Cat and Bird (sc/parts) - FL/BSN/PN/PERC

Cat and Bird
for flute, bassoon, piano, and percussion
by Elillian Daugherty (b. 1960) - American composer and oboist

This is the printed music.  For the PDF download, click HERE.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

Cat and Bird, for flute, bassoon, piano, and percussion, imagines two pets which go from confrontation (Kerfuffle) to uneasy truce (Détente), then boredom (“Mom, there’s nothing to do!”), and finally to resolution, or perhaps just resignation (Happy Now?)...until next time.

Performed at the She Scores concert series in Cleveland, Ohio in 2023, and described as "colorful and charming" by Cleveland Classical, this work is partly atonal, based on a twelve-tone row which was created by a random method. 

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Elillian Daugherty's music has had many inspirations, including jazz, spirituals, poetry, and sometimes atonality and humor. Awards for Lily's compositions include First Prize in the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs competition, First Prize in the Silver Melted into Sound competition at Wright State University, and Finalist (twice) for The American Prize in student composition. Her works have been performed by the Wright State University Chamber Orchestra, and at two annual She Scores concert series in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2023 she completed a commission for a work for reed quintet. A retired physician, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Performance (Oboe) in 2026 from Wright State, where she won the Spinney scholarship for student composers for two consecutive years. Her teachers include Steven Aldredge (composition), as well as Katherine deGruchy and Ashley Noble (oboe and English horn).