[HANASHIR:2566] Re: left to right? right to left?

[Ilana Rosansky <rabstud...>]

Stacey asks:
>Question: If music is read left to right, and Hebrew right to left, is there
>any Hebrew music without transliteration and the Hebrew separate at the
>"bottom"? If the Hebrew is written "under" the notes, is it "backwards"?

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Dear Stacey,

Hebrew sheet music, is written left to right (as music is) with the Hebrew
words divided by syllables... within the syllable one reads from right to
left (as Hebrew is) but the word has been rendered from left to right to
fit under the musical notation.  If you sing in a choir in Israel (as I did
years ago in Zamir) you get used to it!!

All the best,
Ilana Rosansky, NYC


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