Composer Ivar Frounberg
Instrumentation 3.3.3.2/4.3.3.0/mar/vibr/arpa/pno/cel/10.8.6.6.4
Category Orchestra
Publication year 1987
Catalogue no. A.0348
Duration 17 minutes
Multiple Forms
(1986)
(1986)
Composer Ivar Frounberg
Instrumentation 3.3.3.2/4.3.3.0/mar/vibr/arpa/pno/cel/10.8.6.6.4
Category Orchestra
Publication year 1987
Catalogue no. A.0348
Duration 17 minutes
Ivar Frounberg’s first three major orchestral works were written in a short span of years between 1986 and 1989. Especially the first two, Multiple Forms and What did the Sirens Sing as Ulysses Sailed by, share one basic idea. This concerns an attempt to open up the concept of musical form, so that the work we hear is no longer just one continuing narrative but contains a number of possibilities and potential combinations. Despite its title, Multiple Forms from 1986 is still one fully composed process; however, the ever-changing combination of five orchestral groups and the material they develop constitute a music that takes place in many different directions, and with many possible constellations and eventually confrontations between the individual events – not unlike the French film director Jean-Luc Godard’s claim that a motion picture should have a beginning, a middle, and an end but not necessarily in that order. The five orchestral groups are (1) three flutes (including alto), three oboes (including cor anglais), three clarinets (including bass clarinet), six violas, and four double basses, (2) two bassoons, four horns, and six cellos, (3) three trumpets and three trombones (including bass trombone), (4) vibraphone, marimba, celeste, harp, and piano, and (5) 18 violins.
All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Orchestra
Hildringstime
2004 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
13 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/perc/pno/1.1.1.1.1
...af en asylants dagbog
2004 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
48 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/perc/pno/1.1.1.1.1 (text declamation ad lib.)
Orion
2004 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
3 minutes
Percussion solo
...while oft unseen
2004 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
5 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/perc/pno/1.1.1.1.1
Aestetische Theorie
2004 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
8 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/perc/pno/1.1.1.1.1
Three of Four Expressions in Four Movements
2001 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
10 minutes
Cello solo + live-electronics
Prélude – Voyage – Jotunheim
2002 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
16 minutes
Piano solo + fl, cl, vl, vla, vlc
5 essays over tid
2001 • Ivar Frounberg
2-6 Instruments
20 minutes
sax, perc
Ilerqorsutin
1978 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
12 minutes
Mezzo-soprano and double bass (live-electronics, ad lib.)
Saxo
2000 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
14:30 minutes
Saxophone solo + live-electronics
Voyelles “O” + “U”
1999 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
Voice solo + cl, perc, pno, vla, cb
NU
1998 • Ivar Frounberg
Orchestra
26 minutes
Soprano solo + 4.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/4 perc/arpa/pno/16.14.12.10.8
Hydra
1996 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
15 minutes
Trombone solo + live-electronics
...to arrive where we started
1993 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
18 minutes
Mezzo-soprano solo + perc, pno, vla, cb
et punkts anatomi
1995 • Ivar Frounberg
2-6 Instruments
20 minutes
16 part chamber choir (4S, 4A, 4T, 4B) + live-electronics
Las armonias de la noche profunda
1995 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
7 minutes
Violin solo + live-electronics
Drømmespor
1997 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
13 minutes
Violin solo + live-electronics
...quasi una sonata
1996 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
17 minutes
Piano solo
Hoodoos
1996 • Ivar Frounberg
2-6 Instruments
7:30 minutes
String Quartet
Time and the Bell
1990 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
15 minutes
Percussion solo + live-electronics
A Dirge. “Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden”
1988 • Ivar Frounberg
Solo
10 minutes
Accordion solo
A Dirge:“Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden”
1988 • Ivar Frounberg
Orchestra
10 minutes
Accordeon solo + 2.1.A-sax, 1.1/1.1.1.0/2 perc/8.6.6.4.4
Embryo
1985 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
14:10 minutes
amplified violin solo + pno, DX7, vl, vla, vlc, tape
5 Echoes of a Sonata
1978 • Ivar Frounberg
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
cl, perc, pno
SHâTaLè
1992 • Ivar Frounberg
7+ Instruments
15 minutes
1.1.1.1/2.1.1.0/2 perc/arpa/pno/gui/1.1.1.1.1
“D”
1986 • Ivar Frounberg
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
vl, vla
Drei-Klang
1982 • Ivar Frounberg
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
fl, ob, cl, vla, vlc, cb