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24 capriccio's voor viool solo

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

Arcade : six more preludes for orchestra, 1995 / Tristan Keuris

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl fl(pic) 2ob ob(eh) 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb 3perc hp str(16.14.12.10.8.)

Comfort : for orchestra, 2001, revision 2002 / Peter Adriaansz

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 4454 4451 timp 6perc pf str(16.14.12.12.8.)

Greensleeves-phantasy : voor (amateur)orkest, koperblazersgroep, blokfluitengroep, akkordeongroep en ad libitum zanggroep, 1980 / Antoon Maessen

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: School orchestra; Orchestra; Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring: (GK4 ad lib.) 2121 3221 timp perc str 3h 3trp 3trb tb rec(s-a-t) 5acc

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 Anábasis has nothing to do with my Anabasis. I chose the Greek word anábasis, 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