related works

Elegy : for string quartet / Ross James Carey

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vln vla vc

Four mini-pieces : for organ, (1969) / Wim de Ruiter

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

De Askoning in de Schönberg : kinderopera / Chiel Meijering, op tekst van Lotte van Dijck

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: fl cl fg trb tb pf 2vl vc

26 Low Seconds : for viola / Martijn Padding

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola
Scoring: vla

composition

Two Pieces : for three gamelan players / Ross James Carey

Author(s):
Carey, Ross James (Composer)
Description:
In these pieces for a chamber grouping of just three gamelan instruments, I used as the basis for composition a combined scale made up of notes from the pelog and slendro modes. The first piece combines a repeated ostinato and melody in a laid-back ‘bluesy’ kind of way. The second piece is a wholly serial composition consisting of a repeated cycle of notes; the three performers play each note on their instrument once only (making a complete cycle) before again the notes are played in the same order, although the ensemble (the interlocking pattern) can be varied in the subsequent repetition.

Saron barung in slendro, saron barung in pelog, demung in slendro.