Saturday 8 February 2020

Recitation analysis

Questions arise as to how often and where are recitation notes used. How often really asks, how long are the recitations? Remember I suggested that recitation notes have an emotional character:
  • The tonic (e) for the sense of home, 
  • the subdominant (A) for the sense of rest, 
  • the supertonic (f) for a briefer rest, (in the 3 books only) and always prior to the subdominant if both are in the verse,
  • the dominant (B) for proclamation, 
  • the submediant (C) for emotional appeal.
  • It is rare to have much recitation below the tonic (low c, 21 books only, or d, all books).
  • Recitation above the submediant is non-existent.
I now ask How rare?

The three books contain the sequences d e 34 times and d f 174 times. d g twice, d B 6 times and d C 15 times.
(c d e f g A B C == doh re mi fa sol la ti doh from middle c, fixed doh)

Well, well, if it isn't Psalm 23 that gets the prize. Just look at that word painting.
Furthermore because I walk in the gorge shadowing death, I will not fear evil, because you are with me. //  Your sceptre and your staff, they re-create me.
Psalms 23:4
So d is used with great effect as a low reciting note. How often, i.e. how many syllables? That will take some deep thought as to how to extract a count summarized by reciting note from my table that creates the XML.




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