Henk Badings
Gedenckclanck
Suite nach holländischen Motiven (1938)
for orchestra
Duration: 28'
Instrumentation details:
3 3 3 2 - 4 3 2 0 - timp, perc - hp, cel, pno - str
Badings - Gedenckclanck for orchestra
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Work introduction
Based on Dutch
themes, this suite for orchestra consists of seven movements, the material
mainly derived from folksongs from the 80 Years’ War between the Netherlands and Spain. Collected and then published
in 1626 by a notary named Valerius, Henk Badings adopted the title of the memorial
compilation for his suite.
Badings uses
the songs in the same way a composer develops his own thematic material,
whereby melodic, rhythmic and harmonic variations often transform them into
constructs in which the sources are barely discernible.