Programmatoelichting 'De Stijl'

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name: nl Programmatoelichting 'De Stijl'
headline: en Program notes 'De Stijl'; nl Programmatoelichting 'De Stijl'
creator: Louis Andriessen
articleBody: en Duration: 25 For: 4 sopranos, a dancer and large ensemble De Stijl is, in Piet Mondriaan's own words, a musical image of Mondriaan's Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue from 1927, but exclusively on a conceptual basis. Just as in the painting, 5 colours are confronted with each other in this work: the 4 sopranos and trumpets, the 4 saxophones and horn, the trombones and the guitars, the piano solo and the lower instruments. The low instruments play a disco-like theme of 24 bars, structurally related to the boogie-woogie that Mondriaan loved so much. Mondriaan himself plays the piano solo, escorted by a dancer. After all, Mondriaan was still taking dancing lessons at the age of 70. He danced erect, with his head slanted upwards making "stylised" steps. In the work there are many references to dance music, and not only from Mondriaan's time. Although the style is adapted to the musicians of Kaalslag, it definitely does not intend to fall for a "lighter" way of composing music. Much as Mondriaan recognised the progressive quality of the American jazzbands (he used to express this in French "chasse-bande"), he also wrote in an extensive letter about neo-plasticism to Nelly van Doesburg (July 17, 1921): I don't think dance music may as yet be counted as serious music. The text sung in the work is a fragment from Schoenmaeker's Beginselen der Beeldende Wiskunde (Principles of Visual Mathematics). This chapter about absoluteness of the first order has, in my opinion, been of a decisive influence on Mondriaan's development towards abstract painting. In any case, Schoenmaeker's way of thinking and writing has directly influenced Mondriaan's articles for De Stijl. Louis Andriessen, July 1985
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Identifier: ark:/23946/bXV3Bs

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