LEARN TORAH CANTILLATION
[Western European Tradition]
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Watch the INTRODUCTORY FILMS : Film 1 (Theory) -- Film 2 (Basic Clauses) -- Film 3 (Chanting the Signs) -- Film 4 (Chanting theText) -- Film 5 (Special Texts not chanted to trop) -- WEBPAGE Ta'amim-TRAINER for each film /Tests -- How to pronounce Biblical Hebrew
Download the LEARNING SHEET (with musical notations) (pdf) Listen to the phrases of the Learning Sheet (mp3)
For those historically interested: The second-oldest notations of ta'ame hamikra (1518): here.
The Hierarchy of the Disjunctives (separators)
(Printed in RED on the Learning Sheet)
GRADE I sof-pasuq ; etnachtah
GRADE II segol; shalshelet; zaqef-qaton; zaqef-gadol; tipcha
GRADE III zarqa; pashta; yetiv; tevir; revia
GRADE IV pazer; tlisha gdolah; geresh; gershayim; munach-legarmeh
The Servants (connectors)
(Printed in GREEN on the Learning Sheet)
(according to frequency [in brackets sephardi names])
munach (shofar munach); mahpach (mehuppach, shofar hafuch); merkha; darga; qadma; tlisha qtannah; mercha kfulah; m'ayelah (= a tipcha together in a word with a sof pasuq or etnachta); galgal
