Niggun

[lethargic_man]

There's this lovely tune the old High Holydays chazan in Newcastle used to do for this passage:

הֲבֵן יקִּיר לִי אֶפְרַיִם, אִם יֶלֶד שַעֲשוּעִים, כִּי מִדֵּי דַבְּרִי בּו זָכֹר אֶזְכְּרֶנּוּ עוֹד, עַל כֵּן הָמוּ מֵעי לוֹ, רַחֵם אֲרַחֲמֶנּוּ, נְאֻם ה׳׃

And the old rabbi used to harmonise with it, and it was very beautiful. But now we've got a different rabbi, who doesn't harmonise. So I decided to use my Hybrid Music System and work out the harmonisation, so I could do it myself. Only first I failed to get around to it until now—which wasn't a problem in Newcastle, as we also had a different chazzan, who didn't do that tune. I would like to get the tune straight before Yom Kippur (when I'm in London)... only at a year's remove, I'm having difficulty remembering exactly how it goes.

I reckon it's something like this (247k MP3)... only I'm not at all sure I've got it right (and googling for MP3s or music was no help). (Please excuse the distortion in the music; this is a problem on analogue-to-digital conversion I've been wrestling with for some while...)

Which is to say... umm... <downloads, installs, and plays with Lilypond>:

Anyone here recognise this and care to correct me?

(I also discovered, on trying to note it down, that it's so long since I last read music, I'm having difficulty reading it. Must use my Hybrid Music System to practise more often...)

Comments

This tune

[(Anonymous)]

I don't recognise the words or the tune. Sorry!

Incidentally, I'm suprised that you are having difficulty reading music. I haven't played anything very much for several years, but I'm sure my music reading abilities haven't changed.

BTW, I hope you're proud of me - replying via your blog thing, and not email.

Paul

Re: This tune

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

There are positions on the stave I can still recognise at sight. Other ones I can normally work out pretty fast from their relative positions to the ones I still know well; I think the problem came when I was writing music one note at a time, when each note was detached in my mind from the surrounding ones.

I should check at some point if I can still read off the alto stave; it's much longer since I tried to read viola music than piano music.

[snjstar.livejournal.com]

Makes me think of a Chanukah song