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Festival Ta'am (Trop) Model Tunes
Use the recordings below to learn how to chant Festival ta'am (trop) model tunes for phrases according to the tradition established in "Chanting the Hebrew Bible" by Joshua Jacobson.
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 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.
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