related works

Spijkerboor : for ensemble, 2002 / Will Eisma

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 2010 2sax 1121 perc g g-b pf

Eine Rede : Sopran, Klarinette, Bassetthorn, Bassklarinette, 1974 / Rob du Bois

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr cl bh cl-b

Hexa : voor twee ensembles, 1984 / Henk van der Meulen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: ensemble 1: sopr eh cl-b trb el.g el.pf vc ensemble 2: sopr/alt eh cl-b trb el.g(g-b) el.pf ham.org vc electronics

Gedanken der Nacht : five songs for mezzo-soprano, three clarinets and percussion, 1992 / poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Joep Straesser

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr-m 2cl cl-b perc

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