related works

Un beau baiser : from the opera 'George Sand'; for choir a cappella / Louis Andriessen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK4

Passage à 3 : for violin, accordion and piano / Frédéric Devreese

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: vn acc pf

Darkness will fade into Scarlet Lust : for ensemble / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: rec mel pf vln vc

Music and space : rondo, for 2 organs and 5 brass winds / Piet Kee

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 3trp 2trb 2org

composition

Dubbelspoor : = (Double track), for ensemble and tape, 1986, revision 1994 / Louis Andriessen

Other authors:
Andriessen, Louis (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Dubbelspoor was originally written as an hour-long dance piece, choreographed by Beppie Blankert, and involving spoken texts by Samuel Beckett (Texts for Nothing). In the original performance the audience is seated in front of a mirror in which they can see the reflection of a dancer. This dancer performs on a stage behind the audience and is soon joined by a second dancer, also visible in the mirror but not on the same platform. Gradually the perception of the space alters as the audience realises that this second dancer is performing on the other side of the mirror, which is also functioning as a window: "the music is about mirroring". A harpsichord solo is presented, doubled (mirrored) and extended by the piano, then again doubled by glockenspiel and celesta. Regular use is made of "shadow melodies", where some notes sound more clearly because a nearby note drops away. Dubbelspoor was revised as a concert piece in 1994. - LOUIS ANDRIESSEN