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Oy Chanukah: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Oy Chanukah, sung by the soprano, in Fm, from F4 to F5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries the Hasidic tune as the songbook prints it, quick and light, most often on C, then A-flat, up to its top F on the second "Khanike," and on "freylekher," each time verse 1 is sung and on "fartribn" and "hamikdesh" in verse 2, and down to its low F on, among others, the first and last words of every verse, "Oy," and "kon." in verse 1 and "Yehude" and "oykh." in verse 2.

Range
F4 to F5
Key
Fm
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  1. 01 · Your part

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  3. 03 · Sing it

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About Oy Chanukah

Words: Mordkhe Rivesman (printed 1911/12)

Tune: traditional Hasidic tune (printed 1911/12)

Oy Chanukah is a Yiddish Hanukkah song that Susman Kisselgof printed in his songbook "for the Jewish school and family", first published in St Petersburg in 1911 and 1912, marking its tune "Chsidisch": a Hasidic melody. Mordkhe Rivesman's words paint the holiday at home: dreidels every night, sizzling-hot latkes, lighting the thin little candles and saying "Al hanisim", for the miracles. Our arrangement is read from the book's fourth edition, in F minor as printed: the soprano and alto sing Pesach Lvov's two voices, and the tenor and bass take his piano's left hand. It is sung in Yiddish, transliterated, for 2 to 4 singers: verse 1, verse 2, praising Judah the Maccabee, then verse 1 again.

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