לירח זיו | Le-yerah ziv | To the Month of Light (1912)

Artist: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938)

Hebrew translation (PDF)

This text was published in Ha-Zamir (Odessa 1903: p. 7). A different melody, by Fr. Zilber, was published in Ta'ame Zimra le Shire' Ha-Zami'r (Warsaw, 1904: p. 33).

The subject of “Le-yerah ziv” is the springtime, which is filled with flowers and birdsong.

Idelsohn (Ben-Yehuda) composed the melody in a major key.

Included in

• Sefer ha-Shirim (Book of Songs)

Scores

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