Sheet Music Archive - Concustic

The four temperaments

Johan de Wit — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:31:20 +0000

for clarinet choir by Johan de Wit
Duration: 25 minutes of music
with narration or presentation up to one hour.

Hearing and seeing:
5 sentences
Melancholic: https://youtu.be/z3PfSi-mhNY
Choleric: https://youtu.be/kWMoFSigi74
Phlegmatic: https://youtu.be/Du8os4YoYfk
Return of the Choleric: https://youtu.be/PPxBSURfta0
Sanguine: https://youtu.be/tvgQExKQwvg

Image: Mieke de Wit

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1953

Johan de Wit — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:38:06 +0000

On February 1st, 1953, a natural disaster occurred in the southwest of the Netherlands. A storm surge covered the islands of the province of Zeeland, South Holland and parts of West Brabant. The composer Johan de Wit comes from this area and knows the impact of this flood on the lives of many. He dedicates this work to the silent suffering of the bereaved (the trauma would never be discussed, or often only in old age). World premieres during the 60th anniversary celebrations in Tholen and Vlissingen in 2013 with choirs from the disaster area and the symphonic wind orchestra of the Free Waldorf School Kassel.

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Passepied for Brass Band

Johan de Wit — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:59:05 +0000

“For a long time I had been concerned with the question: is it possible to transfer Debussy’s musical language on a brass band? I took the piano piece Passepied from Suite Bergamasque and adapted it very freely so that the goal of fitting French music into an English format could succeed. ” (Johan de Wit)

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The Long Walk to Freedom

Johan de Wit — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:04:31 +0000

When Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013, de Wit began to write down “The Long Walk to Freedom” on the same day. Originally for a string quartet, actually also planned for an alto part, because he had wanted to set South African poems by Ingrid Jonker for a long time anyway. In the months that followed, the piece was transformed into a thoroughly composed three-movement work for euphonium, string orchestra and percussion.

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Reflections on a tombstone

Johan de Wit — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:04:55 +0000

for symphonic wind orchestra
Composed by Johan de Wit
Duration: 9 minutes
Difficulty level 4-5

Photo by David Anderson on Unsplash

Hearing and seeing

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En Chantant ver l’abime

Johan de Wit — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:03:46 +0000

En Chantant vers l’abîme – Singing to the abyss. The work describes, for example, the way in which we as humanity deal with Mother Earth. Cheerfully whistling into the verdirb. Singing loudly on the abyss. Johan de Wit composed this work in 2006. Well before the financial crisis and the “Fridays for Future” movement. Anyone who walks through the world awake has seen since 1972, when the Club of Rome published its report “The Limits to Growth”, that we all clearly close our eyes as a community and do not move. En chantant vers l’abîme is an ode to everyone who points the finger at politics and corporations, but doesn’t question their own lifestyle.

Der Beitrag En Chantant ver l’abime erschien zuerst auf Concustic.