composer
Guus Janssen, born on May 13, 1951 in Heiloo, is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist.
Education: Guus Janssen studied composition with Ton de Leeuw and piano ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Softly Bouncing : for orchestra / Martijn Padding
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 2trb tb timp 2perc str
5 mei rapsodie : voor orkest, 1991 / Otto Deden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 0210 timp 2perc str
Ein Heldenleben : Tondichtung für großes Orchester / Richard Strauss
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 3fl 4ob(eh) 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 8h 3tpt 2tpt 3trb tb-ten tb-b timp perc 2hp str
composition
Keer : for orchestra, 1988 / Guus Janssen
Description:
Program note (English): KEER (an event presented as repetitive) consists of two sections and a long Coda. In the first section, a kind of clockwork running away with itself is depicted by the string orchestra. It plays a wave-like movement, comparable to a film of a surf played at high speed. Its violence must be stemmed (in Dutch 'gekeerd') by the rest of the orchestra; I introduced a regulation that the string orchestra is obliged to consistently imitate the 'staccato' wind chords with a 'pizzicato'. Eventually this leads to the way out of the Gordian knot of the first section. In the second section the string orchestra sets up, in an extremely high register, a diatonic scale in C, in which each pitch has its own characteristic. The setting up is achieved by means of a "switching device", with the bass drum and the cymbals acting as a switch. The Coda, finally, is a static situation, in which falling series of harmonics are continuously investigated. The pitch material of the whole piece consists
of these series of harmonics, processed in various ways. All chords are also constructed with it; hence the capricious, tonal but at the same time undirected, associations that are evoked. - GUUS JANSSEN