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24 capriccio's voor viool solo

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 4sax

Two settings : for saxophone solo, 1982 / Walter Hekster

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: sax

Impromptu : voor altsaxofoonsolo, op. 76 nr. 3, 1976 / Marius Flothuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
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composition

Tatatata Duo : for tenor sax and baritone sax / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
The cello has to be tuned down a minor second to match the F# major speech groove (scordatura).

In 2002 a Tatatata version for low wind ensemble was arranged for the Dutch Wind Ensemble.
CD recording: NBE live EW0276 NBE CD009.

In 2004, a viola version was arranged for both Esther Apituley and Caleb Burhans.

In 2006 Tatatata Duo, a duo version for tenor sax and baritone sax was arranged, recorded by By Johan van der Linden & Willem van Merwijk. JacobTV - Shining City Basta 3091742

In 2018, JacobTV added concert video on footage from World War I, showing the madness of war.

Tatatata is based on a recording of an old man who met French poet Guillaume Apollinaire during World War I. Apollinaire sang a military tune to the boy, it went like: tata tata’, a sample from the past… It was during the mid nineties and I was experimenting in my studio with a brand new sampler, the Akai CD3000. For the first time I was able to expand and compress audio by time stretching, a new technique at the time. The results contained unexpected musical qualities, so I decided to compose an entire piece with this technique and the archaic audio blended well with the sound of the cello. In the apotheosis, the voice of Apollinaire himself is reproduced by a creaking old phonograph, reciting one of his famous lines: ‘vienne la nuit, sonne l’heure’.