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This book presents a selection of analytic articles on Tsippi Fleischer’s oeuvre, and testimonies by the composer herself offering unique insights into her aesthetics, her compositional process, and her activities as a music educator.

The introduction includes a survey of Fleischer’s musical development by the editor, Dr Uri Golomb. The book’s first section – “Analytic essays” – opens with three “Analyses of specific works”, focusing primarily on Girl Butterfly Girl (in essays by the late Prof. Jehoahs Hirshberg and by Mira Joseph, the latter expanded and updated by Dr Golomb); Resuscitation (in an essay by Oded Assaf); and the cycle Hexaptychon (in an essay by Eitan Ornoy). Dr Ornoy’s essay was written especially for this book. This section concludes with “An Overview from a New Perspective”: an extended, newly-written essay by Uri Golomb on “Innocence and Brutality in the Music of Tsippi Fleischer”.

The book’s second section, “The Composer’s Testimonies”, focuses on two works which represent the culmination of major developments in Fleischer’s style and oeuvre. It opens with a transcript of an event in which the composer introduced her cantata Like Two Branches. This is followed by two chapters dedicated to her grand opera Adapa: Uri Golomb’s interview with the composer, and an “Expertise from the Depths of the Compositional Process”, edited by the composer. These testimonies are followed by the “Music Education Corner”, consisting of two papers in which Dr Fleischer discussed and documented aspects of her philosophies and practices in music education.

The third section contains four appendices: a detailed list of Fleischer’s compositions; a concise overview of her archive at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem; selected reviews of her works; and reference letters for prizes and awards, written by leading figures in Israeli cultural and musical life.

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