related works
Troost voor Daisy : voor viool solo, 2004 / Guus Janssen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Suite : voor jeugdorkest, Utrecht, winter 1954 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
School orchestra; Orchestra
Scoring:
fl ob cl trp perc pf str(vl vc)
Sinfonia no. 8 : opus 144 / Herman Mulder
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp perc 2hp pf str
Cupid shoots his dart : Version for orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2trp 2trb 2perc hp pf str
composition
Keer : for orchestra / Guus Janssen
Other authors:
Janssen, Guus
(Composer)
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