Schlesinger’s setting of yigdal, typically Germanic in its stylistic approach, incorporated the new Reform variant of the poem in the final two stanzas—as printed in Merzbacher’s 1855 prayerbook. His approach to the simple, straightforward text of v’shamru is overly  romanticized and operatic; and his “Kindle the Taper,” conceived to replace hanerot hallalu for the candle-lighting on Hanukka—and sung in Reform Sabbath eve services during Hanukka—is an overblown treatment that also reflects a combination of French and Italian operatic influence.