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Yfat Soul ZissoGravityFor Orchestra of the Swan
for large mixed ensemble

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Programme notes:Written for Orchestra of the Swan, Gravity focuses on one fundamental and its harmonic series as an alternative to tonality, exploring how it is affectedwhen confronted with a constantly descending glissando, which starts by inhibiting many of the notes of the harmonic series,but gets further and further away from it the lower it gets, having less in common with the surrounding instruments. Since the glissando is a constant force that cannot be ignored, each instrument individually reacts to its move away from the harmonic series. This move represents a loss of grounding for them, especially when the Double Bass, who plays the fundamental pitch, takes over the glissando.Y .S.Z.Instrumentation:FluteOboeClarinet in BbBassoonHorn in F2 ViolinsViolaCelloDouble Bass (preferrably with an extention down to bottom C, if not, tune bottom string a minor 3rd down and play transposed ossia part)
Performance notes:solo = these notes should come out of the texture so can therefore be slightly over  the stated dynamics. Cancelled by ord.Quarter-tones and micro-tones (should be kept to as much as possible to maintain the harmonic series within the piece):quarter-tone flat
Viola:Gradual shift to sul ponticello and back (while playing a tremolo trill)
String glissando:Lean in on every quarter-tone minim before sliding to the next note. Do not alter speed or dynamic.
quarter-tone sharpthree quarter-tone sharp
sharpen pitch by a 1/6 of a toneflatten pitch by a 1/6 of a toneflatten pitch by a 1/6 of a tone

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FluteOboeClarinet in Bb
BassoonHorn in F
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Violoncello
Contrabass
ppp pppq = 92glissando is strictwhile the rest of the instrumentsare either floating (high-pitched) or grounded (low held pitches) Apmppppppppp
pppppppp mp
ppocopoco
ppp
pmppmpp
p
p
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Score in CGravityfor large mixed ensembleYfat Soul Zisso
For Orchestra of the Swan
solo3  solo
gliss.gliss.sim.
solo

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Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
mp pmppBCD10
mp ppp ppppppppppmpppmpppmppmppppocopocompppmppppppppFl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
mp mfEF21 mpmppppmppppmppppmpppmpmpp mpmp(p)pocopocop ppp ppp pp
 solotimbral trillsim.(solo)ord. 3(solo) sologliss.sim.(solo)ord.trem.  (solo)soloord.soloord.soloord.solo solosim.gliss.sim.  
      
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Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
Non-gliss. instrumentsstart to feel slightly lostGH32
ppppppppmp
pppppp
p ppppocop ppFl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
I40
ppmpppmppppppmpmppppocop
 ord.ord. gliss.  solo solo sim.
 
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Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
J45
ppmpppmpmp pp
p
ppFl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
pmppNon-gliss. instrumentsstart to increasingly panicK50
ppmp mpppmpmfmpmpmp ppppmp mf
ppocopoco
 solo   33ord.   solotrem.gliss.sim.
  
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Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
mf55
mf mpmf mpp mpmpmp
Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
58
mfmf mpmf pmf p
mp
 33 3  ord. (non -solo)sim. sul pont.33 33  ord.
   
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Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
L60
mpmp
Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
62
mf
mfmf
 3 sul pont. ord.
     
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Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
fsub. mpGradually calming downpoco rit. M64
sub. mpsub. mpfmf ffsub. mpfsub. mpmf fmf f
Fl.Ob.Cl.Bsn.Hn.Vln. IVln. IIVla.Vc.Cb.
66
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Flz 3
    sul pont. 3 3 33333  
   
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