This exercise has taught me a great deal about these signs above and below the text. I should continue to pursue the more frequent examples, and particularly taking the tables constructed through the various possible modes. Perhaps I would learn some clue as to how to guess the mode.
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| Selections from [f#] Proverbs 30:9, Psalms 1:1, 4:3, 118:25, [g] Job 11:13, Proverbs 8:13, Psalms 109:16 |
The table of frequencies shows that all 9 of the ornaments that are used in the three books occur on the merkha. This accounts for recitations on about 20% of the 4,447 verses in the poetry. The recitation on g in contrast is about 0.5%. The illuy seems to occur on phrases with a strongly negative statement and a word underscored. So far in Haïk-Vantoura's manuscripts, she never takes the voice up to the high G when the reciting note is C. In fact she rejects the high G as "aiming the voice at non-habitual heights". (p 342)
| 16 ♪~ in that he did not remember to do mercy, but he persecuted persons poor and needy, the downcast of heart to put to death. | |||
| טז י֗ען אש֤ר ל֥א זכר֮ עש֪ות ח֥סד וירד֡ף איש־ענ֣י ו֭אביון ונכא֨ה לב֬ב למותֽת | 28 |
Tz iyn awr la zcr ywot ksd virdof aiw-yni vabion vncah lbb lmott | |
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