gerelateerde werken

Fleurs du mal : 1980/81 / [texte] (Ch. Baudelaire), Wim Laman

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting: sopr-m/alt fl(fl-a) fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl cl-b fg fg(cfg) 2sax 4h 2trp 2trb tb 3perc str(0.10.8.0.) tape vl-solo

Macho : for wind ensemble, piano and double bass, 1991/1992, (revision 1992) / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting: 3222 3sax 2331 pf cb

Notturno I : per quatordici strumenti, 1982 / Jos van Amelsvoort

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting: 2232 4000 cb

Verdikte Paalwortel : for ensemble / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting: 2fl/picc cl/cl-b sax-a/sax-s sax-bar/sax-s 2h tpt 2trb tb perc pf gtr-e bass-e

compositie

Pancabana : for twelve players, (1983/86) / Wim Laman

Overige auteurs:
Laman, Wim (Componist)
Toelichting:
Program note (English): In various cultures, past and present, numerology has an important place in thinking: it lends a pretence of rationality to the inexplicable. The classic example is of course Pythagoras: the cosmic harmony; all things, in their mutual relations, can be reduced to numeric proportions.
In Pancabana the figure 5 plays a central role, but by no means with the intention to make the music more mysterious than it is by magic tricks or secretiveness: music is and will remain a metaphor for what is going on in the world of human emotion and thought (unless that is a myth..). Directly connected with the figure 5 is a geometrical figure, a five-pointed star that can be drawn in one streak: the pentagram. This figure represents numerous symbolic meanings, and especially that of the Golden Section. The latter aspect has been of importance in Pancabana's set-up.

The work consists of 5 movements - the first and second merging into one another without interruption, and the same applies to the fourth and fifth. So for the ear it is a matter of a three-part work. In parts 1 + 2 and parts 4 + 5 the piano dominates; in the slow third part the harmonium acts as an axis of harmonies characterized by fourths.

Point of departure is 5 five-tone chords (each of these used freely within the bounds of its possibilities of inversion and transposition); 5 rhythmic figures and their mirror image; 5 melodic types.. in short, enough to suggest a straightjacket scheme. Nothing of the sort, however.

Systematism is relativized by compositorial irony - as the stern geometrical figure can be related to the human shape. An intuitive (this does not mean: irrational) handling, therefore, of self-formulated rules of play, in order to create dynamic music that may be associated, if desired, with the love-god Kâmadeva's surname - in the Bengalese 'Gitagovinda' epic -: Pancabana (= 'the Five-arrowed'), but this is neither necessity nor condition.. - WIM LAMAN