[HANASHIR:2359] Bar'chu

[Rachelle and Howard Shubert <shubert...>]

Interesting how that happens to a melody.  The way it has evolved in our
synagogue is actually more natural sounding for some reason -- more like a
chant than the pretty melodic line which is written.  I think I will go with
the "oral tradition".

Thanks again for your feedback, Carol.

Rachelle





At 16:53 10/02/99 PST, Carol Leon wrote:
>Rachelle, at my synagogue, we sing the la-la's as written
>but have changed the Bar'chu et Adonai ham'vorach melody.
>I don't know why or when the change took place. -- Carol
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>>Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:53:30 -0500 (EST)
>>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>>From: Rachelle and Howard Shubert <shubert (at) internauts(dot)ca>
>>Subject: [HANASHIR:2356] Re: choral arrangements
>>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
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>>Thanks, Felicia, for the excellent idea for a quick and successful 
>choral
>>arrangement of Bar'chu.  I have noticed that I have never heard it sung 
>as
>>written.  For some reason, the melody of the  word " ham'vorach"  has 
>always
>>been changed (simplified)  whenever I have heard it at religious school
>>services. I am debating whether to teach it the written way to to adult
>>choir.  Is this change common or unique to my synagogue, I wonder.
>>
>>
>>Rachelle
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