{"id":42,"date":"2016-01-14T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:53","slug":"andriessen-zilver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/andriessen-zilver\/","title":{"rendered":"Andriessen &#8211; Zilver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Andriessen<\/p>\n<p>Zilver (1994)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2 percussionists<\/p>\n<p>7 players total<\/p>\n<p>Flute, Clarinet, Vibraphone, Marimba, Piano, Violin, Cello<\/p>\n<p>Approx. 15\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind Zilver was to write a chorale variation as Bach did for organ: a long, slow-moving melody, combined with the same melody played faster. The ensemble is divided into two groups: the wind and strings play the sustained melody in chorale-like four-part harmony, and the rest of the instruments \u2013 vibraphone, marimba and piano \u2013 play increasingly fast staccato chords. The two groups play in canons.<\/p>\n<p>Zilver is one of a planned series of chamber pieces named after a type of physical matter. Hout (\u2018wood\u2019) is the first, and Zilver (\u2018silver\u2019) is the second. The title also refers to the two silver instruments \u2013 flute and vibraphone \u2013 which start and end the piece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Louis Andriessen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Tyler Flynt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Andriessen Zilver (1994) &nbsp; 2 percussionists 7 players total Flute, Clarinet, Vibraphone, Marimba, Piano, Violin, Cello Approx. 15\u2019 &nbsp; The idea behind Zilver was to write a chorale variation as Bach did for organ: a long, slow-moving melody, combined with the same melody played faster. The ensemble is divided into two groups: the wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}