Cantor Bex's Chanting Resources

Festival Trop Tunes: zaKÉF‑kaTON (11-28)

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זָקֵף־קָט֔וֹן
zaKÉF‑kaTON (11-28)
 

Use the recordings below to build up your "chanting dictionary" of Festival ta'am (trop) model tunes for zaKÉF‑kaTON phrases according to the tradition presented in "Chanting the Hebrew Bible" by Dr. Joshua Jacobson as chanted by Cantor Rebecca Blumenfeld.

It might look like the ta’am symbols for pashTA and kadMA are the same, but their position is the key to telling them apart.
The pashTA is always positioned over the upper left-most corner of the last letter of a word.
The kadMA is positioned over the first letter of the accented syllable.
When a word punctuated with a pashTA is not accented on the last syllable, a second pashTA is placed over the first letter of the accented syllable.
A word punctuated with a t'liSHAH‑k'taNAH is always followed by a word punctuated with a kadMA (see #16, #19, #24, #27).
When a word punctuated with a t'liSHAH‑k'taNAH is not accented on the last syllable, a second t'liSHAH‑k'taNAH is placed over the first letter of the accented syllable.
When mer'KHA precedes pashTA, the pashTA word has only one syllable (see #17-#19 and #25-#27).
When muNACH precedes mahPAKH or mer'KHA (as in #14 and #17), the muNACH word is always accented on the first syllable.
Toggle Names and Tunes
Festival
11
11
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH
Festival
12
12
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH pashTA
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH pashTA
Festival
13
13
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH
Festival
14
14
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH muNACH
Festival
15
15
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH kadMA
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH kadMA
Festival
16
16
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH pashTA mahPAKH kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
Festival
17
17
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH (pash)TA mer'KHA muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH (pash)TA mer'KHA muNACH
Festival
18
18
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA
Festival
19
19
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF muNACH (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF muNACH (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
Festival
20
20
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF pashTA
musical notation for zaKÉF pashTA
Festival
21
21
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH
musical notation for zaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH
Festival
22
22
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH muNACH
Festival
23
23
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH kadMA
musical notation for zaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH kadMA
Festival
24
24
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF pashTA mahPAKH kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
Festival
25
25
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF (pash)TA mer'KHA muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF (pash)TA mer'KHA muNACH
Festival
26
26
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA
musical notation for zaKÉF (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA
Festival
27
27
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) forzaKÉF (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
musical notation for zaKÉF (pash)TA mer'KHA kadMA t'liSHA muNACH
Festival
28
28
taam symbol(s) and Hebrew name(s) form'tiGAH-zaKÉF
musical notation for m'tiGAH-zaKÉF
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