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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl fl-a 2ob eh 2cl cl(cl-b) 2fg 4h 2trp 3trb tb timp perc cel vibr mar hp str(12.12.10.8.6.)
Il cibo per la Musica : a musical menu for symphony orchestra / Rieteke Hölscher
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl ob 3cl sax-a h 4tpt tb 2/3timp perc str
Symphonie no. II : (1942) / Guillaume Landré
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3332 4221 timp perc str
Symphonie Nº 6 'Amsterdamse' : voor orkest / Cornelis Dopper
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4trp 4trb tb timp perc hp cel org str
composition
Circe : prelude for orchestra, (1972) / Willem Frederik Bon
Other authors:
Bon, Willem Frederik
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The piece is based on the tenth book of Homerus' Odyssey and symbolises the episode of Odysseuss' travels, when reaches the island of Circe. After transforming his crew into pigs Circe uses her charms to chain Odysseus to her bed for two years. The curse in which Odysseus is caught is symbolised in the piece in harp, vibraphone, celesta and piano, and in the middle movement in the first and second violins and oboes. The tranquillity disappears shortly afterwards as Odysseus' feelings of homesickness and military lust arise. Brass and percussion illustrate this phase in the tale. Following a large climax, which introduces the eventual departure from Circes' island, the scale passages in harp and wind instruments from the beginning return once more, but now descending, and the work concludes with a vague recollection to the beginning chords full of a southern warmth, with which the piece opened, as the drawing of the setting against which this history takes place. - WILLEM
FREDERIK BON