Here are some pieces of classical music and classical stylecopies I composed over the years. See also my fake Soundcloud attributed to The Eckmann Family!
Generations of one composer family that never existed ;-)
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Classical Music and Classical Stylecopies I Composed (see also The Eckmann Family!)

In this modest menuet I salute Beethoven, having been born 250 years ago now, and all he did for the world and for me personally. 
i ofcourse used a fortepiano. Enjoy.

(Stylecopy by Sipke Hoekstra, also known as 'The Eckmann Family' and Fugitempus. Early Beethoven Period imitation.)

Minuet for Ludwig van Beethoven

Birthday Minuet for Ludwig van Beethoven

What would Friedrich Burgmüller have been up to during lock down? 
He would probably have written something like this.
Used the magnificent UVI Fortepiano, included in UVI Orchestral Suite. Notated in Finale, but reshaped the MIDI in Cubase, mixing mastering with Waves, Izotope and Fabfilter.

Burgmülleriana

An assignment I made for Berklee College of Music, scoring for 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and a tuba

This piece is built on a simple yet practical theme by Ben Newhouse, using Spitfire BBC SO Brass and plugins by Waves, Fabfilter and Izotope.

In this piece I'm test driving Spitfire's BBC Symphony Orchestra and exploring lots of the possibilities offered. Techniques employed: legato, long, marcato, staccato, staccatissimo, cuivre, trills, sforzandi, a.o.. 

Rather impressed by the sounds and possibilities. Would have liked to have more options to adjust the envelope of a sample, the attack of it for instance. A great job by Spitfire nevertheless.

See the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05rvPDg9iYs&t=2s

Fanfare For The Common Brass

In this Berklee assignment I had to re-orchestrate a theme from Mahler's Third Symphony. It's short, but had a lot of fun in the process. 

It always struck me that the theme was so much like Brahms' main theme from the Finale of his Fourth, so I put some Brahms DNA in the beginning as well. He deserves it. 

Used BBC Symphony Orchestra by Spitfire, making a mockup after having composed and notated in Finale notation software.

Theme from The Third Reinvented | Rescoring Mahler using Brahms DNA

First I had to wrap my head around this unusual and to me unknown theme. Unusual, because it contained some eerie harmonic (Strange progressions and 3rd and/or 4th voice missing in the 2-voiced Berklee setting) secrets that I had to reconstruct first. So, before going to work I in my DAW I made some harmonic and motivic sketches in Finale. I imported those (4 stems) into Cubase and took it from there. Already while working in Finale I decided I wanted to make a heavy, dark, ominous version first, then followed by a light tarantella-like, crazy whirling waltz.

For the first version I started out with strings only: basses and violoncelli staccatissimo, covered by tremolo in the viola's. Bassoons and contrabassoons join in, legato, and bass clarinets, clarinets and violins (pizz.) provide extra rhythmic energy. When the theme is fully stated, a short, urging bridge (cresc. + accell + modulation + pitch shifts etc.) leads us onto a enchanted dancefloor (2nd version NB). This is when the full symphonic orchestra palet starts to unfold.
Violins take over the melody. Viola's and basses provide for the Waltz-rhythm, joined later on by tuba and some of the horns. Glockenspiel starts a trio with piccolo and flute, dovetailing all over the place, providing hints of mystery and dansant insanity.
In the second section of the theme trombones join in on the countermelody, trumpets (cuivré) join the violins.  Percussion starts to beat all elegance out the Waltz systematically (mechanical, soulless first beat hits by the bass drums and timpani, dito afterbeats by the snare drum (rimshots) and cymbal crashes, lots of them, just to let things explode even more.
it all suddenly comes to an end, as if Dumbledore had walked in on a forbidden party.

I used mainly BBC SO pro and plugins by Waves.

Re-orchestrating a John Williams' Harry Potter Theme

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Hello again! For long I had this wish to make a follow-up on my OASIS 1 & 2, and here it finally is, after two months of working on it, closing the trilogy. I sure took little inspiration from my part 1 & 2, however another part of my inspiration came from the so called ‘earth emotions’ by environment philosopher Glenn Albrecht. Some of his terms I used for my fragment titles:

0:00 – Symbioceen
1:46 – Terraphthora
4:33 – Terranascia
7:02 – Solastalgia
9:14 – A mor stór (uilleann hymne)
10:44 - Eutierria

My hybrid-orchestral palette:
Olafur Arnalds Chamber Waves (strings). 
BBCSO Core – Strings (vlns 1, vlns 2, vlas, celli, basses). 
Chamber strings (vlns 1, vlns 2, vlas, celli, basses).
BBCSO Core - Trumpets a3 (2x), Horns a4 (2x), Trombones a3  (2x).
Albion One – Trumpets XL, Horns XL, Brass XL.
Vocalize 3 - bass drone.
Vocalize 3 – Phrases.
Vocalize 3 – Straight pedal whispers.
Odyssey soprano solo (2x).
Eric Whitacre choir (SATB).
Eric Whitacre Evolution Choir.
Originals Epic Choir.
Rhodope 2 Bulgarian Choir.
Shakespeare’s Church organ.
Mandolin Swarms.
Euphone.
Uilleann pipes.
Duduk.
Lap steel trems.
Resonate Kalimba.
Kannel.
Mercury Solar synth pads (5x).
Albion One - Stephensons steamband syntn paths (6x).
LABS - Glacial pad.
LABS - Reqiuem pad.
Legend HZ synth patches (11x).
Mosaic Bass
Resonate Percussion kits (5x)
LABS – Foghorn
Albion Tundra – Bodhran Hotrods
Hammers Percussion – sticks, snare, darbukas, rototoms, surdos, toms, framedrums, scrap, bassdrum.
Albion One – Cymbals

I compose, mix and master using Cubase Pro 13. For mixing and mastering I’ve been using a wide range of my favorite plugins. Feel free to use the comments and ask for, if there’s a need to know more about this.

The accompanying movie I made using loads of free video footage from Pexels.com. Editing and color grading with Hitfilm and Davinci Resolve. Here's a link to the movie version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_XqDVcNM9o

Hope you enjoy this musical story.

Be well, 
Jeff Hijlkema

OASIS 3

The Frysk Jeugd Orkest won the First Prize of the National Competition of Youth Orchestra's of the Netherlands 2015, partly by performing my symphonic poem 'Saga.' 'Saga' was commissioned by the orchestra in 2013. 
The work is published  by Highland Music in Amsterdam in 2014. 

Saga | soundtrack to the life of a forgotten hero [Live performance in De Doelen in Rotterdam]

Inventio II

Inventio I

Fuga a 4 voces super Beethoven

Fuga a 3 in re

2 voces super Corelli per organo

Prelude and Fuge in g, for organ

O, spreek mij niet van Liefde, song for alto and piano

Performed by his grandson, Viktor Markus Eckmann II, just befor the latter died in 1936. Unique recording! 

Sonata for piano in d III, scherzo

Fugitempus = Sipke Hoekstra = Eckmann
Composer/orchestrator/arranger/producer of whatever music or sounds I like 
(classical stuff published by Donemus and released on Spotify)

Re-orchestrating a John Williams' Harry Potter Theme

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