Oratorio part 2 - recitative

I still don't know why these verses came up in this order for this oratorio. I wrote it experimentally a few years ago - I asked back in April 2019, that cruelest month, whether anyone would write me a hymn. No one did.

Somehow the whole oratorio formed itself around these 8 psalms 110-117 and drafted itself in a month. When I look at my blog to figure out what else I was doing at the time (such is memory in these days), I find I was thinking I might have to move and talking about downsizing again. Instead, I read Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann, a tour de force as the French would say (though probably not about a German book). I see that Claude Mariottini posted carnival 159 - 30 months ago. #189 is in process.

Here is the raw data for the second day. Again the performance of soprano Esther Lamandier illustrates how to sing recitative.

By the way, each one of these posts is a Rosetta stone for SimHebrew. Try it - learn to read Hebrew accurately in Latin script. You will get to sight recognition and sight-sound association much faster than with the square script (unless you grew up with the aleph-bet).

Genesis 1:6-8

Genesis 1:6-8, The Second Day, transcribed and arranged from the te'amim

Day 2
Syllables: 89. Words: 38. Roots: 20. Root Recurrence: 66%. Average per verse: 8.3.

alvh (3) amr at awr (2) bdl (2) bin (3) bqr cn hih (5) ivm mim (5) qra rqy (5) tkt tvc wmim wnh yl yrb ywh

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים יְהִ֥י רָקִ֖יעַ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַמָּ֑יִם וִיהִ֣י מַבְדִּ֔יל בֵּ֥ין מַ֖יִם לָמָֽיִם		6 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters. And let it be a differentiation between waters and waters.
v viamr alohim ihi rqiy btoç hmim vihi mbdil bin mim lmim	16 9	vi/amr alh\im i/hi rqy b/tvc h/mim vi/hi m/bdl bin mim l/mim
וַיַּ֣עַשׂ אֱלֹהִים֮ אֶת־הָרָקִיעַ֒ וַיַּבְדֵּ֗ל בֵּ֤ין הַמַּ֙יִם֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ מִתַּ֣חַת לָרָקִ֔יעַ וּבֵ֣ין הַמַּ֔יִם אֲשֶׁ֖ר מֵעַ֣ל לָרָקִ֑יעַ וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן		7 And God constructed the expanse and it differentiated between the waters that are under the expanse and between the waters that are over the expanse. And it was so.
z viyw alohim at-hrqiy vibdl bin hmim awr mtkt lrqiy ubin hmim awr myl lrqiy vihi-cn	38 3	vi/yw alh\im at h/rqy vi/bdl bin h/mim awr m/tkt l/rqy v/bin h/mim awr m/yl l/rqy vi/hi cn
וַיִּקְרָ֧א אֱלֹהִ֛ים לָֽרָקִ֖יעַ שָׁמָ֑יִם וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם שֵׁנִֽי פ		8 And God called the expanse heaven. And it was evening and it was morning, the second day.
k viqra alohim lrqiy wmiim vihi-yrb vihi-boqr iom wni p	13 10	vi/qra alh\im l/rqy wmim vi/hi yrb vi/hi bqr ivm wn\i

Selected recurrence: alvh awr bdl bin hih mim rqy

Word / Gloss	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Vs	Stem
אלהים God	▒							6	אלוה
יהי let there be		▒						6	היה
רקיע an expanse			▒					6	רקע
המים the waters				▒				6	מים
ויהי and let it be		▒						6	היה
מבדיל a differentiation					▒			6	בדל
בין between						▒		6	בין
מים waters				▒				6	מים
למים and waters				▒				6	מים
אלהים God	▒							7	אלוה
הרקיע the expanse			▒					7	רקע
ויבדל and it differentiated					▒			7	בדל
בין between						▒		7	בין
המים the waters				▒				7	מים
אשר that							▒	7	אשר
לרקיע the expanse			▒					7	רקע
ובין and between						▒		7	בין
המים the waters				▒				7	מים
אשר that							▒	7	אשר
לרקיע the expanse			▒					7	רקע
ויהי and it was		▒						7	היה
אלהים God	▒							8	אלוה
לרקיע the expanse			▒					8	רקע
ויהי and it was		▒						8	היה
ויהי and it was		▒						8	היה