related works
	
			Genre: 
		
		Vocal music
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Voice and large ensemble
	
			Scoring: 
		
		sopr/2sopr 1110 0000 2perc man g hp pf/cemb vl vla vc cb
	
Der tolle Mensch : stem en ensemble, 2003 / Maarten Altena
	
			Genre: 
		
		Vocal music
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Voice and large ensemble
	
Keats I : for high voice and chamber orchestra, 1997 / on words by John Keats, Maarten Altena
	
			Genre: 
		
		Vocal music
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Voice and large ensemble
	
			Scoring: 
		
		high 2222 2220 2perc pf vl 2vla 2cb
	
Ereprijs in haar keel : voor sopraan en ensemble / Chiel Meijering; lyrics by Piet Gerbrandy
	
			Genre: 
		
		Vocal music
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Voice and large ensemble
	
			Scoring: 
		
		pic fl cl sax-s sax-a h trp 2trb tb perc pf g-el g-b
	
composition
				Chant Ascendant : for soprano (or two alternating sopranos) and ensemble / Peter Adriaansz; text by Jacques Prévert
			
					
										Other authors:
									
									
									Prevert, Jacques
									(Text writer/Librettist)
								
							Adriaansz, Peter
									(Composer)
								
							
							Description:
						
						
						Program note (English): 'Chant ascendant' is the fourth and most virtuoso part of the cycle 'Chants monotones' and deals, as the title infers, with ascension. Its text is a free adaptation of Jacques Préverts 'Cortège' , in which a basically nonsensical and enumerative text is gradually unravelled, set to rhyme, forgotten and dissected until the only adjective (formerly disguised as noun) remains at the ending of the piece. The dramatics of the 'Chant ascendant' are entirely determined by the speed and manner of text-recitation. Technically it is an exercise in 5-part counterpoint. The cycle as a whole deals with various aspects of minimal change explored in a maximal manner. Main inspiration lies in the quasi-non-eventfulness of recitative, the ritual of repetition in the dramatics of textual enumeration and the desire to say the maximum with a minimum of material. 'The title Monotone' does not betray a desire to make boring music but, rather, to investigate the possibilities of static surfaces. -
PETER ADRIAANSZ