componist
David Rowland werd op 31 mei 1939 geboren in Exeter (Engeland). Hij overleed op 5 november 2007 te Oldenzaal.
Opleiding
Hij studeerde compositie bij Peter Racine Fricker en piano bij Arthur Alexander ...
gerelateerde werken
Roundelay : a setting of words by Thomas Nashe, for soprano and 7 instruments, 1979 / David Rowland
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
sopr fl cl perc pf vl vla vc
Vijf muzikantesken : voor vijf klarinetten, 1984 / Nico Schuyt
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Klarinet
Bezetting:
5cl
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Klarinet
Bezetting:
bh/cl-b
Varia : voor klarinetkwartet, 1980 / Meeuwis Rebel
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Klarinet
Bezetting:
3cl cl-b
compositie
Leonardo's mirror I : for clarinet, 1985 / David Rowland
Toelichting:
Program note (English): Leonardo's Mirror I, for solo clarinet was written in 1985 for Walter Hekster and first performed in the Vestzak Theatre in Enschede. The Leonardo in the title is Leonardo da Pisa, an Italian mathematician, born in the 13th century, who was the first person to express its classical proportions of the Golden Section in concrete numbers. I have used two series of numbers proposed by Leonardo da Pisa to control not only its structure of the music but also the internal relationships of pitch, rhythm, phrase lengths, etc. Since composing Leonardo's Mirror I, I have also written Leonardo's Mirror II for flute, clarinet and alto-saxophone and Leonardo's Mirror III which is an Octet for flute, clarinet, altosaxophone, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion. Each of the 3 compositions is a re-working of the ideas first used in Leonardo's Mirror I with ensembles whose increasingly larger instrumental size is also determined by Leonardo's mathematical series. - DAVID ROWLAND