related works
Gia Sena kai to sphurion : for piano / Kees Arntzen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Musica per organo trentunisono I : Canzona per organo e canto ad lib., No. 5 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ; Voice and organ
Scoring:
org canto ad lib.
Novel Forces : for microtonal organ / Brendan Faegre
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org
Quatre offertoires sur des chants grégoriens : for organ / F. Xavier Gelabert i Muntaner
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org
composition
Fammi Mi-Fa : for organ / Kees Arntzen
Other authors:
Arntzen, Kees
(Composer)
Description:
Fammi Mi-Fa is loosely based on the canon ‘Mi-Fa est tota Musica’ from the ‘Leuke Spreuken’ (Merry Maxims) collection. The piece has been added as an organ canon in a three-voiced version. The starting point of the composition is the half tone, or rather the juxtaposition of the half and the whole tone which has been so fundamental to our tonal system. The whole tone row, the chromatic scale (also manifested as a twelve tone row) and the two hexachords with b and b-flat respectively (b molle and b durum) form the composition’s building blocks. The piece unfolds freely into a number of variations of mostly sixteen bars, to be fittingly registrated by the performer. A few suggestions are included as a guideline.
Kees Arntzen