related works
Mirrors of Time : for kanun and piano / Meliha Doğuduyal
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
kanun pf
Millions of Stars : for string quartet / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Tweede strijkkwartet : for string quartet, 2000 / Cynthie van Eijden
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Quatuor no. 6 : for string quartet, opus 875, 1994 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
composition
Trees Cry Too : for string quartet / Meliha Doğuduyal
Other authors:
Doğuduyal, Meliha
(Composer)
Description:
TREES CRY TOO (2014) is a musical reflection on the meaning and sounding of the sensory world of trees that is not so very different from humans. It calls us to a state of mindfulness, where we become better in tune with and more compassionate towards our surroundings. In abstract terms, it is concerned with how trees respond and make their own sounds. Musical materials, employing spectral resonance of colors and textures, move the piece in a free style which draws timbre as an important element of structure. The composer’s musical ideas have found their form in a variety of kaleidoscopic set of textural variations. After changing a lot, we suddenly hear the same musical gestures as they were in the beginning: the piece has come full circle. Doğuduyal describes her work as a synthesis of non-western scales (that create a heterophonic effect) and new compositional techniques (in timbral structures integrating microtonality).