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
Zefiro : opus 34, for 2 oboes, 2 horns and string orchestra, 1988 / Leo Samama
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0200 2000 str
Phases : for four soundtracks and orchestra / visualized by Tolis Panagopoulos, Ton Bruynèl
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
2332 4331 timp perc pf str tape
Figuren in einer Landschaft : für Orchester / Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4333 4441 timp 4perc hp pf(cel) str(12.12.8.8.6.)
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.