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Maoz Tzur: alto part

The alto part of Maoz Tzur in E, from Ab3 to B4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words under the tune, mostly a third or a sixth below it, most often on G-sharp, up to its top B only on "mitzar" in verse 1 and "naasa" in verse 5, and crosses a third above the tune, to G-sharp, on the last note of every "hamizbeach." and "urenanim." and on "alai," and "migdalai," in verse 5.

Range
Ab3 to B4
Key
E
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About Maoz Tzur

Words: Hebrew piyyut signed Mordecai in its acrostic (13th century)

Tune: traditional Ashkenazi Hanukkah tune, from a 15th-century German folk song (printed by Baer after 1883 and Idelsohn 1911/12)

Maoz Tzur is the Hanukkah hymn sung after lighting the Hanukkah lights, at first only at home and later in the synagogue too. The first letters of its stanzas spell the poet's name, Mordecai, and Eduard Birnbaum identified its tune as an adaptation of an old German folk song, "So weiss ich eins, dass mich erfreut", widespread among German Jews by about 1450. Our arrangement is read from A. Z. Idelsohn's Sefer ha-Shirim of 1911/12, in E major, on the harmony of his two and three voices. It is sung in Hebrew, transliterated, for 2 to 4 singers: verse 1, praising God, the Rock of my salvation, and verse 5, the Hanukkah story of the oil.

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