YEK for Ensemble

Tolga Zafer Özdemir

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Instrumentation:FluteBb ClarinetSynthesizer (tuned as pure tone)PianoViolinViolaCelloDouble Bass

Instructions:Synthesizer is tuned on a pure tone scale centered on D. It can be performed by a keyboard connected via midi to a laptop with a low latency sound card. Ready to play Kontakt patch (Native Instrument sample player) is provided with the music.

Piano part is more rubato, so player can perform independently to use different embellishments than it is written.

Description:"Yek" (Single, the only) depicts the picture of a young man having a conversation with his master. In reality both master and apprentice are the different sides of same person, in other words they are the sum of one character, an inner-talk...

Duration: Nine minutes

This is a C Score, only Double bass in written one octave higher

Yek is written in September 2009, Commissioned by Imagine Festival, University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music.

Cover Miniature: Amir Khosrov Dihlevi, Iran-speaking poet (1253-1325) and a young man. Sultan-Husain Baikara. “Madjlis al-Ushshak”. MS IOS AS Uzbek SSR, 65, f. 68. Late 17th or early 18th century. Bukhara

C Score

Piano mp

Rubato

Synth.

Pno.

p

A

mp

Synth.

Pno.

Tolga Zafer Özdemir

YEKCommissioned by Imagine Festival

September 2009

3

Fl.

Cl.

Synth.

Pno.

Vln. I

Vla.

Vc.

Db.

mf

h = 70 ModeratoB 5

mf

mf

mf

mf

f

mf

Fl.

Cl.

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Pno.

Vln. I

Vla.

Vc.

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10

p

stacc.

stacc.

Pizz, metallic simile

Pizz, metallic

Pizz, metallic, close to the bridge, solo

Pizz

D and below by left hand

leggiero

3 3 3

4

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Pno.

Vln. I

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Vc.

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15

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Vln. I

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Vc.

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20

3 3 3 3 3

3

5

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Vln. I

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Vc.

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C

f

mf

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Vln. I

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Vc.

Db.

30

l.h.

affettuoso

6

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Vln. I

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Vc.

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Vln. I

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3 3

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f

D 45

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Vln. I

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pp

f

arco, marcato

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Vln. I

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mf

E50 55

f mf

p

f

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Vln. I

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60

f p

stacc.

arco, marcato

3 3 3 3 3 33

3 3 3 3 3 33

9

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Vln. I

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sub p

65

sub p

sub p

sub p

sub p

sub p

sub p

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Vln. I

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70

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f

F

f

f

f ff

f

f

f

f

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Vln. I

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75

11

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poco a poco cresc.

80

poco a poco cresc.

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Vln. I

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ff

85

ff

12

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ff

G

fff

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Vln. I

Vla.

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90

ff

p

legato

apposionata

arco

13

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Vln. I

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95

fff

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100

p

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mf

fff

stacc.

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105

mf

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Vln. I

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110

stacc.

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115

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ff

H 120

ff

ff

ff

ff

ff

ff

ff

senza pedal

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mf sub ff

125

sub ff

mf sub ff

mf

sub ffmf sub ff

mf sub ff

mf sub ff

mf sub ff

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Vln. I

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Vc.

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130

senza pedal

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I

f

mp

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p

Rubato

mp p

pp

pp

gentile

Essential tones are given in parenthesis, embellish between

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pp

pp

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solid pedal note by fluctuating the speed of vibrato (breath as necessary)

solid pedal note (breath as necessary)

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niente

niente

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p

niente

niente

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J

mf

pp

p

p

pp

arcop

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Stagger Breath, Blow into the tube without producing any note, (still on D fingerings)just a warm breathing sound till the end of the section,

inside of the piano,with a guitar pick

till the end of section

Only bow sound. mute the strings with your finger, just produce a bow sound

play octave higher if not available

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q = 108K

mp

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Vln. I

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mp

p

p

Mysterioso, airy(Make small and fast phrases in given notes with small pauses between)

P4 harmonics, short durations, randomized within the measure

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rit. 165

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mp

A tempo h = 70 Moderatomolto accel. L 170

p

mf

mf

mf

mf

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Vln. I

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175

repeating the same theme

pizz

pizz

pizz

pizz

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180

pp f

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ff

M 185

ff

ff

ff

ff

ff

ff

melancolico con brio

3

stacc.

stacc.

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190

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195

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N200

p

legato

till the end

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poco rit.

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pp

pp

mp

mp

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