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Monday 15 November 2021

Oratorio part 6, Job 41, a handful of verses

Job is a wonderful story set to music. You can't read it without the music. It will just be a horror show to you. The whole mess is built on Deuteronomy 28. What the story teller is doing is binding and loosing the Torah right in front of you - so you should be able to see it now. It is truth for each one of us due to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but it is story of a human with real backbone and he is solidly affirmed as such. The speeches and Behemoth and Leviathan are the stuff of art.

Job 41

Job 41, raw material - write me a fugue

Syllables: 62. Words: 24. Roots: 21. Root Recurrence: 25%. Average per verse: 1.5.
עֲֽ֭טִישֹׁתָיו תָּ֣הֶל א֑וֹר
וְ֝עֵינָ֗יו כְּעַפְעַפֵּי־שָֽׁחַר
18 ♪g His sneezing praises light,
and his eyes are like the eyelids of dawn.
ik y'tiwotiv thl aor
vyiniv cypypi-wkr
7
8
y+iw\tiv t/hl avr
v/yin\iv c/ypyp\i wkr
מִ֭פִּיו לַפִּידִ֣ים יַהֲלֹ֑כוּ
כִּיד֥וֹדֵי אֵ֝֗שׁ יִתְמַלָּֽטוּ
19 ♪g From his mouth torches walk,
and infatuations of fire escape.
i't mpiv lpidim ihlocu
cidodi aw itml'tu
9
8
m/p\iv lp\idim i/hlc\v
ci/dvd\i aw it/ml+\v
מִ֭נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן
כְּד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְאַגְמֹֽן
20 ♪g From his sniffler he makes smoke emerge,
as one who is infatuated stokes bulrushes.
c mnkiriv iixa ywn
cdud npuk vagmon
7
8
mn/kr\v ixa ywn
c/dvd npk v/agm\n
נַ֭פְשׁוֹ גֶּחָלִ֣ים תְּלַהֵ֑ט
וְ֝לַ֗הַב מִפִּ֥יו יֵצֵֽא
21 ♪g His very self blazes coals,
and flame from his mouth emerges.
ca npwo gklim tlh't
vlhb mpiv iixa
8
7
npw\v gkl\im t/lh+
v/lhb m/p\iv ixa

Here is the traditional fire-breathing dragon. Chorus: 18g His sneezing praises light, // and his eyes are like the eyelids of dawn. 19g From his mouth torches walk, // and infatuations of fire escape. 20g From his sniffler he makes smoke emerge, // as one who is infatuated stokes bulrushes. 21g His very self blazes coals, // and flame from his mouth emerges.

The beginning of the fugue



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