Music & audio © Alexander Massey, 26 Oct 2018 Download the free sheet music (instrumental) Collection This piece is one of many suitable for the High Holy Days. Enjoy the rest of the High Holy Days collection, for free, here. The Piece Music’s role is often to express or explore what cannot be put into […]
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2018 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) Collection This piece is one of many suitable for the High Holy Days. Enjoy the rest of the High Holy Days collection, for free, here. The Piece Jeremiah 31:15; Genesis 4:10; Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a) On Yom
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Music and Audio © Alexander Massey 13 Sept 2018 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano or guitar, or 3 unaccompanied voices) Collection This piece is one of many I have composed which is suitable for the High Holy Days over the years. Enjoy the rest of the High Holy Days collection here. The
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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. Download the free
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 20 May 2014 BUY the Modeh Ani sheet music (1 or 2 vces & pno) – $4.95 Many years ago, a good friend commented to me that I didn’t always say ‘thank you’ when it might have been appropriate. I was shocked, and embarrassed. I was convinced I was
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Music and recording © Alexander Massey 11 March 2015 Download the free sheet music (3 part round with optional piano or guitar) Collections Further commentary about this text can be found in two other of my articles: Elohai N’shamah: Its music and meaning Elohai N’shamah: Its deeper meanings This piece is also an installment in
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Introduction This is my own personal take on the sequence of the Shabbat morning service. I have drawn from several siddurim (prayerbooks), from Orthodox, through Jewish Renewal to UK Reform and Liberal. I have included most of the big ‘set pieces’ of what happens in a service, as well as some of the more minor
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In 1872, Francis Galton wrote a now famous essay entitled ‘Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer’1 and concluded that prayer has no effect on either God, or the health or life expectancy of the person prayed for. The essay is full of value propositions and assumptions presented as fact, so I find it hard
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 10 Feb 2015 Download the free sheet music (lead sheet, voice & guitar) Collections For commentary about the text and symbolism of Adon Olam, click here. This link also features my alternate arrangement of the verse! Both Adon Olam No.1 (a different, choral setting of the same text) and No.2
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 5 Dec 2015 Download the free sheet music (voice & optional guitar or piano) Collections This piece is one of many suitable for the High Holy Days. Enjoy the rest of the High Holy Days collection, here. The Kaddish also features in my collection for Shabbat Shacharit, as it