Timothy Buckley

The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. The run opens with Once I Was and closes with Song to the Siren. The 1960s are the densest part of the run, with 2 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. They belong to a run of 80 titles in all, from 1967 to 1970.

77 further compositions are catalogued under Buckley's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. She Is. The Earth Is Broken. I Had a Talk With My Woman. It Happens Every Time. I Must Have Been Blind.

These are published sound issues catalogued under the name. Most postdate the works they carry, and an issue is never counted here as a work of composition. 22 issues carry dates between 1966 and 2009. The run opens with Tim Buckley and closes with Live at the Folklore Center 1967. The 1970s are the densest part of the run, with 6 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. They belong to a run of 24 titles in all, from 1966 to 2009.

2 further issues are catalogued under Buckley's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. Venice Mating Call.

The discography assembled here shows how Buckley's work has been published in sound, not what Buckley made. 39 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1966 to 2021. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. 12 issues were published within the subject's lifetime and 27 after 1975, so the greater part of this record is the work of later performers, editors and labels. The 2010s are the densest decade of publication, with 9 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.

An authority file is a statement of identity, not a source of facts: it tells a reader that the Buckley named here is the same person the register catalogues, and it is what allows the material above to be gathered under one heading rather than several.