related works
Faomar : La Poursuite, for wind quintet, 1999 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind quintet
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h
Entelechie 2 : scènes voor 11 musici, opus 13, 1961 / Peter Schat
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m fl cl trp perc vibr hp pf vl vla vc
La caduta : for tenor, bass baritone and soundtracks, 1990 / text by Bert Schierbeek, Ton Bruynèl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12); Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
ten bas-bar soundtracks
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr cl pf vl vc
composition
Le cheval mort : mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet, piano, percussion: marimba + tamtam, 2 synthesizers, 4 channel tape / text: Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Other authors:
Bertrand, Aloysius
(Text writer/Librettist)
Eisma, Will
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The compositions Le Gibet and Le Cheval Mort were set to surrealistic poems by Aloysius Bertrand from his collection: Gaspard de la nuit, septième livre, Pièces détachées. The wonderful ambience derived from the poems inspired me to set some of these to music. The text of the poems expresses the dramatic environment of a battlefield and a graveyard. This lends itself easily to natural nocturnal sounds, bloodcurdling whistling and cracking noises. This is, however, something I wanted to avoid. I have tried to create an unreal atmosphere in my music. In Le Cheval Mort the electronics are prominent, especially in the second half of the work. It was written for the music festival in Witten, Germany and received its première there in 1976. - WILL EISMA