Chamber Music Clarinet, Horn, Oboe, Piccolo, Voice SKU: PR.111402780 P...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Horn, Oboe, Piccolo,
Voice
SKU:
PR.111402780
Psalm
93. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
16+4+4+4+4 pages.
Duration 5 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#111-40278. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.111402780).
9 x 12
inches. Text: Biblical
Text.
Adonai
Malach (Psalm 93) was
commissioned by
Congregation Emanu-El
B'ne Jeshurun in
Milwaukee, as part of a
1985 conference of
composers and cantors,
where each composer was
paired with a cantor and
assigned a text from the
Jewish liturgy. The
challenge I set for
myself was to make this
short piece melodically
appropriate for Cantor
Abraham Lubin's beautiful
cantorial style, while,
at the same time, at
least hinting at a
harmonic style more
inclusive than that what
is generally heard in a
Shabbat Service setting.
As I found out, there is
a Jewish mode
specifically associated
with Adonai Malach, and
bearing its name, the
intervallic properties
which are quite
intriguing: taking a
major scale as a point of
reference, this mode as a
major third for third
scale degree, but minor
third at the tenth, a
minor seventh at the
seventh scale degree, but
a half-step leading tone.
The vocal and horn parts
of my piece,
complementing one
another, loosely conform
to this pitch arrangement
through much of the
piece. The woodwind trio
(piccolo, oboe and
clarinet) treated for the
most part in block
fashion, offer a
counter-part of a
considerably more
dissonant, one might say
pungent, style.
Throughout I have
attempted to preserve the
exultant quality of the
text. Adonai Malach is a
small offering to my
beloved father, to whom
it is
dedicated..