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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl(pic) 2ob 2cl 2fg h

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Genre: Unknown

Roulette of moments : for choir (percussion and strings ad lib.), 1979 / Tera de Marez Oyens

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir; Mixed choir and instruments
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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.