Long Term Memories

Saturday, March 06, 2010

Singing on 2nd Syllable

In hebrew, the accent is usually on the last syllable.

However, in singing, this rule is sometimes ignored.

A particular case is in one of the anthems at the end of the sabbath morning service

One of the phrases is 'at-tah hu elohenu'. My father always emphasized the last syllable of the first word so it would be at-TAH hu eloheinu. I've been doing this also because he was technically correct and I didn't think it messed up the music. Notwithstanding this, most people emphasize the first syllable instead (AT-tah//) .

We had a scholar in residence today who emphasized the last syllable frequently in here lectures. For example, in toRAH or halaCHAH. This reminded me of the pronunciation issue. ¶ 5:45 PM

Martin's memories preceding the chronicles, i.e., before 1986. The reason for this blog is to capture old memories that come back to me at seemingly random times. Thus the entries will not be in chronological order. Also, the accuracy of this blog is less than the accuracy in the more contemporaneous blog http://weisschronicles.blogspot.com/

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