related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sextet : for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 violoncellos / Rudi Martinus van Dijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
2vl 2vla 2vc
Five for Five : String quintet nº 1 (with possible amplification) / Hanna Kulenty
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
2vl vla vc cb
Where two can go : Seven fragments for violin and cello / Lowell Dykstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
vln vcl
composition
In the circumference of my solitude : for viola and double bass (scordatura), 1993 / Vanessa Lann
Author(s):
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