18 June 2020 à 09:32
https://youtu.be/etjxbYRzJesSir Edward Elgar believed that the chant that is best known in Spanish and Portuguese communities as the melody for Mizmor Shir Leyom Hashabat (Ps. 92) was the very one sung by the Levites in the Temple in Jerusalem. He, therefore, appropriated it for the setting of the ‘Morning Psalm’ (also Ps. 92) in his oratorio ‘The Apostles’ (H/T Jonathan Greenstein). Although any claims to its Levitical provenance might be a tiny bit speculative, what is beyond doubt is that the melody is one of great antiquity. This is attested by the fact that close variants of this psalmodic mode are sung in communities throughout the Sephardi world. Musicologists among you may find it intriguing to note that while the styles of Amsterdam and London are almost identical, the variant sung in New York diverges conspicuously by resolving the Atnach (subordinate rest) in each verse to the dominant of the scale rather than the supertonic. Please share.
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