Publication year 1997
Catalogue no. A.0397
Duration 8:10 minutes
Music for Chameleons
(1987)
(1987)
Publication year 1997
Catalogue no. A.0397
Duration 8:10 minutes
Music for Chameleons for wind quintet was commissioned and premiered by the Copenhagen Wind Quintet in 1988. The title was taken from a short story by the American author Truman Capote. The short story is about some chameleons that are very interested in music (especially Mozart’s piano sonatas).
However, it was not to attract chameleons that I wrote the wind quintet. It was rather these fascinating animals’ ability to change colour to match their surroundings that inspired me. Thus each instrument has been given its own colour (clarinet/red, oboe/yellow, bassoon/green, horn/blue, flute/violet), and each movement its own colour or central tone:
1st movement/red: expressive, passionate (clarinet dominant)
2nd movement/yellow: clear, acerbic. Mosaic movement where the dynamics profile various sound triangles.
3rd movement/green: excited, rushing, but always very rhythmic. The movement is characterized by a melodic as well as an accompanying layer. The layer gradually grows in volume and ends in an explosion (like a plant shoot before it erupts through the ground surface).
4th movement/blue: calm, clear, transparent. A calmly undulating soundscape, with occasional outbursts (like a fish that jumps up or the tongue of the chameleon shooting out after an insect).
5th movement/violet: mystical, magical. Typified by a primitive repeated rhythm with roots in Australian aboriginal music. This rhythm is wreathed around with expressive melodic arabesques.
- Lars Hegaard
All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Choir Orchestra Educational Music Open Instrumentation
Skulptur
2018 • Lars Hegaard
Educational Music
Accordeon solo
A New Beginning
2017 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
6 minutes
Violin, clarinet, cello, and piano
Et kort stykke for guitar
2017 • Lars Hegaard
Educational Music
4 minutes
Guitar solo
Piano Trio No. 2
2017 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Violin, cello & piano
Cantus Firmus
2016 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
2:40 minutes
fl, arpa
Vier Gedichte von Paul Celan
2016 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
7 minutes
mezzo-soprano, clarinet (Bb), piano, cello
Sextet
2015 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
Flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola & cello
Amid
2014 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Vn, vla, vlc, pno
String Quartet no. 4
2014 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
Vn, vn, vla, vlc
One Single Breath
2014 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
3:40 minutes
Guitar solo
Expressions
2013 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
9 minutes
Guitar solo
Four New Moments
2013 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Fl, vla, acc
Five Pieces on a Ground
2013 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Rec, guit
Five Pieces According To The Sator Square
2012 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
7:30 minutes
Flute solo (alternating alto flute and bass flute)
Figures in Wood and Metal
2012 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
9:20 minutes
Percussion solo
"This Is My Letter To The World"
2012 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
Mezz, pno
Greetings
2012 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
1:25 minutes
Piano solo
Clouds and Horizons
2012 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
16 minutes
Piano solo
Vertical Thoughts
2011 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
9 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/pno/1.1.1.1.1
Blåhvalen
1984 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
4 minutes
Girls choir, ob soli, 3 rec, 3 perc, arpa, 3 gui, vl1, vl2, vla
Interior Voices
2011 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
6:30 minutes
Guitar solo
Six Small Preludes
1975 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
7 minutes
Double bass
Symfoni nr. 4
2008 • Lars Hegaard
Orchestra
15 minutes
3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/4 perc/arpa/pno/archi
Like a Cube of Silence
2010 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
Vn, vlc, pno
The Dimension of Stillness
1988 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
8:30 minutes
Soprano solo + fl, gui, vlc
Preludes for yesterday, today and tomorrow
2010 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
4:15 minutes
Guitar solo
Close Encounters
2009 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
Viola and Piano
Four ways of looking at one thing
2010 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Violin and Piano
“Emanations”
2009 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Cello and Piano
Two Landscapes
2008 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
Trombone solo + org
Open Letters 3
2007 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
7 minutes
Guitar solo
Underworld
2005 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
6:30 minutes
Alto solo + cb
Points of Disappearance
2002 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
gui, vlc
Grounds, Gateways and Tunnels of Love
2002 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
fl, gui, vl
Open Letters
2007 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
5 minutes
Guitar solo
Meeting Points
2007 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
6:15 minutes
Flute, clarinet, and bassoon
Fantasy on a Beethoven-Fragment
2005 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
5:30 minutes
Guitar solo
Textures
2007 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
4 sax
Dreams
2007 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7:30 minutes
6 gui
Open Letters 2
2007 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
7 minutes
Guitar solo
Fantasy Pieces
