Composer of Orchestral , Ensemble, Choral, Vocal and Contemporary Music

Edward Caine is a composer whose work focuses on voice, text, and contemporary performance practice.

His music explores:

• sonority and texture
• historical and found material
• rehearsal as a creative process

Performances include:

• Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
• Cheltenham Music Festival
• International performances in Europe and the USA

Collaborators include:

• Opera North
• Ex Cathedra
• Nieuw Ensemble
• Kreutzer Quartet
• Ian Pace
• The Black Hair Ensemble
• TOEAC Accordion Duo
• Trio Atem

Works Catalogue — Dr Edward Caine

(A complete list of original works to date)

Choral Works

• God that alle mytes may (2025) — SATB — 3’
• M and A and R and I (2022) — SATB + SATB ostinato choir — 5’
• Hey, ho the wind and the rain (2022) — SATB — 3’
• A babe is born al of a may (2021) — SATB with divisi — 6’
• A Cradle Song (2021) — SATBx2 — 4’
• Adam lay i-bownden (2021) — SATB — 3’
• Adam lay i-bownden (2021) — SSA/Organ/Percussion with soprano solo — 2’
• Ave Maris Stella, the sterre on the see (2021) — SATB/Organ — 3’
• Branle de l’offical / Ding Dong Merrily on High (2021) — SATB/Organ/Percussion — 3’
• Alleluia, Deo patri sit gloria (2021) — SATB/Organ — 4’30
• I syng of a Mayden (2021) — SATB — 3’
• Jhesu, Jhesu, saf us alle thorw thi vertu (2021) — SATB with soloists — 3’
• Nunc Gaudet Maria (2021) — SATB with soloists — 3’
• Love Came Down (2021) — SATBB — 3’
• Procedenti puereo (2021) — SATB/Organ (also SA & S versions) — 3’
• Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (2021) — SATB/Percussion — 2’20
• Wolcum Yol (2021) — SSAATTBB — 4’
• I drukke I dare (2021) — SATB with divisi — 4’
• Lullay myn lyking (2020) — SATB with soloists — 5’
• Charita (2020) — SATB — 3’
• A song for new year’s eve (2019) — SATB/Piano — 4’
• Carol for a Wassel-Bowl (2019) — SATB/Percussion — 3’
• Psalm 23 (2018) — 24-part choir — 4’
• My love is like the red red rose (2011, rev. 2025) — SATB with divisi — 3’
• Membra Sumus Corporis Magni (2014) — SSSAATTBB — 3’
• Go Down (2010) — SAB — 3’
• Green Grow the Rashes (2009) — SATB — 3’

Major Work:

• What Fruite of Immortality (2013) — 24-part choir & large ensemble — 42’

Large Ensemble & Orchestral Works

• R’lyeh (2013) — Large Orchestra — 13’
• Madrigale II: Qu’est devenu ce bel oeil (2010) — Large Ensemble — 12’

Chamber & Small Ensemble Works

• Cromarty Firth (2014) — Guitar Quartet — 3’
• Madrigale I (2013) — Three trombones — 6’
• Fl. Vcl. (2012) — Flute & Cello — 5’
• Sop Fl Vcl Atem (2012) — Soprano, flute & cello — 5’
• Cthulhu Ftagn (2012) — String Quartet — 5’
• Tous les matins du monde (2009) — Small ensemble — 4’
• [Squeezebox]² (2010) — Accordion duo — 7’
• 5/5/05 (2005) — Small ensemble — 5’
• Strange affinities (2004) — Small ensemble — 3’
• One likes the way red grows (2003) — Small ensemble — 10’
• A Star Danced (2003) — Small ensemble & voice — 4’

Piano Solo Works

• Little pieces (2023) — 5’
• plinky plonk (2018) — 4’
• Rhapsody for Howard (2017) — 3’
• banks and braes… (2016) — 3’
• growing pains (2016) — 3’
• Étude: Resonance (2015) — 5’
• Wild Flowers (2014) — 5’
• Two Poems (2011) — 5’
• Simplest of all tongues (2008) — 5’
• Aus tiefer Nott Schrei ich zu dir (2006) — 3’

Solo Instrumental Works

• Madrigale III (2009) — Solo Cello — 14’
• Sentence and Transformations (2006) — Solo Oboe — 5’
• Organ Prelude: See amid the winter snow (2021) — Organ — 3’

Vocal & Song Works

• Summer (2017) — Baritone & Piano — 4’
• The Passionate Shepherd (2018) — Baritone & Piano — 3’
• Daffodils (2012) — Baritone & Piano — 4’
• Spitfire Irene (2011) — Song cycle for soprano — 24’
• En un vergier sotz fuella d’asbespi (2010) — Vocal duet (extended technique) — 5’
• Poem in Silence (2006) — Solo soprano — 5’

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