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Navigating the Bible II - http://www.bible.ort.org/
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. Mouse-over text option. |
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Hebrew Cantillation Marks and Their Encoding - http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~hr/teamim/
Helmut Richter's tables of Hebrew cantillation marks, structure and syntax, purpose; explains the different usage in the Bible for disjunctive and conjunctive marks; provides charts for the diacritcs, as well as for Michigan-Clarement and Unicode values (some of which include the diacritics). |
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Jewish National Library, National Sound Archive: Digitization Project - http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/music/purim/purim_heb.htm#789
Digitized recordings of Cantillation for Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther) for the following rites: Alsace, France; Persian; Jerba, Tunisia; Yemenite; Oran, Algeria; Firenze, Italy; Sephardi - Jerusalem; Kurdistan; Izmir, Turkey. Streamed and downloadable mp3 files. Index in Hebrew. |
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Chanting the Hebrew Bible - http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Cantillation/Cantillation.html
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. |
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Ellie's Trope Tutor - http://www.ellietorah.com/index.html
Ellie Ackerman's pioneering, trope-teaching website: offers Torah and Haftarah cantillation marks online, with real audio, also downloadable (as zip files; electronic sounding)and musical notation for all ta'amim. Website includes: rare notes; Eicha (Lamentations); Megillat Esther; High Holidays. |
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Taamim - http://www.taamim.org
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. |
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Cantor Stephanie Shore - http://www.stephanieshore.com/
Congregation B'nai Israel's cantor's three-year course in Torah cantillation, support site. To learn any parsha, browsers need to access all 3 levels. Each trope is read separately, not phrased; modern Hebrew pronunciation. Audio (zip) downloads for each verse or section (PC, I-pod). Verse tracks indexed sequentially, not by aliyah/title. Texts with and without vocalization (pdf). |
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Online Sefer Torah - Sefer HaTorah Hamekuvan - http://www.saad.org.il/elihu/
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. |
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Beth El Sudbury - Tefillah//Music - http://www.bethelsudbury.org/jewish_basics/text002.php3
Cantor Lorel Zar-Kessler's 12 introductory lessons to Torah cantillation for students and adults. Each page includes all contextual variations for a trope, with Hebrew names and diacritics in large font text, set alongside music manuscript and wav downloads (slightly muted quality; female voice). Megillat Esther dialogue readings and trope on http://www.bethel.net/Purim/Purim_Dialogue.htm |
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Torah Tropes - http://www.webaissance.com/judaica/trope/torahtrope.htm
Dov Goldberg's table of 23 frequent and rare Torah tropes, with English and Hebrew names, diacritics, and clear mp3 audio recordings in Israeli pronunciation and style (downloads). Helpful for students' home practice. |
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World of Leining - http://www.geocities.com/TorahLein/
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. |
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CAA Torah Trope - http://www.caa-austin.org/education/index.php?page=torahtrope
Congregation Agudas Achim, Austin, TX, with Hazzan Neil Blumofe offer downloadable Torah trope recordings for Shabbat, with sheet music. For Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, full recordings: files are separate for Festivals on Shabbat or weekdays, and for each Aliyah. Megillat Esther recordings are usually 3-4 verses each. |
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Spanish and Portuguese Haftarah Trope - http://www.sephardim.org/liturgy/haftarah/main.html
Spanish and Portuguese liturgy as used in the Bevis Marks Synagogue, London: instrumental recordings for the trope, the berachot (blessings) with sheet music downloads. |
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Chant the Torah - http://www.koltor.com/courseDemoFlashpic.htm
Kol Tor's 10 minute flash demo introduces history, semantics, styles of Torah cantillation. Software offers encylopaedic resources on Trope, plus full professional cantorial recordings and support for Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Sephardi variations in readings; electronic Tikkun; block font, pointed Hebrew texts with coloured diacritics and English translation; interactive match-it games for younger students. |
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Torat Hashem Temima - http://www.tht.co.il/
The Moroccan tradition of Torah cantillation: significant sample readings in mp3 from Torah portions and some Haftarot, as well as Megillat Esther, Tehillim (Psalms), and other Hazzanut items. Complete versions for sale on CD. Hebrew only website. |
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CBI Trope Page - http://www.cbi-nj.org/adulted/learntrope.htm
Congregation B'nai Israel, Millburn, NJ, Adult Education offers MP3 downloads for Torah, Haftarah, Megillat Esther and Eicha (Chapter 3 separately), plus Noteworthy (nwc) and Midi (mid) downloads and sheet music for Esther and Eicha trope. |
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Trope Online - http://www.tropeonline.com
Synchronous, private online Torah reading lessons in preparation for Bar Mitzvah, using web video platforms and Skype. Tuition provided by experienced Rabbi, Cantor, Torah reader, music and voice instructor. FAQ, online demo version, free trial lesson. |
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Torah & Haftarah Trope - http://www.netivotshalom.org/archive/avodah/sound.html
Separate downloadable Real One/audio files for regular Torah and Haftarah cantillation notes, sung by cantor Pamela Sawyer. |
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A Te'amim Primer - http://www.lookstein.org/articles/teamim.html
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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BMitzvah(TM) - http://www.levsoftware.com/bmdownl.html
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. |