related works
Purcelliana : for organ (four hands-four feet), 1999 / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org 4-h
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK4 community-singing h 2trp trb 2org
Omar Khayam Songs : for choir, flute and viola / Reza Nakisa, on poems by Omar Khayam
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK fl vla
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK3 fl/ob h/fg org
composition
Requiem voor een levende : voor spreekstem, gemengd koor, 4 saxofoons, 9 akkordeons, 3 contrabassen, slagwerk, (1985) / Jacques Bank
Other authors:
Bank, Jacques
(Composer)
Contains:
Libera me
Requiem aeternam
Dies irae
Sis mortuus
Description:
Program note (English): Well into the18th century a leper victim, before being definitively banished to a leper home far from the city environs, was proclaimed 'officially dead' by the healthy fellow-citizens. To this end one dedicated, in presence of such a victim, a requiem mass and forced that person to undergo a number of fairly sinister rituals. In book dating from 1763 in Antwerp, the Antiquis Ecclesiae Ritibus, part 3, written by father Edmund Marten, explains how these ceremonial banning in several Northern French cities occurred. Departure point for Requiem voor een levende (Requiem for the living) is that ceremony which was so popular in and around Bourges. - JACQUES BANK