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:
bas-bar 1020 1110 2perc hp cemb(cel pf) vl vla vc tape
Trois poèmes en prose : for soprano and orchestra, 1995 / text: Baudelaire, Diderik Wagenaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr 2242 2111 2perc hp harm 2pf 4vl 2vla 2vc 2cb
L'autunno di Christina : Dramatic scene for soprano and large ensemble / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-solo fl/picc ob/eh cl-cl-b fg tpt h trb-t/trb-b pf 2perc 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