cantillations

In fact, I think this very verse is used as an example in Breuer's book on the cantillations.

languagehat.com: A VOICE CRYING. 2005

According to the cantillations, the first translation is correct. "a voice cries out, 'in the wilderness prepare...'"

languagehat.com: A VOICE CRYING. 2005

This is not necessarily a slam-dunk, because the cantillations occasionally reflect commentary and not simple meaning, but usually are pretty simple.

languagehat.com: A VOICE CRYING. 2005

There incantations had to be recited according to fixed cantillations, and the soothsayer's art consisted in knowing them thoroughly, copying them faithfully, and applying them properly.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

It is at once too long and too monotonous, but I dare say that if one could follow the words of the accompanying songs, or cantillations, the result might be more entertaining.

Roving East and Roving West 1903

Meantime the _olohe_ and friends of the novitiates, inspired with the proper enthusiasm, of the occasion, lift their voices in joyful cantillations in honor of the goddess, accompanied with the clapping of hands.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

As to the practice among Hawaiians at the present time, no satisfactory proof has been found of the existence of any case in which in the cantillations of their own songs the

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

The kumu, aided by a pupil, stood and played on the niau-kani, straining the cantillations through the reed-protected aperture, while the olapa, girls, kept time to the music with the movements of their dancing,

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

Thus in the cantillations of the old-time hula we find a ready-made anthology that includes every species of composition in the whole range of Hawaiian poetry.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

On Rosh Hashanah we will hear the sound of the ram's horn -- or "shofar," in Hebrew -- as it sounds a series of cantillations designed to awaken feelings of repentance and a desire to return to the Eternal One, who is the God of all humanity.

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