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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Noises in the night : homage to Degawanidah ("The peacemaker"), for orchestra / Marijn Simons
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl(pic) fl(pic fl-a) fl(fl-b) 2ob ob(eh) 2cl cl(cl-b) cl(cl-b cl-cb) fg 2fg(cfg) 4h 3trp 3trb tb 5perc str
Certus : for chamber orchestra, 1997 / Hanna Kulenty
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl-a ob cl cl-b fg 2h trp trb 2perc pf str(8.7.6.5.4.)
Genitum : voor symfonieorkest, 1977 / Daniel Brozak
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2221 4perc str
composition
Anabasis : voor orkest, 1984 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Other authors:
Roosendael, Jan Rokus van
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Although the title refers to Xenophon's account of the excursion by the Greeks through Asia-Minor, his AnĂ¡basis has nothing to do with my Anabasis. I chose the Greek word anĂ¡basis, which means something like: "rise, or uprising, upstream, elevation"... etc. to describe the escalating passages (in small intervals) and the fast development (in large intervals). The pillars of this composition are formed by a recurring, rapidly rising Rakete"-motif, the pediment with its slowly rising and falling structure. The material exists from five different ranges built from three tetrachords. Through the usage of these tetrachords (in total four types) the musical language becomes somewhat modal in character. Anabasis is a composition with many contrasts: fast-slow, aggression-resignation, light-dark, movement and eventually at the end, following the last pillar, rest. - JAN ROKUS VAN ROOSENDAEL