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Re: The romamization of a complex tone system

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 14:18
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 04:29:56 -0800 Jesse Raccio <jraja0722@...>
writes:
> To answer you question, > The torah trope is a system of symbols placed above > or below the hebrew letters to guide in the > cantilation of the torah. Each symbol represents a > musical pattern. It is quite useful and fairly user > friendly in general as well as begin fairly easy to > learn. It is what gave me the inspiration for > tackling this conlang. > This is a great site for learning about it, if you > want to check it out: > http://www.bible.ort.org/books/cant4.asp > Same site but a link to the singing of Genesis 1: > http://www.bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp
- Wow... what a great website... i didn't look through the whole thing, but i guess it has the entire Torah (and maybe all the Haftara-portions from the Prophets too) in soundfiles to teach the cantillation... My only problem with it is that it only teaches one style of chant; each Jewish subculture has its own realization of the ta`amim/trop, and the website seems to only be interested in teaching Eastern Ashkenaz style. There are also always differences between individuals of different musical skill levels. -Stephen (Steg), who wants to learn Aram Soba (Syrian) style "mew hast meep get frog and a smelly sock!"

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