From: Rochelle Altman <willaa AT netvision.net.il>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Long: Requested Bibliography [was: was music in Hebrew]
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:38:03 +0200
Dear Herman,
>> Never get me started on this material; I tend to run on. Sorry.
>Dear Rochelle,
>Never say sorry. The only people that will ever tell anything worth
>remembering must have some kind of fascination with what they're
>talking about - which won't always allow them to be brief. I'd be like
that on wayyiqtol and the definite article.
All right; I will gulp and carry on.
>I'm very interested in what you've been telling. Have to say,
>unfortunately my knowledge is limited, since I'm more into the later
>Hebrew/Aramaic stuff. Is there a good introductory book(s) or >article(s)
out there that you could recommend, maybe your own work, >that would
introduce me into the world of biblical >Hebrew song, >chant, poem, rythm,
rhyme, etcetera? And I'm not talking the >"Fokkelman approach", I know that
one, but I mean yours (articles in >modern Hebrew are good too BTW). Thank
you for that.
Yes, there are, but we need a bit of background.
There are many books and articles that specifically address the areas I
work with the clumping and spacing that record the rhythms of speech and
song; the variant forms that record phonemes; formats, script systems; etc,
but these are in other fields. (<1> A few examples from these other fields
as endnotes.)
The point is that the different parts of a writing system (musical notation
is just another writing system with different script systems) have been
addressed in other fields. My main contributions have been the decoding of
the encryption techniques used in the documents, from Antiquity on down,
and bringing it all together.
That Psalter, the bilingual, was the key to the encryption systems as well
as to the music of the Psalms.
Outside of the books and articles on Hebrew and other early music that I
sent to the list, my books and articles are the first to specifically apply
these techniques to Hebrew. The works I have included contain introductory
material. So, although I feel uncomfortable about "advertising" my own
works, here goes:
- - -. "The Size of the Law: Document Dimensions and their significance in
the Imperial Administration," in Linda Jones Hall, ed., Confrontation in
Late Antiquity: Imperial Presentation and Regional Adaptation. Cambridge,
Cam.: Orchard Academic, 2003
Focus: The size of documents and what they mean; refers to Semitic texts as
background.
The inscriptions record language as-spoken. Thats Bar Haddads holograph
on the column at the temple of Melqart. That is how Samalian was spoken.
And, yes, as at Ugarit, they really did use variant forms to indicate
phones attached to the consonants. (Not phonemes; they didnt think in
terms of phonemes, just phones.) There are, in fact, three alephs, three
vavs, and two hehs among other variant forms --, on the Samalian stele.
Even Dupont-Somers noted that the Karetepe has two alephs and two
qafs. They did differentiate shin from sin .. in the square script used on
the Exodus fragments shown in the Some Aspects article.
When the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician writing system, they also borrowed
variant forms. Archaic Greek incorporates four variants of vav: two
consonantal, two vocalic among others. The Greeks still used two variants
of vocalic vav, i.e. upsilon one for ipsilon [e.g., LYSANDROS, OLYMPOS]
and one for upsilon [e.g., AUTO, BOULOS] as late as the Roman period. Arch.
Mus. #2558, 2nd half of 1st BCE, has both in one inscription:
POLYKRITOUMILHS I was examining funerary inscriptions in Athens only two
weeks ago.)
In process:
The loss of Vowel phones: A Case Study of Aramaic di
Books:
Psalms from the Paris Psalter: Psalms 23(22). Lengyl: 1993. (Illustrated
Limited Edition: Sold out)
Absent Voices: The Story of Writing Systems in the West. New Castle, DE:
Oak Knoll, 2004.
Absent Voices contains a detailed overview of the title subject: complete
writing systems. The First part including Semitic texts and Greek
Biblical Codices -- introduces all the components. The second part focuses
on the West. For rather obvious reasons, Chapter 10, To Song a New Song,
is written from the Old English point of view. Psalm 23 Hebrew and Old
English -- are discussed on pages 168-176. There is a Componential Analysis
Matrix of the Hebrew of Psalm 23 on page 173. Psalms 96 and 29 are
discussed on pages 177-184. Scores are supplied on pages 176 and 179.
Books in process:
The Shape of the Law in Art and Architecture: From Antiquity through Today.
