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
Dance of the second-born : for orchestra, opus 31, 2001 / Frank van Gompel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2sax-a 2110 perc str
Distorted Fantasia (after J.P. Sweelinck) : for orchestra / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl/picc 2ob/eh 2cl/cl-b 3fg 2h 2tpt 3trb tb timp 2perc hp pf/cel str
Nachtvlinder : for orchestra / Toon Vandevorst
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3243 4441 4perc hp str(15.12.9.9.6.)
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.