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Trope Class #2 • Administrative – Audio recording on – Slide handout – Classes on February 1 & 8, March 1 • Next class is next Sunday (Feb 1) – If miss class, go to www.klerman.com and click on “LL&V” • Can download slides, handout, and audio recording – Reserve Saturday, March 7 to read in synagogue – Sign up for individual meetings before or after class on February 1 • Agenda for today – Zakef Katon sequences – Sof Aliyah – Review and synthesis – Logic of Zakef Katon sequences – By end of today’s class, you will be able to chant about 2/3rds of the Torah 1 • Including many full sentences 2 3 Note that it is not . This happens when: 1) The preceding word ends in a vowel (open syllable). 2) The preceding word has a conjunctive trope, such as Mappach, Merchah Munach, Kadmah (next slide) or Tlishah Kitanah (which you will learn in a few weeks). The same rule applies with and 4 Note Kadma and Pashtah look the same. Pashtah is always followed by Munach or Katon. Kadma never is. 5 6 7 8 In most texts, Yetiv looks like Mappach, except Yetiv is in placed to the right of the first letter. Also, Yetiv is always followed by Munach or Katon, whereas Mappach is always followed by 9 Pashtah. 10 Sof Pasuk for End of Aliyah Note. Even if the end of the aliyah has no Merchah or only one Merchah, you fit in the full trope of this sequence, as though there were two Merchahs, putting the extra musical notes on 11 the Tipchah and/or Sof Pasuk. Review and Synthesis 12 1. Divide the sentence in half. 2. Put Etnachtah under the last word in first phrase 3. Put Sof Pasuk on the … last word in second phrase. that from And it in that 4. Divide each phrase in happenJudah among time, half ed went his 5. If there are more than two words in the 2nd down brothers, phrase, divide it again 8. Put Pashtah on the last word of the 1st new and put Tippcha phrase. under the last word of 9. If there is a word in the phrase before the first new phrase. Tippchah, put Merchah under it. 6. Put (zakef) katon on the last word of the 10. If there is a word in the phrase before first phrase Etnachtah, put Munach under it. 7. If the first phrase is 11. If there is a word in the phrase before more than two words, (zakef) katon, put Munach under it. divide it again. Logic of Trope: Zakef Katon I 1. Divide the sentence in half. 2. Put Etnachtah under the last word in first phrase 3. Divide each phrase in half 4. If there are more than and and she called And she nd two words in the 2 Shel and gave did it again his name phrase, divide it again ah, he birth to and put Tippcha under was a son, the last word of the first new phrase. 10.If there is a word in the phrase before Tippchah, put 5. Put (zakef) katon on Merchah under it. the last word of the 11. If there is a word in the phrase before Etnachtah, put first phrase Munach under it. 6. If the first phrase is 12. If there is a word in the phrase before Sof Pasuk, put more than two words, Merchah under it. divide it again. 13.If there is a word in the phrase before (zakef) katon, 7. Put Pashtah on the last put Munach under it. word of the 1st new 14.If there is a word in the phrase before Pashtah, put phrase. Mapach under it. Logic of Trope: Zakef Katon II ... Logic of Trope: Yetiv • Yetiv, when or , substitutes for pashtah, – Accent is on the first syllable, and – There is no mappach, , preceding the word 15 Logic of Trope III • • • • Sof Pasuk Level 1 Disjunctives Etnachtah Tipchah Level 2 Disjunctives Zakef Katon – Used when division of sentence leaves too many words before Sof Pasuk or Etnachtah • Pashtah – Division before Zakef Katon Level 3 Disjunctives • Yetiv – Division before Zakef Katon – Used when accent on first syllable and no Mappach before it • Merchah, , Munach, , Mappach, , Kadmah – Conjunctives 16 – With words closely connected to the words that follow What To Do Before Next Class • Read your aliyah in Hebrew without trope • Use translation to understand the meaning of each Hebrew word in your aliyah • Chant the parts of your aliyah with trope that you have learned so far • Listen to CD of Cantor Barugel in car or on phone or iPod • Play trope on musical instrument • Sing along with PocketTorah Trope • Other resources (Optional) – Trope Trainer • www.kinnor.com • $115-$155 for PC or Mac • $25 for iPhone + in-app purchases 17