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Mi hakham ve-yishmor eleh, Qaddish and Barekhu
… va-geshem ) prayer (compare no. 27 above ). This liturgical music unit consisting of the half Psalm verse and the … ha-mevorakh ("Bless the Blessed Lord!"). This tripartite musical unit is a characteristic of the Portuguese …
Hallelu et adonay kol goyim (1)
One of the many melodies from the rich repertoire for the Hallel, the festive psalms (…
Lekh le-shalom geshem
Part of the tiqqun ha-tal (Prayer for Dew), a prayer recited on the first day of…
'Et sha'are ratzon
These are the first and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew…
Shema' qoli
… the ancient pedigree of some items in the High Holiday musical repertoire of the Western Sephardi liturgy (compare …
Ahot qetannah
In the Sephardi rite this piyyut attributed to Abraham Hazan Gerondi (13th century) is…
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… urban centers of Morocco, a further proof of the liturgical music links between these Jewish centers in the past and of the ongoing presence of … Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …
Yevarekhekha
Birkat kohanim (Priestly Blessing) is one of the most moving and solemn moments of…
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
The Song of the Sea or Song of Moses, a section of the morning liturgy, is sung in…
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
… commandment (Exodus 20:11) and this serves as a textual and musical transition to the major mode in which the … Portuguese qiddush is similar to the one sung in Moroccan Jewish urban centers and is a further testimony of the links … between the Moroccan and the Western Sephardi liturgical music traditions. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical …