[HANASHIR:10218] Re: Trop teaching

[Freedabet <Freedabet...>]

Great idea to have a reason for each color!

There are also 'Colortunes' booklets (one for each Parasha) which have the 
texts in phrases and already printed in color.

In a class situation, you obviously have to teach with one primary method, 
but one-on-one you can use whatever method works best for each student...


Michael

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> Date: Thursday, 01-Nov-01 09:41 AM
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> From: LizBolton (at) aol(dot)com        \ America Online: (LIZBOLTON)
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> Subject:  [HANASHIR:10206] Re: Trop teaching
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> To Rachelle and Hevre:
> 
> Quick responses to the trop teaching questions:
> 
> 1) Hand signals for trop are termed "chironomy" and probably preceded the 
> Masoretic signs.
> 
> 2) Good highlighter colors to consider using are:
> 
> pink (the closest to red) for the sof-pasuk groups (STOP!)
> yellow for the et-nahta groups (PAUSE!)
> green for the katon groups (GO!)
> 
> I would love to credit the right person for this - I may have gleaned it 
from 
> Hazzan Sheldon Levin, who has also published some excellent "Best 
Practices" 
> materials in a trade-size booklet published by the CA.
> 
> (I save blue for what is often folks' "favorite" sign, revi'a!)
> 
> 3) To accompany the highlighter colors, teaching the three main groups 
first, 
> and as groups helps to reinforce the patters that recur. And for those who 
> learn visually, seeing the page almost filled by those 3 colors helps them 
> with a sense of "knowing" a lot quicky, speeding up the learning curve, and 
> giving them confidence.
> 
> 4) Teaching each of the possible patterns (4 each for sof pasuk and et 
nahta, 
> for e.g.) along the lines outlined in Binder's book on trop, also helps 
teach 
> your students the fluidity and flexibility of the trop system. Hazzan David 
> Tillman used to make a booklet with the Binder notation on the left side, 
and 
> just the signs and their names on the right side, with each of the possible 
> combinations in a group; for E.G. 2. (a) mercha-tip'ha-munah- et nahta b) 
> merha-tip'ha-et nahta, etc.).
> 
> Kol tuv,
> Liz
> 
> Elizabeth Bolton
> Director, Music and Liturgy Project
> Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
> Rabbi, Congregation Beit Tikvah
> Baltimore, MD  
> 
> 
> 
> 

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