composer
Jan Rokus van Roosendael sought from the beginning an individual idiom that allowed him to express his leaning toward reflection and the spiritual. He initially found inspiration in non-Western music, ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Instruments:
vl
The Zombies Awake : for chamber orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2picc 2fl 2ob 2cl perc pf hp str
The Race Day : An overture for orchestra / Lowell Dykstra
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 2h 2tpt trb timp perc hp str
Concerto : for Harp and Orchestra / Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
hrp orch
composition
Anabasis : voor orkest, 1984 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
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