Composed By: Mordecai Seter

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First page of score: PDF

Voicing: SATB SATB SATB

Keyword midnight vigil

Event/Holiday:

Language: Hebrew

Difficulty: challenging

Country: Israel, Yemen

Solos: tenor

Instruments: orchestra

Lyrics: Mordecai Tabib, based on traditional texts

Publisher: available from Presser

Year Composed/Published: 1961

Timing: 32

Tempo: various

First Line:

description: A huge oratorio based on mystical visions that come to a worshipper who prays through the night. A synthesis of Yemenite Jewish melodies with Bartokian techniques.