Munach
Stress mark or accent unicode block Hebrew | |
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character | ֣
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Unicode | U + 05A3 |
Munach (Ashkenazi) | מוּנַ֣ח
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Shofar holech (Sephardic) | שׁוֹפָר הוֹלֵ֣ךְ
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Shofar illui (Italian) | שׁוֹפָר עִלּ֣וּי
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Shofor holech (Yemeni) | שׁוֹפָ֣ר הוֹלֵךְ
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Munach ֣ ( Hebrew מֻנַּח) is a trope in the Jewish liturgy and is one of the biblical sentence, accent and cantillation symbols Teamim , which appear in the Tanach . In the Ashkenazi tradition the trope is called Munach . In the Sephardic tradition it is called Shofar holech . In the Italian tradition it is called Shofar illui . In the Yemeni tradition it is also called Shofor holech .
description
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Biblical stress marks | |||||||
Sof pasuq | ֽ ׃ | Paseq | ׀ | ||||
Etnachta | ֑ | Segol | ֒ | ||||
Schalschelet | ֓ | Zakef katan | ֔ | ||||
Zakef gadol | ֕ | Tipcha | ֖ | ||||
Rewia | ֗ | Zinnorite | ֘ | ||||
Pashta | ֙ | Jetiw | ֚ | ||||
Tewir | ֛ | Geresch | ֜ | ||||
Geresch muqdam | ֝ | Gerzhayim | ֞ | ||||
Qarne para | ֟ | Telisha gedola | ֠ | ||||
Pazer | ֡ | Atnach hafuch | ֢ | ||||
Munach | ֣ | Mahpach | ֤ | ||||
Mercha | ֥ | Mercha kefula | ֦ | ||||
Darga | ֧ | Qadma | ֨ | ||||
Telisha qetanna | ֩ | Jerach ben jomo | ֪ | ||||
Ole we-Jored | ֫ ֥ | Illuj | ֬ | ||||
Dechi | ֭ | Zarqa | ֮ | ||||
Rewia gadol | ֗ | Rewia mugrasch | ֜ ֗ | ||||
Rewia qaton | ֗ | Mahpach legarmeh | ֤ ׀ | ||||
Azla legarmeh | ֨ ׀ | Kadma we-asla | ֨ ֜ | ||||
Maqqef | - | Meteg | ֽ | ||||
Munach is a unifying accent of the lowest level and can be found within different tropical groups: in the Segol tropical group, the Katon tropical group, the Etnachta tropical group, the Rewia tropical group and the Telischa tropical group. Munach receives its own melody in each tropical group.
Munach can also appear twice in the Rewia tropical group. The first Munach becomes Munach legarmeh | ֣ מוּנַח לְגַרְמֵ֣הּ׀, Paseq פָּסֵ֣ק׀or just Legarmeh (לְגַרְמֵ֣יהּ׀) called and separated with a vertical line Pasek and has a much longer melody than the second Munach. The otherwise conjunctive Munach becomes a disjunctive sign with its own melody.
Occurrence
The table shows the very frequent occurrence of Munach in the 21 books.
Part of the Tanakh | Munach |
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Torah | 8777 |
Front prophets | 8284 |
Rear prophets | 8624 |
Ketuvim | 6150 |
total | 31835 |
Melodies
literature
- William Wickes: A treatise on the accentuation of the three so-called poetical books on the Old Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, and Job. 1881 ( archive.org ).
- William Wickes: A treatise on the accentuation of the twenty-one so-called prose books of the Old Testament. 1887 ( archive.org ).
- Arthur Davis: The Hebrew accents of the twenty-one Books of the Bible (K "A Sefarim) with a new introduction. 1900 ( archive.org ).
- Francis L. Cohen: Cantillation . In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): The Jewish Encyclopedia . tape III . KTAV Publishing House, New York, S. 542-548 (1901-1906).
- Joseph Telushkin: Jewish literacy. The most important things to know about the Jewish religion, its people, and its history . W. Morrow, New York City 1991, OCLC 22703384 .
- James D. Price: Concordance of the Hebrew accents in the Hebrew Bible . Volume I: Concordance of the Hebrew Accents used in the Pentateuch . Edwin Mellon Press, Lewiston, New York 1996, ISBN 0-7734-2395-8 .
- Marshall Portnoy, Josée Wolff: Art of Torah Cantillation. A Step-by-Step Guide to Chanting Torah . Uahc, New York 2000, OCLC 609566565 .
- Joshua R. Jacobson: Chanting the Hebrew Bible. The art of cantillation . 1st edition. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 2002, ISBN 0-8276-0693-1 .
- Joshua R. Jacobson: Chanting the Hebrew Bible. Student Edition . The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 2005, ISBN 0-8276-0816-0 ( books.google.co.uk - limited preview).
Web links
- Munach on YouTube.com by Hazzan Michael Krausman www.cyBarMitzvah.com
- Munach on YouTube.com by Hazzan Arianne Brown