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Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl(pic) ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb 2perc hp pf 2vl vla vc cb
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Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Band
Scoring:
2(1)81 4sax 4434 2barh 4perc (cb ad lib.) 2cl/2sax-s-solo
Monologen : Versie voor piano / Jan Welmers
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Serenade : kamerorkest, 1934 / Nico Richter
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl cl g 2vl vc / 1010 0000 g str(vl vc)
composition
Knot : 2001, texts based on excerpts from various authors / Astrid Kruisselbrink
Other authors:
Baudelaire, Charles
(Text writer/Librettist)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(Text writer/Librettist)
Couperus, Louis
(Text writer/Librettist)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
(Text writer/Librettist)
Kruisselbrink, Astrid
(Text writer/Librettist)
Labe, Louise
(Text writer/Librettist)
Levy, Amy
(Text writer/Librettist)
Ovidius
(Text writer/Librettist)
Parker, Dorothy
(Text writer/Librettist)
Tsjeng (Meester)
(Text writer/Librettist)
Woolf, Virginia
(Text writer/Librettist)
Kruisselbrink, Astrid
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The title of the work has several meanings. To begin with, that ball of wool, the knot of wool. That arises after spinning and weaving, two important traditional hand activities which women have always done. By means of the texts by Ovidius and among other things the harpsichord these jobs are converted into sound and will regularly return. Thus we all are familiar with the knot. Which here symbolizes several hairstyles (appearances) and the female vanity of longing to create. The several (appearances) forms, among other things bringing forward through the usage of different text sources, sound at the same time which results in the piling up of messy tangles, in own her own hair but also with each other, with leads us to the English meaning of knot. All in all the need arises to make knots. Such as one saws off the branches of a knot-willow tree forming a bald knot, whereupon new flexible willow tree branches can grow, and those branches are moreover suitable for basket
weaving.... but that is possibly something for a piece in the future. - ASTRID KRUISSELBRINK