related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr sopr-m ten bar GK4 2fl fl(pic) 2ob ob(eh) 3cl 3fg fg(cfg) 4h 3trp 4trb 5perc steelband 2hp str
Suite da sonar no. II : 1955 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2310 str
Skriabinade : (hommage à Skriabin), symfonische suite voor orkest, opus 60, 1982/83 / Jan Masséus
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4221 timp 2-3perc cel str
Polonaise : per orchestra, 1966 / Oscar van Hemel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3233 4441 timp perc 2hp str
composition
Mozaïeken : = (Mosaics), opus 5, for orchestra, (1959) / Peter Schat
Other authors:
Schat, Peter
(Composer)
Contains:
Lento
Allegretto grazioso
Description:
Program note (English): The Mosaics for orchestra were written in the spring of 1959. The title refers to the name of the musical set-up: a composition in which small, melodic, harmonic, rythmic and timbre-sounds function as independent data are freely associated against each other, analogously as in the way in which a mosaic is composed from colorful tiles. The usage of changing tonal patterns are created from a limited number of intervals. In this way there is a harmonic, rythmic and three melodic patterns. Additionally specific recurring dynamics play a role. The colors in the orchestra are extended with bells, vibraphone, xylophone, marimbaphone, several types of cymbals and drums, harp, celesta and piano. The form is a one movement piece (Lento) which flows into a second movement (Allegretto grazioso). The first part has been structured so that at the peak all data are heard simultaneously. The second part is an alternation between soli and tutti (7-movements), which can be compared to the
concerto grosso form with the idea that all solistic instruments take part alternatively. Mosaics represented the Netherlands during the ISCM festival in 1960. - PETER SCHAT