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Sensations : piano trio / Yitzhak Yedid.
Library shelf no. 785.2813/YED 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Sensations is a work for piano trio in one movement and
its duration is 14 minutes. As one of the compositions for Group
A it is composed with the assumption that its performers do not
necessarily have expertise in classical Arabic music,
Arabic-influenced Jewish music nor in improvisation. The work
consists of eleven main sections of eight different compositional
techniques. Within my folio Sensations is exceptional in that it
is the only work in which the individual sections are not titled.
Each section has been created with its own compositional method,
and some methods are applied several times in different sections
in the work.
The sections extend over the following bars: the 1st section in
bars 1-11; the 2nd section in bars 12-14; the 3rd section in bars
15-21; the 4th section from bar 22 until the second beat of bar
25; the 5th section from the third beat of bar 25 until the end
of bar 26; the 6th section in bars 27- 37; the 7th section in
bars 38-40; the 8th section in bars 41-53; the 9th section in
bars 54-69; the 10th section in bars 70-76; the 11th section in
bars 77-88.
The 1st and the 11th sections are perpetuum mobile toccata and
employ similar approaches and musical elements. I was influenced
by the Arabic popular folk dance Debka,1 and translated aspects
of this dance into the work. I looked at the configuration of
dance steps of Debka, and the way its dancers stomp their feet on
the ground creating rhythmic patterns, accents and percussive
attacks. The 1st section (bars 1-11) is written for solo piano,
and the 11th section (bars 77-88), the concluding section of the
work, is written for all three players. The 1st section can be
perceived as a Taqsim (a solo instrumental introduction)
influenced by a Debka. In this section, I have composed a
demisemiquaver line based on the Athar Kurd penta-chord (D, E
flat, F, G sharp, A). In order to obtain a non-legato
articulation and a percussive attack, the demisemiquavers have
been divided between the left hand and the right hand so that
each hand plays one or occasionally two notes before the other
hand enters again. The pianist plays this using a single finger
on each hand (or two when there are two notes). The combination
of single fingering and a fast tempo creates a non-legato
percussive attack. The division between the hands, which departs
from conventional Western practice, is meant to lead the pianist
to perform as if his/her fingers were drum sticks. This effect
depends on the quick single finger lifting that is required to
play the notes in time.
Work Details
Year: 2009
Instrumentation: Violin, cello, piano.
Duration: 14 min.
Difficulty: Medium
Dedication note: Dedicated to Atar Trio
First performance: by Atar Trio — 6 Dec 10. Henry Crown concert hall, Jerusalem, Israel
Videos
Sensations, by Yitzhak Yedid |
Performances of this work
6 Dec 10: Henry Crown concert hall, Jerusalem, Israel. Featuring Atar Trio.
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