The music of the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: the western Ashkenazic tradition
By: Victor Tunkel
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780954660710
Subjects: Cantillation; Jewish chants; History and criticism; Jews; Music; Synagogue music; Judaism; Liturgy; Hebrew language; Accents and accentuation; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92) and indexes.

English and Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the aims of the book: theory for all and music for the western Ashkenazic tradition; title: Historical sketch: origins, the notation systems, manuscripts, treatises, modern writers; title: The all-conquering Tiberian system: musical notations of the western Ashkenazic tradition from the 1500s; title: The signs: names, appearances, functions, classes, grades; title: The Masoretes' aims and achievement: sentence divisions and groupings, interpretation, syntax, punctuation, music; title: The musical illustrations: the inadequacy of ordinary notation for text, style, expression; title: The masters: an overview: the deployment of disjunctives, near and distant, in sentences and clauses; title: The chief and superior masters: Grades I and II disjunctives, their companions and servants; title: Grade III: the lesser masters: their relation to their superiors and their own servants; title: Grade IV: the lowest masters: the rarest signs, proximity problems and adjustments; title: The servants: and whom they serve, and how; title: The remaining signs: their function: Re-naming signs: a new zarqa-table; title: Special rules and occurrences: special endings, passages with special melody; title: Glossary: the meanings of some technical terms; title: Select bibliography: theory and music: sources and further reading; title: Appendix: William Wickes: a tribute to a pioneer.