composer
Bernard van Beurden was born in Amsterdam on the 5th of December, 1933. He started playing the violin when he was 8 years old and at the age of 11 ...
related works
Tout à coup(e) mondiale : pour accordéon seule, 1986 / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Accordion
Scoring:
acc
Les mortels : voor 6-stemmig gemengd koor a cappella, opus 19-A, 1986 / Huub Kerstens
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK6
The Rock We all Push : Version for saxophone orchestra and tape / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Electronical music
Subgenre:
Saxophone with electronics
Scoring:
sax tape
Three poems of Ben Jonson : for male voice and piano, 1949-1966 / Sas Bunge
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bas pf
composition
Estampie : for wind orchestra, 1978, revision 1992 / Bernard van Beurden
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