÿe – Piére li houïeu [Peter the Miner], staged 4 March in Liège
 
Film
    
    
Musical theater
    
- America's Sweetheart Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 10 and ran for 135 performances.
 - The Band Wagon Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 3 and ran for 260 performances
 - Bitter Sweet (Noël Coward) – London revival
 - The Cat and the Fiddle Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 15 and ran for 395 performances
 - Cavalcade (Noël Coward) – London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on October 13 and ran for 405 performances
 - Die Dubarry Berlin production opened on August 14
 - Folly To Be Wise London revue opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on January 8. Starring Cicely Courtneidge.
 - Here Goes the Bride Broadway production opened at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre on November 3 and ran for 7 performances.
 - Hold My Hand (Music: Noel Gay Lyrics: Desmond Carter Book: Stanley Lupino) London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on December 23. Starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Stanley Lupino.
 - The Land of Smiles (Franz Lehár) – London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on May 8
 - The Laugh Parade Broadway revue opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 2 and ran for 231 performances
 - Of Thee I Sing Broadway production, opened December 26 and ran for 441 performances.
 - The Third Little Show Broadway production opened at the Music Box Theatre on June 1 and ran for 136 performances
 - Victoria and Her Hussar London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 17 and ran for 100 performances
 - White Horse Inn London production opened at the Coliseum Theatre on April 8 and ran for 651 performances
 - Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 Broadway revue opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on July 1 and ran for 165 performances.
 
Musical films
    
- Alam Ara, starring Master Vithal and Zubeida, with music by Ferozshah M. Mistri and B. Irani[14]
 - A Caprice of Pompadour (Un caprice de la Pompadour), starring André Baugé[15]
 - Autumn Roses (Rosas de otoño), starring Francisco Canaro, with music by Guillermo Barbieri and José Rial[16]
 - Children of Dreams starring Margaret Schilling, Paul Gregory and Tom Patricola
 - City of Song, starring Jan Kiepura, with music by Paul Abraham, Philip Braham and Ernesto Tagliaferri[17]
 - The Cuban Love Song starring Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Vélez, Jimmy Durante and Louise Fazenda
 - Delicious starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and El Brendl.
 - Die Fledermaus, starring Anny Ondra, Georg Alexander and Oskar Sima, with music by Johann Strauss II.[18]
 - Her Majesty, Love starring Marilyn Miller
 - The Hot Heiress starring Ben Lyon and Ona Munson
 - Huwen op Bevel
 - Kiss Me Again starring Bernice Claire and Edward Everett Horton
 - Madame Pompadour (Die Marquise von Pompadour), starring Anny Ahlers, Kurt Gerron and Walter Jankuhn, with music by Eduard Künneke, Rudolf Nelson and Robert Stolz[19]
 - Le Million starring Annabella and René Lefèvre
 - Palmy Days starring Eddie Cantor and Charlotte Greenwood
 - Pardon Us starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Directed by James Parrott.
 - The Prodigal starring Lawrence Tibbett
 - Sally in Our Alley starring Gracie Fields
 - Showgirl's Luck starring Susan Denis, Arthur Tauchert, Arthur Clarke and Fred Bluett
 - The Private Secretary (Die Privatsekretärin), starring Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig and Felix Bressart, with music by Paul Abraham and Lajos Lajtai[20]
 - The Smiling Lieutenant starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins
 - Sunshine Susie starring Renate Müller and Jack Hulbert
 
Births
    
- January 5 – Alfred Brendel, pianist
 - January 8 – Bill Graham, rock music entrepreneur (died 1991)
 - January 12 – Roland Alphonso, saxophonist (died 1998)
 - January 14 – Caterina Valente, multilingual singer
 - January 21 – Rudi Maugeri, pop singer (The Crew-Cuts) (died 2004)
 - January 22 – Sam Cooke, singer (died 1964)
 - January 26 – Kaare Ørnung, Norwegian pianist, music teacher (died 2013)[21]
 - January 29 – Leslie Bricusse, film and stage composer and lyricist (died 2021)
 - February 12 – Walt Groller, accordionist and polka musician
 - February 14 – Phyllis McGuire, vocalist (The McGuire Sisters) (died 2020)
 - March 5 – Barry Tuckwell, horn player (died 2020)
 - March 15 – D. J. Fontana, drummer (died 2018)
 - March 25
- Vytautas Barkauskas, composer (died 2020)
 - Humphrey Burton, television music and arts presenter
 - Paul Motian, jazz drummer (died 2011)
 
 - April 29 – Lonnie Donegan, skiffle musician (died 2002)
 - May 4 – Ed Cassidy, drummer (Spirit) (died 2012)
 - May 7 – Teresa Brewer, singer (died 2007)
 - May 14 
- Aloys Kontarsky, pianist (died 2017)
 - Alvin Lucier, composer
 
 - May 19 – Éric Tappy, Swiss tenor[22]
 - June 10 – João Gilberto, bossa nova musician (died 2019)
 - June 11
- Margarita Pracatan, Cuban-born novelty singer (died 2020)
 - Audrey Schuh, American soprano
 
