Cantillation and Torah Reading |
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ORT website. Online bar/bat mitzvah tutor in English, Spanish, Russian, or via CD-ROM. Designed for individual or tutored students, offers direct cantillation tutorials, tutorial by Parsha (weekly portion), discussion of themes and full Arye Kaplan commentaries. Haftarah trope also provided.
Hebrew only. Entire Sefer Torah in scanned form, with Megillot, for those who know how to read from the Torah. Reading/cantillation notes and variations for various parshiot (weekly portions). Additional articles on Torah reading.
Trope practice. Learn how to read the Torah and Haftarah cantillation marks online, with real audio, also downloadable (as zip files). Musical notation for ta'amim; includes: rare notes; Eicha (Lamentations); Esther; and High Holidays.
The Leining website offers resources for those who read the Torah; included also are the special readings for Jewish Holidays, plus issues of interest to Gabbaim and Sofrim. Forum also active from the site.
A good introduction or revision tool, offering Professor Eliezer Segal's simple online Torah and Haftarah trope guide (Ashkenazi pronunciation) with midi audio files, suitable for revision or beginners. Cantillation signs are grouped into columns of connecting, separating, or pausing "accents", and notes that stand alone.
Downloading Real One/audio files for each regular trope, sung by cantor Pamela Sawyer. Haftara cantillation is in an adjacent file on the index.
Taamim (cantillation marks, trope), with dynamic large font text and audio recordings, for Torah reading in the Baghdadi and Spanish/Portuguese tradition; some special, some Yerushalmi (Jerusalem tradition) readings; some Maftir and Haftarot.
Mpg3 downloadable audio files according to the Yemenite cantillation rite together with full pdf graphic reproduction of texts for part of the Torah reading cycle [Shemot, Pesach, Rosh Chodesh, Shema]. Hebrew.
Free 2 MB trial download [can be accessed 5 times] of the Bar Mitzvah Personal tutor for Torah and Haftarah cantillation: text is coloured, marked, with cursor.
Rabbi Dr Moshe Sokolow presents Torah trope as punctuation: i.e., as disjunctive and conjunctive accents in dichotomic syntax and graded hierarchies. English article, Hebrew and trope inserts. Page available on the Lookstein Center Resource database at Bar Ilan University. Poor graphic quality.
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