composer
Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music; he won the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. He became a full ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Instruments:
vl
Proteus : flauto, viola, arpa, opus 38, 1974 / Hendrik de Regt
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-11 players)
Instruments:
fl hp vla
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-11 players)
Instruments:
2rec 2perc vc cb
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-11 players); Wind and string and key instrument(s)
Instruments:
fl spt/pf vl vladg/vc
composition
Night & day : for bass clarinet or bassoon and accordion, 1992 / Jacob ter Veldhuis
Description:
Program note (English): (Premiere: 2-4-1993 - Int. Accordion Celebration - Park Plaza Hotel, Ontario - Duo Novair). The ideas for this piece arose during my stay in Darmstadt in the summer of 1992. Every day I crossed the city centre several times by tram on the way from the hotel to the concert hall and back. I observed the calm of the night and the movements of the day. In 'Night & Day', as in many of my compositions, I strive for simplicity by making use of basic material: fifths and fourths in the pensive opening (night). Thereafter follows a 'dance' of the dominant and subdominant around a kind of tonic, out of which melodic and rhythmic shapes parade past in all sorts of variations. The two instruments here enter into a dialogue which finally dissolves into the sonority of the beginning (the lovely low registers of the bass clarinet and the accordion). - JACOB TER VELDHUIS