Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreKadosh Kadosh and Cursed : for fourteen players [eScore] / Yitzhak Yedid.by Yitzhak Yedid (2020)
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Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed was inspired
by the Temple Mount in Jerusalem - the holy yet explosive place,
sacred to Muslims and Jews alike - and that my work is a
documentary of sorts, about a blessed place (Kadosh
Kadosh), which is also a locus of curses, of intra-religious
violence. Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed is therefore a
conflicting homage to my hometown, Jerusalem. The work, in two
parts, consists of twenty-four connected tableaux, or musical
scenes, that bridge the variegated compositional approaches
originating from two remote, opposing musical traditions: on the
one hand from Arabic art music and Mizrahi (Arabic-influenced,
Jewish) Piyyutim (liturgical and paraliturgical ornate songs),
and on the other from European traditions, avant-garde music, and
improvisation.
Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed begins with an uproar followed
by a quiet, unnerving, and asymmetrical rhythmic section growing
towards a slow-building climax. This climax reflects the key
attributes of the work as a whole: energetic, passionate, and
unyielding. The few pauses in the score are full of tension,
catapulting continuous forward motion through coherent transition
from chordal to heterophonic, multi-voiced sections. The section
entitled "Arabic-music like" is naturally woven through a
chromatic transition from the first one. The texture travels
naturally from 'the east' to 'the west,' reflecting the sounds
one hears in Jerusalem, the 'loaded and explosive place' that
inspired the work." The composer further describes Kadosh
Kadosh and Cursed as "a meeting point between the ancient
and the new, and between historic and current events, in both
musical and philosophical, human terms. My interest in textures,
derived from micro-intonations of Jewish tunes, led me to compose
a multi-layered texture and to embed a Baqashot-Piyyut of
Sephardic music into the sound of textural harmony in order to
create a strange, surreal atmosphere.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (72p. -- B4 (landscape))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 16 mins
First performance by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt at Azrieli Music Prizes gala concert (Live streaming event (online only)) on 22 Oct 2020
Includes program notes.
Winner of the 2020 Azrieli Prize.
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