related works
Eerste strijkkwartet : 1932-1933 / Kees van Baaren
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Symfonie Nº VII : voor orkest / Herman Mulder
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 4331 timp 2perc 2hp str
Grachtenmuziek : voor orkest / Harold C. King
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1(1)10/2121 1110/2211 perc (hp ad lib.) str
Rondgang : voor kamerorkest, opus 42, 1996/2000 / Peter Schat
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1033 0000 pf str
composition
Musica per orchestra : 1965-'66 / Kees van Baaren
Other authors:
Baaren, Kees van
(Composer)
Contains:
Lento non troppo, doppio movimento
Sostenuto
Vivo
Description:
Program note (English): [Première: 18-5-1966 - Rotterdam - Rotterdams Philharmonic Orchestra - Franz-Paul, conducting] - The work consists of three movements that are separated by short general pauses. As in six earlier compositions, (Muzikaal zelfportret, Variazioni per orchestra, 2° Quartetto per archi, Quintetto a fiati, Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra and Musica per campane) a twelve-tone range containing all intervals within the octave identical to its own retrograde is utilized. (With this 'seventh' work the usage of these specific ranges has been exhausted). The work characterises itself further by striving towards a completion of certain aspects of serial technique, exploration (in part 2) of new possibilities for an autonomous-melodic notation, placing next to each other (in part 3) of a number of structures of a very divergent nature, without use of secondary (for example introducing or binding) elements, with the intention of showing that a compact result can be formed from this working
method. This third movement has the following structure: an authentic ' vivo ', a rhythmically, lively piece with variable meter 2/8-3/4-3/16-5/4-5/16-3/8-7/4-7/16-4/8-9/4; a fragment with a Latin-American dance rhythm which by each half-measure fall a half beat behind; two very short quotation-collages; a varied return of elements from part 2; two quotations from my own work, the musical self-portrait. Unusually, the two quotation-collages give, within moments Wagner (3 times), Johann Strauss (2 times), Pijper (2 times), Mendelssohn, Von Suppé, Beethoven, Moussorgsky and Stravinsky all come into view, as their tonal relationship suggests an imminent shifting of gears. - KEES VAN BAAREN