The Music of Psalms, Proverbs and Job in the Hebrew Bible: A Revised Theory of Musical Accents in the Hebrew Bible General Analysis, Bibliography, Tab

by Jeffrey Burns

The Music of Psalms, Proverbs and Job in the Hebrew Bible explores the musical organization of the original temple cantilation contained in the three "poetical books" of the bible, 'Psalms', 'Proverbs' and 'Job', whose Hebrew cantilation signs have been conserved but not understood. The American musician and pianist Jeffrey Burns, 1950-2004, who as an artist dealt with radically new, unusual musical systems all his life, has analyzed the "poetical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 344706191X
• ISBN13: 9783447061919
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.4"