cantillation

• Koran cantillation - with the ancient African musical vocabulary.
• Lion of Zion is one such professional who often writes about the intricacies of the cantillation symbols. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
• For example, in the story of the seduction of Joseph by Potiphar's wife, the shalshelet cantillation note on Joseph's "adamant refusal" (Genesis 38: 8) is a sustained wavering sound that rises and falls three times.
• The cantillation was done sometimes by one division alone, sometimes by both divisions in unison, or one division would answer the other a responsive chanting that was termed haawe aku, haawe mai_--"to give, to return Ellis gives a quotable description of this hula, which he calls the "hura ka raau Five musicians advanced first, each, with a staff in his left hand, five or six feet long, about three or four inches in diameter at one end, and tapering off to a point at the other. —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
• But it's pretty clo-ose, "she replied, in her Yankee cantillation. —  April Hopes

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