When I was starting my studies in Biology at McGill, my perspective on the natural world got a spiritual overhaul with my reading of the Book of Job, as translated by Stephen Mitchell. Having graduated from my Bachelors, I took time to engage with music again, and felt like there was music for this epic poem, even if I had to compose it myself. This past year, and with Building 21, I've been investigating Hebrew cantillation and learning the accent systems for prose and poetical texts. The accents (named t'ammim) divide their text syntactically and direct its expressive intonation. While comparing different traditions of melodies for the chant of these texts, and learning to sing some of them, I began to think of this in the same way that I would a system in evolutionary biology: a melodic form recited from written code, inherited through a branch of the tradition, with each branch evolving on its own trajectory but reaching back to a common source in the past. With my BLUE internship, I'd like to organize my research in a way that is sharable with others, as I explore the heights, depths, and expanse of this linguistically aware musical artform.