Sequences of ornaments

You might have guessed I would try this. What sequences do the ornaments appear in when they are used? It is one thing to count them by type, but it is how they are used together as well as how they are used rarely that will mark their effect on the music. This exercise has also uncovered a dozen or two verses where my data needed adjusting and the music needed updating and I have done this at the shared public locations.

Here is a first table for before the mid point of a verse.

Ornaments	Occurs	Gen	Ex	Lev	Num	Deut	Josh	Judg	1Sam	2Sam	1Kng	2Kng	Is	Je	Ezek
none	3231	420	343	199	329	236	115	114	146	181	144	137	377	255	235
qad,	139	18	11	9	18	8	5	4	6	4	14	5	16	12	9
qad,ger-rev,qad,z-q,	139	13	10	7	18	6	11	8	12	9	9	5	5	12	14
qad,qad,z-q,	614	69	36	28	40	19	30	18	43	27	48	31	92	66	67
qad,z-q,	2028	194	179	131	175	120	59	89	124	91	80	83	319	202	182
qad,z-q,qad,z-q,	214	24	15	18	10	11	9	19	15	8	18	10	10	17	30
qad,z-q,z-q,	165	21	18	12	10	11	5	9	12	8	8	4	10	19	18
rev,	202	20	13	15	21	19	13	9	10	15	16	5	14	16	16
rev,qad,qad,z-q,	210	31	16	12	12	17	13	6	8	10	13	12	17	16	27
rev,qad,z-q,	662	80	51	35	50	44	34	22	40	38	34	35	56	67	76
rev,qad,z-q,qad,z-q,	101	7	6	3	5	5	2	5	6	1	10	8	8	17	18
z-g,	274	49	14	15	24	18	9	7	13	14	15	17	20	26	33
z-q,	844	105	60	48	86	71	30	49	49	39	38	38	78	86	67

Sorry no music. Notation is hard to manage in a table. I have abbreviated all the ornament traditional names. And I have not translated them to musical names.

The traditional names in the above are qadma, geresh, revia, zaqef-qatan, zaqef-gadol. Only these five appear as frequently in sequence - in more than 100 verses in the first 15 books.

• qadma sounds the note above the reciting note and returns to the reciting note, 
• geresh sounds the note a third above the reciting note and returns to the reciting note, 
• revia may be a trill or a mordent starting on the reciting note,
• zaqef qatan is a mordent - sounding the note below the reciting note and returning to the reciting note,
• zaqef gadol goes down the first note and then the second note below the zaqef qatan.

These are how I interpret Suzanne Haik-Vantoura's work. I feel the work on the ornaments is less certain than her work on the signs below the text.

Still - we learn something from this exercise: qadma + zaqef-qatan is a very frequent combination. 

Here are the stats for after the cadence. All the same patterns appear. Note the frequency with which there are no supra-linear signs. This was one of the main reasons that SHV determined that the sublinear signs were more significant than the signs above the text.

Ornaments	Occurs	Gen	Ex	Lev	Num	Deut	Josh	Judg	1Sam	2Sam	1Kng	2Kng	Is	Je	Ezek
none	5177	667	485	414	534	305	220	222	254	218	275	252	434	458	439
qad,	139	6	15	15	10	10	9	7	9	10	6	10	7	18	7
qad,qad,z-q,	671	68	55	34	44	44	28	30	34	36	40	26	103	59	70
qad,z-q,	2249	188	167	116	174	174	75	84	139	88	113	77	355	266	233
qad,z-q,qad,z-q,	116	18	8	6	12	7	3	0	8	9	5	8	11	15	6
qad,z-q,z-q,	114	16	12	6	7	10	3	9	8	6	5	5	7	11	9
rev,	286	18	27	16	29	23	10	5	14	17	33	38	15	27	14
rev,qad,qad,z-q,	167	17	12	7	28	15	6	9	7	8	9	9	15	13	12
rev,qad,z-q,	494	54	44	16	43	31	22	21	32	39	28	29	44	47	44
z-g,	312	49	32	14	43	15	10	14	22	13	11	15	20	25	29
z-q,	1228	161	111	67	82	76	41	59	93	57	79	72	112	117	101

What about the less frequently used ornaments. I have noted in the past how particular words and concepts in a passage are annotated with musical flourishes. The passages highlighting the weapons (sword and stone) with the talsha in the David-Philistine battle are a good case in point. These rarer accents will follow in a subsequent post when I figure out how to present their rarity.