Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!gtaylor From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Biblical scholarship; the Tamar story Message-ID: <156@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 10:23:10 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.156 Posted: Tue Dec 18 10:23:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 04:09:44 EST References: <552@homxa.UUCP> <> Reply-To: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 18 Summary: About 2 years ago, a text came out in France called something like "The Music of the Bible Revealed" (I know, ridiculous title). It caused quite a stir, since the woman who published (an ethnomusicologist) it seemed to present a rather valid claim for having figured out some of the "musical" markings found in very old texts. As I understood the argument, a fair amount of the musicological community disputed her reconstruction of intervals, but found the work interesting. The book was of interest to scholoars because of a similar musical structure to the use of anachronism. There were certain modes and melodic and cadential motifs associated with given authors and passages and constructions. As the author recontructed the system, she began to realize that the sense of attribution found in the texts was more extansive than she had realized. Evidently there were some circumstances when the musical text could have been cited as corollary evidence of authorship. Sadly, I don't recall the name of the book in French. I only got a copy of the recordings. Thought you might be intrigued....... Greg