Hebrew cantillation
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title:
Hebrew cantillation
text:
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 and notated in accordance with the special signs or marks printed in the Masoretic Text of the Bible, to complement the letters and vowel points. These marks are known in English as 'accents' (diacritics), 'notes' or trope symbols, and in Hebrew as taʿamei ha-mikra or just teʿamim (טעמים). Some of these signs were also sometimes used in mediev
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description:
Jewish practice of reciting holy texts with specific pitch height for portions of the text
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_cantillation
date created:
2004-04-28T08:43:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T03:10:19Z
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