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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr cl pf vl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12) and orchestra
Scoring:
ten 3bar bas 3343 3sax 4332 3perc 3mar 2hp str
The food of love : for mezzo-soprano, tenor and chamber orchestra, opus 43, 1997 / Peter Schat
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12) and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m ten 2222 2100 hp perc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12) and instrument(s); Vocal ensemble (2-12) and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr bar fl cl pf 2vl vla vc cb / sopr bar 1010 0000 pf str
composition
Musique pour l'homme : pour ensemble vocal et orchestre / Joep Straesser
Other authors:
Straesser, Joep
(Composer)
Contains:
Quartet I-Aria I-Quartet II
Duet I-Intermezzo I-Terzet-Intermezzo II-Duet II-Intermezzo III
Quartet III-Aria II-Quartet IV
Description:
Program note (English): There are 3 movements: in the first and third movement, attempts are made for a continuity of musical flow as large as possible. The various sections flow into one another and together they form a musical whole. In the second movement, as a contrast to the other two, an effort was made to achieve the maximum degree of non-continuity. The musical flow is, even within the various sections, constantly interrupted by pauses. The three Intermezzi, in which the voices are used instrumentally, are again interruptions between the various sections. It was not the composer's intention to "depict" the text. In the first place, the words are being used as sound material and are often split into syllables and so divided over the various voices. In both arias, the words are often split into very prolonged syllables (mostly vowels). Therefore, the text will not be very audible in the major part of the work. At certain moments however, typical key-words such as: "l'homme, femme, droit,
liberté" , or key-sentences such as: "tout individu a droit à la vie or nul ne sera soumis à la torture, ni à des peines ou traitements cruels" can be clearly understood. Perhaps one could make a comparison between this technique of composition and the endless stream of words by which our human existence is characterized and in which merely now and then a word can be heard that is worth listening to. - JOEP STRAESSER