composer
Peter Adriaansz werd in 1966 in Seattle (VS) geboren.
Opleiding
Hij studeerde orgel aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag bij o.a. Leo van Doesselaar, Bert Matter en Wim van Beek. Compositie ...
related works
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Instruments:
org
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
voice fl ob eh hp 2vl vla vlc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr fl ob eh cl cl-b 2fg 2h perc hp 2vl vla vc cb
Stap verder : for female voice, tapdancer and big band / Vanessa Lann; text by Emma Lazarus
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
zang cl-b fg 2sax-a 2sax-t 5tpt 5trb tb 2perc pf tapdancer g-e g-b
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
(librettist)
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