composer
Guus Janssen, born on May 13, 1951 in Heiloo, is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist.
Education: Guus Janssen studied composition with Ton de Leeuw and piano ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Another World : for symphony orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2ft ob 2cl fg FH trp-Bb trp-C trm perc vl1 vl2 vla vc cb
Circe : prelude for orchestra, (1972) / Willem Frederik Bon
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb timp 4perc hp pf str
Symphonie no. 2 : Prélude à la nouvelle journée, 1919-1920 / Matthijs Vermeulen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4fl(pic) 2ob 2ob(eh) 5cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 2trp-p 4trp 3trb-t tb timp 4perc xyl 2hp str
composition
Toonen : voor kamerorkest, 1980 / Guus Janssen
Description:
Program note (English): [Première: 19 oktober 1980 - Radio Kamerorkest under the direction of Ernest Bour (Donaueschingen)] - The work consists of three movements followed by a coda. In the first movement a monodic piece of music is developed into polyphony consisting exclusively of the very fast canonical treatment of the four basic motifs, which is not really polyphony. The second movement includes the repetition of the introduction at a too low and a too high speed. The four chords underlying the basic motifs also filter through now and then, but their first really clear appearance, in strings and glockenspiel, has to wait until just before the coda. In the third movement a homophonic pattern is first developed (from a pulsating fugure, by continuous shifts), followed by polyphony (merely rhythmic since at the same moment the melodic movement has stopped) caused by the rhythmic pattern running off the rails. So again there is no complete polyphony. Real polyphony comes into existence right before
the coda by a superposition of the introduction and its too fast and too slow versions. The coda is announced, being truly polyphonic but at the same time being a major musical derailment: the four "tonalities" dissolve, the four basic motifs lose their identity by merging into longer ascending and - mainly - descending lines (which didn't figure earlier in the work). The pulses (important in the third) also melt together beyond recognition and the music as a whole gets stuck as there are too many scratches in it. - GUUS JANSSEN