Catalog

Voices of Memories Mark Kopytman, Voices of Memories  (ed by Y.Kreinin) Collection of essays, articles, musicography edited by Yulia Kreinin Israel Music Institute, 2005, ISBN 965-90565-1-6 to order the book contact http//www. imi.org.il Yehuda Amichai – Poetry Yehuda Amichai – Poetry / Mark Kopytman – Music JAS-04-2000 October Sun (1974) for voice & chamber ensemble Scattered Rhymes (1988) for mixed...

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References

Writings About Melody Writing (2002)(Studies in Composition, IV)A compositional approach to contemporary melodic writing, based on the micro-analysis of the composer’s compositionEight Pages for solo voice on a text by Edmond Jabes, with a general discussion on creative problems, MS Composition with Blocks (1984-1999)(Studies in Composition, III)A comprehensive approach to the problems and devices of contemporary composition, based on the understanding of the...

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Compositions

Choral Distance Beyond Distance (1960) ca. 24′Ten poems for mixed choirText by Alexander Twardovsky (Russian) (SK 2575) Forty Years (1964) ca. 8′for mixed choirText by Victor Teleuke (Moldavian) (KM 1964) Water-colors (1965) ca. 6′for women’s choirText by Nikolai Rilenkov (Russian) (Muz 1465) Ten Moldavian Folk Songs (1966-1972) ca. 22′arr. for mixed choir (Moldavian) Stones (1980) ca. 6′for mixed choirText from...

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Music

Mark Kopytman is one of Israel’s foremost contemporary composers. His personal style is characterized by predilection for powerful dramatic gestures, pure melodic lines split into heterophony blending, variety of textures achieved through the super-imposition of multi-voice layers and by skillful handling of large orchestral masses. Jehoash Hirshberg, Israel Today In Kopytman’s hands, the heterophony flowers as a subtle and complex...

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