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After highlighting ten empirically proven facts about birds and their songs, Casteels discusses the approaches European art music composers have taken with regards to birds. He then goes on to give a background and a brief analysis on his composition for the grand finale of the Singapore Botanic Gardens' 150th Anniversary, Bird Songs. The article closes with a recommendation of specialised literature relating to some interesting aspects of birds. The article was published by Nature Watch, the official magazine of Nature Society (Singapore) Volume 18 No. 2 Apr-June 2010. The 2nd document is a list of repertoire connected to bird songs.

The catalogue contains the full list of opus number from 1 to 150 as per December 2025 (page 1), the list of seven works without opus number (page 9), the list of 41 arrangements and transcreations (page 9) and the list of 16 unfinished compositions (page 10)

The guitar duo entitled chiaroscuro is based on the following material: a melody in harmonics; an accompanying rhythmic ostinato; a chromatic chordal shift, ascending and descending simultaneously, with a gradual decrease in length; a chiastic rapport between the two guitars and three pitches corresponding to the acronym of the bank CIC that commissioned this piece.

In 2001, Casteels became the youngest recipient and the second musician ever to receive the prestigious Christoffel Plantin Prize, the Flemish Government’s highest award for cultural achievements, in recognition of his contribution to cross-cultural research.

Lesson plans of two conducting modules taught at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2001 and at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2025. Lesson plan 1 and lesson plan 2

This analysis comprises the compositional material, a bar by bar analysis and the structure of the 2016 composition entitled Cu Rua.

Deze analyse bevat de zeven leitmotieven, de modale taal, nota's over de klankkleuren en taalgebruik. https://youtu.be/85pFqNuOuwQ https://youtu.be/fp6anifIzbA https://youtu.be/zGQzyzg_Jm4 https://youtu.be/pIDO7fk5Q4w

This document shows the images of eight books containing drafts, notes and sketches of composition as well as the image of six logbooks covering the period from 1997 to 2026

This analysis of El Jardín de la Vita e Muerte shows the structural organisation in 12 parts, the melodic and rhythmic language as well as thoughts on tauromachy and tauroboly.