Music and audio © Alexander Massey 14 March 2013 Watch/listen on YouTube Download the free sheet music (solo & optional piano) Download the free sheet music (4 part choir & optional piano) The words of Mi chamocha are taken from the Song at the Sea (Shirat Hayam) in Exodus 15, and are included in every […]
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 5 March 2013 Download the free sheet music (voice & figured bass) I am grateful to my storyteller friend Adele Moss for drawing my attention to Psalm 131, and encouraging me to spend time with it. Why was it written? What is it about? Adele’s inspired suggestion is that
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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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Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 14 June 2012 Download the free sheet music (solo with 3 vocal accompaniments & piano) At first glance, Psalm 87 appears to be quite disjointed, with no clear emotional or theological point to make. While a line from it was used by John Newton in 1779 for the hymn
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Psalm 89:16-19 Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 24 May 2012 Listen / watch on YouTube (including spoken introduction) – SOAS Interfaith Music Festival Download the free sheet music (1, 2 or 3 voices, unaccompanied, or with guitar) Contact me to request the free sheet music for the version of 4 equal voices + piano. Verse
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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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Midrash on Psalm 81 (1-4, 8, 11) Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 12 Sep 2011 Download the free sheet music (round for 3 voices & piano lead sheet) I love those old songs that have two melodies that overlap each other; one melody is like a fast patter song, and the other lyrical,
Download the free sheet music (for 1 or 2 voices & optional piano) Adon Olam is one of those lyrics that everyone seems to know by heart, and many take great delight in fitting to popular tunes like ‘Auld Lang Syne’, ‘Summertime’, ‘Happy Birthday’, or even ‘Yellow Submarine’. But what is it about what, and
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