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Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Band
Scoring:
rec-s 2sax-s 2sax-a sax-t sax-bar 2bugle 2h 2tpt 2trb(trb-b) euph tb-b 4timp 4perc
Improperia : voor contralto solo, dubbel gemengd koor en instrumenten / Karel Goeyvaerts
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
contralto 2SATB fl ob/ca cl timp vla vc
Dark night : for bass-baritone and string quartet, 1988 / poem by Henk van Lunsen, Jan van Amerongen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bas-bar 2vl vla vc
Cimbalom Concerto "Invisible Cities" : for cimbalom and orchestra / Patrick van Deurzen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 2h perc pf(cel) str
composition
Estampie : for wind orchestra, 1978, revision 1992 / Bernard van Beurden
Other authors:
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