[HANASHIR:5707] Re: Trope question

[Victor Tunkel <V.Tunkel...>]

>In a message dated 04/05/2000 5:52:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>BZcantor (at) aol(dot)com writes:
>
>>   How do I chant a mercha followed by a pashta?  
>>  >  Do I just sing the mercha like I would in 'mercha 
>>  >  tipcha etnachta'  or is  there a special way to do this?  
>>  >  The whole phrase is 'mercha pashta munach katon'
>>  
>You do the mercha like a mapach.  
>
>barb
>

Dear Barb:   If the ba'alei masorah had wanted a mapach, they would have put
one there.  See my reply below to Ruth's question.

> Dear RuthEllen:  where a mercha appears in an unusual combination you tack
> it on to the up-beat notes of the next following trop.  In other words it is
> as though the word with the mercha had a maqef linking it to the next word,
> making one long word.  The exception (at least in the Western ashkenazic
> style, which is probably not your style) is where the mercha serves a t'vir.
> (This only happens where there are too few intervening syllables to justify
> a darga to serve the t'vir.) We give the mercha an extra grace note then.
> But you Easterners may perhaps not observe this custom.
> 
> I hope this is some help.   yours,   Victor Tunkel

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Ruth Levenstein                      øúñàå äùî úá úéìéì úåø
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