related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Double string quartet : for 1 or 2 string quartets, 1998 / Ivo van Emmerik
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments; Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
2vl vla vc / 4vl 2vla 2vc
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
vl vla
Killer whales : viola and four double-basses, 1978 / Ronald Kok
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
vla 4cb
composition
In the circumference of my solitude : for viola and double bass (scordatura), 1993 / Vanessa Lann
Other authors:
Lann, Vanessa
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): In The Circumference Of My Solitude is inspired by a passage in the diaries of Anaïs Nin. She describes herself lying in bed with her husband; the more his arms tighten in a circle around her, the more solitary and lonely she feels. The violist represents the woman and proceeds through a cycle of agitated tremolo and pizzicato patterns. Meanwhile the bassist envelops her nervous gestures within a different rhythmic cycle of long and heavy open-stringed (scordatura) drones. As in a number of my other recent pieces, the recognizable rhythms and pitch patterns generate a sense of cyclical expectancy. However, at the end of this piece, the players have switched 'roles', exchanging their patterns in the form of a circle. - VANESSA LANN