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Heterophonic : for orchestra / Evrim Demirel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 3perc 2hp pf str
Quinglong - Azure Dragon : for symphony orchestra / Olga Victorova
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh cl-picc 2cl 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 2trb trb-b tb 3perc str
La tour qui chante : for small orchestra, 1991 / Maurice Horsthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0011 1010 hp str
Anion : symfonische schets, (1950) / Karel Mengelberg
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp perc cel 1-2hp str
composition
Heterophonic : for orchestra / Evrim Demirel
Other authors:
Demirel, Evrim
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): As the title suggests, the piece is based on the idea of heterophony. The elaborated embellishments on the sophisticated melodic structures apply to the whole orchestra. Music evolves in a linear concept, within the harmonic interruptions. Each individual line folllows a melodic route and sounds in unison, octaves or double octaves at certain structural points. The simultaneity of different tracks does not follow the Western system of organized chord progressions; hence its fundamental organization is mainly horizontal. The large rhythmic patterns, termed 'usul' in Turkish music, are abstracted and scattered out during the course of the piece played by timpani. Rhythmic features, timbre characterisctics, microtonal substance and the heterophonic peculiarity of classical Ottoman music have been unified in a symphonic piece. This work as a whole represents Demirel's interpretation of imaginary contemporary Ottoman music of today, which does not exist.