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What does cantorial mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the fashion of a cantor
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The second CD contains performances of cantorial music and Yiddish songs by hazzanim who were active in Amsterdam.
Akerman recites this text against a background of the traditional cantorial melody for Kol Nidre, a prayer for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
As one of his cantorial duties, he had to provide music for funerals.
And at a loft-party in Montreal, an artist mixes hip-hop and jazz with cantorial singing in a multilingual tour de force.
The lines remind me of cantorial chant, but Hovhaness has probably made it all up, since it doesn't lie all that far away from his usual solo-against-strings melodies.
It is a position where you train to become so, either by being apprenticed to a cantor as in the old days, or you can go to cantorial school for four or five years in America.

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