related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp 3perc str
Arcadia : for orchestra / Vleggaar, Giel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(pic) 2ob cl cl-b fg cfg 4h 2trp 2trb tb perc pf(cel) hp str
Procurans odium : per orchestra, 1984 / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl cl-b 4h 2trp 3trb tb timp perc hp str
composition
Symphony Nº 2 : for synthesizer and orchestra / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Contains:
Invocation
Plain chant
Pantomime
Description:
In 1986, the composer wrote: I composed my Second Symphony between August 1985 and February 1986. After 15 years of dealing with the subject, my fascination about the development and possibilities of the modern electronic keyboard, the synthesizer made me decide to this risky enterprise. A risk,yes, as today's musical literature shows no comparable examples, so writing music for the combination of electronic and acoustic instruments demands a high degree of imagination. Nowadays synthesizers contain an enormous variety of sound, pitch and new expression-capacities. The only shortcoming is their literal synthetic sound-source as well as the fact that the acoustic transformation needs the use of loudspeakers. Electronic keyboards demand a complete new approach in technique. I am convinced that within the development of contemporary orchestral- and chamber-music synthesizers will play an important role, far more than the age of electronic experiment during the 50s and 60s did. Time will tell ...