composer
Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music; he won the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. He became a full ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Instruments:
vl
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments:
bar vl vla vc cb cga pf
Liederen en dansen van de dood : voor stem en strijkkwartet / Modest Musorgskij ; bew. Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments:
voc svl vla vc
Rilke Lieder : voor altstem en 10 blazers, 1985 / Roland Voortman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments:
alt 2fl 2ob cl cl(cl-b) 2fg 2h
composition
Insonnia : opus 34, for soprano, accordion, bass clarinet and percussion, 1986 / Jacob ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Quasimodo, Salvatore
(librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): I wrote Insonnia in December 1986 by request of a new ensemble with the enigmatic name of DC+M2. For this composition my only points of departure were the penetrating words of Salvatore Quasimodo and the bizarre instrumentation of DC+M2: mezzo-soprano, accordion, bass clarinet and percussion (marimba, vibraphone, cymbals, timpani and electronic bass drum). This combination creates an extremely varied sound-color spectrum held together by the accordion part. The music lies at the edge of tonality, and the score closely interprets the poem, which makes Insonnia quite intelligible. It ends with a sudden coda distinguished by its hammering rhythmic pattern, in which short quotations from the poem keep reminding the listener of the song of the eternal night. - JACOB TER VELDHUIS