related works

Fusion à six : symphonic music for string quartet, bass clarinet and piano, 1980 / Joep Straesser

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string and keyboard instrument(s)
Scoring: cl-b 2vl vla vc pf

Hexa : voor twee ensembles, 1984 / Henk van der Meulen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: ensemble 1: sopr eh cl-b trb el.g el.pf vc ensemble 2: sopr/alt eh cl-b trb el.g(g-b) el.pf ham.org vc electronics

Zápisník Zmizelého : = Tagebuch eines Verschollenen (1917-1919), für Tenor, Alt, drei Frauenstimmen und Ensemble, 1999 / bearb.: Geert van Keulen, Leos Janácek

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble
Scoring: alt ten female voices (2sopr alt) 2fl(pic) ob eh(ob) cl fg cfg 2h 2trp 2trb perc cel(harm) hp 2vl vla vc cb

L' infinito : for vocal quintet and 17 instruments, 1990 / [words by Giacomo Leopardi], Tristan Keuris

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr sopr-m alt ten bas-bar 2121 1100 2perc hp pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb

composition

22 pages : for wind orchestra, double basses, percussion, harp, piano, celesta, vibraphone, xylophone, and 3 male voices, 1964/'65 / based on a text by John Cage, Joep Straesser

Other authors:
Cage, John (Text writer/Librettist)
Straesser, Joep (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): This work was composed as a result of the text by John Cage ("2 pages, 122 words on music and dance") from the collection "Silence". This text is mainly spoken and fits completely into the structure of the work and for this reason it was not treated solistically. The meaning of the words is often the motive of similar musical structures - e.g. the words "points in time in space" bring about a music, which is characterized by short, cluster-like harmonies (points), which are separated by all sorts of different durations (space) - while the direct understanding is only of secondary importance.
The work begins with an introduction (title-music) preceded and followed by a number of strokes on a high gong. The first substantial part thereafter leads to a climax, which ends with an enumeration of several human emotions. The same gong plays the introduction to the second part, which is led to a climax again but within a shorter space of time and with only a little text. Three cymbals bring a coda at which end the three vocalists address the audience with the word "ears?" - JOEP STRAESSER