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
	
Another World : for symphony orchestra / Chiel Meijering
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Scoring: 
		
		2ft ob 2cl fg FH trp-Bb trp-C trm perc vl1 vl2 vla vc cb
	
Passacaglia : voor orkest, (1943) / Wouter Paap
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Scoring: 
		
		2222 4331 timp perc hp str
	
Musique pour l'esprit en deuil : for orchestra, (1943) / Rudolf Escher
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Scoring: 
		
		pic 2fl fl(pic) 3ob eh 4cl cl-b 3fg cfg sax-s(sax-a) 4h 4trp 3trb tb timp 6perc 2hp pf str(16.14.12.10.8-10.)
	
composition
				Fast movement and Epilogue : for chamber orchestra / Joey Roukens
			
					
										Other authors:
									
									
									Roukens, Joey
									(Composer)
								
							
							Description:
						
						
						‘Fast Movement and Epilogue’ is a piece about ‘fastness’ and virtuosity. We live in a time in which everything seems to go fast, everything seems to change fast and many people seem to be in a constant state of rush and hurry. However, I feel that this fast pace and hectic nature of contemporary life is something which is only rarely reflected in contemporary (classical) music, in which truly fast-paced pieces seem to be scarce. Even though in earlier eras, composers like Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Liszt, and so on, were all masters of the kind of fast and virtuoso music that is seldom being written today.
So when I got the commission to write a piece for Tokyo Sinfonietta, I set out to write a highly virtuoso piece that is among the fastest music I have written. Consequently, it turned out to be fiendishly difficult to play. The first ten or so minutes of this 14-minute piece should sound like a high-speed roller-coaster ride, requiring the musicians to maintain high energy playing and very fast tempi throughout. The music is characterized by driving, syncopated rhythms (that sometimes clearly refer to certain pop genres), insistent ostinati, moments of playfulness, lightness, humor and at times a Stravinskian bite. A contrasting slow, quiet and dreamy epilogue concludes the piece, putting the fast music in a slightly different light.