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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
aeolian dust : for symphony orchestra / Natalie Dietterich
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl/picc 2ob/eh 2cl fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b tb 4perc hp str
Cosmic Cliffs : for chamber orchestra / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt timp str
Sinfonia VI : (op. 69 + 81), 31-VII-1963 Amsterdam / Lex van Delden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2232 4331 timp perc str
composition
Out of control : for orchestra / Joey Roukens
Other authors:
Roukens, Joey
(Composer)
Description:
Out of Control is an orchestral work in which the material takes the most unforeseen directions, seemingly uncontrolled (or 'out of control'). Usually, when writing a piece, a composer tries to keep full control of his material. Notes often want to go in a certain direction by themselves, but sometimes as a composer you disagree with that direction (“no, this is too kitschy”) and then you exercise control to prevent the music from going in that direction. In this piece I wanted to see to what extent I could relinquish control and let the material take its own course.
The result is a piece that has something unbridled and spontaneous, but at the same time it is based on a carefully constructed ABABA structure (to avoid formlessness): the A sections consist of slow, reveling music - which may have both associations and evokes ambient-like music like Gustav Mahler's adagios -, while both B-sections consist of very energetic and rhythmic passages culminating in a climactic moment. In these B-sections, the unforeseen turns of the material are also most clearly audible: in the first B-section, for example, a grotesque fairground waltz suddenly appears, while in the second B-section the music gradually moves towards wild, pounding pop rhythms…