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Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob 2ob-am 2eh
De stem-riedel : voor hobo en piano, [of hobo solo], (1983) / Cor de Groot
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe and keyboard instrument; Oboe
Scoring:
ob/ob pf
Tunes for a lizard : for oboe or flute / Lowell Dykstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob/fl
composition
Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk
Author(s):
Oostenrijk, Pauline
(Composer)
Description:
According to Greek mythology, Penelope waited 20 years for the final return of her husband Odysseus. To delay her many suitors, she pretended to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claimed that she would choose a suitor when she would be finished. However, every night, she would undo part of the shroud.
The composition depicts Penelope's lonely, sometimes desperate, talking-to-herself and her longing for Odysseus, as well as her working on the weaving loom (from bar 33) and pulling out the result afterwards.
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