Music and audio © Alexander Massey 14 March 2013 Watch/listen on YouTube BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 BUY the sheet music (SATB & pno) – $11.25 (5 copies @ $2.25) Commentary The words of Mi chamocha are taken from the Song at the Sea (Shirat Hayam) in Exodus 15, and are […]
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 5 March 2013 BUY the sheet music (solo & pno/guit) – $4.95 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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Music and recording © Alexander Massey 22 January 2013 Here is the same music, but sung to my own English translation: Music, English lyrics and recording © Alexander Massey 22 January 2013 BUY the sheet music – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) – includes options for 1 or 2 voices, piano or guitar part (also
Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 14 June 2012 BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 BUY the sheet music (SATB & pno) – $11.25 (5 copies @ $2.25) At first glance, Psalm 87 appears to be quite disjointed, with no clear emotional or theological point to make. While a line from it
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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 Buy the sheet music (4 equal vces + pno) – $11.25 (5 copies @ $2.25) Buy the sheet music (1, 2 or 3 voices, unaccompanied, or with guitar) – $6.75 (3 copies @
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Psalm 86:1-7 Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 8 May 2012 Listen/watch song on YouTube Listen/watch nigun on youTube BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 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 BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 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 God in
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Ruth 1:16-18 Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 9 Nov 2011 BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 BUY the sheet music (duet & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) 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
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Midrash on Psalm 81 (1-4, 8, 11) Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 12 Sep 2011 BUY the sheet music (3 vces lead sheet) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) BUY the sheet music (3 vces & pno) – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) I love those old songs that have two melodies that
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BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) 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,