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Re: OT: Musical languistics

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 15:15
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