Re: OT: Musical languistics

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:03:07 +0300 Markus Miekk-oja
<fam.miekk-oja@...> writes:
> Sfas Emes - although I picked it up from the Schottenstein Tehillim
> (interlineary version).
> (I was sloppy not to check up where it was from when I told Czhang
> about
> this very interesting commentary, in one of our discussions on
> microtonality.)
> ArtScroll's Schottenstein Tehillim, 92:4, the verse being:
> Upon a tenstringed instrument and upon lyre, with singing
> accompanied by harp.
> The commentary doesn't use the exact word "microtonal" but talks
> about a
> "heightened form of songs" and about this not being limited to the
> scale of
> today, utilizing new tones (derived from the word "ten stringed
> instrument".).
-

Ah, cool.  That actually sounds somewhat familiar.  Thanks!


-Stephen (Steg)
 "there is darkness all around us;
  but if darkness *is*, and the darkness is of the forest,
  then the darkness must be good."
     ~ song of the BaMbuti in troubled times