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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sonate I : (im alten Stil), für Cembalo und Streichorchester / Andries de Braal
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harpsichord and string orchestra
Scoring:
str cemb-solo
Salmos : for mixed choir a cappella, 1992 / text by: Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and piano
Scoring:
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composition
Syracuse Blues : for trombone solo, string quartet and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
September 2008 I visited Sicily. On the fishing market of Syracuse I recorded a couple of stallholders selling fish, in a melancholic way, singing with glissandi, like sirenes. The melodies of their speech became the leitmotif for the composition. Sicilian fishermen probably advertised their fish like this for thousands of years. But what are they actually saying? Oscar Pizzo, a Sicilian friend, explained that it’s a mixture of Sicilian dialect, mixed with old Greek and Arab words. I regard Syracuse Blues also as a lament. The world’s seas and oceans are poisoned and overfished.