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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Zes symfonische epigrammen : = (Six symphonic epigrams), for orchestra, 1928 / Willem Pijper
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl fl(pic) 3ob eh 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 4trp 4trb tb timp 3perc cel str
In C : for symphony orchestra / Jan Willem van Dormolen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b hp str
Scale : le Tombeau de Mahler : for orchestra / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic fl-a) ob ob(eh) 2cl 2fg(cfg) 2h 2trp 2trb tb timp perc str ; Fern Orchester: 2h 2trp 2trb drums
composition
See-through : for orchestra, 2000, revision 2001 / Michel van der Aa
Other authors:
Aa, Michel van der
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): 'See-through' is a work with two faces. A direct, theatrical front built around an intellectual, conceptual skeleton. The harmonic material used is sparse, the piece features just 9 chords. Layers in the music change perspective. Hard cutting sounds in the percussion parts act as joints, dynamics suddenly change and the perspective shifts. Passages in the background abruptly jump to the front. The layer in the back is left to just stir up the front layerÂ’s surface. There are interruptions in the music, moments of ridged musical standstill. This happens not only in the full orchestra but also in smaller instrumental layers. Groups of musicians lose themselves in isolated autistic sequences and snap out of it to melt again into the rest of the orchestra. 'See-through' is a work about the failing of continuity. - MICHEL VAN DER AA