Hebrew Melodies: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hebrew Melodies, credited to George Gordon, Lord Byron, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Hebrew Melodies by George Gordon, Lord Byron. Read in English by Alan Mapstone. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hebrew Melodies
• Author credits: George Gordon, Lord Byron
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Combined MP3 track duration: 44:32

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• English
• byron
• lord byron

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - She Walks in Beauty — 1:55
2. 02 - The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept — 1:40
3. 03 - If That High World — 1:22
4. 04 - The Wild Gazelle — 1:48
5. 05 - Oh! Weep for Those — 1:23
6. 06 - On Jordan's Banks — 1:28
7. 07 - Jephtha's Daughter — 1:51
8. 08 - Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom — 1:34
9. 09 - My Soul is Dark — 1:26
10. 10 - I Saw Thee Weep — 1:18
11. 11 - Thy Days are Done — 1:25
12. 12 - It is the Hour — 1:18
13. 13 - Song of Saul Before his Last Battle — 1:17
14. 14 - Saul — 2:31
15. 15 - "All is Vanity saith the Preacher" — 1:49
16. 16 - When Coldness Wraps — 2:34
17. 17 - Vision of Belshazzar — 2:54
18. 18 - Sun of the Sleepless — 1:03
19. 19 - Were my Bosom as False as Thou Deem'st It to Be — 1:23
20. 20 - Herod's Lament for Mariamne — 2:09
21. 21 - On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus — 2:17
22. 22 - By the Rivers of Babylon we Sat Down and Wept — 1:26
23. 23 - The Destruction of Semnacherib — 2:20
24. 24 - From Job — 1:24

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