Rebecca Rowe

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Full Orchestra
String Orchestra
Chamber Ensemble
Solo Instrumental
Choral
Unaccompanied Choral
Unaccompanied Vocal Ensemble
Solo Voice and Piano
Film Scores and Incidental Music

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WORKS FOR FULL ORCHESTRA

Lightlines (1993)
Double Cello concerto (three movements)
Soloists: Vc, Vc, Orch: 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Cl in A, Bsn, 2 Hn, Strings, Perc

Duration c. 40 mins


STRING ORCHESTRA

Carpe Diem (1995/orch. 1997)
Baritone Solo, Vlns I and II, Vlas, Vcs, Cb
Text: Poem ‘Carpe Diem’ by Henry Thoreau

Duration c. 5 mins
Commissioned by Pete Stollery/Twentieth Century Music Ensemble, Northern College, Aberdeen
[See also Solo Vocal]

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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Mind Moves (1990)
String Quartet

Duration c. 4 mins
Commissioned by The Allegri String Quartet

Movement for String Trio (1991)
Vln, Vla, Vc

Duration c. mins
Dedicated to Joe Worrall

Deltarhythms (1992)
2 Vlns, 2 Vlas, 2 Vcs, Piano

Duration c. 12 mins

Rust and Stone (1992)
Six Pianos

Duration c.15 mins

Cloudspeak One (1992)
Fl, Cl, Vla, Hp

Duration c. 12 mins

Through the Mirror (1993)
Consort of six viola da gamba

Duration c.12 mins
Commissioned by The Squair Mile Consort of Viols

Miniature (1993) [To accompany a print by the French artist Anne Wicky]
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello

Duration c.2 mins
Commissioned by Edinburgh University Faculty of Music and The Demarco European Foundation

Continuum (1994)
Cl, Tpt, Piano, Perc, 2 Vln, Vla, Vc, Cb

Duration c. 13 mins

Mr. Bernard Emery his Fantasie (1997)
Treble viol and Bass viol

Duration c. 8 mins
Commissioned by Bernard Emery

Highway 101 or 'Do you know the way to San Josée?'-Bacharach (arr.) (1999)
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano

Duration c. 4 mins
Commissioned by One Voice

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SOLO INSTRUMENTAL

Into the Dark Quarter (1991)
Piano solo

Duration c. 5 mins

In this time (1992)
Cello and Piano

Duration c. 5 mins

Journeying: Part One (1993)
Organ

Duration c. mins
Commissioned by Mark Pybus

Snapshots (1993/1994)
Two pieces for cello and piano

Duration c. 4 mins/c.4 mins

Snapshots (1995)
Piano

Duration c. 7 mins
Dedicated to Joan Rowe

Soliloquy (1997)
Treble Recorder

Duration c.6 mins
Commissioned by John Turner

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CHORAL

The People's Mass:  Prayer and Agnus Dei (2002)
solo S. S. A. T. Bar. B., children's choir and harp

Commissioned by The Dunedin Consort

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UNACCOMPANIED CHORAL

O, Sumptuous Moment (1992)
S.A.T.B.
Text: Poem by Emily Dickinson

Duration c. 4 mins

Shine Out, Fair Sun (1994)
S.A.T.B. with divisions

Duration c. 5 mins
Commissioned by Cappella Nova / Scottish Arts Council

Beachwalking (1996)
S.A.T.B.
Text: Chris Dooks

Duration c. 4 mins
Commissioned by Mary House Singers

Elegy for Colum Cille (2000)
S.A.T.B. with divisions
Text: Brian Johnstone

Duration c. 6 mins
Commissioned by Cappella Nova for St. Columba's Day 2000

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UNACCOMPANIED VOCAL ENSEMBLE

Lament (1993)
Counter-tenor, 2 Tenors, Baritone
Text: Poem by Rainer-Maria Rilke

Duration c. 5 mins
Commissioned by The Hilliard Ensemble/Society for the Promotion of New Music

In Eternum (1993)
Counter-tenor, 2 Tenors, Baritone
Text: Sir Thomas Wyatt

Duration c. 6 mins
Dedicated to The Hilliard Ensemble

There is Nothing Brighter than the Sun (1994)
Solo Soprano I,II,III

Duration c. 4 mins
Commissioned by Celtic Knotwork

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SOLO VOICE AND PIANO

Four A.A.Milne Songs (1991)
Soprano and piano
Texts:   Spring Morning

Daffodowndilly
The Mirror all from ‘When we were very young’
Buttercup Days from ‘ Now we are six’
Duration c. 8 mins

The World (1992)
Mezzo-soprano and piano
Text: Poem by Kathleen Raine

Duration c. 4 mins

…thinking about infinity… (1993)
Mezzo-soprano and piano
Text; Extract from ‘Postcards from the Edge’ by Carrie Fisher

Duration c. 6 mins

No Sad Songs (1994)
Mezzo-soprano and piano
Text: Poem ‘When I am dead’ by Christina Rossetti

Duration c. 6 mins
English Poetry and Song Society Award 1994

Carpe Diem (1995)
Baritone and piano
Text: Poem ‘Carpe Diem’ by Henry Thoreau

Duration c. 5 mins
Commissioned by Pete Stollery/Twentieth Century Music Ensemble, Northern College, Aberdeen

Incantation (1996)
Baritone and piano
Text: Song of Self-Introduction to the Land

Duration c. 5 mins
Commissioned by Steven Griffin

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FILM SCORES AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC

La Ronde (1989) Play: Arthur Schnitzler / Dir. Les Hampson
Falling Dance (1991) Dir. Suzanne Cohen
The Fall of the House of Usher (1992) Play: Edgar Allan Poe / Dir. Romilly Walton-Masters
The Anatomy of a Waterfall (1993) Dir. Chris Dooks
The Sound of Taransay (1994) Dir. Chris Dooks

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RECORDINGS

'Shine out, fair sun', in Nou lat us sing - A Scottish Christmas
Cappella Nova, RTCD 001 (1998)

'Prayer' and 'Agnus Dei' in The People's Mass
Dunedin Consort, Delphian DCD34018 (2004)



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CONTACT

For further information about scores, parts, and recordings for sale or hire,
please contact:

Rebecca Rowe
30/1 Sinclair Place
Edinburgh
EH11 1AN
or

Website: http://www.rebecca-rowe.co.uk

 

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