Chanting of scripture or liturgical texts in the *synagogue service. A system of accents is used to aid cantillation; they indicate punctuation and stress and show the rise and fall of the chant. The chanting is led by the cantor...

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...