related works
Boundless (Homage to L.B.) : for string orchestra, harp, keyboards and percussion / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
timp 5perc hp synth/cel str
Monologues : for orchestra, 1998 / Immanuel Klein
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 4perc hp pf str
Comfort : for orchestra, 2001, revision 2002 / Peter Adriaansz
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4454 4451 timp 6perc pf str(16.14.12.12.8.)
Serenade : voor kamerorkest, op. 52 / Géza Frid
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2121 1000 timp 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.