related works
Summer Preludes : for piano / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sinfonia - piccola : (1962), per orchestra / Berend Giltay
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2220 1000 timp str
Symphonie Demeter : (symphonisch ballet), 1943, op. 25 / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2332 4231 timp perc hp str
Passacaglia : for orchestra, 1945-1946 / Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4444 2sax 4531 timp 4perc cel 2hp org 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.