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Genre:
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Subgenre:
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Scoring:
vl
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Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s); Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium fl 2vl vla vc / medium fl str(vl vla vc)
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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
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Lalage's Monologues : for soprano, violin and piano / Hans Kox
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
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composition
The harp of fire : for soprano and 6 instrumentalists, 1991 / poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Other authors:
Tagore, Rabindranath
(Text writer/Librettist)
Roosendael, Jan Rokus van
(Composer)
Contains:
The harp of fire
His road
Song of the boat
Fancy
The harp
Description:
Program note (English): The harp or fire, a song cycle on text by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, consists of five songs with each their own character and which are linked through the use of cyclic forms. 1. The harp or fire : polycyclical, this means: each voice has a certain cycle differing in length from the other voices. Finally they all end up simultaneously in a cadenza. - 2. His road : rhythmically cyclical, this means: the song has been written in tintal-tala (rhythmic cycle of 16 counts). - 3. Song of the boat : rhythmically cyclical, this means: the song has been written in rupaktal-tala (rhythmic cycle of 7 counts). - 4. Fancy : polycyclical with polytempi (the same principle as in song 1; please refer). - 5. The harp : rhythmically cyclical, this means: the song has been written in tala of 15 counts. - JAN ROKUS OF ROOSENDAEL