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Concerto Nº 6 "Métropolitain" : for saxophone quartet and orchestra / Jan-Peter de Graaff

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring: sax-s-solo sax-a-solo sax-t-solo sax-bar-solo 2fl(picc) ob eh cl cl-b 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 3trb tb timp 2perc hp pf/cel str

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Six Polyrhythmic Études : for piano / Andreas Kunstein

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Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

composition

Lock, stock, and barrel : for piano / Jan-Peter de Graaff

Other authors:
Graaff, Jan-Peter de (Composer)
Description:
Lock, stock, and barrel is a two-episode suite for solo piano:
The first episode "…between the devil and the deep blue sea…" (a dilemma with two outcomes that are equally worse), is a highly virtuoso movement where the musical dilemma lies between regular and irregular rhythmic patterns on a perpetuum mobile of endless quavers. Instruction for the performer is to play this 'as funky as possible'.
The second episode "…sour grapes…" depicts a deep ironical sense of dissatisfaction and disappointment in the shape of a french overture by using polytonality, clashing dissonance and a high sense of drama. Instruction for the performer is to 'unleash their inner drama queen'.