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
Es schweigt : for soprano and ensemble, 1993, revision 1996 / Jan van de Putte
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr 1121 1110 2perc pf 2vl vla vc cb
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
Gezien Hercules Segers : for soprano and instrumental ensemble / Elmer Schönberger
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr 2cl(cl-b) h tpt pf hp cimbalom perc 2vn vla vc db
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