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
Quo vadis musica-symfonie : opus 33, for orchestra, (1985) / Jo Sporck
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2220 2perc str(6-8.6-8.4-6.4-6.2-4.)
La Finestra esuberante : for orchestra / Robert Groslot
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4331 Perc(3) Harp Piano/celesta Strings
Maestrale : for orchestra / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2sax-a 2fg 2h trp trb perc 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.