SOPRANO AND PERCUSSION
Contemporary Music for Soprano and Percussion
The combination of soprano and percussion creates a strikingly theatrical sound world—intimate, colorful, and capable of sharp contrasts. Lior Navok’s Dialogues for Soprano and Percussion explores this unique pairing through three character‑driven movements that blend satire, rhythmic play, and psychological nuance. The result is a vivid contribution to the contemporary repertoire for voice and percussion.
DIALOGUES
for soprano and percussion
Duration:
11 minutes
Instrumentation:
soprano and percussion
Year Composed:
1999
Text by:
Lior Navok / Vocalize
Movements:
1. Talking Doll
2. Sargam
3. Twinkles
4. Shadowphobia
Language:
English
Written For:
Matt Masie
Premiere Performance:
17 November, 1999
Boston, Mass., USA
Jennifer Ashe, soprano
Matt Masie, percussion
Audio
Program Notes:
Dialogues for soprano and percussion was composed as a semi-theatrical composition, not to be acted. Talking Doll is a short satire about humans who act like machines for the sake of formality. The word Sargam in Indian music means Solfège. The syllables sa, re, ma, ga, pa, dha (not used here), and ni are equivalent to our do, re, mi. Shadowphobia, as the name implies, deals with the relationship between a person and his or her shadow.
Video
Dialogues - Lior Navok
Score Sample
Score of Dialogues for soprano and percussion
