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What does cantillation mean?

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  1. The intonation of a sentence, especially in Jewish script, codified by marks which are read as sequences of musical pitches.
  2. Chanting.
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The feature that most interests us is the singing, or cantillation, of the oli.
Cantillation, in music, intoned liturgical recitation of scriptural texts, guided by signs originally devised as textual accents, punctuations, and indications of emphasis.
These three books are also the only ones in Tanakh with a special system of cantillation notes that are designed to emphasize parallel stichs within verses.
The cantillation of the mele was in the distinct and quiet tone and manner which the Hawaiians termed ko'i-honua.
Their process of questioning the sources gives birth to an impression of newness, of reconstruction resting upon an art of cantillation for which we have no equivalent on disc?
They guide the modulated flow of the voice in cantillation, thus serving, in a certain sense, as musical notes.

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