Below are the examples from the audiocassette issued by the University of Illinois Press for the book Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate, by Mark Slobin. The examples are reproduced here with the kind permission of the Press and Samuel Adler, who arranged for the recording to be done at the Eastman School of Music in the late 1980s.

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Example 01: Salomon Sulzer, Lecha dodi, Mark Slobin

 

Example 02: Lewandowski, Lecha dodi, Mark Slobin

 

Example 03: Second most-commonly submitted Lecha dodi melody, Mark Slobin

 

Example 04: Hasidic Style Lecha dodi, Mark Slobin

 

Example 05a: Seasonal variant: Lecha dodi for three nights before Tisha b'Av, Mark Slobin

 

Example 05b: Seasonal variant: Lecha dodi for the month of Elul, Mark Slobin

 

Example 06: Most common Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 07: Symmetrical version of Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 08: Personal variation of Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 09: Personal variation of Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 10: Personal variation of Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 11: Text accent shift in Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 12: Text accent shift in Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 13: Word repetition in Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 14: Personal variation of Tzur yisroel, Mark Slobin

 

Example 15: Salomone Rossi, Borchu, No. 1, Mark Slobin

 

Example 16: Bor'chu arranged by Isidor Freed, Mark Slobin

 

Example 17: Salomon Sulzer, Barchu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 18: Benjamin Grobani, Borchu, No. 1, Mark Slobin

 

Example 19: Arthur Yolkoff, Bar'chu, Mark Slobin

 

example 20: Heinrich Schalit, Bor'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 21: Lazar Weiner Bor'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 22: Max Helfman, Bar'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 23: Miriam Gideon, Bar'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 24: Paul Ben-Haim, Barechu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 25: Frederick Piket, Bar'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 26: Samuel Adler, Bor'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 27: Isidor Freed, Bar'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 28: Gershon Kingsley, Bor'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 29: Michael Isaacson, Bar'chu, Mark Slobin

 

Example 30: Ashrei variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 31: Ashrei variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 32: Ashrei variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 33: Ashrei variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 34: Ashrei variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 35: Ashrei variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 36: Uvchen variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 37: Uvchen variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 38: Uvchen variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 39: Uvchen variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 40: Uvchen variation, Mark Slobin

 

Example 41: Uvchen variation, Mark Slobin