Composed by: Alice Parker

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Voicing: SATB

Keyword Sanctus, Holy

Event/Holiday: Shabbat

Language: Hebrew and English

Difficulty: moderately difficult

Country: America

Solos: tenor and soprano

Instruments: none

Lyrics: liturgy (including Isaiah 6)

Publisher: Transcontinental

Year Composed/Published: 1999

Timing: 10:30

Tempo: varied

First Line: nekadesh et shimcha ba’olam

description: Parker composed this setting on commission from the American Guild of Organists. Other than one traditional Ashkenazic melody (ve’enenu tir’ena), the work is completely original, a lyrical and dramatic setting of the Jewish sanctification of God’s name.