related works
Barrier music : (Little piece of repression), for ensemble, 1995 / Peter Adriaansz
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
1000 3sax 1330 pf cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m 4pf 2el.org 6g 3g-b 6tops electronics
HCE : for soprano and ensemble / Robert Groslot; text by James Joyce
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
zang fl(picc/fl-a) ob hp cemb 2vn vla vc db
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
bar 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h trp trb perc fortepf cb electronics
composition
Chant ascendant : (Chants monotones part 4), for soprano (or two alternating sopranos) and ensemble, 1994/1995 / words: Jacques Prévert, adapted by composer, Peter Adriaansz
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