title: Tsao Chieh
text: # Tsao Chieh
  
  Tsao Chieh (Chinese: 曹节; 1953–1996) was a Singaporean composer and engineer.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Orchestra
  
  1982–1983 Overture in C
  
  1984–1985 Singapore, Symphonic Suite for large orchestra: Prelude & Fugue, March, Scherzo, Passacaglia, Finale
  
  1987–1988 Stasis
  
  1989–1990 Amidst the sough of winds...., set to two poems (Finger of the Cape und A Boy Drowns) by Edwin Thumboo for Narrator and Orchestra
  
  1991–1992 Prelude, Interlude and Fugato, for Orchestra
  
  1994 Two Little Pieces, for Orchestra: Idyll, Dance
  
  ### Symphonic Band
  
  1988 Singapore Artillery Centennial March
  
  ### Vocal music
  
  1984 Four Songs from Romantic Poets, for Soprano and Chamber ensemble
  
  1995 Old House at Ang Siang Hill, for Soprano and Piano
  
  ### Chamber music
  
  197? Romance, for Clarinet and Viola
  
  1980 Canzone, for Flute and Piano
  
  1980 Roundelay, for Flute and Piano
  
  1981 Idyll, for Flute and Piano
  
  1982 Toccata, for Flute and Piano
  
  1984 Caprice, for two Flute and Piano
  
  1984 Movements, for Flute, Piano and String Quartet
  
  1988 Variations, for Chamber ensemble [for New Music Forum II in January 18, 1989)
  
  ### Piano Solo
  
  1971 Canzona
  
  1983 Sonata
  
  ### Electronic music
  
  1994 Sine.Mus
  
  1994–1995 Test piece for KW, for Computer
  
  1994–1995 Rhapsody for synthesized flute on a 17-tone scale
  
  1994–1995 Study in four temperaments
  
  