related works
Affairs III : for oboe, clarinet and bassoon / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Woodwind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
ob cl fg
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m 3242 5sax 4342 barh 6perc acc-vc-solo
Seven Songs : for soprano and harp / Reza Nakisa
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr hp
... hub of ambiguity : for soprano and eight players, 1984 / poem by Marilyn Hacker, Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl(fl-a pic) cl(cl-b) perc man g hp vl cb
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