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
Scoring:
vl
Four songs on poems by e.e. cummings : for soprano and guitar, 1993 / Wim de Ruiter
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr g
Übergänge : für Mezzosopran, Bratsche und Klavier, 12. Folge, 1955, Text"nach U" / Fré Focke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m vla pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang trb perc vn vc
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