Music and audio © Alexander Massey 25 Nov. 2018 BUY the sheet music – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) (Apologies for my falsetto parts in this ad hoc recording – I’ll post a better recording when I next have sopranos in my studio!) This 4 part round, prophesying the end of war, partners with a second …
Music and recording © Alexander Massey 19 May 2016 BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) The sheet music is also available as part of ‘Five Sacred Chants’. “You have all been shown what is good, and what God seeks from you. Do justice, love kindness, and walk …
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Music and recording © Alexander Massey 11 March 2015 BUY the sheet music – $4.50 (3 copies @ $1.50) The sheet music is also available as part of ‘Five Sacred Chants’. אֱלהַי נְשָׁמָה שֶׁנָּתַתָּ בִּי טְהורָה הִיא Elohai, n’shamah shenatata bi, t’horah hi. My God, the soul You have given me is pure. The Talmud …
The focus of chants is not singing, but prayer – avodat lev (or avodah shebalev), ‘service/work of the heart’. When we chant, it is not the quality of our voice or musicianship that counts, but the quality of our intention (kavanah). However advanced the musical and vocal skill in the chanting may be, and however accurate the …
Music and audio (rough draft) © Alexander Massey 12 Nov. 2018 BUY the sheet music for SATB & pno – $11.25 (5 copies @ $2.25) BUY the sheet music for voice & pno – $4.95 Psalm 136 – Great Hallel– Hodu Ladonai Psalm 136, the ‘Great Hallel’, is often referred to by its opening words …
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2018 Jer. 31:15; Gen. 4:10; Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a) BUY the sheet music (voice & pno) – $4.95 On Yom HaShoah v’HaGevurah, we commemorate both the victims of the Holocaust, and those who heroically resisted. This piece was written to honour those people. The three Jewish …
Composition and Audio © Alexander Massey, 26 March 2017 First performance 10 May 2017 – United for Peace – United Through Poetry – a service with readings interspersed with silent reflection and music, delivered in partnership with the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Birmingham. BUY the sheet …
Music and recording © Alexander Massey 19 May 2016 BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) The sheet music is also available as part of ‘Five Sacred Chants’. There is a shorter introductory article about the music and meaning of this chant here. “You have all been shown …
A service with readings interspersed with silent reflection and music This was an initiative of the Oxford Foundation, delivered in partnership with the Lord-Lieutenancies of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, Oxford Diocese, and Oxford Muslim College. This was a beautiful, moving and powerful event that brought together many faiths, humanists, politicians, community workers, victims of extremist …