SONG
Song
1—Start with JVJ’s ‘Covenant Sequence in Leviticus and
Deuteronomy’ at www.garnorth.com/freebooks.
Every covenant has 12 parts, the 12th is a song.
2—Use the 7 covenants in JBJ’s ‘Creation in Six Days’.
3—Remember Leithart’s ‘From Silence to Song’.
4—Remember JBJ’s ‘Through New Eyes’—God is doing something,
we are not to play God.
5—Anciently, there are chiasms and other structures, Hebrew
Cadence, abecedaries, specific instruments (Psalm 150), psalmodic parallelism,
etc. Hindus remember through song, not written basics. Plato thought 729 (3 to the 6th) was
disruptive of the song of society. There’s Pythagorean Comma vs. ‘Well-Tem[ered
Clavier’, which allows playing without retuning.
6—The too radical ‘Bible in 22 notes’ should play a part.
The key is to do what the Bible says: North and Jordan both say that the
requirement to go to Jerusalem 3X a year drove Israel out of agriculture and
into cities, or even out of Israel as traders/peddling.
7—ERH holds that his 5-step process is in the history of the
church.
8—The best summary of ERH’s process in ‘Out of Revolution’
applied to nation-states is in Gardner’s ‘Beyond Belief’ chapter 5. Note:
Singing is glorified speech, and there should be some stude=y of ‘the
tabernacle of the mouth’. And…Before vowels. Bat and bet(h), Ur, Or, Ir and R.
22 and Osgood and Osgood 150 (Gulf)
9—ERH held in ‘Universal History 1954” (www.erhfund.org for free transcripts and
audio of this Dartmouth course) that the next 1000 years would be one of ‘small
enthusiastic groups’, which CHH says is tribes without perpetual warpath, as
the last 10000 was empires without slavery, and the first 1000 was Israel
without restrictions. JBJ holds not to this chiastic view, but to successive
emphases on persons of the Trinity. Re: ERH—Greece is a companion, never a
social order. ERH: Tribes, Empires, Israel&Greece—chiasm. JBJ—Tribes,
Nation, Cosmopolitan—Succcessive.
10—‘The Next Thousand Years A Prayer’ attempts to figure out
a new 12 ‘small enthusiastic groups’ by taking ERH’s and JBJ’s respective 4s.
Law-Lyric=Evaluation-Fact, JBJ. Imperative-Subjective-Narrative-Objective, ERH.
3-Deacker universes, x4 = 12.
11—It uses JBJ’s 49-book Bible from ‘Rethinking the Order of
the Old Testament’ (Biblical Horizons), plus puts the 5 Cs liturgy in the year,
encourages each book to be sung, and proposes the Opera of History to get a
Beethoven’s 5th-like response.
12—Thus, going from Ancient to Bach, and knowing how it was
done (e. g., a monk made our lines for music @1100) will help get us, Lord
willing, to even more glorious SONG @ A. D. 3000, if the Lord tarry. ‘Anything
worth doing is worth doing badly’: Chesterton. More.
13-17—Why no actually DO Psalm 150, praise Him according to
what He commands? 14—Use the instruments, distribute them among the
congregation: types of cymbals, trumpet, timbrel (tambourine) and dance (put
your feet/foot on parts of the tabernacle corresponding to days of creation, or
covenants? 15—As North and Jordan both write, following the commands to go to
Jerusalem 3x a year, changed Israel. 16—We might learn the chiastic structure
and Hebrew Cadence, per Bulllinger, or the 144 + 2 bracketing of Jordan 17—At this
stage of life/death, I get a couple good actionable ideas a week (I’m just
entering my prime), usually during ‘Steiner time’. HBOT was one, membership
sites for radio is another, and SONG was too.
