Notes
The Elegy
is composed for Marc's best and beloved friend: Roger Oomkens, who suddenly died
in England, january 2017, while visiting his mother. He was also cremated in
Engeland, so in The Hague non of his friends could say farewell to him and have
a closure.
After 2 piano pieces for an In Memoriam gathering for Roger, Marc did compose
this 'Requiem for Roger'.
It consists out of 3 parts:
The beginning in a sad G minor has many
imitating motifs for the many solo-instruments, singing to each other out of
space...
This passage ends with a neo gregorianic
canon for the 2 trombones, the instruments of death....
Then a dramatic Middle part follows, which goes to a dramatic climax. a sort of
Dies Irea, the day of judgement...
At the end of this part, a soft passage rises in which the solo groups play out
of the distance...
The third part paints the mystical mood of eternity... Rogers soul rises to the
higher levels of heaven, where eternity and the world music, the harmony of
spheres in eternal sounds live....
You hear the pentatonic scale of 5 tones
in harmony, the black notes of the piano...
This chord sounds many pages, with
crescendo and diminuendo in the spatial groups, like a world of sounds, which is
everywhere living in and around us....
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Voor algemene informatie
over Space Music III, de orkestopstelling, de andere delen van het 4-delige
werk, de ontstaansgeschiedenis, etc. zie DEZE LINK.
For general information about Space Music III, the orchestral arrangement,
the other parts of the 4-part work, the origins, etc. see
THIS LINK.
Hoe het werk ontstond
Het idee om iets voor een ruimtelijk opgestelde brassband te componeren ontstond
toen de componist in december 2014 naar Zuid-Duitsland reisde om een uitvoering
mee te maken van de Sylvester-fantasy door
de Brass Band Oberschwalben-Allgäu, (Dirigent: Ueli
Kipfer).
Dit orkest gaf 2 kerkconcerten, en speelde ook meerdere meerkorige werken,
waaronder Canzona's van Gabrieli, de indrukwekkende kopermuziek van rond 1600,
de Venetiaanse school van meerkorigheid, wat toen werd uitgevoerd vanaf de
balkons van de San Marco kathedraal.
Ik was altijd gek op deze muziek, wat oorspronkelijk voor
trompetten en trombones is bedoeld, maar gespeeld door deze brassband klonk
het geweldig!
Ik vatte toen het plan op om in de toekomst ook meerkorige stukken voor
brassband te gaan componeren, wat ik aan Ueli voorlegde, en wat hij een goed
plan vond.
Background
The
idea of composing something for a spatially arranged brassband originated when
the composer traveled to southern Germany in December 2014 to attend the
performance of the Sylvester fantasy by the Brass Band Oberschwalben-Allgäu,
(Conductor: Ueli Kipfer).
This orchestra gave 2 church concerts, and also played several multi choired
works, including Gabrieli's Canzona's, the impressive brass music from around
1600, the Venetian school of multi choir compositions, which was then performed
from the balconies of the San Marco Cathedral.
I was always fond of this music, originally intended for trumpets and trombones,
but played by this brassband it sounded great!
I then planned to write in the future severall pieces for brassband, what I
presented to Ueli and what he thought was a great plan.
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How the band spatialy is positioned:
In the center of the stage is the group of the tubes, the low instruments.
On the left and right side are standing two groups of higher instruments:
Cornets, Es-horns, and each group has a B flat trombone.
The group I on the right side is the best and the highest, with the Eb cornet,
flugelhorn, and has the 1st players.
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PDF:
Elegy/Requiem
Het orkestmateriaal / the orchestra material