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VOCAL COMPOSITIONS (voice and instruments)



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MAGNETIC TAPES
AND MULTIMEDIA


Abbreviations:


VMM  Vienna Modern Masters

Complete or partial scores for most of Tsippi Fleischer’s compositions are available here, in accordance with the composer’s agreements with the publishers. Links to scores appear in the Publisher column in the List of Works.

Israel Music Institute (IMI)

First pages only scanned. To purchase scores and rent parts, contact IMI (details below).

Israeli Music Centre (IMC)

Full scores scanned. To rent parts, and for information on performance rights, contact IMC (details below).

Furore Verlag (FUE)

First pages only scanned. To purchase scores and rent parts, contact the publisher (details below)

Self-published (MS)

Full scores scanned. For information on performance rights, please consult ACUM and/or the performing rights organisation in your country.

Opuses released by IMI: In the Publication column (PDF) the 3 first pages of music appear
Opuses released by IMC: In the Publication column (PDF) the score appears in full
Opuses without any publisher (owned by Tsippi Fleischer): in the Publication column (PDF) the score appears in full.

Manuscripts and other materials on all works can be found at Archiv Frau und Musik (Frankfurt am Main), the National Library of Israel (Jerusalem) and IMI (Tel Aviv); for details, press here.

   
Composition Op. Ensemble Duration Year of
Composition
Publication On CD Video Audio
Sample
Selected
Notations
Appeal to the Stars
Text: from Babylonian prayers to the gods of the night
(in Old Babylonian)
Multimedia No. 3 out of Four Old Winds
    A series of four
    multimedias  
    sung in old Semitic
    languages
    

Performed worldwide:
Gaza 1995  
Frankfurt 2001
Frankfurt 2003
Los Angeles 2015
Frankfurt 2016   

28 6 women singers
who also play 3
alto-recorders, zurne,
drums, iron-sticks and
palm-tree branches
15:00 1993-4

Fue 6520

PDF

Opus One 181
At the End of the Ways
Text: Uri Zvi Grinberg (in Hebrew)

50 Baritone and cello
(elaborated as a computerized oratorio)

14:00 1998-9

PDF

VMM 1060  
Ballad of Expected Death in Cairo
Text: Sallah Abd El-Sabur (in Arabic)

Performed worldwide:
Paris 1989
Washington 1992
Alaska 1993
Jerusalem 2008

20

20a



20b


Version 1:
Tenor,3 violins, piano


Version 2:
Mezzo-sop., 2 violins, viola, piano
14:00 1987

IMC 265 I
PDF - P.V
PDF Full

Fue 7610
PDF


VMM 2023


Schwann-Koch
Aulos 3-1420-2


Aulos Musicado 66063







 
Daniel in the Den of Lions
Text: from Daniel 6, with a few inserted verses from
Psalms 2 and 3 (in Coptic)
[Director: Dina Hoffman]
Multimedia No. 4 out of Four Old Winds
    A series of four
    multimedias  
    sung in old Semitic
    languages

Performed worldwide:
San Francisco 1995
Cairo 1996  
Galilee and Jordan Valley 1996
Kassel 1998
Jerusalem 2010  
London 2011  


29 Video-Art: baritone,
men's choir, string quartet
20:00 1995

IMC 868

PDF

Opus One 181


 
GIRL BUTTERFLY GIRL
Song-cycle
Texts: Lebanese and Syrian poets


Song no. 1 - Piece of Earth
Text: Fuad Rifka

Song no. 2 - Eyelids
Text: Shauki Abi Shakra

Song no. 3 - The Coffin with Its Lid Remote
Text: Muhammad al Maghut

Song no. 4 - Girl Butterfly Girl
Text: Unsi al Haj


English translation:
Gila Abrahamson

Performed worldwide:
Gaza 1986
New York 1989
Barcelona 1989
London 1992
Rome 1996
St. Petersburg 1997
Budapest 2000
Los Angeles 2001
Jerusalem 2008
MÜnster 2012
Tel Aviv October 2021
Jerusalem December 2021

