Composer Niels Rønsholdt
Instrumentation 1.0.1(t-sax)1.0/0.0.1.0/ perc/pno/gui/1.0.1.1.0/live-elec
Category 7+ Instruments
Publication year 2013
Catalogue no. B.0668
Duration 16 minutes
The Merman (version for chamber orchestra)
(2013)
(2013)
Composer Niels Rønsholdt
Instrumentation 1.0.1(t-sax)1.0/0.0.1.0/ perc/pno/gui/1.0.1.1.0/live-elec
Category 7+ Instruments
Publication year 2013
Catalogue no. B.0668
Duration 16 minutes
The Merman is a visual and musical story for chamber orchestra about a merman that crawls onto land in order to meet a mermaid, which turns out to be a sculpture. Musically it is more playful and wide ranging than Rønsholdt’s other works. The idea is that this single, dramaturgical move from a to b is shown visually as still images with the Merman’s rise out of the sea and movement over land to the meeting with the Little Mermaid at Long Line. In this way the music can freely throw light on the drama from various points of view and with different tones in the five movements. Determination in Rønsholdt’s works often ends brusquely and this is no exception: The bittersweet mood of the work culminates in the final movement with a citation from the German poet Henrich Heine’s The North Sea : "Happy is the man who has reached harbour and has the storm behind him”. This is however not how it turned out for the merman for whom land meant death and a woman who turned out to be of bronze. The works national undertone with the beach, cliffs, forest, the song about Agnete and the Merman, the Little Mermaid, Long Line, the moist, cold and fragrance of the Danish Autumn, is actually a bizarre theme for the composer who, to a high degree, can be seen as a-national and with a critical relation to the phenomenon of the national state. Therefore the work is only a tentative declaration of love for Denmark.
All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Choir Orchestra Music Drama and Stage Music Educational Music Other
Den sidste olie
2022 • Niels Rønsholdt
Music Drama and Stage Music
55 minutes
Eh, cl, bsn, 2hrn, tr, trb, 2perc, pno, vl, db & S, Ct, Mezz, Bar
Centalog
2021 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
45 minutes
String Quartet
Civilizations (version for sinfonietta)
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
23 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/hrp/pno/1.1.1.1.1 + speaker, sample playback, and choir
Breathless Moment
2016 • Niels Rønsholdt
Other
An interactive music-dramatic app for smartphone and tablet
Etude
2018 • Niels Rønsholdt
Educational Music
Cello solo
Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 2
2019 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
40 minutes
Prepared piano solo
Archive of Emotions and Experiences, Book 1
2019 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
40 minutes
Piano solo
Book of Prayers
2019 • Niels Rønsholdt
Choir
42 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.1.1/perc/pno/1.1.1.1.1 + Choir SATB w. soloists
Until Nothing Left
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
25 minutes
Accordion solo/performing accordionist, objects and audience
Country – Parts 1 & 2
2020 • Niels Rønsholdt
Orchestra
60 minutes
1/AFL.1/EH.1/BCl.1/CBn - 1.1.1.0 - perc.pno - archi (quintet or ensemble) + speaker & cello solo
Civilizations
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
Orchestra
23 minutes
2.1.1.1/2.2.1.0/perc/hrp/pno/archi + speaker, Greenlandic choir & sample playback
Gaze for Gaze
2017 • Niels Rønsholdt
Music Drama and Stage Music
90 minutes
Bass cl, trb, perc, pno, gui, vl, vla, vlc, 2 singers (male and female), 2 extras (male and female)
Drink me, make me real
2002 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
Alto saxophone, percussion & tape
Exile
2016 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
20 minutes
Female and (/or) male voice, piano and audio playback
Wir I
2005 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
8 minutes
guitar and audio playback
Shame
2016 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
19 minutes
for amplified quartet (voice, alto saxophone, piano, percussion)
Songs of Doubt
2015 • Niels Rønsholdt
Choir
50 minutes
Choir, male solo voice, and ondes martenot
Gloomy Room
2009 • Niels Rønsholdt
Solo
8 minutes
Percussion Solo
Al-Aqsa
2008 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
5 minutes
Fl, ob, cl, hn
Americana
2013 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
String quartet
Fear and loath in g minor
2014 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
Fl, cl, vn, vlc, db, pno
Me Quitte (version for orchestra)
2014 • Niels Rønsholdt
Orchestra
35 minutes
Fm voc, ma voc soli + 2.2.2.2/4.2.1.0/2 perc/pno/gui/el-gui/1.1.1.1.1
The Merman
2008 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
16 minutes
0.1.2.1/1.0.0.0/perc/pno/2.2.2.2.0 + electronics, audio & video playback
Me Quitte (full version)
2013 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
45 minutes
Female and male singers, pno, perc, gui, vl, vlc
Burning
2012 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
fl, vl, vlc, pno + film (optional electronics/audioplayback)
Me Quitte
2012 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
20 minutes
Two singers, guitar, percussion & piano
Die Wanderin
2007 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
vl, pno, perc and audio playback
Torso
2007 • Niels Rønsholdt
7+ Instruments
9 minutes
Female voice, clarinet and percussion
Archeopteryx Dances
2010 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
10 minutes
String trio
Unter den Lidern
2007 • Niels Rønsholdt
2-6 Instruments
13 minutes
Offstage string quartet, audio playback, lights and video