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n. - Liturgical chanting.

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  • I had no idea they had cantillation that you could download, but I so should have guessed.
  • We read our books with special cantillation notes, using different melodies for different books.
  • And his work reflects years of studying African drumming, Balinese gamelan, Hebrew cantillation, jazz and early Western classical music.
  • As for the melody, here I touched upon the hasidic melodies and Yiddish songs of my late father with faint traces of Biblical cantillation.
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