4
Different vocal-instrumental combinations, as detailed below:    

IMI 6228

Soprano, flute (or nay, or violin) and piano (or qanun, or ud); sung text: Arabic / Hebrew / English 10:00 1977/1987

IMI 6228-I
PDF
Master Score

Soprano, recorders and harpsichord. Sung text: Hebrew 10:00 1977/1987

IMI 6228-II
PDF

Mezzo, flute and guitar. Sung text: Arabic 10:00 1977/1987

IMI 6228-III
PDF

Mezzo, flute and piano. Sung text: Hebrew 10:00 1977/1987

IMI 6228-IV
PDF

Soprano, flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano, violin, viola & cello. Sung text: Hebrew 10:00 1977/2011

IMI 6228-VIII
PDF

Soprano and chamber orchestra. Sung text: Arabic 10:00 1977/2012

IMI 6228-IX
PDF

Hataklit 35362

Opus One 158

Schwann-Koch
Aulos 3-1420-2

& Aulos Musicado 66063
Song no. 4 a-cappella
in Arabic


VMM 2023

Opus One 175

Documentary-
Educational CD
devoted to this
song-cycle -
"Girl Butterfly Girl: A World Journey"
[2005]

Innovated Classics
(IMI)
* There are more versions. All versions are located in the Hebrew University Archives, The Jewish National & University Library, Music Department, No. Mus. 121 A, files 2, 3, 4, [op.4].

Girl Butterfly Girl – A New Flutterby

Lebanese and Syrian poets, from the song cycle Girl Butterfly Girl, Opus 4

80

Piano, violin, cello, voices & magnetic tape 05:00 2019 MS
PDF
   
Hexaptychon
Piece no. 2 out of six short chamber pieces after Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's text "I'm Sick of You" (in Arabic)

Performed worldwide:
Tel Aviv 2004  

37




Contralto and Baroque
ensemble of oboe,
harpsichord and cello
5:00 1996-7

IMI 7175 I

PDF

Opus One 175  
LEAD LIFE I
Song-cycle of five songs

Performed worldwide:
Wuppertal 2002
Tel Aviv November 2009

52




Version for female voice and piano




35:00 2001-2 PDF

" Weltschmerz"
Song No. 1
by Furore
Verlag, Kassel

Cat. no. 6530

PDF 52a

MS
Two Family Songs
PDF 52b

Le ciel, est…
PDF 52c

Vals of the Devil
PDF 52d

Kupite Luk
PDF 52e

VMM 1060  
See details of the 5 songs in the following version for soprano and instrumental ensemble

LEAD LIFE II
Song-cycle

60-64


Version for soprano
and instrumental
ensemble
  2005 IMC

     
  Song no. 1:
Weltschmerz
Text: Else Lasker-Schuler (in German)
60 Soprano,
flute - alto flute,
English horn, horn,
violoncello, xylophone, harp
7:00   IMC 3821

Score
PDF

Parts
PDF
   
  Song no. 2:
Two Family Songs
Text: Sh. Shifra (in Hebrew)

Song I - I Gave You an Ancient Heart of Gold




Song II - Nothing Is As It Seems

Performed worldwide:
Tel Aviv January 2002  

61




Soprano, flute, oboe, horn, violoncello,
perc: xylophone, glockenspiel,
harp


Soprano, flute, oboe-English horn, horn, violoncello,
perc: xylophone, glockenspiel,
harp
6:00  

IMC 3822

PDF

   
  Song no. 3:
Le ciel est, par dessus
Text: Paul Verlaine (in French)
62 Soprano, flute,
oboe, horn,
violoncello, perc: gong (small, medium, big), bell, triangle, xylophone, glockenspiel,
harp
8:00  

IMC 3823

PDF

   
  Song no. 4:
Valse of the Devil
(Bereaved)
Text: Esther Kunda (in English)
63 Soprano,
flute - alto flute,
oboe - English horn, horn, violoncello, xylophone, harp
3:00  

IMC 3824

PDF

   
  Song no. 5:
Kupite Luk ("Buy Onions")
Text: Genrix Sapgir (in Russian)
64 Soprano, flute, oboe,
violoncello,
xylophone
2:00  

IMC 3825

PDF

VMM 1060
(only song
no. 5)
 

