This coming Shabbat is Parashat Beshalach, including Shirat Ha-Yam, the song of the crossing of the sea into freedom in Exodus 15. Every day at our morning and evening services, we sing two excerpts from the song, from the exact middle and the end:
Mi chamocha ba-elim Adonai
Who is like You, Adonai, among the godlike powers
Mi kamocha ne'dar bakodesh, nora t'hillot, oseh feleh
Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders?
Adonai yimloch l'olam va'ed
Adonai rules through all time and space, forever
Here are some interpretations of these words, and the words of prayer around them, in music.
From our own community member and teacher, Laura Hegfield:
The Maccabeats, performing Yaakov Shwekey's melody:
One of Reb Shlomo's, from the children's service music at B'nai Yeshurun in Manhattan (right-click to open in a new tab or it might not work):
Debbie Friedman's later version:
To the tune of "Misirlou" (a folk song, title means "Egyptian") -- very rough cut by me:
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