[HANASHIR:6632] Re: Eycha trope questions

[Kent Bailey <baileyk...>]

I am trying to learn Eycha trope from a book.  It gives the following for
etnachta patterns:

1) mercha-tipcha-munach-etnachta:  do-fa fa-mi-re re-re-la  la-la-ti-mi-do
                                        (major ending)

2) tipcha-etnachta:   fa-mi-re  la-re-do-ti-la  
                                        (minor ending like the sof pasuk)
                                        
                                                                        
My problem: what to do with mercha-tipcha-etnachta (major or minor)?

(Do most chant etnachta's in these two different ways? I like the minor
ending, but then etnachta sounds like the end of the sentence. In fact,
I keep stumbling on the major ending.)


Second question: (sof-pasuk)

For mercha-tipcha-mercha-sof-pasuk: do-fa fa-so-fa-mi-re  re-la  la-re-do-ti-la
                                (beautiful!)
                                
                                
For tipcha sof-pasuk:  fa-la-so-fa-mi-re-la  re-mi-do-ti-la
                                (also gorgeous!)
                                
What about mercha-tipcha-sof-pasuk?  I am guessing it is the same as
        tipcha sof-pasuk?
        

Also, out of curiousity:  I have a feeling the book omits these, because 
there is a general way of filling in these patterns, known to the experienced?
Or is one just supposed to do it by intuition?  I'm one who likes things
spelled out.
        

Kent  Bailey
baileyk (at) mayo(dot)edu

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