related works

Divertimento ostinato : for winds, strings, harp and percussion, 1988 / Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 1110 sax-a 0110 4perc hp vl vla vc

Canto : music for chamber choir and orchestra / Andries van Rossem; poem by Federico García Lorca

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring: SATB 2222 2110 perc pf str

Angel : Version for violin and piano / Maxim Shalygin

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vl pf

Mist Kiss : for viola and piano / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Viola and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vla pf

composition

Estampie : for wind orchestra, 1978, revision 1992 / Bernard van Beurden

Author(s):
Beurden, Bernard van (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): (Première: 18-12-1992 - Prinsekerk, Rotterdam - Ensemble of the Rotterdams Conservatorium, Arie van Beek, conducting) - The composition Estampie is based on four dance melodies from the 13th and 14th centuries, the so-called estampies. The structure of these melodies - both instrumentally and vocally - can be characterised by among other things a repetitive principle which results in estampies radiating in a motorised way. This motorising phenomena as well as the enormous vitality of medieval monophony formed the main departure point for joining these four dances. The earlier mentioned reoccurring principles are especially found in the percussion parts and the parts which link the dances with each other. Also because of my usage of polyphony, a certain medieval form of polyphony and the parallel organum, where the melody in equal intervals is followed by one or more voices comes forward. There where polyphony and homophony make their entrance in a 'later period', has to
do with the way in which these estampies are composed and the need to break through the reoccurrences, as stated above, and parallelism. - BERNARD VAN BEURDEN