The Music of the Bible Revealed: The Deciphering of a Millenary NotationThis is a translation by Dennis Weber, edited by John Wheeler and jointly published with King David's Harp, in which a noted French musicologist argues that the accentual system preserved in the Masoretic Text was originally a method of recording hand signals (chironomy) by which temple musicians were directed in the performance of music. She explains her reconstruction of these notations which has allowed her to perform haunting and beautiful music around the worlds using only the Hebrew text as a score. |
Contents
Foreword | 3 |
The Spirit of the Priestly Music of the Hebrews | 13 |
A Brief Explanation of the Deciphering Key | 29 |
Copyright | |
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4th degree 9th century A_ do_nay Aaron ben Asher accent according already ancient music antiquity appears appoggiatura augmented 2nd basic degree biblical prosody cadence caesura cantillation cantillation signs century B.C.E. chironomy choirs Chron cited Combarieu confirmed correlation Decalogue deciphering key diatonic Encyclopédie ensemble example expression fact Fondation Roi David formulae gestures Haïk-Vantoura half-step harmony Hebraic Hebrew Bible Histoire indicate instruments interpretation interval Israel Jerusalem Karaites Levites Lord lower signs Machabey manuscripts Masoretes Mayer Lambert melismas melody modal mode monody Moreover musical meanings musicians Musique names neumatic notations octave original Paris particular phrase member plain chant Postface proof prosodic system prosody Psalm psalmodic system psalmody punctuation reconstituted relationships rhythm rhythmic SAN DIEGO scale Song Sumer Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura syllable synagogue syntax Talmud te'amim Temple Temple of Jerusalem Tiberian notation tonal tonic traditional cantillations upper signs verbal verse words