related works
Three minutes for harpsichord : 1991, revision 1998 / Roderik de Man
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
cemb
Polskie miasta : = (Polish cities), for six players, 1981 / Tera de Marez Oyens
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players); Wind and string and keyboard instrument(s)
Scoring:
fl ob vl(vla) vla vc pf
Access : 2001 / Claudio Baroni
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
perc org vl
Three Scenes : for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano (with kick drum) / Zaid Jabri
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
ob cl fg pf/dr
composition
Tangente : for viola and accordion / Roderik de Man
Author(s):
Man, Roderik de
(Composer)
Description:
The word "tangent" comes from the Latin tangens, meaning "touching". I have used the Spanish word “Tangente” to express the idea of combining two distinct musical cultures. One is that of the vocabulary of contemporary western music. The other is that of the popular and diverse world of the tango. Bringing these two together, like two lines touching is my goal in this work. The two instruments are similarly from two different worlds. My inspiration for this is the “Falsche Tango” project initiated by Visisonor Media Productions (www.visisonor.org). I was invited to “ go off at a tangent”, so to speak.
[In geometry, the tangent line (or simply the tangent) to a curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve there. As it passes through the point where the tangent line and the curve meet, or the point of tangency, the tangent line is "going in the same direction" as the curve, and in this sense it is the best straight-line approximation to the curve at that point.]