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Hebrew Melodies

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Hebrew Melodies

by George Gordon, Lord Byron

English· 00:44:31· 25 chapters
Byron wrote the Hebrew Melodies to accompany music by the composer Isaac Nathan which he claimed derived from Synagogue tunes used at the time of the Temple in Jerusalem, although it is likely that most of the music was from more recent European sources. While some of the poems are based on stories from the Book of Job most have no specific religious or Hebrew connotations.



The poems were widely admired, influencing works by Heine and Lermontov and being set to music by composers including Mendelssohn, Schumann and Mussorgsky.



(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    She Walks in Beauty

    01:55
  2. Chapter 2

    The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept

    01:40
  3. Chapter 3

    If That High World

    01:22
  4. Chapter 4

    The Wild Gazelle

    01:48
  5. Chapter 5

    Oh! Weep for Those

    01:23
  6. Chapter 6

    On Jordan's Banks

    01:28
  7. Chapter 7

    Jephtha's Daughter

    01:51
  8. Chapter 8

    Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom

    01:34
  9. Chapter 9

    My Soul is Dark

    01:26
  10. Chapter 10

    I Saw Thee Weep

    01:18
  11. Chapter 11

    Thy Days are Done

    01:25
  12. Chapter 12

    It is the Hour

    01:18
  13. Chapter 13

    Song of Saul Before his Last Battle

    01:17
  14. Chapter 14

    Saul

    02:31
  15. Chapter 15

    "All is Vanity saith the Preacher"

    01:49
  16. Chapter 16

    When Coldness Wraps

    02:34
  17. Chapter 17

    Vision of Belshazzar

    02:54
  18. Chapter 18

    Sun of the Sleepless

    01:03
  19. Chapter 19

    Were my Bosom as False as Thou Deem'st It to Be

    01:23
  20. Chapter 20

    Herod's Lament for Mariamne

    02:09
  21. Chapter 21

    On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus

    02:17
  22. Chapter 22

    By the Rivers of Babylon we Sat Down and Wept

    01:26
  23. Chapter 23

    The Destruction of Semnacherib

    02:20
  24. Chapter 24

    From Job

    01:24
  25. Chapter 25

    Lines on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.

    02:56