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If you have been following this saga for the last several months, this result is fascinating: - the tenor for the 50 chapters of Genesis is 0ver 75% B. There are 10 chapters on e, 2 on g, and 38 ...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-tenor-of-genesis.html

 Continuing from the previous post, just the short passages. Genesis 49, part of my successions series, I did in July this year. For Genesis 49 I just show the music - sing it to see if...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/10/poetry-in-genesis-3.html

 Continuing from the previous post, here is Noah with curse and blessingGenesis 9:25-27 It is certainly possible to take the 16 syllables of bars 19 to 23 and split them into two phrases of&...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/10/poetry-in-genesis-2.html

 #220 is here. -- good to see the summary of the month. And thanks to Ben for including a link to Proverbs 8 - a good lesson about truth in a few words.

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/10/biblical-studies-carnival-is-back.html

 Based on this list from @charles_loder, I thought I should look at the text and music per the deciphering key of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura. Any disagreements or something missed? pic.twit...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/poetry-without-poetic-teamim-in-torah.html

This is the last data dump for the moment. It's a lot of data to analyse and yet it is insufficient.We have been pointed to a few clues in this long set of posts: one is that the interval e ...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-5-psalms-137-to-150.html

Notice how all these psalms except 136 are all tied together. Each incipit begins on a note other than the tonic, e. This suggests that the psalms recall something prior. Mitchell (2014, The...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-5-psalms-120-to-136-psalms-of.html

One more book to go and the data for analysis will be 'out there' for the wisdom of someone to examine it in more detail and see the clues if there are any to the tone of each psalm as depicted b...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-5-psalms-107-to-119.html

There are 17 psalms in book 4. Over half (10) of them are without inscription or incipit.Summary: tenor on e: 2, f#: 4, g: 1, A: 7, B: 4, C: 0. Aside - based on syllables, I think the original si...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-4-psalms-90-106.html

You will remember the shape: Definitely designed for a wind instrument like trumpet or shofar.The psalms with the shofar incipit only occur in the first three books so I thought as aa break ...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-shofar-psalms-what-is-their-shape.html

Summary: tenor on e - 2, f# - 5, g - 1, A - 7, B - 2, C - 0.There are 17 psalms in Book 3. The final psalm is a great lament over the failure of the monarchy. Initially, I am still examining the ...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-3-psalms-73-to-89.html

Are the first lines of psalms of Book 2 (musically) different from those of Book 1 that we have seen so far in this series? Overall tenor of the chant: d: 0, e: 11, f#: 9 (+1 tie), g: 2, A: 6, B:...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/psalm-42-72.html

Psalm 22 - f# - Connection to psalm 21? Before I knew the music, I had seen this.See my previous post from Seeing the Psalter page 78 PSALM Syllables d e f# g A B C 22 616 1.62 20.13 20.62 1...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/psalms-22-41.html

Remember my analysis of the reciting notes for the 150 psalms? I was surprised to find that I had started this idea some years ago -- but clearly forgot where I was heading and didn't finish. Exa...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/psalms-1-to-21-sampling-of-first-verses.html

 Extract from Seeing the Psalter, page 78The opening psalms place some emphasis on fire and brimstone as punishment for the enemies.  XE "Themes;6:enemies" yo...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/excursus-hell-for-those-enemies.html

I decided to chose a small book to see if the prose would lend itself to a verse by verse presentation of the music and the Hebrew hand signals in the text.It is of course just fine, but I encoun...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/obadiah-technical-experiment.html

 I would love to get comments on this concept displayed in the pdf below. Is this presentation of the information that is in the Hebrew text a useful one? It is relatively easy for me to cre...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-sample-chapter-presenting-music-and.html

Yesterday I gave ChatGPT a copy of the spreadsheet for all the psalms. And this large language model attempted to analyze books two, three, and four all at once. It thought for a long time and th...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-final-note-on-tuning-strings.html

 I am stepping through the possibilities that one or more clues to the mode of a psalm may lie in the 'tenor' of the psalm or information in the first verse. I come to the conclusion that th...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/selections-from-table-of-frequencies.html

There are some parts of what ChatGPT indicated about modes that can be immediately applied to the Psalms, chapter by chapter.First - the tenor - a slightly off label usage of the word for me. The...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/tenor-and-ambitus-for-each-psalm.html

Some time in the past, around about 2012, I wrote a program that converts the Unicode of the Scripture available from tanach.us through its web service, into its musical score according to the de...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/analysis-of-recitation-in-psalms.html

Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura makes the comment that it takes a musician to decide what the musical mode should be for a chapter of the Bible. Her section on modes begins on page 216 of her English book...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/chasing-information-and-guesses-about.html

Two more tables? One for the prose books. This is longer post and goes well beyond the zarqa table concept. You might find these words a shrewd comment and warning from wisdom on today's politics...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/09/common-sequences-on-reciting-notes-e-b-c.html

 This exercise has taught me a great deal about these signs above and below the text. I should continue to pursue the more frequent examples, and particularly taking the tables constructed t...

https://meafar.blogspot.com/2024/08/mercha-tifhadehi-table-rarely-used.html

The more I work with my tables, the higher my confidence that I have found all my errors. So I will now look at the reciting notes, merkha and d'khi / tifha that rarely host ornaments. My statist...

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