• Cantillation is the ritual chanting of prayers and responses. It often specifically refers to Jewish Hebrew cantillation. Cantillation sometimes refers...
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  • Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or te'amim is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services. The chants are written...
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  • Moroccan cantillation (also referred to as Moroccan Te'amim, (Hebrew: טעמי המקרא מרוקאים or טעמי המקרא נוסח מרוקו‎) refers primarily to the style and tune...
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  • are also the only ones in the Hebrew Bible with a special system of cantillation that is designed to emphasize parallel stichs within verses. However...
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  • Shabbat, as well as on Jewish festivals and fast days. There is a special cantillation melody for the haftarah, distinct from that of the Torah portion. In...
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  • without cantillation or vowel marks. Outside the Tanakh, the cantillation marks are not used in modern spoken or written Hebrew at all. The cantillation marks...
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    which normally takes only one cantillation mark on the final word in the unit. Babylonian vocalization Hebrew cantillation Cardinal vowels Niqqud Palestinian...
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  • of which has several functions (e.g. to denote Hebrew numerals); and cantillation, "accents" which are used exclusively to indicate how Biblical passages...
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  • the language to children. The Tiberian system also includes a set of cantillation marks, called trope or te'amim, used to indicate how scriptural passages...
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  • sacred text. In communal worship settings, đọc kinh is characterized by cantillation, or the ritual chanting of prayers and responses. To Westerners, this...
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    Mikraot Gedolot (Rabbinic Bible) in Hebrew (sample) and English (sample). Cantillation at the "Vayavinu Bamikra" Project in Hebrew (lists nearly 200 recordings)...
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  • Cantillation is an Australian vocal ensemble founded in 2001 by Antony Walker and Alison Johnston. They were founded alongside orchestras Sinfonia Australis...
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    and cantillation to derive from the revelation at Sinai, since it is impossible to read the original text without pronunciations and cantillation pauses...
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    morning. When read in the synagogue, these five books are sung with cantillation (see below). In most communities, Esther is the only book accompanied...
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    Genesis 1:1–5 Genesis 1 verses 1–5 sung in Hebrew as a cantillation Problems playing this file? See media help. Genesis 1:1 is the first verse of the first...
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  • cantillation mark found in Psalms, Proverbs, and Job (the אמ"ת‎ books). Ole is also sometimes used as a stress marker in texts without cantillation....
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  • Rashi's birth, Troyes, is spelled טרוי״ש‎. Gershayim is a disjunctive cantillation accent in the Tanakh (Jewish bible) - ◌֞. It is placed above the stressed...
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  • abbreviations, or to denote a single-digit Hebrew numeral A note of cantillation in the reading of the Torah and other Biblical books, taking the form...
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  • Darga (redirect from Darga (cantillation))
    Darga (Hebrew: דַּרְגָּא‎) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books. The symbol for the darga resembles a backwards...
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  • Revia (רְבִיעַ‎, [rəviaʕ]) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other biblical texts. It is commonly explained as being the...
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    Esposito (2004), pp. 17–18, 21. Al Faruqi, Lois Ibsen (1987). "The Cantillation of the Qur'an". Asian Music (Autumn – Winter 1987): 3–4. Ringgren, Helmer...
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    church chant, particularly in the tonus peregrinus melody to Psalm 114. Cantillation signs, to record the melody sung, were in use since ancient times; evidence...
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  • to standardize the pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions, and cantillation of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) for the worldwide Jewish community....
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    destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies). The cantillation signs for the large poetic section in the middle of the Book of Job differ...
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  • This article describes the principal types of religious Jewish music from the days of the Temple to modern times. The history of religious Jewish music...
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  • (from Yiddish טראָפּ "trop") in the Judaic Liturgy. It is one of the cantillation marks used in the three poetic books: Job, the Book of Proverbs, and...
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    Biblical texts is known as "ta'amim" in Hebrew, "trope" in Yiddish, or "cantillation" in English.) Related blessings precede and follow the haftara reading...
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    patah and shva and between tsere and holam. The Babylonian system uses cantillation similarly to the Tiberian system. The oldest manuscripts (which use the...
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    תהלים yields Emet אמ"ת, which is also the Hebrew for "truth"). Hebrew cantillation is the manner of chanting ritual readings as they are written and notated...
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    punctuation, accentuation and musical rendition of Biblical texts (see Hebrew cantillation). Audio example of liturgical Hebrew This is a portion of the blessing...
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