Torah Reading Trop (Ta'amim)

The musical cantillation notes for reading the Torah

by Michoel Slavin

The Torah reading cantillations and their accompanying notes

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Posted: Sep 5, 2011

Possible Answer

This article on Chabad website might explain it.

Posted By Neal Walters, Dallas, TX

Posted: Aug 5, 2011

Trop

Can anyone tell me where I can find the method used to assign notes to a specific word, or is it haphazard?

Posted By Lionel Rabinowotz, Pinner, England

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	Torah Reading Trop (Ta'amim) The musical cantillation notes for reading the Torah
The words of the Torah are to be read with their accompanying musical cantillation notes. These notes are known in Yiddish as trop and in Hebrew as ta’amim.
Topics: Music; Song (58), Nigun (167), Taamim (3)