Swan song nearly completed

 I started this process in January of getting my data out of the database and into a form where it could provide 

1. a reading environment in epub or pdf form for people learning to read Hebrew text or music. 
2. a musical environment for hearing the words of Scripture in a form that never fails to surprise people who hear about it.
3. the music in a form that provides a starting point for those who want to develop it into songs and stories as illustrated on this blog over the last 15 years.
4. a translation that is open to criticism and changeable in the data manually for anyone who has the software to read the epub.
5. and all of it in a form that can be maintained by anyone with these two programs of publicly available software: Musescore, and Calibre. 

It's nearly done: 15 chapters left in 2 Chronicles to compare with Aleppo. (Perhaps a few hours work). Then about 40 chapters to format the music (a few days work). I hope in the coming months to analyse the types of differences between Aleppo and WLC, but I don't have a schedule or target for this at the moment. There are multiple types of differences. 

• Missing silluqs in WLC (a few, I did not explicitly look for them -- I found maybe 20 in the 7,000 or so verses I looked at).
• Additional silluqs in WLC -- thousands -- I would guess in 50% of the verses I looked at.
• Silluqs that should have been mercha or munach -- maybe 100 or so.
• Silluqs that seemed to move from one word to another.
• Silluqs that seemed to be imitating the same word repeated nearby.
• Silluqs on unstressed or stressed syllables.
• Silluqs on syllables with all sorts of different vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. I can't guess the frequencies.
• Silluqs (frequent) on common words like la (negative), ci (relative) , and mlc (king), Jerusalem and Judah and other less common names.
• Silluqs on prefixes, like l or m, but particularly frequent on h.

Maybe I will identify patterns more securely, but it will take a strategy I have not yet figured out.

Here's the percentage of verses with changes I have found - the last 15 chapters of 2 Chronicles will not change the >25% significantly for that book.

Differences between Aleppo and Leningrad codices --
comparing silluq in WLC on tanach.us with Aleppo on mgketer.org

Next step is for me -- and anyone else who would volunteer -- to take a few examples for each volume and see if I can find distinct musical patterns in the differing volumes. I will probably try these out as blog posts. 

I would like this final work --that demonstrates the music embedded in the Biblical text-- to be widely available and used -- I don't know that I will give it away, but I hope it will not be lost. Let me know if you are interested. There are now 18 volumes, 929 music scores and supporting files.

Before Jonathan Wheeler disappeared from the web, he gave me -- and likely a lot of other folks -- a DVD of a huge amount of material on Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura (available here and here). I hope I will have done her work a service by making this final work stimulated in me -- partly by him --  since 2010.

If you want to take part in the exploration of the music, please send me an email at drobertmacd at gmail. Please let me know why you are interested and what skills you can bring to bear on the opportunity.