{"id":33,"date":"2021-08-31T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/?p=33"},"modified":"2021-08-31T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:27:57","slug":"musical-instruction-in-the-psalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/08\/31\/musical-instruction-in-the-psalms\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Instruction in the Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class as we observed some scriptures from Psalms, we came across superscripts at the beginning of a couple of the chapters. One of these superscripts, belonging to Psalm 22, reads, &#8220;To the leader: according the The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.&#8221; This caught my attention. How did this translation come about? Are these superscripts musical instructions? Are these verses intended to be sung to an existing melody of which the title may be &#8220;The Deer of the Dawn?&#8221; This curiosity has prompted me to do some research.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that many religious scholars believe &#8220;The Deer of the Dawn&#8221; is actually the title of the song of Psalm 22, translated from its original Hebrew form which is &#8220;Aijeleth Hashahar.&#8221; It is thought that this title may have been a metaphor for Jesus Christ himself, according to the context of the verse. The music for this song has likely been lost long ago, but the words and original title remain. Below I have linked two very different musical arrangements with the same title as Psalm 22. One is strictly instrumental, and the other one is a more modernized, creative version with modified lyrics. I&#8217;ve also linked a source I used for this post.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deer of the Dawn\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8qFm1ltVIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Deer of the Dawn (Psalm 22)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j5XBMYNmNG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/songsandhymns.org\/music-worship\/article\/the-song-of-the-cross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class as we observed some scriptures from Psalms, we came across superscripts at the beginning of a couple of the chapters. One of these superscripts, belonging to Psalm 22, reads, &#8220;To the leader: according the The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.&#8221; This caught my attention. How did this translation come&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/08\/31\/musical-instruction-in-the-psalms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Instruction in the Psalms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}