Psalm 23: Commentaries, Translations, and Music across the centuries (Focus
on Hebrew: includes a very detailed analysis of every word in the Psalm
only snippets are included in Absent Voices due to space constraints.)
The most relevant books from the previous list plus other books that are of
use:
Ancient Music:
Apel, Willi. Gregorian chant. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
(Particularly the first chapters.)
Avenary, Hanoch. Encounters of East and West in music: selected writings
Tel-Aviv: Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, Dept. of Musicology,
Tel-Aviv University, 1979.
Avenary, Hanoch. Studies in the Hebrew, Syrian and Greek liturgical
recitative. Tel-Aviv, Israel Music Institute. 1963.
Idelsohn, A. Z. Jewish music in its historical development. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, reprint 1981, ca.1929.
<2>McKinnon, James. Music in early Christian literature. Cambridge: CUP,
1987. (A collection of every reference to singing the psalms in Patristic
writings.)
Santosuosso, Alma Colk, Letter notations in the Middle Ages Ottawa,
Canada:Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1989.
Werner, Eric. The sacred bridge; the interdependence of liturgy and music
in synagogue and church during the first millennium. London, D. Dobson; New
York, Columbia University Press, 1959. Reprt. 1984
<2>Werner, Eric. The conflict between Hellenism and Judaism in the music of
the early Christian church. Cincinnati, 1947.
Structural Analysis:
Korpel, Marjo C. A and Johannes C. de Moor. "Fundamentals of Ugaritic and
Hebrew Poetry." In The Structural Analysis of Biblical and Canaanite
Poetry. Willem van der Meer & Johannes C. de Moor, eds. JSOT. Supp. Ser.
No. 74. Sheffield: UP, 1988.
Sound patterning:
McCreesh, Thomas P. Biblical Sound and Sense: Poetic Sound Patterns in
Proverbs 10-29. Sheffield: JSOT, 1991.
"Some Aspects," "Report on the Temple Tablet," and Absent Voices are
probably the best introductions to the material.
>Best regards,
>Herman
With best wishes and hopes that this helps,
Rochelle
--
Notes:
1). Some examples of publications in other fields that either directly
address or include such materials:
Duration notation (Clumping and spacing):
Field: Gregorian Semiology:
Kelly, Rev. Columba, O.S.B. The Cursive Torculus Design in the Codex St.
Gall 359 and its Rhythmical Significance: A Paleographical and Semiological
Study. St. Meinrad, Indiana: Abbey, 1964.
Field: Old English Poetry
O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien. Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old
English Verse. Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
Stevick, Robert D. Suprasegmentals, Meter and the Manuscript of Beowulf.
The Hague: Mouton. 1968
Field: Writing Systems:
DeFrancis, John. Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems.
Honolulu: Hawaii UP, 1989.
Scripts as Identity
Field: The Political aspects of script designs
Kraus, Richard Curt. Brushes with power: modern politics and the Chinese
art of calligraphy. Berkeley: California UP, 1991.
Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967. Politics and Script: Aspects of authority and
freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.
C. to the twentieth century A.D. The Lyell Lectures 1957. Nicolas Barker,
ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
Petrucci, Armando. Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture. Trans.
Linda Lappin. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Variant Forms:
Field: Germanic Languages
Marchand, James W. The Sounds and Phonemes of Wulfila's Gothic. The Hague:
Mouton, 1973.
Format:
Field: Medieval MSS
Martin, Henri Jean et J. Vezin, eds. Mise en page et mise en texte du livre
manuscrit. Paris: 1990.
Size:
Field: Papyri, Egyptian
Worp, K. A. Greek Papyri from Kellis: I. Oxford: OUP, 1995.
Structural Analysis:
Field: Late Antique-Medieval Latin:
Howlett, D[avid] R. British Books in Biblical Style. Dublin: Four Courts
Press, 1997.
- -- . "Israelite Learning in Insular Latin," Peritia: The Journal of the
Medieval Academy of Ireland, No. 11 (1997). 117-152.
-- -. The Celtic Latin Tradition of Biblical Style. Dublin: Four Courts
Press, 1995.
2) Between them, McKinnon and Werner will make it clear how we can
determine if a melody is pre- or post the first quarter of the 4th-century CE.
Re: [b-hebrew] Long: Requested Bibliography [was: was music in Hebrew],
Rochelle Altman, 02/06/2006