And below is the same music, but sung to my own English translation: Music and recording © Alexander Massey 22 January 2013 Download the free sheet music (1 or 2 voices & piano or guitar) The poem L’chah Dodi grows out of the kabbalistic tradition of 16th century Safed. It was popularised by Isaac Luria […]
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Oseh Shalom No. 2 – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 12 Sept 2012 Download the free sheet music (1 or 2 voices & piano) I wrote this piece originally for the Yom Kippur Musaf service. This melody is based on musical motifs from the Hin’ni ‘Here I stand’ solo prayer sung by the shliach
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Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 8 May 2012 Listen/watch song on YouTube Listen/watch nigun (wordless tune) on youTube Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) Although the lyrics for this are based very closely on the first half of Psalm 86, this song was originally written as a nigun (wordless melody),
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 6 March 2012 Download the free sheet music (1 or 2 voices & piano) How to encompass in one song the 42 chapters of the story of Job? There have been centuries of debate over the meaning of the Book of Job. Some remind us that the character of
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Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 9 Nov 2011 Download the free sheet music (2 voices & piano) Vatomeir Rut al-tifgi-bi, l’azveich lashuv meiachara’ich: ki el asher teilchi eileich, uva’asher talini alin – ameich ami, veilohayich elohai; ba’asher tamuti amut, v’sham ekaveir; koh ya’aseh adonai li, v’choh yosif – ki hamavet, yafrid beini uveineich.
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2011 Yedid Nefesh No.1 – Download the free sheet music (1 or 2 voices & piano) The poem of Yedid Nefesh is usually attributed to the 16th century kabbalist Rabbi Elazar Ben Azikri, although he never claimed authorship. The text is often sung at Kabbalat Shabbat, the service bringing
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