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For non professional chazzanim the recordings on this site are very useful. For professionals however, sheet music is more important. We will try to collect and publish what we have. 

 

Emanuel Aguilar
Santo Servicio (recordings by the new choir, started in 2003)
Chazzan Nunes Nabarro collection
Ets Haim music collection
Ets Haim music recordings
David Ricardo
Bram Lopes Cardozo
Some Kippur sheet music
Various

 Emanuel Aguilar

Sheets music written by Emanuel Aguilar in 1857, based on 70 melodies he heard from David Aaron de Sola. Recordings will follow. Mind this collection contains many "standard' melodies, in contrast to the Santo books, which contain mainly big compositions. According to the note attached to the first page (see picture) chazzan de Sola moved to London in 1818, so this collection of music is much older. 

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Index
pages 1-13       nrs 1-13
pages 14-25     nrs 14-26
pages 26-37     nrs 27-39
pages 38-49     nrs 40-54
pages 50-61     nrs 55-70

It is interesting to compare this sheet music to what we sing today, mainly based on the recordings made by hazzan Nunes Nabarro (NN) in the 1960's, which can be found elsewhere on this site. In below table I put next to each other  11 Aguilar recordings from Eliot Alderman to what we sing today. Unfortunately, the recorded bakashot (Supplications) have mostly been forgotten in Amsterdam, proven by the fact that most of them were not printed in the recent Green Tefillot (see the Index).  I leave it to the musicologists to draw conclusions.
Hopefully, more comparisons will follow.

Recordings: EA, NN, SRP

תפילה

nr & page recording
כל ברואי 1/1 EA
שחר אבקשך 2/2 EA, NN
ה' בוקר 3/2 EA
אלקי עוז תהלתי 4/3 EA
למענך ולא לנו 5/3 EA
אברך 6/4 EA, NN1, NN2, SRP
כי אשמרה שבת 19/19 EA
יום זה לישראל 20/20 EA
אלקים יסעדינו 22/22 EA
תודות קל 63/56 EA, SRP
צור שוכן 64/57 EA

Recordings (EA): © Eliot Alderman , copied with permission from the website

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Santo Servicio

There is a big collection of sheet music in the Ets Haim library, usually referred to as the "Santo books", as most were written for the t he Santo Sevicio choir, which started in 1886. This collection will be published in the future. For now we publish the part which constitutes repertoire of the Santo Sevicio choir today. More will follow later.

תפילה

remarks

Baruch Haba (psalm 118) recording
Baruch Haba
Chupa responses
Shir Hama'alot (psalm 128) recording
Adon Olam recording
Adon Olam de Sola, recording
Adon Olam
Halel - Helelu (psalm 117)
Halel - Hodu (psalm 118) recording
Halel - Odecha (psalm 118)
Halel - Ana (psalm 118)
Halel - Ana
Ein Kelokenu recording
Ein Kelokenu
Cohanecha recording
Gadelu recording
Hanoteen teshu'ah
Jimloch recording
Mizmor leDavid havu (psalm 29) recording
Sjoeva lim'onach recording
Oeba letsion
Mizmor letoda (psalm 100) recording
Chishki chizki Song composed to celebrate the inauguration of the Snoge in 1675. 
Lamenatseach (psalm 67)
Heleloeka (psalm 150)
Shir hama'alot leDavid (psalm 122)
Yigdal
Uba letzion Emile Jonas
Kadisj
Hallelu keel bekodsho (psalm 150)

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David Ricardo

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The entire Ricardo DIR book was recorded in 1975 and includes an interview in Hebrew. Below table brings the individual melodies. More Ricardo recordings can be found on a dedicated web page. Mind Mr. Ricardo made these recordings years after he immigrated to Israel, and unfortunately by then adopted the modern Hebrew pronunciation. See more on our  Amsterdam-Sephardi pronunciation.

number

remarks

Community singing

קדיש 1 Solemn days (1) evening
קדיש 2 Rechalim (2) evening
קדיש 3 Rechalim evening mixed choir
קדיש הגדול 4 Simchat Tora evening
קדיש 5 Rechalim last afternoon
קדושה 6 Rechalim 

Chazzan

קדיש 7 Solemn days morning
קדיש 8 Solemn days morning
קדיש 9 Solemn days evening & morning
קדיש 10 Shabbat/Festivals evening &  morning
קדיש 11 Pesach evening
קדיש 12 Shabbat Bereshit evening
קדושה 13 Rechalim morning 
קדושה 14 Rechalim morning
קדושה 15 Simchat Tora, Shabbat Bereshit
טעמי  המקרא 16 Tora reading cantillations (no recorded), see recording by NN
אם תשיב Community singing on Shabbat

(1): Rosh hashana & Yom Kipur, also referred to as High Festivals
(2): Succot, Pesach & Shabungot, also referred to as Festivals

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Some Kippur sheet music

In the article (publ. SHOFAR, University of Nebraska Press, 2000) "The Music of the Amsterdam Sephardim. A Musicological Survey" by musicologist Anton Molenaar, sheet music for five Kippur melodies is brought. With his permission I bring them here. It is very much possible that this sheet music will be found in the printed part of the  Ets Haim collection, but that still needs to be digitized. This sheet music was noted by Maxine Ribstein Kanter in "Traditional Melodies of the Rhymed. Metrical Hymns in the Sephardic High Holy Days Liturgy: A Comparative Study".

Recordings: NN and AAV

תפילה

Recording

Achot Ketana - אחות קטנה

NN

Adonam Bekol Shofar - ה' בקול שופר

AAV

Shema Koli - שמע קולי

NN

Ubkhen Nakhdishah Melekh - ובכן נקדישך מלך

NN

Ub'khen Velakh Ta’aleh Kedushah - ובכן ולך תעלה קדושה

NN

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Various

Kaddish first night Pesach (Mongadim page 174)
Sheet music
Recording Alderman (EA)
Recording Nabarro (NN)
Ufros - Arbitt festive (Mongadim page 4) sheet music and recording (from minute 1:40)

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