Jaap Cramer | Composer

Oct 28, 2018
Inventions(?)

Collection of short pieces. Written between 2014 and 2018. The name of the collection is not set in stone.
Oct 26, 2018
Canon a 2e3 (20181026)

This little canon has 1 motive that is presented in 3 ways. The first time the entry is at a major 10th, the second time the entry is at a minor 6th. The third and final round the canon has 3 voices, with entries in the before mentioned intervals. For the video I thought it...
Jul 3, 2018
Mosaic Vol. 2

The series continues! After Mosaic Volume 1 published by Editions Musica Ferrum there is now a second volume. In a review Karen Marshal writes: '’There’s some excellent content within this volume for teaching rhythm.’’ And goes on to call the piece ‘Where did you leave the keys?’ '’challenging (but worth the work)’’ and '’love the...
Jun 4, 2018
Canon (20180604)

This canon is departing from the regular form in two ways. The time in which the second entry sets in, is very short. So the phrase is not finished or presented in unison, but is imideately imitated. The second way in which this canon is different is that each phrase is not repeated in the...
Mar 19, 2018
Maaltijd Triptiek

Having written music for liturgic texts by Dutch author Sytze de Vries before, I was interested when there was a contest to set his texts to music. This price is in honor of Willem Vogel, a Dutch composer of church music. For more info (dutch) on the Festival and the price see liedfestival.nl Sytze de...

Inventions(?)