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], Shooting Stars [Poul Ruders], Yassemi [Faidros Kavallaris / Thomas Chilcot], Dumia [Naji Hakim], Fragments distincts, fouillis d'instants [Jean Marc Singier], Carousel [Sylvie Bodorova], Yellow Bean Leaves [Julian Yu], The Anglo Tango [Rodney Sharman], Zortziko [Ramon Lazkano], Drymla [Haflidi Hallgrimsson], Wrist Rock [Kevin Volans]