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Based on: Hebrews 12:22-23: Melody "Christchurch" by Charles Steggall: Jerusalem On High is a hymn written by minister Samuel Crossman and music composed by Charles ...
The history of religious Jewish music is about the cantorial, synagogal, and the Temple music from Biblical to Modern times. The earliest synagogal music was based on the same system as that used in the Temple in Jerusalem. According to the Mishnah, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and the choir of twelve male singers.
The music may have preserved a few phrases in the reading of scripture which recalled songs from the Temple itself; but generally it echoed the tones which the Jew of each age and country heard around him, not merely in the actual borrowing of tunes, but more in the tonality on which the local music was based. These elements persist side by ...
The hymn was sung to the melody Sarum, by the Victorian composer Joseph Barnby, until the publication of the English Hymnal in 1906. This hymnal used a new setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams which he called Sine Nomine (literally, "without name") in reference to its use on the Feast of All Saints, 1 November (or the first Sunday in November, All Saints Sunday among some Lutheran church bodies ...
"Yevarechecha" (Hebrew: יְבָרֶכְךָ, romanized: Yəḇāreḵəḵā; lit. ' You Will be Blessed ' or ' You Shall be Blessed '), also transliterated as "Yevarekhekha", is a Hasidic Jewish nigun composed by David Weinkranz and performed by Ilana Rovina for the album Chasidic Song Festival 1970. [1]
The earliest synagogal music of which we have any account was based on the system used in the Temple in Jerusalem. The Mishnah gives several accounts of Temple music. [ 2 ] According to the Mishnah, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and a choir of twelve male singers. [ 3 ]
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670.. Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources. Religion and music historian Herbert Lockyer, Jr. writes that "music, both vocal and instrumental, was well cultivated among the Hebrews, the New Testament Christians, and the Christian church through the centuries."
The Ten Commandments: The Musical is a musical with music by Patrick Leonard and lyrics by Maribeth Derry. The book is adapted from the French musical Les Dix Commandements created by Élie Chouraqui from an idea by Albert Cohen, which in turn was based on the Book of Exodus and the 1956 epic film The Ten Commandments.