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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 0000 0000 5perc str
MERZ : for voice and ensemble / Hans Koolmees, on texts by Kurt Schwitters
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
zang 2fl cl 2sax tpt 2trb tb g-e g-b perc pf/cel
Voices in the dark : for soprano, winds, bassguitar and piano, 1979 / Charles van der Leeuw
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr 1010 3sax 2220 g-b pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m fl(pic fl-a) fl(pic) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg fg-cb 2sax 2h 2trp 3trb tb 6perc
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