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Structural aspects of my music as illustrated in the tape work The Gown of Night and the cantata Like Two Branches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

Tsippi Fleischer
Tsippi Fleischer
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P.O. Box 8094, Haifa 31080, Israeltsfleischer@usa.net Fax: 972-4-8532 504
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Abstract

This article deals with two of my works, both of which were composed to literary texts in Arabic. The first is one of my shortest compositions and the second is one of the longest. The Gown of Night (1988), for magnetic tape, is based on the voices of Bedouin children articulating a text by Muhammad Ghana’im (Israel) and lasts 2 minutes and 42 seconds. Like Two Branches (1989), a cantata for chamber choir, two oboes, kanun (or piano), violoncello and a set of supplemented tar drums, is based on text by Al-Khansa – who lived in the Arabian Peninsula in the sixth century AD – and lasts 42 minutes. The ongoing process involving the composition of these two works in the late 1980s resulted in their successive appearance in 1988 and 1990.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1998 , pp. 51 - 59
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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