Trope (te'amim) are the cantillation marks that tell you how to chant the Torah. Each card shows the mark's melody on a small music staff, as a printed cantillation chart gives it: the Avery/Binder (Reform) year-round melody in A major, or the melody you choose in the Key bar below — High Holidays, Haftarah, Esther, the three Megillot or Eicha. The recordings are PocketTorah's, one reader's year-round rendition in the Spiro (Conservative) melody, so a note may differ here and there. Work through them one clause family at a time, then switch to Drill to test yourself. When you're ready to see them in context, open the companion reader: Torah Trainer →
These staffs show the year-round melody, for the Torah reading on Shabbat, weekdays and festivals — the Avery/Binder (Reform) chart, in A major. These staffs show the High Holiday melody, for the Torah reading on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — the Avery/Binder (Reform) chart. There are no High Holiday recordings, so the Phrases examples show the words only. These staffs show the Haftarah melody, for the reading from the Prophets — The Art of Cantillation's chart (Portnoy & Wolff), transcribed note for note. The Phrases tab has no examples for it yet. These staffs show the Esther melody, for Megillat Esther on Purim — The Art of Cantillation's chart (Portnoy & Wolff). Each chapter ends on the chart's closing phrase. These staffs show the melody for Shir HaShirim (Pesach), Ruth (Shavuot) and Kohelet (Sukkot) — The Art of Cantillation's chart (Portnoy & Wolff), with its own phrase for the end of a book. These staffs show the Eicha melody, for Megillat Eicha on Tisha B'Av — The Art of Cantillation's chart (Portnoy & Wolff).
Each card is one line of the printed cantillation chart: marks as they are sung together, with the whole melody on a staff. Play a card to hear it as the notes light up, or choose a mark to open its Learn card.
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The recordings themselves follow PocketTorah's Spiro (Conservative) melody either way.
Choose the melody in the Key bar on the Learn and Phrases tabs; it follows you between them.
The staffs and their play buttons follow that choice: the Avery/Binder (Reform) charts for Year-round and High Holidays, The Art of Cantillation's (Portnoy & Wolff, UAHC) for Haftarah, Esther, the three Megillot and Eicha. The recordings and the drill use PocketTorah's Spiro (Conservative) year-round melody either way.
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Low voices hear every tune an octave lower, the way men sing the chart. The staffs keep their notes and show a small 8 under the clef.
Writes a name under every note, and it lights up with its note as the tune plays. Do re mi starts from the note the key is named after (in A major, do is A), so the names stay the same in any key.
How fast every staff's tune plays. The recordings have their own speed, under Drill.
After each play the staff turns dashed and its notes light up again in time, with no sound, so the class can sing it back.
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The recordings' speed. The staffs' tunes have their own, under Sing along.
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Trope Tutor teaches the Torah cantillation marks with real chanted examples mined from PocketTorah recordings (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Sefaria's Hebrew text. New here? Press Tour in the header. Companion reader: Torah Trainer.