This is the last data dump for the moment. It's a lot of data to analyse and yet it is insufficient.
We have been pointed to a few clues in this long set of posts:
- one is that the interval e to B and B to e are more frequent in the music of the poetry than in the music of the prose books. We could possibly ask about other intervals.
- Another is that the tenor hasn't told us much yet. The pair of words, tenor and ambitus, which apply nicely to a single reciting note for plainsong, do not apply so simply to a musical framework with 6 or 7 commonly used reciting pitches in each psalm.
Is it possible that with the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem, the complexity of their musical system was too much to carry on with only aural transmission and without a school.
The deciphering of the notation certainly allows for us to recreate a tradition -- would it be beautiful? Would it really be time-travel or just something new - with a set of restrictions that few musicians would want to experiment with?
| f# |
|
PSALM |
Syllables |
d |
e |
f# |
g |
A |
B |
C |
137 |
181 |
5.52 |
19.34 |
28.73
|
9.39 |
17.68 |
5.52 |
13.81 |
By the rivers of Babel - there we sat, yea we wept, when we
remembered Zion.
|
| g |
|
138 |
181 |
4.97 |
18.23 |
20.99 |
22.10
|
12.71 |
14.92 |
6.08 |
Of David. I will give you thanks with all my heart. Before gods I
will sing you a psalm.
|
| A |
|
139 |
429 |
1.17 |
18.18 |
20.98 |
13.29 |
25.64
|
18.65 |
2.10 |
For the leader, of David, a psalm. Yahweh you have examined me and
you know.
|
| f# |
|
140 |
274 |
.73 |
22.63 |
23.36
|
13.50 |
16.42 |
19.34 |
4.01 |
For the leader. A psalm of David. |
| e |
|
141 |
228 |
2.19 |
23.68
|
21.93 |
6.58 |
15.79 |
21.05 |
8.77 |
A psalm of David, Yahweh, I call to you. Hurry to me. Give ear
to my voice when I call to you.
|
| e |
|
142 |
173 |
7.51 |
21.97
|
17.92 |
11.56 |
13.87 |
17.34 |
9.83 |
An insight Of David, when he was in the cave. A prayer.
|
| f# |
|
143 |
302 |
2.98 |
20.20 |
21.52
|
10.60 |
16.23 |
14.24 |
14.24 |
A psalm of David. Yahweh hear my prayer. Give ear to my
supplication. In your faithfulness answer me, in your
righteousness.
|
| f# |
|
144 |
331 |
.91 |
22.05 |
25.68
|
19.34 |
12.69 |
14.20 |
5.14 |
Of David. Blessed is Yahweh my rock, the teacher of my hands to close
combat, my fingers to war.
|
| A - the last acrostic - why celebrate psalm 144? Compare psalm 8. |
|
145 |
406 |
.00 |
20.44 |
18.72 |
16.01 |
24.38
|
18.47 |
1.97 |
A praise of David. I will exalt you my God the king, and
I will bless your name forever and ever.
|
| C - the Psalter definitely ends on a high! |
|
146 |
195 |
.00 |
14.87 |
18.97 |
11.28 |
14.36 |
19.49 |
21.03
|
Hallelu Yah. Praise Yahweh, O my being.
|
| B |
|
147 |
341 |
.00 |
19.06 |
15.54 |
13.20 |
17.89 |
30.50
|
3.81 |
Hallelu Yah, for it is good to sing a psalm to our God, for it is
pleasant. Praise is lovely.
|
| A |
|
148 |
254 |
.00 |
19.29 |
19.69 |
13.39 |
25.59
|
13.78 |
8.27 |
Hallelu Yah. Praise Yahweh from the heavens. Praise him on the high
ground.
|
| B |
|
149 |
157 |
.00 |
22.29 |
15.92 |
12.10 |
20.38 |
24.20
|
5.10 |
Hallelu Yah. Sing to Yahweh a new song. His praise in the
congregation of the-many who are under mercy.
|
| A |
|
150 |
95 |
.00 |
12.63 |
29.47 |
13.68 |
30.53
|
13.68 |
.00 |
Hallelu Yah. Praise God in his holiness. Praise him in the expanse
of his strength.
|
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