Schire Simra

Three volumes of synagogue recitatives and choruses. Compositions for Sabbath, High Holidays, Purim, Funerals and Chanukah.

Preface to the collection by E. Gerovich (translated from Hebrew):

'The beauty of the recitatives of my two collections will be acknowledged by any Hazzan who will practice them many times, until knowing them by heart. They will teach him several things: 1. Not to repeat a word twice or thrice, and not to trill it too much. 2. To put proper music to the words he sings. 3. To praise his maker in a calm spirit and sacred melody, not in noise and degraded singing. 4. To move from the scale he sings in, after going high and low, to a different scale, far and unknown, and to come back gracefully to the first scale which he left.'