Yeẓav ha-El (Jessav a El)

A seliḥah by Yehudah Halevy. It is sometimes printed in Sephardi prayer books as reshut to Qaddish in the Yom Kippur Minhah service or as a pizmon for singing between Musaf and Minḥah of Yom Kippur. The opening unit consists of four verses and the stanzas of six verses; each verse consists of three sections of three, three and six syllables respectively. This traditional melody in makam Uşak is widespread among Sephardi cantors who use it for singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases  repeated according to the aaba scheme. Phrase b rises to the high register of the makam, returning to the lower register and to the finalis (ending tone) toward the end of the melody - a melodic progression (seyir) that characterizes makam Uşak.