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    ORCHESTRAL WORKS    
CD Prayer for Strings (1962) 10' IMI
CD Meditations on a Drama for chamber orchestra (1965)
(ACUM prize 1966)		 15' IMI
  Holiday Metaphors for symph. Orch. (1970)
Commissioned by the IPO (Engel prize 1973)		 17' IMI
  By the Rivers of Babylon for symph. Orch. (1971)
Commissioned by the ICO		 15' IMI
CD Programme Music 1980 for symph. Orch. (1980)
Commissioned by the JCO		 18' IMI
  Metamorphoses on a Bach Chorale for symph. Orch. (1985) 18' IMI
  Desert Scenes - a symphony in three movements (1990)
Commissioned by the IPO		 20' IMI
VID The Three Legged Monster - a musical legend for narrator, orchestra & piano, text by Hanna Yaddor-Avni
[optional illustrations to be projected at the performance by Lucy Elkivity] (1965)
See detailed description.		 24' self
CD Shaalu Shlom Yerushalayim (Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem)
- a fantasy for orch. Commissioned by the World Orchestra of the Jeunesses Musicales (1997)		 12' IMI
  Holiday Fanfare for symphony orchestra (1998) 6' IMI
  Se Questo E Un Uomo (If this is a Man) - a song cycle for soprano and orchestra on poems by Primo Levi (1998) 24' IMI
  The Ship of Hours four symphonic sketches after paintings by Mordechai Ardon (1999) 24' IMI
  Paths of Time for string orchestra (or string quartet) (2003) 12' IMI
         
    SOLO INSTRUMENTS WITH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CD Two Psalms for oboe and strings [or string quartet] (1975) 10' IMI
  Mizmor for santour (or xylophone or marimba) and orch. (1982)
Commissioned by the IBA		 8' IMI
  Kaddish for cello and strings (1987)
Commissioned by the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra.		 7' IMI

CD

 Karev Yom (A Day is Near) - variations on a Hassidic song for oboe (or clarinet) and string orchestra (1964, rearranged 2000) 9' IMI
  Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (2001), 18' IMI
         
    CHAMBER MUSIC    
CD Quintet for woodwinds (1959) 18' IMI
CD Summer Strings for string quartet (1962) 10' IMI
CD Two Pieces for Four Clarinets (1965) 8' IMI
CD Five Pantomimes for 8 players (fl, cl, hn, tpt, vla, db, pno, perc)
based on paintings by Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky, Dali, Klee.
Commissioned by the Israel Composers' Fund (1968)		 18' IMI
  De Profundis - string quartet No. 2 (1969)
(Lieberson Prize 1970)		 10' IMI
CD Beyond the Curtain for piano quartet [pno, vln, vla, vcl] (1979)
Commissioned by the New York Cantilena Players		 15' IMI
  Tandu for two flutes (1982) 10' IMI
  Saxophone quartet (1990)
Commissioned by the Rascher Sax. Quart.		 14' MS
  Fagotti Fugati - duo for two bassoons (1991) 7' IMI
  Odekha Ki Anitani - variations on a Sephardic tune for recorder ensemble (1992)
Commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Culture		 10' IMI
  Odekha Ki Anitani - new version for flute quartet [incl. piccolo, alto and bass flutes] (1996) 10' IMI
  Arguments - seven dialogues for violin and cello
(also for string orchestra) (2002)

12'

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  Nocturne with Bees and Fireflies for plucked strings (2002)

8'

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  Paths of Time - string quartet No. 3 (or string orchestra) (2003)

12'

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  Bridges for two violins (2004)

8'

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    CHORAL MUSIC (accomp.)    
  Jerusalem of the Heavens - allegoric fantasy for mixed choir and orch. Commissioned by Testimonium (1968) 10' IMI
  Deep Calleth unto Deep (psalms 129, 42, 117) for mixed choir, soprano and orch.. [or organ].
Commissioned by the Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir (1989)		 18' IMI
  Apropos Klee - four pieces for mixed choir, piano, clarinet & bass cl. (one player) and percussion (one player) on paintinfs by Paul Klee (2000)
See detailed description		 17' IMI
         
