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World within world / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind and string instrument(s)
Scoring:
ob vl vla vc
Laudi d'amore : for baritone and violin / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar vln
Because going nowhere takes a long time : for medium voice, flute and piano, 1967 / Rob du Bois
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
medium fl pf
The Fox and the Wild Boar : for soprano and bassoon / Hans Koolmees
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fg
composition
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by 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. The live electronics in Le Gibet were consciously set to the background. But there is one moment in which the electronic sounds predominate: shortly before the end is a burst of instrumental resonance. - WILL EISMA