[HANASHIR:5713] Re: Trope question

[BZcantor <BZcantor...>]

In a message dated 04/06/2000 10:48:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Barbara462 (at) aol(dot)com writes:

>  Think about the kadma-katon on one word.  I have 
>  two differing sources on singing that as well (one 
>  which argues for singing the kadma pashta-like) 
>  and the other as a kadma.  I understand both 
>  arguements.

Dear Barb,

It has to be Pashta and Zakeif Katon on one word.
If the rules are consistent, one cannot jump from
a Kadma to a Zakeif Katon for two reasons:

1.      Conjunctives usually drop out before Disjunctives,
        so the two-word clause Pashta + Zakeif Katon is
        a common combination when the Masoretes had
        their reasons for assigning those tropes like that;
    when they wanted a Conjunctive with the Zakeif
    Katon on one word, they used the Munach.

2.  Kadma as a Conjunctive usually modifies Azla as
    a Disjunctive; the most common use of Kadma is
    to modify other Conjunctives (Mapach in the Zakeif
    Katon clause, Darga or Mercha or Telisha Ketana
    in the Tevir clause, ...) so it cannot lead to the
    Zakeif Katon directly (that's the job of Munach).

The bad news is that some people who otherwise know
Trope well seem to feel that the "full system" is too
hard to learn, so they take shortcuts like not using the
Kadma properly.  How many of us use Munch LeGarmei
as a separate trope?  It's a Disjunctive, whereas Munach
by itself is a Conjunctive for six different trope (with six
different melodies, BTW).  My feeling is that anyone who
cares enough to learn some of the trope can probaly also
learn all of the trope if they take the system seriously.

                        Cantor Neil Schwartz


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