related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Apart met Katja : for ensemble / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
2fl cl 2sax 2h trp 2trb tb perc pf el-g el-b
Antarctica : for string trio and chamber orchestra / Christian Blaha
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
vn-solo vla-solo vc-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg timp 2vn vla vc db
Combinations : for 26 solo instruments / David Porcelijn
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
2111 1110 pf str(10.4.2.1.)
composition
Una cicala innamorata : il pandemonio in arcadia, for ensemble, 1999 / revision 2000 / Christina Viola Oorebeek
Other authors:
Oorebeek, Christina Viola
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The musical and visual imagery behind 'una Cicala innamorata' was conceived listening to the sounds in a summer field in Akiyoshidai, Japan. The perfect orchestration of rhythm, tone color and melodic motive was disturbed only by the listener. The soundscape evoked echos of Arcadia, the pastoral paradise of escape and (oft unconsummated) desire, conceived and recreated throughout European history. The god Pan is a central figure in Arcadia, spending his time chasing after nymphs, playing his pipes and lording over shepherds, driving them to bouts of pendemonium from time to time. The instrumentation of the Nieuw Ensemble seemed ideal for music on this subject. The scene is set in a static ambiance, out of which small episodes of interaction follow between various combinations of instruments, using two melodic modes in a free manner. The rhythmic musical material is a translation of insect sounds heard in Akiyoshidai and is based on the numeric relations in symmetrical,
mathematical squares. - CHRISTINA VIOLA OOREBEEK