A Map of the World (album)

A Map of the World
A Map of the World
Soundtrack album by Pat Metheny
Released	November 9, 1999
Recorded	February 1999
Studio	Right Track, New York City
Genre	Jazz fusion, folk jazz
Length	66:26
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Pat Metheny, Steve Rodby
Pat Metheny chronology

Last updated November 18, 2025

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

A Map of the World is a 1999 album by Pat Metheny. It is the soundtrack of the movie A Map of the World released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver. The movie was based on the novel A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton.

Track listing

All music composed and arranged by Pat Metheny

No.	Title	Length
1.	"A Map of the World"	5:38
2.	"Family"	2:09
3.	"North"	4:19
4.	"Home"	0:42
5.	"Sisters"	4:08
6.	"Childhood"	1:26
7.	"Fall from Grace"	2:37
8.	"Memory"	0:55
9.	"Gone"	6:31
10.	"Flight"	0:54
11.	"Alone"	1:22
12.	"Outcasts"	1:30
13.	"Sunday"	1:38
14.	"Discovery"	2:34
15.	"Acceptance"	1:15
16.	"Realization"	1:23
17.	"Soliloquy"	2:52
18.	"Night"	2:00
19.	"Sunrise"	0:51
20.	"Resolution"	3:46
21.	"Pictures"	0:21
22.	"Patience"	1:22
23.	"Transition"	0:52
24.	"Reunion"	1:17
25.	"Renewal"	1:53
26.	"Homecoming"	3:25
27.	"Forgiving"	4:36
28.	"Holding Us"	4:09

Personnel

Pat Metheny – acoustic guitars, piano, keyboards
Gil Goldstein – orchestrator, conductor, organ
Steve Rodby – acoustic bass
Dave Samuels – percussion

Orchestra

Virgil Blackwell – bass clarinet
Richard Locker – cello (as leader)
John Moses, Paul Garment, Steven Hartman – clarinet
William Blount – clarinet (as leader)
John Feeney – double bass (basses, as leader)
Brian Cassier, Jay Elfenbein, John Kulowitsch, Lewis Paer – double bass (basses)
Melanie Feld – English horn
Sheryl Henze – flute
Elizabeth Mann – flute (as leader)
Victoria Drake – harp
Sara Cutler – harp (as leader)
Robert Carlisle, David Wakefield, Joseph Anderer, Scott Temple – horns
Stewart Rose – horns (as leader)
Gordon Gottlieb – percussion (orchestral, as leader)
Barry Centanni, Maya Gunji – percussion (orchestral)
Alexander Rees, Ann Roggen, David Cerutti, Jill Jaffe, Liuh-Wen Ting, Lois Martin, Nicole Brockman, Ronald Lawrence, Ronald Carbone – viola
Louise Schulman – viola (as leader)
Anca Nicolau, Bruno Eicher, Curtis Macomber, Fritz Krakowski, Gregor Kitzis, Karl Kawahara, Krista Bennion Feeney, Mara Milkis, Marilyn Reynolds, Masako Yanagita, Mayuki Fukuhara, Mineko Yajima, Mitsuru Tsubota, Natasha Lipkina, Rebecca Muir, Rob Shaw, Robin Bushman, Sara Schwartz – violin
Eriko Sato – violin, concertmaster

Production

Produced by Pat Metheny and Steve Rodby
Recorded and mixed by Rob Eaton
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York City, USA

External links

Information site on the official page of Pat Metheny

References

↑ Phares, Heather. Pat Metheny: a Map of the World > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 995. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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[1] Phares, Heather. Pat Metheny: a Map of the World > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 22, 2011.

[2] Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 995. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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