The more I work with my tables, the higher my confidence that I have found all
my errors. So I will now look at the reciting notes, merkha and d'khi / tifha
that rarely host ornaments.
My statistics (
updated yet again) all assume the default mode. In the 21 books,
f (mercha) is often immediately followed by g#. Mercha occurs in 88% of the
verses of the 21 books, but in most of them (80%) it is immediately followed by
g#. That confines the verses for recitation on f to 3,829 verses out of 18,720 in
the 21 books.
We already have encountered one such verse in the table of rarely used accent,
tarsin. I have called on the verse from 2 Samuel 19 again for this
mercha-tifha table.
Another verse, Deuteronomy 5:7 briefly uses an accent while the recitation is
on f in a very complex fashion.
7 ♪B Not it is for you: other gods over my presence. |
ז ל֣א יהי֥ה לך֛֩ אלה֥֨ים אחר֖֜ים על־פנֽ֗י |
15
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| z la ihih lç alohim akrim yl-pnii |
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Deuteronomy 5:7 |
Here you see three syllables each containing two accents. I know there are other explanations for this feature, but it occurs in other places than the decalogue and the deciphering key handles multiple accents on a word or syllable just fine.
And I chose at random a verse from Jeremiah out of the thousands. He uses mercha, reciting note f, to great
effect for his 'woe is me' verse.
19 ♪f Woe to me over my
brokenness. My defeat is ill. And I, I said, Surely this is my
illness, and I must bear it.
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יט א֥וי לי֙
על־שבר֔י
נחל֖ה
מכת֑י ואנ֣י
אמ֔רתי א֛ך
ז֥ה חל֖י
ואשאֽנו
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11 15
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iT aoi li yl-wbri nklh mcti vani
amrti aç zh koli vawanu
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Jeremiah 10:19a
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There's still more to do -- find the verse with the zarqa -- then we could almost call this a zarqa table (but I didn't). The verse is 2 Samuel 3:8 and what do you know, but there is the zarqa and the tsinnor on the same word! Double accents are found not just in the Decalogue.
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from 2 Samuel 3:8 |
Now all I need is a revia, an azla, (both provided by Joshua 20:12) and a telisha gedolah (2 Chronicles 20:12 is the only one) to complete the mercha series. And a qadma, a tsinnor and a pashta to complete the tifha series. These last few are coming from the Decalogue again.
I think I can see why the training in this music would occupy several years as Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura writes.
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Mercha Tifha table for the 21 books selections from 2 Samuel 19:12, Deuteronomy 5:7, Jeremiah 10:19, 2 Chronicles 20:12 Joshua 17:2, Deuteronomy 5:12 |