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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Bist du bist : 2. / und [Text von] Franz Mon, Tera de Marez Oyens

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK4

De aarde : tekst: J. Slauerhoff, voor sopraan, gemengd koor, klarinet, trompet & 2 piano's, (Deel II), 1999 / Jan Boerman

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring: sopr GK4 cl trp 2pf

Epitaph : blues for trumpet and brass quintet, 1976 / Jo van den Booren

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Brass ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: h 3trp trb tb

composition

Syracuse Blues : for trombone solo, string quartet and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Author(s):
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.