Re: The romamization of a complex tone system

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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