related works

Das letzte Gold verfallener Sterne : for soprano and ensemble, 2002 / poem: Georg Trakl, Christina Viola Oorebeek

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr fl(pic) ob cl cl-b perc cel hp 2vl vla vc cb

Rescriptio : for intercultural string orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 3erhu 2kamancheh 2vn 3vla 2vc db

Pastorale : blazers, slagwerk, piano en basgitaar, 1976 / Daniel Brozák

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 2111 0210 2perc g-b pf

Ex tempore : for ensemble, 2008 / Guus Janssen

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 2fl 2cl h 2perc 2pf 2vl 2vc

composition

Una cicala innamorata : il pandemonio in arcadia, for ensemble, 1999 / revision 2000 / Christina Viola Oorebeek

Author(s):
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