related works
Disco : for brass orchestra, 2001 / Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Fanfare
Scoring:
5sax 4235 3crt 3bug 5perc pf g-b
Dansen uit het Labyrint : opus 15-a, voor orkest, 1963 / Peter Schat
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl-a 2ob eh cl 2cl-b 2fg 2cfg 4h 3trp 3trb 2tb timp 3perc hp pf str(0.13.10.8.)
Symphonie no. 3 : (1934) / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 2perc str
Concerto pour orchestre / Hans Kox
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 3330 timp perc str
composition
Sinfonia : for orchestra / Geert van Keulen
Other authors:
Keulen, Geert van
(Composer)
Contains:
Moderato
Andante tranquillo.
Molto piĆ¹ mosso
Moderato
Description:
Program note (English): I was asked in 1985 to write a short piece, which could serve as an opening work of the concerts of the Student Orchestra of the Netherlands (NSO). I chose for a form, which is slightly similar to the pre-classical overture, in Italian known as sinfonia. The similarity agreement is however only of an external nature and is related solely to the three movements of the sinfonia. In my Sinfonia the first part is repeated, with many in triplet patterns in the woodwinds. The origin of the word 'sinfonia' is Greek, where it literally means agreement, harmony. Additionally among other things the intervals of fourth, fifth and octave, intervals which play an important role in the harmonious structure of my Sinfonia, as sounding together, the harmony in this work is distilled from a harmonic coming from a 'cantus firmus' in the bass. Sufficient reason to entitle the piece Sinfonia.The instrumentation is tailored to symphonic orchestra and technically to the possibilities of the NSO,
which are in no way minor. - GEERT VAN KEULEN