related works

Adela I : for oboe and tape, 1977 / Will Eisma

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Oboe; Electronics with different instruments; Oboe with multimedia
Scoring: ob tape

The blue woman : for soprano and ensemble, 1999/2000 / poems: Wallace Stevens, Wim Laman

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr fl cl(bh) pf vl vc

A moon rising white : for mezzo soprano, alto saxophone and piano / Erik Lotichius; text Chinese

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: m-sopr sax-a pf

Nähe des Geliebten : for high voice and nonet / Franz Schubert; arr. by Ernst Spyckerelle

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: voice fl ob cl h bsn str

composition

Le cheval mort : mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet, piano, percussion: marimba + tamtam, 2 synthesizers, 4 channel tape / text: Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma

Author(s):
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