cantillation

n. chanting; melody

Cantillation is the ritual chanting of readings from the Bible in synagogue services.The chants are rendered in accordance with the special signs or marks printed in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh) to complement the letters and vowel points. These marks are known in English as accents and in Hebrew as טעמי המקרא ta`amei ha-mikra or just טעמים te`amim. (Some of these signs were also sometimes used in medieval manuscripts of the Mishnah.) The musical motifs associated with the signs are known in Hebrew as niggun and in Yiddish as טראָפ trop: the equivalent word trope is sometimes used in English with the same meaning.
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Noun
1. liturgical chanting
(hypernym) intonation, chanting
(derivation) chant, intone, intonate, cantillate

(n.)
A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.
  

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