| Psalm 93
In this colorful giclיe print of Psalm 93, David Moss celebrates the Ta’amei HaMikrah, or trop – the cantillation symbols of Judaism’s sacred texts. In addition to the vowel signs, every verse of the Bible is marked with these special symbols that indicate how to chant the verse. These ancient markings are perhaps the oldest commentary to the Bible, for they indicate which words are connected and where there are pauses, thus forming a punctuation system. Some believe their lively shapes were derived from hand motions given to the reader, so he would know the musical rises and falls of each word as he chanted every verse.
In this print, Moss constructed colorful columns made of the specific cantillations for each phrase. Every column reads upward, suggesting the joyously sung music rising heavenward. Psalm 93 praises God in all His grandeur and is sung during the Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat service. This work is an attempt to bring the traditional music of one of the oldest Jewish hymns to life in a contemporary, graphic form.
This print makes a delightful gift that is appropriate for all occasions, but would be especially meaningful for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah who has just joined the scores of generations who have mastered our ancient Jewish system of musical notation.
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