10/10/2006

The musicians

1 Chronicles 15:19-22 - The musicians Heman, Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals; Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth , and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel and Azaziah were to play the harps, directing according to sheminith . Kenaniah the head Levite was in charge of the singing; that was his responsibility because he was skillful at it.

I wonder what a bronze cymbal sounds like. Is it large like a gong?

I wonder (with everyone else) what alamoth and sheminith mean. Are they styles? rhythms? tempos?

I wonder how Kenaniah had become known as a skillful choir director.

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