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Musique Surrealistique : for soprano, clarinet and piano / music and text by Hanna Kulenty Majoor

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Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr cl pf

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl ob cl cl-b sax-a 2trp el.g

Tracery : bass clarinet and four percussion players, 1979 / Rob du Bois

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: cl-b 4perc

Quodlibet : voor slagwerk, piano, basklarinet en strijkkwartet, 1979 / Otto Ketting

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: cl-b 2perc pf 2vl vla vc

composition

Stretto : for flute, clarinet, guitar and violoncello, 1998 / Hanna Kulenty

Other authors:
Kulenty, Hanna (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): (Premiere: September 21, 1999 - Music Academy Warsawa - Mikael Helasvuo, Kari Kriikku, Jukka Savijoki and Anssi Karttunen).

As the title suggests Stretto, this composition is written on the basis of 'tightening' a certain melodic theme, which on the basis of a fugato appears in different instruments according to the scale model, E - F sharp - F - G - G sharp - B flat - A - B - B flat - C - B - C sharp - D - E - E flat - F - F sharp etc. The tightening is so 'effective' that only the first sounds of the themes remain, giving the 'clean' scales (models), which in quick unison progress weave in and out of one another in different keys up to a culmination. - HANNA KULENTY