Aan een Moeder
Timothy J. Brown
About this work:
This work is for 8-part unaccompanied chorus. It uses a text by Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928). The text is in Flemish (Dutch) and is a poem written to amother in World War I whose son fell in battle. It uses tone clusters, a synthetic scale, serialism, and shouting & whispering in a few places. There are frequent meter shifts.
Year composed: 2004
Duration: 00:15:36
Ensemble type: Chorus, with or without Solo Voices:Chorus, Unaccompanied
Instrumentation: 2 S, 2 A, 2 T, 2 B