Monday 26 August 2024

Learning, learning, learning -- the tarsin table

I have updated the previous post on the accents (for the nth time). Even if one concentrates on just one set of names and functions for the te'amim, the result is very complex. Identifying the statistics with reasonable accuracy (and I now think I am closer than I was two weeks ago) is a necessary precursor to imagining how to teach and promote the concept. This is not Bach, but it is music of significant expressive power. 

So my next step and perhaps the last in this set of posts is to create a series of 'zarqa' tables that introduce selected sequences. One problem, even with only 8 fundamental accents and 18 or 19 subordinate ornaments, there are still 16,298 distinct sequences among the verses -- that's too many for a single lesson.

The first could be the table for tarsin:

Tarsin, the only ornament that appears governed by low c
And here is its table:
brought to you by Ezra 6:9, 2 Chronicles 13:5, 2 Samuel 19:12, Ezra 10:14 and 2 Chronicles 24:27 (2 instances including the one on c).
Now we're learning --- the Tarsin table

Every ornament could have its own table. But there are also frequent doubling and tripling of ornaments, so more shrewdness is required. We must also separate the 21 from the 3 books. This is a bit like preparing for return to school -- something on lots of minds in the northern hemisphere.




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