Girl-Butterfly-Girl [CF:511-02096]

"This song cycle is one of my earliest works and reflects the inception of the Oriental stylistic tendency in my music. Vocal expressionism and modal impressionism are affirmed in phrases which climb upwards sharply, in typical instrumental interludes, in the addition of chords to create a chromaticism which is a substitute for the microtones of Arab scales and in open musical forms which grow out of fidelity to the text. The musical language mirrors the surrealistic-folkloristic atmosphere evoked by the words of the poems. The Arab keys (maqamat) are used as scales possessing common melodic figures, and these scales give rise to a particular harmonic functionality. " - Tsippi Fleischer, composer