related works
In Unison : Concerto for two pianos and orchestra / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
2pf-solo picc 2fl 3ob 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb timp 3perc cel str
Pandemonium : Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb-cb timp 3perc hp pf org str
Orkestsuite : (de zeven planeten), opus 6, 1983 / Marc van Delft
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 5perc 2hp pf(cel) str
Symphonie no. 7 : Dithyrambes pour les temps à venir, 1963-1965 / Matthijs Vermeulen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(pic) 2fpic 2ob 2ob(eh) 2cl(pic) 2cl cl-b 3fg cfg sax-a 4h trp-p 3trp 3 trb tb 2timp 5perc cel 2hp str
composition
365 : for orchestra, 2006 / Joey Roukens
Other authors:
Roukens, Joey
(Composer)
Description:
365 can be listened to as a continuous musical stream, which – over the course of exactly 365 measures – takes on very different guises, eventually ending exactly at the point where the piece started (not unlike a year cycle of 365 days). In the piece I have tried to connect highly diverse stilistic references and gestures within a single quasi-symphonic architecture as organically as possible: from ethereal, impressionist-like textures to an almost Mahlerian rhetoric to minimalist passages with references to pop and jazz. In doing so, the music is sometimes consciously taken to the edge of kitsch and syrupy tonal harmonies and (what the old avant-garde considers) banal means of expression are not avoided.