You might also find Gates of Song useful.
https://www.transcontinentalmusic.com/PDS-Gates-of-Song-(Congregational-Edition)-75907
It is published by Transcontinental Music, a major published of Jewish music of many kinds.
You might also find Gates of Song useful.
https://www.transcontinentalmusic.com/PDS-Gates-of-Song-(Congregational-Edition)-75907
It is published by Transcontinental Music, a major published of Jewish music of many kinds.
My primary interest in "Jewish Music" is to be inclusive in performances during holiday periods like Christmas/Chanukah and Easter/Passover. I have a number of things like The Dreidal Song in my crank organ collection along with Jingle Bells.
I wasn't surprised to find that there is a book called Union Hymnal for Jewish Worship available as a .PDF at archive.org. This was produced by American "reformed" congregations, and as a result, all lyrics appear to be in English, and some of the tunes are by non-jewish composers like Mozart.
At a first glance you would be hard pressed to tell from a single page that it wasn't from any American protestant hymnal. They are four-part arrangements.
https://ia801507.us.archive.org/34/items/unionhymnal00cent/unionhymnal00cent.pdf
Hymnary.org has several listing for books with lyrics in Hebrew and Yiddish. One example is
https://hymnary.org/hymnal/CZNS1909
Brown University has a page on Yiddish sheet music with a lot of sheet music.
https://library.brown.edu/cds/sheetmusic/yiddish/
I found that via the Hebrew Union College page on music resources.
https://huc.edu/libraries/free-online-resources/free-online-resources-music-resources/
The resources are there.
I think Burt Kahn who is a contributor of dulcimer songs on dulcimertab.com has a number of Jewish songs available. I think he lives South Florida.
Joe Besse
Is there a collection of Jewish worship songs written for dulcimer?
Just for clarification... I'm assuming that you mean "tabbed for dulcimer", as opposed to written for (composed for) dulcimer.
The request was for "Jewish worship songs." A lot of the common "Jewish songs" are holiday or folk tunes.
If you are looking for TABs for music for temple or synagogue, some of us here might be able to able to make them from sheet music, but we wouldn't have that or know what to look for.
Hatikvah (The Hope) is available in tab form on a few websites and well as in a few published tab books. I think there are few others out there, like the dreidel song, but you can do an internet search for specific songs to see what's out there.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
Hi,
Thanks for your email.
As far as I know, there's no collection of Jewish music for dulcimer, but I'd love to see one. I know Jessica Comeau is among players who has at least one Jewish song in her repertoire. My setting of Hinei Ma Tov is my album Three Strings and the Truth: New Music for Mountain Dulcimer. It's out of print (the label folded), but it streams on many sources. I've performed other Jewish songs as well.
I'm a composer (and Jewish) and have composed and performed a great deal of Jewish music. Thanks for asking about this. I hope someone rises to meet the challenge.
Best,