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[cellio]

I like the web. I don't love the web today, because it only gave me part of what I was looking for, but I still like it.

Our choir is going to do one of the Salamone Rossi pieces from a book I bought recently. I'm re-typesetting the music, though, mainly so I can redo the transliteration. I'm sure the transliteration in the book is perfectly intuitive for a French speaker (it's a French edition), but it's not intuitive to us. And people are intimidated enough by Hebrew without that complication, and I don't want them to be intimidated by Hebrew.

So the problem is that I have this French transliteration, and another ("English") transliteration in a CD booklet, and I can of course listen to the CD. But I'd rather work from the original Hebrew, which I don't quite have. But this particular text is a psalm setting, so I can get that, in theory.

So I searched the web for "psalm 146 Hebrew text" and got a useful hit here. It's a score, but it's not a complete score because it's missing the vowels. (The site's main page is here.)

(Dani actually has a Hebrew-language bible with really teeny tiny type. I wanted to avoid working from that copy as my baseline, but I think I can use it and a good magnifying glass to fill in the vowels on the copy I printed from the web.)

And then, I can do my own transliteration without any risk of compounding someone else's ambiguous Ashkenazi-inspired interpretation, thank you very much. :-)

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

One of the things that drove me nuts about Hebrew was the missing vowels.

[fiannaharpar.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned recently how excited I am about doing this Rossi piece? It's going to be a blast.

My biggest hurdle with Hebrew was the alphabet. As long as I don't have to read the actual Hebrew letters, i'll do fine (and i'd wager so will many other people).

Can't wait.
*bounce*