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In Letteris and Ginsburg (among other editions), pazer
gadol ("great dispersing") appears as a combination of telisha gedolah and telisha
qetannah on one syllable. (Haïk-Vantoura so deciphered the ta`am, and the meaning she assigned is effective in all
the places where the ta`am is found.)
In manuscripts and some printed editions, however, it appears as a "V". The gesture is described by the
Manuel du Lecteur (see main text).
It appears that here we have a unique gestural abbreviation. where the three joints
of each finger represent three notes (thus
avoiding unnecessary motion). The melody rises a perfect fourth above the sustained note (symbolically, where the
two fingers join the hand), then returns and departs from it via a chain of notes -- just as if it really were
a combination of telisha gedolah and telisha qetannah. |
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Updated December 27, 2011 |
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