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
Symphony of Waltzes : for symphonic orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3fl(picc) 3ob 2cl cl-b 2fg fg-c 4h 4trp 4trb tb timp 3perc pf str
La tour qui chante : for small orchestra, 1991 / Maurice Horsthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
0011 1010 hp str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
0000 0000 3timp str 3trb-solo
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