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forms, with an eclectic language of
Eastern, Western, and Jewish influences. Her music uses a multitude of polyphonic textures, as well as more heterophonic textures in her vocal and instrumental works. She often employs a contrapuntal use of lines that feature hemiola, cross-rhythm and phrasing, irregular phrasing and metric accents, rhythmic ostinatos, and mixed meters.
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Alotin wrote chamber, vocal, piano, and orchestral works. Much of her oeuvre has sacred and biblical references, and makes great use of optimistic, lyrical melodies and colorful dissonance, often influenced by
Renaissance and medieval counterpoint. She often writes based on Baroque and Classical
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for cello solo, and she taught piano at the Israel
Conservatory of Music in Tel-Aviv. Alotin died in New York City on October 4,1994 at 64 years old. She now rests at Yarkon Cemetery in Petah Tikva, Israel. In 1998 Alotin's husband, Yohanan Riverant, donated a fund in her name for the support of
151:('Beautiful Landscape'), composed in 1952 for mixed choir, won the Nissimov Prize and was premiered by the Rinat Choir (of which she was a member) in Tel Aviv and at the Paris International Festival in 1956.
163:, who often performed it on tour. It is now an established piece in the international flute repertoire. In 1984, she received a commission from the Tel Aviv Foundation for Culture and Art -
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Yardena Alotin began studying piano at the age of five with Rivka
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Contemporary Israeli Music: Its Sources and Stylistic Development
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A Descriptive Bibliography of Art Music by Israeli Composers
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189:Selected works composed by Yardena Alotin include:
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99:Six Piano Pieces for Children.
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