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Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Verses without a final silluq

It is very easy to get something wrong or confused, to use the wrong word, etc. Recently some you might have noticed that I confused sof pasuk with silluq. They are of course not the same and I have changed the posts I let this error stand in. I was led astray but I have only the excuse of memory. Burns states that sof pasuk ends every verse of scripture. But it isn't used in the Aleppo Codex. And it really is like the vertical separator an aspect of punctuation, not of music.

What surprised me and almost left me doubting my data is that there are actually 24 verses where the music does NOT end with a return to the tonic signaled by silluq. One of these I knew about already, it ends on the subdominant (the last accent in the text is the atnach). That verse is clearly anomalous. But what about the others.

Here they are. I haven't come across these in my composition exercises so far.

e z-q,e g# Ae g# 1Genesis 32:24
e f g# AC qad,z-q,g# 1Leviticus 26:28
e g# B A1Numbers 25:19
e f g# Af g# 1Numbers 27:9
c d f g# B Atar,B rev,d g# f 1Deuteronomy 10:15
e B tal,e tar,c e B rev,f d f g# AC e qad,z-q,g# f 1Deuteronomy 12:2
e f g# B Ae f g# f 1Deuteronomy 23:18
e C qad,B z-q,f g# B Ad 1Judges 13:18
e g# B Af g# 1Isaiah 13:7
e f g# e Aqad,qad,e z-q,g# 1Isaiah 13:16
e f g# e Aqad,z-q,g# f 1Hosea 11:7
C e zar,d e ole,f# g B Ager-rev,B 1Psalms 31:20
f# e rev,C ill,B B Ag B 1Psalms 32:2
e B B Ag B 2Psalms 37:31, 78:41
e B g Ager-rev,1Psalms 37:32
e g B Ag B 1Psalms 59:5
e B B Ager-rev,f# 2Psalms 60:13
e rev,g B Ag B 1Psalms 71:4
e B g B Af# ger-rev,f# 1Psalms 74:17
e B B Ag B 2Psalms 37:31, 78:41
C B g B Af# ger-rev,f# 1Psalms 89:7
e f# Ag B 1Psalms 89:41
e B B Ager-rev,f# 2Proverbs 8:28
e B g B Ae f# 1Proverbs 24:15

Besides the anomalous verses above, there are 11 verses where the last accent is an ornament. Note that they are all in the Decalogue.
B e d tal,f pas,g# ger,e rev,1Exodus 20:3
B e pas,f B B qad,qad,paz,z-q,C B B qad,qad,paz,z-q,e f tal,g# pas,Ager,f B g# B f B e rev,1Exodus 20:4
e d tal,f pas,g# ger,e rev,1Exodus 20:8
C B B qad,e z-q,zar,g# B e seg,2Exodus 20:9
e qad,qad,z-q,ger,g# B B Arev,B e B pas,paz,ger,B B e tal,rev,C pas,e ger,qad,z-q,rev,g# qad,f B e z-q,1Exodus 20:10
B g# e z-q,1Exodus 20:15
B f d tal,f pas,g# ger,e rev,1Deuteronomy 5:7
B e f f B B qad,qad,z-q,paz,C B B qad,qad,z-q,paz,f tal,g# pas,Ager,f g# B f B e rev,1Deuteronomy 5:8
e B d f tal,g# pas,Ager,f g# B f B e rev,1Deuteronomy 5:12
C B B qad,e z-q,zar,g# B e seg,2Deuteronomy 5:13
e g# B e z-q,1Deuteronomy 5:19

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