Mein Herz Niemandem

Text: Else Lasker-Schueler (in German)

(Dedicated to the pianist Hagai Yodan: world premiere recording Tel Aviv 2018; stage premiere, Jaffa, Teiva, concert hall, 11.01.2020)

79 Voice & piano 01:00 2018 MS
PDF
Listen      
Mein Volk
Text: Else Lasker-Schueler (in German)

Performed worldwide:
San Francisco 1995  
Tel Aviv November 2009

32 Mezzo - soprano/soprano
and guitar
2:35 1995

IMC 871

PDF

VMM 2023

VMM 1060




Moderna
Text: Iman Marsal (Egypt)
(Sung in Arabic and Hebrew)
Translation into Hebrew:
Sasson Somekh (Israel)

Performed worldwide:
Jerusalem 2010
Los Angeles 2015  

70 Soprano, ud,
violoncello, piano
4:00 2010

IMC 4034

PDF

VMM 4007

 



Saga-Portrait
Song-cycle
Text: Dan Pagis
(in Hebrew)

Performed worldwide:
Tel Aviv December 2009  

53 Mezzo- soprano
combined with
magnetic tape
23:00 2002 MS
(the composer's handwriting)
PDF
VMM 1060


Etty Ben-Zaken
 



The Goddess Anath
Text: the myth of the Goddess
Anath (in Ugaritic)
[Choreography: Ruth Eshel]
Multimedia No. 1 out of Four Old Winds

Performed worldwide:
Tel Aviv 1994  

26 Woman's voice,
violin, piano, percussion,
with a dancer on an altar
4:30 1993

IMC 865

PDF

Opus One 181





The Judgment of Solomon
Text: from I Kings 3, 17-28
(in Biblical Hebrew)
[Choreography: Ruth Eshel]
Multimedia No. 2 from Four Old Winds

A series of four multimedias
sung in old Semitic languages


27 Operatic scene for
children's choir, fl,
vln, trp, hrn, drum,
and magnetic tape
6:00 1995

IMC 866

PDF

Opus One 181





The Mother
After Sami Michael's novel "Pigeons at Trafalgar Square"
Text: Rachel Yona Michael
(in Hebrew and Arabic)

65 Contralto and 4 flutes

5:00 2005 MS

PDF
VMM 1060

Two Songs of Pain and One Song of Joy
Text: Tsippi Fleischer (sung in Hebrew)

Performed worldwide:
Tel Aviv December 2016  


78 Voice, double-bass and electronics

5:30 2016 MS    


* Below are the addresses of Tsippi Fleischer's publishers and information centres:

The Music Department
The National Library of Israel

Eliezer Kaplan Street 1
Jerusalem 9195015
Israel
Whatsapp: +972 (0) 74 7336400
Telephon: +972 (0) 74 733 6170
email: music@nli.org.il
https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/music

Israel Music Institute

4 HaTa'asiya St
P.O.B. 51197
Tel Aviv 6713904
Israel
Phone: +972 (0)3 624709503
Fax: +972 (0)3 5612826
Email: info@imi.org.il

Archiv Frau und Musik Arbeitskreis

Heinrich-Hoffmann-Strasse 3
60528 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)69 95928685
Fax: +49 (0)69 95928690
Email: info@archiv-frau-musik.de 
www.archiv-frau-musik.de

Israel Music Center

Israel Composers' League
34B Habarzel Street
Tel Aviv 6971052
Israel
Tel/Fax: +972 (0)3 562 1282
Email: music.imc@gmail.com
https://www.israelcomposers.org


Furore Verlag

Naumburger Straße 40
34127 Kassel/Germany
Phone: +49 (0)561 - 500 493 11
Email: vertrieb@furore-verlag.de 
https://furore-verlag.de/en/start

Peermusic

Mönckebergstraße 27
20095 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)40 278 379-0
Fax: +49 (0)40 278 379-40
Email: germany@peermusic.com
https://www.peermusic.de

For further details concerning handwritten manuscripts, sketches and compositional processes apply to the National Israeli Library in the Hebrew University Jerusalem: Archive No. Mus. 121.