related works
Leuke spreuken : for 2-6 voices / Kees Arntzen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12)
Scoring:
GKzang
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.
Sweelinck-variaties : voor orgel, 1972-'73 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org
A Victim of Easter : for organ / Jan Willem van Dormolen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org
composition
Fammi Mi-Fa : for organ / Kees Arntzen
Author(s):
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