Music & audio © 2024 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) Collection This piece is among my collection of songs for Shabbat Shacharit, the Shabbat morning service. These songs are suitable with or without accompaniment. The Piece On Shabbat morning, as part of the Amidah blessings, we […]
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Music & audio © 2024 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) This piyut (poem) by Solomon Ibn Gabirol (11th century) can be a great way to sing ourselves awake. At dawn I seek you, my rock and my refuge; I lay before You my morning and evening
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Music & audio © 2023 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (voice & piano or guitar) Collections I used the same words to compose another setting with a very different, contemplative character: Neir Adonai No.2. This piece is part of the Themes of Light collection: compositions reflecting on light and
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Music and audio © 2 Dec 2023 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Listen/view on YouTube. Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) אֱלהַי נְשָמָה שֶנָתַתָ בִיטְהורָה הִיאנֵר יְהוָה, נִשְמַת אָדָםחֹפֵשׂ, כָל-חַדְרֵי-בָטֶןכִי-אַתָה, תָאִיר נֵרִייְהוָה אֱלֹהַי, יַגִיהַ חָשְכִי Chorus: My God, the soul you have given me is pure. [Berachot 60b, morning prayer]Verse 1: The
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Invocation for strength, and songs of hope Adonai, Adonai No.2 – Invoking God’s 13 attributes of mercy – connecting directly with those qualities that we want to experience, and embody them, emphasising the warmth of God’s love. Adonai Roi (Ps 23) – Yah is my shepherd … Ana B’choach – A mystical poem, using seven
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Here is the programme that Matthew Faulk and I performed on 26 June 2023 to the Oxford group of the Council of Christians and Jews. Good evening, and welcome. Many of tonight’s song lyrics are from texts shared by Jews and Christians: there are seven psalms, two passages from Exodus, and one from Jeremiah. From
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Music and audio © 1 May 2023 Alexander Massey Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) “Seek the peace—the shalom—of the city, and pray to God for it: for in its shalom, you shall all have shalom.” (Jeremiah 29:7) In Hebrew, the word ‘peace’ is shalom. The first letter of shalom is shin, which,
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Music & Audio @ 7 Dec 2022 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (voice & piano or guitar) Collection This piece is part of the Themes of Light collection: compositions reflecting on light and its significance in Jewish thought. The Piece שְׁלַח-אוֹרְךָ וַאֲמִתְּךָ, הֵמָּה יַנְחוּנִייְבִיאוּנִי אֶל-הַר-קָדְשְׁךָ, וְאֶל-מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶיךָ ;Send out your
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Music & audio © 29 Sept 2022 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (unison or 3 voices) A mystical poem, using seven different names of God, chanted at times of crisis in the Jewish community. We beg You, by the strength of Your right hand, untie the knot of our
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Music & Audio © 4 Nov 2022 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (3 voices & piano) I believe in the sun, even though all around be dark.I believe in God, even though he be silent.I believe in love, even when love must hide. [English lyrics: Alexander Massey] The original