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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr fl(pic) ob cl cl-b perc cel hp 2vl vla vc cb
Mei : voor fluit en strijkkwartet, 1974 / Alex Manassen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind and string instrument(s)
Scoring:
fl 2vl vla vc
Cyclofonie IV : voor altblokfluit en 9 strijkers / Hans Kox
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind and string instrument(s)
Scoring:
rec-a 6vl 2vc cb
Estremi : per oboe, violino, viola e violoncello, (1967) / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind and string instrument(s)
Scoring:
ob vl vla vc
composition
... en souvenir de Shalimar' : for 5 saxophones and 5 string instruments, 1997 / Christina Viola Oorebeek
Author(s):
Oorebeek, Christina Viola
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The idea of 'sculpted sound' occupied me while writing the piece, trying to create a sound that expands and rotates like a kind of aural hologram. The strings and saxophones mix and blend in various ways to achieve this effect. Dynamics are of great importance in this interplay between the two instrumental groups, so that their timbres can create a melded sound. The piece is based on a mirrored modus spreading fanlike outward from e' and f''. The form is inspired by the 'alap', the introductory form of an Indian raga, in which the notes of the modus are slowly introduced through fragments of the melodic material. The complete melodic theme is not heard until the soprano saxophone solo, in the last third of the piece. "...en souvenir de Shalimar' - worn images mirrored in broken bits of mosaic, the emptying fountain in the Moghul gardens of Shalimar". - CHRISTINA VIOLA OOREBEEK