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  26 December, 2021

Jacob Matz

De Sola

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Thousands of sheets of JLM music are available for download, printing and use, including the complete works of Alman, Hast, Himelstein, Lewandowski, Mombach, Saqui, Sulzer, and Weisser to name but a few, as well as compendiums of works for Shabbatot and Chagim used by shul choirs. All these pages are believed to be in the public domain. You may download any of the music free of charge. Be sure to have a good broadband provider for faster downloads.

Our on-going project is to convert these sheets of music to midi files so that you can actually hear and enjoy the unique sound of synagogue music.

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You are cordially asked to refrain from using the material on this site for any purpose that could be deemed an inappropriate use of synagogue music of this kind.

The "Blue Book" & midi files (File size: 45Mb)

Voice of Song and Prayer, first published in London in 1899. Since then, this book has been the foundation of choral music in the UK and the Commonwealth - SATB

High Holydays choral sheet music and midi audio files (File size: 53Mb PDFs and midis)

Male choir arrangements of music for the High Holydays. The music comes from two orthodox male voice choirs - SATB

Shabbat choral music (File size: 14Mb)

Male choir arrangements of music for orthodox synagogue Sabbath services - SATB with MIDI files.

Yom Tov choral music (File size: 3Mb)

A zip file with male choir arrangements of music for orthodox synagogue Festival services - SATB with MIDI files.

French Hagaddah Music (1884)

Shir Hama'alot table melodies sheet music

 

Samuel Alman (1877-1947)

Biography

The complete works - SATB 


David De Sola (1796 - 1860)

Talele Zimra - De Sola - 1857  (File size: 13Mb).

 

Goldfarb

Booklets containing words and melodies.

Synagogue Melodies for the High Holydays - 1926 (PDF + midis: 10Mb)

Goldfarb - Friday evening melodies - 1918 (File size: 6Mb)

Goldfarb - Sabbath in the home - 1953 (File size: 8.5Mb)

 

Reverend Marcus Hast (1840 - 1911)

The complete works (in .zip files), The Great Synagogue, London, 1910 - 4 volumes:

  • Vol. I - Sabbath liturgy for the whole year (File size: 40 Mb)

  • Vol. II - Festivals (File size: 56 Mb)

  • Vol. III - Psalms + special occasions (File size: 62 Mb)

  • Vol. IV - Special services, weddings, Channuka, memorial, etc. (File size: 17.5Mb)

 

Avram Mordechai Himelstein (1905 - 1974)

The compositions and arrangements of            


Ephraim Katz (b.1944)

Choral arrangements of famous works and compositions

 

Louis Lewandowski (1821 - 1894)

Recitatives: Kol Rina Utfillah (File size: 20Mb) - mostly solos.

Festivals: Toda V'Zimra (File size: 48Mb) - SATB

Shabbat: Toda V'Zimra (File size: 31Mb) - SATB [Download Lewandowski's Shabbat music midi + Finale files - usually with 6 tracks (SATB + organ accompaniment)) and stereo spread of voices. All thanks to Mike Rosen (see below) for the great effort that this project required]

 

Rev. Jacob Matz (1860?? - 1913)

Kol Jacob - Synagogal Music for the Whole Liturgical Year (1912) 

(File size: 7Mb).

Obituary


Israel (Julius) Lazarus Mombach (1813 - 1880)

The complete choral works of Mombach, choir leader in London, Na'im Zemirot Israel - published in 1881 (File size: 25.4Mb).

 

Abraham Saqui (1824-1893)

Songs of Israel, Liverpool, 1878 SATB            (PDF file size: 19Mb)

Article

 

Hazan Froim Spektor (1888 - 1948)

The cantorial compositions of  (File size: 4Mb).

 

Solomon Sulzer (1804 - 1890)

Sulzer's SHIR ZION book page or download the whole book - (File size: 811 Mb) - Sulzer's music, from mid-1800s, is still used in services all over the world - SATB

 

Joshua S. Weisser (Pilderwasser)

Volume I for Shabbat and Festivals - SATB.          (File size: 25 Mb)

Mincha & Maariv L'chol (File size: 11 Mb)

  



 

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In preparation:

The choral works of Naumbourg  (1815 - 1880)

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This site contains thousands of pages of scanned music some of which was made possible by the kind contribution provided by the members of the choir of the Northern Suburbs Hebrew Congregation of Perth, Australia.

Yeshar Koach!

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Mike Rosen - a Profile

Born in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, I became Bar Mitzvah at the Beth Tfiloh Synagogue. The rabbi was Samuel Rosenblatt, the son of Yoselle Rosenblatt. This has absolutely nothing to do with my interest in shul music; simply a brush with greatness.

I sang in school choirs in high school, and did the obligatory 1960s folk music scene. My involvement with music was rekindled in the mid-1980s, when my high school choir decided to have a reunion. It was such fun for all of us that we continued to meet for over a decade. Four of us from this group formed a barbershop quartet, The Alumnotes. I also started singing with a local college/community choir, again under the direction of Dr. Richard Disharoon, my high school choir director, to whom I owe an unrepayable debt. Thanks, Dick!

In about 1990, I found myself self-employed, which gave me the freedom to start attending services at Chizuk Amuno Congregation more regularly. Their magic of their choir, under the exacting direction of Saul Lilienstein, drew me in. In addition to having a lot of music to learn, many of the scores were multi-generation copies of handwritten originals; that is, mostly illegible. Consequently, I started working with notation programs. Since leaving Baltimore for Phoenix, Arizona in 1998, and then moving to Seattle, Washington in 2005, I have honed my vocal and notation skills singing with the Beth El, Temple Chai, and Temple Beth Am congregations, Cactus Chordsmen, and Seattle Seachordsmen.

I found shulmusic.org by accident, and offered to help on this wonderful project. I hope you enjoy listening to these great pieces as much as I do!

I am a cabinetmaker in the real world.

Please visit my site at www.specialmillwork.com to learn even more about me.

Mike Rosen