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cantillation and signs
The text is offered in four formats: ( a ) Masoretic letter-text, ( b ) " full " letter-text ( unrelated to masoretic spelling ), ( c ) masoretic text with vowels ( niqqud ), and ( d ) masoretic text with vowels and cantillation signs.
A primary purpose of the cantillation signs is to guide the chanting of the sacred texts during public worship.
The cantillation signs also provide information on the syntactical structure of the text and some say they are a commentary on the text itself, highlighting important ideas musically.
The cantillation signs are included in Unicode as characters 0591 through 05AF in the Hebrew alphabet block.
The names of the cantillation signs are not quite the same as between the Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Italian and Yemenite traditions ; for example Sephardim use qadma to mean what Ashkenazim call pashta, and azla to mean what Ashkenazim call qadma.
The cantillation signs serve three functions:
These scrolls sometimes contain vowel points and te ` amim ( cantillation signs ), and sometimes do not.
This written form employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics ( nequdot ) and the so-called accents ( two related systems of cantillation signs or te ' amim ), which together with the marginal notes ( masora magna and masora parva ) make up the Tiberian apparatus.
* The biblical text ( based on the Aleppo codex and a careful reconstruction of its missing parts ) is keyed-in, including vowels and cantillation signs, allowing for sophisticated research on details of grammar.
The Mikra ' ot Gedolot Haketer package includes not only the vowels, but also cantillation signs.
* Tanakh ( including versions with vowels and cantillation signs )
The Bahir contains commentaries explaining the mystical significance of Biblical verses ; the mystical significance of the shapes of the Hebrew letters ; the mystical significance of the cantillation signs and vowel points on the letters ; the mystical significance of statements in the Sefer Yetzirah (" Book of Creation "); and the use of sacred names in magic.
The biblical text as found in the codex contains the Hebrew letter-text along with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs.
Typical cantillation uses a system of signs, each of which represents a fixed musical motif.

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They are sometimes also divided into such categories as Sifrei Emet ( ספרי אמת, literally " Books of Truth ") of Psalms, Proverbs and Job ( the Hebrew names of these three books form the Hebrew word for " truth " as an acrostic, and all three books have unique cantillation marks ), the " wisdom books " of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, the " poetry books " of Psalms, Lamentations and Song of Songs, and the " historical books " of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.
However, perhaps because they were intended for personal study rather than ritual use, the Masoretic codices provide extensive additional material, called masorah, to show correct pronunciation and cantillation, protect against scribal errors, and annotate possible variants.
Besides the traditional cantillation, there are several verses or short phrases in the Megillah that are chanted in a different chant, the chant that is traditional for the reading of the book of Lamentations.
Medieval sources speak of three cantillation melodies, for Torah, Nevi ' im and Ketuvim respectively.
Oriental Sephardic communities preserve cantillation systems for the three poetic books, namely Psalms, Proverbs and the main part of Job ( usually a different melody for each of the three books ).
In all communities there are special cantillation melodies for Lamentations and Esther, and in some communities for the Song of Songs.
Minimalist procedures such as additive and subtractive process are common in postminimalism, though usually in disguised form, and the style has also shown a capacity for absorbing influences from world and popular music ( Balinese gamelan, bluegrass, Jewish cantillation, and so on ).
Each group compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of diacritical notes on the external form of the Biblical text in an attempt to fix the pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions and cantillation of the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, for the worldwide Jewish community.
The Masoretes devised the vowel notation system for Hebrew that is still widely used, as well as the trope symbols used for cantillation.
None of the writing is informed by the sound or structure ( in spite of the composer's recent study of Hebrew cantillation ) of Jewish music generally or any existing tradition for singing the Biblical text.
Since Nevi ' im as a whole is not covered in the liturgy, the melodies for certain rare cantillation notes which appear in the books of Nevi ' im but not in the haftarot have been forgotten.
The Haftarot for the morning of Tisha b ' Av, and for the Shabbat preceding it, are, in many synagogues, predominantly read to the cantillation melody used for the public reading of the Book of Lamentations, or Eicha.
* A printed ḥumash usually sets out the Hebrew text of the Torah with vowel points and cantillation marks, separated into its 54 constituent weekly Torah portions ( parashiyyot ), together with the haftarah for each portion and, often, translations and notes.
There is a special melody used for the Book of Esther: in London it is a cantillation system in the normal sense, while in New York and Amsterdam it is chant-like and does not depend on the Masoretic symbols.
The chant is similar but not identical to the chant for Shir haShirim in the Moroccan tradition, but does not exactly follow the printed cantillation marks.
There is no cantillation mode for the books of Psalms, Proverbs and the poetic parts of Job.
The chant for the Psalms in the Friday night service has some resemblance to the cantillation mode of the Oriental traditions, but is not dependent on the cantillation marks.

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For these reasons, many scholars view the Aleppo Codex as the most authoritative representative of the masoretic tradition, both its letter-text and its vocalization ( niqqud and cantillation ), although most of its Torah section and many other parts of the text are now missing.
For at least a thousand years the Tanakh has contained an extensive system of multiple levels of section, paragraph, and phrasal divisions that were indicated in Masoretic vocalization and cantillation markings.

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* Ole ( cantillation ), a cantillation marks found in Psalms, Proverbs, and Job

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These must be distinguished from cantillation, which are keys to pronunciation and syntax.
The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the Torah scroll ( or scrolls ) from the ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillation, and returning the scroll ( s ) to the ark.
Despite the comparatively late process of codification, some traditional sources and some Orthodox Jews believe the pronunciation and cantillation derive from the revelation at Sinai, since it is impossible to read the original text without pronunciations and cantillation pauses.
The Megillah is read with a cantillation ( a traditional chant ) differing from that used in the customary reading of the Torah.
Tanakh with both vowels and cantillation is also available as online freeware from Mechon Mamre ( see below ).
The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the Torah scroll ( or scrolls ) from the ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillation, and returning the scroll ( s ) to the ark.

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The recitative style of the central parts of the service, such as the Amidah, the Psalms and the cantillation of the Torah is loosely related to that of other Sephardi and Mizraḥi communities, though there is no formal maqam system as used by most of these.

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