 - June 17 – Dominic Frontiere, accordionist and composer (died 2017)
 - July 6 – Della Reese, actress and singer (died 2017)
 - July 10 – Jerry Herman, American musical theater composer and lyricist (died 2019)
 - July 11 – Tab Hunter, actor and singer (died 2018)
 - July 18 – Papa Dee Allen, funk musician (War) (died 1988)
 - July 21 – Plas Johnson, American saxophonist (B. Bumble and the Stingers and The Wrecking Crew)
 - July 31
- Kenny Burrell, jazz guitarist
 - Morey Carr (The Playmates) (died 1987)
 
 - August 28
- John Perkins (The Crew-Cuts)
 - John Shirley-Quirk, operatic bass-baritone (died 2014)
 
 - September 1
- Richard Hundley, American pianist, composer (died 2018)
 - Javier Solís, Mexican ranchera & bolero singer (died 1966)
 
 - September 12 – George Jones, country singer (died 2013)
 - September 19 – Brook Benton, singer and songwriter (died 1988)
 - September 22 – George Chambers (The Chambers Brothers) (died 2019)
 - September 24 – Anthony Newley, English songwriter, actor and singer (died 1999)
 - October 1 – Alan Wagner, American opera critic (died 2007)
 - October 15 – Freddy Cole, jazz singer and pianist (died 2020)
 - October 24 – Sofia Gubaidulina, composer
 - November 2 – Phil Woods, jazz saxophonist (died 2015)
 - November 5 – Ike Turner, musician and record producer (died 2007)
 - November 16 
- Bob Gibson, folk musician (died 1996)
 - Hubert Sumlin, blues guitarist (died 2011)
 
 - December 21 – David Baker, American composer and educator (died 2016)
 - December 24
- Ray Bryant, jazz pianist (died 2011)
 - Mauricio Kagel, composer (died 2008)
 
 - December 27 – Scotty Moore, guitarist (died 2016)
 - December 30 – Skeeter Davis, country singer (died 2004)
 
Deaths
    
- January 5 – Colonel Charles Gerard Conn, instrument manufacturer (born 1884)
 - January 21 – Felix Blumenfeld, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1863)
 - January 23 – Anna Pavlova, ballerina (born 1881)[23]
 - February 16 – Dirk Schäfer, pianist and composer (born 1873)
 - February 23
- Mario Ancona, bel canto baritone (born 1860)
 - Dame Nellie Melba, operatic soprano (born 1861)
 
 - March 25 – Tomasz Bartkiewcz, organist and composer (born 1865)
 - April 4 – George Whitefield Chadwick, composer (born 1854)
 - May 8 – Bertha Lewis, singer and actress with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (born 1887) (car accident)
 - May 12 – Eugène Ysaÿe, violinist and composer (born 1858)
 - May 13 – Josif Marinković, composer (born 1851)
 - June 18 – Fanny Holland, singer and actress (born 1847)
 - June 21 – Jimmy Blythe, jazz pianist (born 1901)
 - July 2 – Charles Quef, organist and composer (born 1873)
 - July 4 – Buddy Petit, jazz cornet player (born c. 1890)
 - July 23 – William Wolstenholme, organist and composer (born 1865)
 - August 6 – Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician (born 1903)
 - August 11 – Linda Loredo, dancer (born 1907)
 - August 22 – Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (born 1857)
 - August 26 – Heinrich Grünfeld, cellist (born 1855)
 - August 28 – Jane Green singer (born 1897)
 - September 3 – Franz Schalk, conductor (born 1863)
 - September 6 – Juliana Walanika, the "Hawaiian Nightingale", court singer (born 1846)
 - September 10 – Alfonso Rendano, pianist, inventor of the "third pedal" (born 1853)[24]
 - September 20 – Ugo Falena, opera librettist (born 1875)
 - September 23
- Harry Macdonough, pioneer recording artist (born 1871)
 - Adolf Weidig, composer (born 1867)
 
 - October 3 – Carl Nielsen, composer (born 1865)
 - October 8 – Luigi von Kunits, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1870)
 - October 18 – Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph (born 1847)
 - October 20 – Emánuel Moór, pianist, composer and inventor of the Duplex-Coupler Grand Pianoforte (born 1863)
 - October 21 – Barbecue Bob, blues musician (born 1902)
 - October 29 – Luciano Gallet, composer (born 1893)
 - November 4 – Buddy Bolden, jazz musician (born 1877)
 - November 17 – Georgi Atanasov, composer (born 1882)
 - November 19 – Frederic Cliffe, composer (born 1857)
 - November 23 – Leonora Braham, operatic soprano and actress (Gilbert & Sullivan) (born 1853)
 - December 2 – Vincent d'Indy, composer (born 1851)
 
References
    
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 - Journal – Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Association for Recorded Sound Collections. 1981. p. 21.
 - Anon., "Contemporary Music: Festival in England This Year", The Times, issue 45735 (Saturday, 31 January 1931): 10C.
 - Anon., "Indian Music: Inauguration of Circle in Bombay", The Times of India (Thursday, 22 October 1931): 7.
 - Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1959. p. 1758.
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