Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 5 Dec 2015 Download the free sheet music (voice & optional guitar or piano) Much could be (and has been) written about the Kaddish (to which I have put links below). Although one version is referred to as mourner’s kaddish, it is part of our daily prayers, and comes, […]
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 13 August 2015 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano or guitar) The sheet music is also available as part of ‘Five Sacred Chants’. ןְטַהֵר לִבֵּנוּ לְעָבְדְּךָ בְּאֶמֶת “Purify our hearts, that we may serve You in truth.” When, in the morning, we say, ‘Elohai, n’shamah sh’natata bi,
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 12 Dec 2015. An earlier recording and a version of this article and song were published on Ritual Well (USA), June 2016. Download the free sheet music (for 1, 2, or 3 voices & optional guitar) Blessed is she who comes in the name of Becoming! Who is she
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 9 Dec 2015 Download the free sheet music (voice & guitar) This recording and a version of this article were published on Ritual Well (USA) as ‘You have ravished my heart, my sister‘. Where in the Tanach can we find a text for celebrating a lesbian wedding, and an
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Music, English lyrics and Recording © Alexander Massey, Aug 2014. Hebrew words (Trad.) Download the free sheet music of Hashkiveinu (voice & piano or guitar) – includes Adonai S’fatai Tiftach (to the music of the chorus) Dedicated to my Rabbi, Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi (ztz”l), completed during shloshim. The three Hebrew lines that I have set from the
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Listen/watch song on YouTube Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 15 February 2014 Download the free sheet music (vocal duet) The fun of this song is all in the lyrics (printed below). First, the chorus loses more words each time it happens, and, by doing so, gradually reveals the differences between the four children: In Chorus
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey – 24 June 2012 Download the free sheet music (voice & optional piano) Psalm 150 not only completes Book 5 of the Psalms (tehillim), but is the last of all the Psalms. As such, its themes are particularly important as a summation – a vision – of what our
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 23 January 2014 In English: In Hebrew: Download the free sheet music (solo voice, English & Hebrew) Written and first performed for the Council of Christians and Jews gathering with the Oxford Unitarians service at Harris Manchester College, Yom HaShoah 5774 / Holocaust Memorial Day 2014. Many commentators have
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Mi Adir – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 13 Nov 2013 Download free sheet music (solo version) Download the free sheet music (solo voice & string quartet) Mi Adir is a text that is traditionally used at a Jewish wedding as the couple processes to the chuppah. Last year, I composed a new musical setting for
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Solo – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 Duet – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 Download the free sheet music (2 voices & piano) V’erastich li l’olam.V’erastich li b’tzedek uv’mishpat, uv’chesed uv’rachamim.V’erastich li b’emunah, v’yada’at et Havayah [YHVH/Adonai]. I betroth you to me forever,with equality and fairness, and kindness and compassion.I betroth
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