    CHORAL MUSIC (unaccomp.)    
CD Mizmorei Tehilim (Psalm canticles) for mixed choir (1967)
Commissioned for the 1967 Zimryia		 7' IMI
  On Mercy [Al Harahamim] (1973)
Text by Y. Amihai		 5' IMI
  Three Madrigals (1978)
Text by Lea Goldberg. Commissioned by the Boston Zamir Chorale		 10' IMI
  Upon the High Cymbals [satb] (1981) 6' MS
  Teach Me My Lord for female choir [s1, s2, alto] (1982)
Text by Lea Goldberg.		 6' MS
  Wind in the West [satb] (1984)
Text: Japanese Haiku. Commissioned by the Youth Choral Workshop.		 5' IMI
  A Clock in the Clouds [satb] (1985)
Text by Y. Shavit. Commissioned by the 1985 Zimryia		 8' IMI
  The City Plays Hide and Seek for female choir (1986)
Text by Y. Amihai. Commissioned by the Youth Choral Workshop.		 6' IMI
  A Song of Degrees (psalm 120) [satb] (1986) 6' IMI
  Makhelorka - three songs for female (or children's) choir on poems by F. G. Lorca (1992).
Commissioned by the Youth Choral Workshop.		 9' IMI
  Halleluya for mixed choir (satb) (1993) 6' MS
  Songs and Melodies - for mixed choir (in memoriam Yitzhak Rabin). Text by Natan Zach (1995)
Commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Culture		 5' IMI
  Kol Hazman (The Entire Time) for female choir & piano.
Text by Amir Gilboa (1997).
Commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Culture		 6' IMI
  Hodaya (Thanksgiving) for mixed choir (1997)
Text by A. Shlonsky.
Commissioned by the Toronto Jewish Music Society		 5' IMI
  A Wind Has Blown the Rain Away for mixed choir
Text by E.E. Cummings (2000)		 5' IMI
         
    VOCAL MUSIC    
CD Behold Thou Art Fair - three songs for soprano (med) and piano (1957). Text: the Song of Songs 7' IMI
CD Three Little Night Songs for soprano and piano (1957)
Text by Lea Goldberg		 5' IMI
CD By the Depth of a River for mezzo-soprano and piano (1969-75)
Text by Mati Katz		 10' IMI
CD Leda and the Swan for soprano (or mezzo) and clarinet (1976)
(Quasi text by the composer)		 8' IMI
CD Love under a Different sun - five songs for mezzo-sopr, fl, vln, vlc (1982). Folklore texts from various Mideastern and African tribes, translated into Hebrew by Rina Shani 14' IMI
  Three Lyric Songs on Paul Celan's Poems for mezzo-soprano, English horn & harp (1991) 8' IMI
  Three Ladino Songs - arrangement for voice & piano (1995)
Texts - Ladino folklore.		 10' EME
  The Night Breathes Velvet, two songs and intermezzo for soprano, piano and flute (1999)

10'

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  Feste Shtilkeit - three Yiddish songs for alto and percussion
Text by A. Halfi (translated into Yiddish by B. Kopstein)

9'

IMI
  Gedolim Maasei Elohai (Great are the deeds of my Lord)
For mezzo soprano and piano, texts by A. Gilboa

10'

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    SOLO    
CD Piano Sonata No. 1 (1961) 14' IMI
  Cappriccio for piano (1955, rev. 1975) 4' IMI
  Elegey for cello solo (1967) 5' IMI
CD Epitaph - piano sonata No. 2 (1979)
(ACUM publication prize)		 17' IMI
  On the Verge of Time - piano sonata No. 3 (1983)
Commissioned by the Tel Aviv Foundation for Culture and Literature		 12' IMI
  Vitrage for harp (1990)
Commissioned for the 1991 International Harp Competition		 7' IMI
  Triptych for piano.
Commissioned by the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition (1994)		 10' IMI
  Anthropomorphic Landscape No. 1 for flute (1996) 5' IMI
  Anthropomorphic Landscape No. 2 for oboe (1996) 6' IMI
  Anthropomorphic Landscape No. 3 for clarinet (1997) 6' IMI
  From There and Then - Prelude and Pasacaglia for piano (1994-8) 8' IMI
  La Plus Que Breve for Clarinet (1998) 1' IMI
  From my Diary, five movements for piano (2001)

14'

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  Yizkor for flute solo (2000)

4'

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  Phoenix for viola solo (2001)

8'

IMI
  Three Monologues for bassoon (2002)

6'

IMI
  Three Pieces for cello (2003)

7'

IMI
  There was a Man - elegy for French horn (2004)

3'

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    ELECTRONIC MUSIC    
  Vocalise (1964)
Vox - Turnabout Rec. TV34004S		 6'  
CD Collage for voice, fl, perc and tape (1967)
Text by Y. Amihai		 8' IMI
  Lyric Episodes for oboe and tape (1972)
Commissioned by the Bat-Sheva Dance Company		 10' MS
  Synchromotrask for female voice, tape and a door (1976)
Text by the composer. Commissioned by the IBA.		 12' MS
CD A Monk Observes a Skull for mezzo-sopr., vcl, tape (1981)
Text by Asher Reich.		 8' MS
CD Five Variations for Mr. K. for percussion instruments (1) and Electroacoustic tape (1983)

12'

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