How the Hebrew Masoretic Text Preserves the Vocal Music of the Second Temple

This is the first half of a video that I plan to present in London, England, UK to the "Temple Studies Group Symposium II - Temple Music: Meaning and Influence" on May 30, 2009 in Temple Church. The title of my presentation will be "How the Hebrew Masoretic Text Preserves the Vocal Music of the Second Temple". (The Temple Studies Group is directed by Dr. Margaret Barker.)

As with most of my videos on the "rakkav" and "teamim" channels, this video has to do with the work of the late Suzanne Haik-Vantoura ("The Music of the Bible Revealed". My presentation will include at its end the two videos I've already made based on Isaiah 60:1-5 and Psalms 148 (both viewable on my "teamim" channel). This version (due to time constraints imposed by YouTube) has only the text supported by slides. My apologies for the relatively bad recording of the vocal sound track (but at least the voice is mine)!

More information on attempts to decipher the te`amim (including the verbal text of this video in PDF format) are available on my Web site at the URL below:

http://www.rakkav.com/biblemusic/pages/attempts.htm

A summary of the Symposium is given on my blog, along with links to the sites of most of the speakers:

http://rakkav.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/temple-music-meaning-and-significance/

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Music

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• Haik-Vantoura
• Hebrew
• Bible
• Psalms
• Torah
• Temple
• music
• chant
• cantillation
• Masoretic
• King David
• middle eastern music