Mercha-tifha/dehi table -- rarely used reciting notes in the 3 books

 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.

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 mercha. 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