2006 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
ob, vl, vla, vlc
Five Elements
2006 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
11:10 minutes
Wind Quintet
Moods
2005 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
Double bass solo + 2 vl, vla, vlc
Small Things
2005 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
8 minutes
Oboe solo
5 sange
2006 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
6 minutes
Alto solo + pno
Messages from Water
2006 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
5 minutes
cl, pno, 2 vl
Mandala
2005 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7:15 minutes
fl, vlc
Four Square Dances
1991 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
S-sax, A-sax, T-sax, B-sax
Invocations
1995 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
S-sax, A-sax, org
Behind
2002 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
fl, gui
Dark Strings
2002 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
Doublebass and Piano
Scarlatti in the Mist
2005 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
cl, pno, vl, vlc
Tre blomsterdigte, Skrig & Casa Blanca
2004 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
9:30 minutes
Soprano solo + fl, acc, vlc
Unfolding Limitations
2004 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
3:20 minutes
S-sax, trp, acc, cb
4 momenter
2004 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
5:30 minutes
fl, acc, vlc
Chanting-Healing-Ceremony
2004 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
11:30 minutes
S-sax, arpa
Trois poèmes d'Arthur Rimbaud
2003 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
7:30 minutes
Soprano solo + gui
The Wings of a Butterfly
2002 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
11 minutes
Harp solo
Different Worlds
2001 • Lars Hegaard
Orchestra
17 minutes
Viola solo + 1.2.1.2/2.1.0.0/timp/4 perc/pno/6.6.4.4.2
Rituals
2003 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
17 minutes
Guitar solo + fl, cl, perc, pno, vl, vlc
Worldes Bliss
1991 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
12 minutes
Organ solo
Prélude pour guitare seule – “Hommage à Chopin”
1977 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
2:30 minutes
Guitar solo
Singing Sculpture
1998 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
fl dol, gui, vl, vlc
Beings
2000 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
13 minutes
fl, cl, vibr, pno, gui, vl, vlc
Music for Improvisation (based on I Ching)
1980 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
Voice solo + ob, cl, perc, pno, gui, vl, vla
Far Calls. Coming Far
1986 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
Mezzo-soprano solo + perc, el-gui
Hölderlin-Trilogie
1998 • Lars Hegaard
Choir
7:30 minutes
mixed choir
Johann Sebastian Bach Revisited
1999 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
3 minutes
Guitar solo
Kærestens død
1998 • Lars Hegaard
Choir
5 minutes
mixed choir
Patterns of Nature
2000 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7:30 minutes
Recorder quartet
To digte af Halfdan Rasmussen
1997 • Lars Hegaard
Choir
5 minutes
mixed choir
“Den tydelige solsort”
1992 • Lars Hegaard
Choir
12:30 minutes
mixed choir a capella (SSATB)
Symphony No. 3
1998 • Lars Hegaard
Orchestra
23 minutes
3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp/3 perc/arpa/pno/14.12.10.8.6
Nogle lykkelige sekunder
1996 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
Bass solo + organ
Night Flower
1993 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
9 minutes
Mezzo-soprano solo + perc, pno, vla, cb
Map of the Human Heart
1997 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9:30 minutes
A-sax, perc
Octagonal Room
1999 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
12 minutes
Guitar solo + string quartet
Inside
1998 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
Bcl, perc, live-electronics
Chains
1997 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
8 minutes
Organ solo
Short Cuts
1999 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
ob, A-sax, cl, fg
Four Rhythmical Pieces
1999 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
7 minutes
Guitar solo
Tre aspekter af mørket
1999 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
8 minutes
Soprano solo + gui
Ambient Voices
1998 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
17 minutes
cl, pno, vl, vlc
Triptych with Objects
1997 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
1.0.1.1/0.1.0.0/arpa/pno/1.0.1.1.0
Canto
1984 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
15 minutes
Cello solo
Labyrinthus
1991 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
10:30 minutes
El-guitar solo
Drømmespor
1990 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
fl, cl, cor, perc, gui, vlc
The Journey of the Dreaming Body
1992 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
ob, arpa, vlc
Worlds Apart
1997 • Lars Hegaard
7+ Instruments
9 minutes
Accordeon quartet, perc, string quartet
Imaginary Landscape
1992 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
10:30 minutes
2 perc
5 sonogrammer for improvisationsgruppe
1979 • Lars Hegaard
Open Instrumentation
ad lib. ensemble
Four Visions
1994 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
String Quartet
13 Short Pieces
1990 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
fl, arpa, vla
Variations
1983 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
10 minutes
Guitar solo
Colours in Motion
1994 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
A-sax, acc, vlc
Four Prayers to the Four-Headed God
1995 • Lars Hegaard
Solo
6 minutes
Guitar solo
Couleurs Croisées
1987 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
11 minutes
4 gui
Partials Play
1991 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
8 minutes
fl, gui, vlc
Configurations
1988 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
3:40 minutes
Afl, gui
Duo for 2 Guitars
1974 • Lars Hegaard
2-6 Instruments
9 minutes
2 gui