Music by Caitlin Rowley
Caitlin Rowley has been writing music since the late 1980s. Her work encompasses solo instrument, chamber, vocal, choral, orchestral and film music. Her style is, generally, tonal, influenced by the music of early 20th-century composers such as Erik Satie and Igor Stravinsky, and the minimalist composers of our own time.
Works are arranged on this page by genre, for ease of scanning. Click through from a work's entry to read more about it, hear an excerpt or download the score. If you have any questions or wish to discuss a commission with me, please email me.
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Egg the Eleventh: An Odd Fugue for Francis Western-Smith |
2012: solo piano Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
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Egg the Tenth: A Whitman Interlude |
2010: solo piano or harpsichord A short piece which started out as an interlude for the set of Whitman songs but soon took on a life of its own.. |
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2 by 4 |
2006-7: solo piano or harpsichord A set of four two-part inventions comprising Egg the Sixth, Egg the Seventh: Variation-waltz, Egg the Eighth, and Egg the Ninth. |
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Egg the Fifth |
2004: solo piano |
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catharsis |
2000: solo piano |
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Pieces of eight: A frivolity in eight parts |
1999: solo piano Also exists in two chamber ensemble versions. |
Read notes and listen to Pieces of eight in its piano version. |
Shimmer |
1998: solo piano Also exists in a version for piano and percussion (1 player) Piano version recorded by Jeanell Carrigan in 2000 for Vox Australis and available as Hammered (Australian Post-1970 Piano Music, Vol. 3) VAST027-2 through the Australian Music Centre. |
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haiku I |
1994, rev. 1998: prepared piano Used as the score for Simone O'Callaghan's online video project Fetisssh. |
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The Four-Egg Omelette |
1994: solo piano |
Read notes and listen to excerpts from The Four-Egg Omelette |
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Knots & Mirrors |
2012: brass quintet A fanfare. |
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Solitary Fanfare |
2012: trombone Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
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A Tiny Tango |
2012: 6-string bass guitar Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
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Triptych for One |
2012: treble recorder Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
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I Want It To Kill People |
2012: slide guitar and tape (graphic score) Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
Listen to I Want It To Kill People and read more about Lucky Dip |
Flit |
2012: flute or oboe Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
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Nest |
2012: oboe, flute or piccolo Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
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Diabolus |
2011: unaccompanied violin. For Conway Kuo, a one-minute violin solo featuring the interval of the tritone | |
Thickets |
2010: string quintet. Performed in 2011 at the CoMA Midwinter Late Starters String School, Durham, UK. | |
Deconstruct: Point, line, plane |
2010: flexible instrumentation quintet, piano. Performed in 2010 as part of the 13th London New Wind Festival | |
Chanson |
2009: voice, (vibraphone,) tape. Arrangement of the first of Erik Satie's Trois autres mélodies, commissioned by Adam Di Angelo. |
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(en)twine |
2004: solo harp |
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Pieces of eight: A frivolity in eight parts |
1999: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, double bass, piano 2002: soprano saxophone, violin, viola, double bass, piano 2001: solo piano 2011: string quartet 2012: pedal harp 1999 flute ensemble version premiered in 2000 in Montpellier, France by Ensemble Decadanse. 2002 sax ensemble version premiered in 2002 in Brisbane, Australia at the MiniMax Festival by Topology. Also performed twice in London in 2009 in two arrangements by Catherine Pluygers 2012 pedal harp version recorded by Shana Norton for Lucky Dip |
Read notes and listen to Pieces of eight in its piano version. |
Shimmer |
2000: piano and percussion (1 player) Arranged for Ryszard Pusz, Australian percussionist. Version for solo piano also available. |
Read notes and listen to an excerpt from Shimmer in its solo piano form |
twelve |
1996: double string quartet Arrangement of the score to the short animated film saturday by Leo Martyn. |
Read notes and listen to saturday on which this work is based |
Fixed Yet Unfix'd |
1994: piano quintet |
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The String Thing |
1994: harp, violin, viola, cello |
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Sea-Changes |
1992: soprano, alto, flute, alto saxophone, violin Text: Shakespeare, from The Tempest |
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To Fortune |
2012: Bass-baritone and piano Text: Robert Herrick Written and recorded for the Lucky Dip project |
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Three Whitman songs |
2010: Low voice and piano Text: Walt Whitman Comprising three short songs and a brief piano interlude |
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Chanson |
2009: voice, (vibraphone,) tape. Arrangement of the first of Erik Satie's Trois autres mélodies, commissioned by Adam Di Angelo. |
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Psalm 1 |
2007: SATB voices Text: Psalm 1 [abridged], from the King James Bible |
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Red drops, scarlet heat |
2002-03: SAA voices Text: Walt Whitman |
Read notes and download score sample of Red drops, scarlet heat |
Remembrances of Half-Forgotten Dead People |
1995, rev. 1997: High voice and piano Text: from the 1911 Petit Larousse Illustré. |
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Versa est in luctum |
1995, rev. 1998: SATB choir, orchestra Text: from Tomas Luis de Victoria's Requiem |
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Ave Maria |
1995: soprano, alto, organ. Commissioned by Stephen Reilly. |
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Two Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins |
1992: soprano, cello Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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Sea-Changes |
1992: soprano, alto, flute, alto saxophone, violin Text: Shakespeare, from The Tempest |
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Carrion Comfort |
2011-12: Chamber orchestra 3-minute piece for chamber orchestra, suitable for amateur performers of good standard |
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Watching the Streets of Zurich and Brussels |
2012: Recording only (flute/field recordings) Recorded for the Lucky Dip project. |
Listen to Watching the Streets of Zurich and Brussels and read more about Lucky Dip |
Carrion Comfort (graphic score) |
2011: Graphic score. |
Read notes and listen to two interpretations of Carrion Comfort (graphic score) |
The blood feud |
2005: Manipulated MIDI score for an interactive narrative. Based on the piano works catharsis and haiku I. |
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Nightride |
1998: MIDI film score Written for the AFTRS Screen Composition course with Jan Preston |
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infernal |
1997: MIDI film score Commissioned by Leo Martyn, Göteburg University, Sweden. |
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Saturday |
1995: MIDI film score. Commissioned by Leo Martyn, Newcastle University, Australia. Arranged for double string quartet as twelve. |
Read notes and listen an excerpt from the film score for Saturday |
Toybox |
1995: MIDI film score. Toybox won 3rd prize in the Documentary section of the National Student Film & Video Awards and was screened at Sydney's Valhalla Cinema. |
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haiku I |
1994, rev. 1998: prepared piano Used as the score for Simone O'Callaghan's RealVideo project Fetisssh. |