[HANASHIR:5711] Re: Trope question

[BZcantor <BZcantor...>]

In a message dated 04/05/2000 5:52:11 PM Pacific Daylight 
Time, V(dot)Tunkel (at) qmw(dot)ac(dot)uk (Victor Tunkel) writes:

>>>
>>>  How do I chant a mercha followed by a pashta? 
>>>
>>
>> Not like the Etnachta clause.  Rather, use the 
>> same note as the beginning of the Pashta.  
>> I tell my kids that a situation like that is similar 
>> to singing "Pa-Pa-Pash-ta".  This works for both 
>> Torah and Haftara, and probably the rest too.
>> 
>> On the other hand, there is a special melody for 
>> Mercha before Tevir.  It outlines the first, top, and
>> last notes of the Darga melody, in all musical
>> systems, (Haftara, Torah, Esther, ...)
>>
>>           Cantor Neil Schwartz
>
> If the ba'alei masorah had wanted a mapach, 
> they would have put one there.
>
> ... 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 is where the mercha 
> serves a t'vir.
>                           yours,   Victor Tunkel

Dear Victor,

Thank you for adding more details to my reply.  I just 
wanted to point out that "BZcantor" is me, and that we
are saying similar things with different language.  Of
course, doing Mercha like a Mapach is unacceptable.
It's interesting how the use of the Makeif (hyphen) 
seems to affect the Masoretic trope every so often.

I got the impression that you have a background in the
Central European Ashkenazic tradition.  Am I reading
that correctly from your reply to Barb and Ruth?  My
info comes from JTS, which taught me Rosowsky's 
version of the Lithuanian tradition (as HUC taught a
similar version courtesy of Abrahanm Binder).  What
is now being done in your part of the U.K.?

                            Cantor Schwartz

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