The music in these posts is entirely derived from the accents in the Hebrew Bible. Introductions - letters, music, text and music, and terminology, are here.
There's a rather interesting history of Hallel sequences which appeared on my radar this morning after I had decided to do the 'shortest' psalm next.
Psalm 117: Syllables 34 Longest recitation 6 Tenor e 26.47% |
In the Masoretic text, Psalm 117 remains the shortest psalm. 8
words, 34 or 36 syllables (add one between the two l's of the first and last
words). There are only two verses, one a bi-colon-A which occurs in 47 verses in exactly this form, and one a single unique phrase which could be subdivided at
the revia at the end of bar 7.
1 Praise Yahweh, all nations. Commend him, all the clans. |
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א הֽלל֣ו את־י֭הוה כל־גוי֑ם ש֝בח֗והו כל־האמֽים |
8 7 |
a hllu at-ihvh cl-goiim wbkuhu cl-haumim |
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2 ♪f For his mercy has prevailed over us, and the truth of Yahweh is forever. Praise Yah. | |||
ב כ֥י ג֘ב֤ר על֨ינו חסד֗ו וֽאמת־יהו֥ה לעול֗ם הֽללו־יֽה | 19 |
b ci gbr ylinu ksdo vamt-ihvh lyolm hllu-ih |
This is a highly rhythmic psalm begging for percussion accompaniment.
Haïk-Vantoura's handwritten copy is the same shape as my version above, but in
a different mode.
Here's a possible arrangement. There are no performances on the web that I have found. Being so short, I repeated the psalm 3 times with the middle section changing the mode, so the ancient string player might want to have two differently tuned instruments for the performance.
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