related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
2zang pf str
Ante lucem : voor vrouwenstem, accordeon en percussie, 1995 / tekst: Alexander Blok, Hans van Eck
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
alt-m/sopr acc perc
Give me a break : for soprano and ensemble, 1992 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl ob sax-a fg h trb mar(vib) vl vla
composition
Insonnia : for soprano, accordion, bass clarinet and percussion / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Quasimodo, Salvatore
(Text writer/Librettist)
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
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