Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Deuteronomy 12 v 18

A curious verse that I noticed because it has so many ornaments in succession. You will note that this one verse takes 4 lines of music. There is a difference between prose and poetry.

Deuteronomy 12 verse 18 - ornaments in the prose example

Syllables: 74; Longest recitation: 21; Tenor: B 37.84%; Ornament density: 23%; Average phrase length: 37.

18 ♪~ In contrast, in the presence of Yahweh your God you will eat it, in the place which Yahweh your God will choose for it, you and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is in your gates,
and you will be glad in the presence of Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to do. (~1-4-1)
יח כ֡י אם־לפני֩ יהו֨ה אלה֜יך תאכל֗נו במקום֙ אש֨ר יבח֜ר יהו֣ה אלהיך֮ בו֒ את֨ה ובנך֤ ובת֙ך֙ ועבדך֣ ואמת֔ך והלו֖י אש֣ר בשער֑יך
ושמחת֗ לפני֙ יהו֣ה אלה֔יך בכ֖ל משל֥ח ידֽך
55
19
ik ci am-lpni ihvh alohiç taclnu bmqom awr ibkr ihvh alohiç bo ath ubnç ubtç vybdç vamtç vhlvi awr bwyriç
vwmkt lpni ihvh alohiç bcol mwlk idç
Perhaps it would be good to see the whole chapter and discover what techniques the composer is using.

But first I will update to Musescore 4 and also redesign my approach. I see there is no solution to the problem of presenting multiple verses at a time, nor is there an easy way to distinguish one composer from another. It is now time to move to a single verse. I am hoping that the textual capabilities of Musescore 4 will allow textual commentary to fill in the blank space (so that I don't have to trim 23000 images) but also allow me to work by chapter and produce long scores where needed. It's possible that Musescore 4 will allow better integration of the presentation problem for such volume. Right now it involves Word 2010 for spot management of the errors in some individual Hebrew words, Musescore 3 for the score, Blogger for html and style sheets, and a bunch of other tools. I suspect that the individual verse in SVG (or PNG format for blogger) will be the whole post. Maybe not though. To be continued. AI did not suggest this solution so maybe I should ask. But I don't think AI is feasible without quantum computing and nuclear power. Words won't get us everywhere.




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