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Re: The romamization of a complex tone system

From:Jesse Raccio <jraja0722@...>
Date:Thursday, February 21, 2002, 13:31
I agree, there are very few sources for Sephardic or
other systems, it really is a shame.

--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> 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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