About - Trope Trainer
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Chanting Torah, Haftarah is a great challenge for both Bar
Mitzvah student and adults learning cantillation. Trope
Trainer software is a revolutionary new program that accelerates
learning Torah and Haftarah chanting and makes learning
fun and easy. You'll love using the Trope Trainer software
because you learn at your own pace, with features customized
to suit your learning level. The full set of tutorials and
exercises get you chanting with ease. All the Torah portions
and their associated Haftarot are presented, taught and
chanted in your choice of trope melody, in Ashkenazic or
Sephardic pronunciation. Choose any musical key, a wide
range of singing speeds, voice selection, and much much
more. You'll be amazed how much time and effort you'll save!
Features - Trope Trainer Standard
* Play a word, phrase, verse or entire reading.
* Adjust the speed and pitch of singing to match your voice
and level of proficiency.
* Select the pronunciation (Ashkenazic or Sephardic) that
you wish to hear.
* Select a melody (niggun) style. Various styles standard
to many Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform synagogues -
from Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions -are included.
* View an English translation of each verse and a transliteration
of every word with your pronunciation selection and see
musical notes in your selected melody.
* Display texts in your choice of Chumash, Torah (Stam),
or two-column Tikkun style.
* Display and print whole portions or selected aliyot. Single
verses or user-selected combinations of verses can also
be selected for display and print to account for local customs.
* Learn from portion itself, or learn from for beginners
and reviewers alike that demonstrate the important aspects
of tropes and cantillation.
* Use the more than 35,000 exercise examples from actual
Torah and Haftarah phrases and verses to get almost unlimited
practice. (Exercises are organized by groups of tropes.)
* Identify reading stops for full, triennial, holiday and
weekday readings.
* Optionally show customizable colored highlights that identify
common trope phrases and optionally show colored tropes
that distinguish lord and servant tropes.
* Distinguish Sh'va-na and Sh'va-nach, Qamatz-gadol and
Qamatz-katon to aid in proper pronunciation.
* Use the Reading Selector to automatically display combined
and separate Torah portions based on year and location.
Special holiday Maftir and Haftarah readings are automatically
displayed. Readings can also be selected from a "perpetual"
Jewish Holiday calendar showing all days when Torah is read.
Bar Mitzvah planning couldn't be easier!
* "Singing" trope charts are included for those
with previous cantillation experience.
PERPETUAL HEBREW CALENDAR
TropeTrainer(tm) software includes a "perpetual"
calendar including every Shabbos and Jewish Holiday during
which Torah is read. The calendar features adjustments for
the difference between weekly Torah portions that are read
in the Diaspora versus those read in Israel. Outside of
Israel, Sukkot, Pesach and Shavuos are celebrated one day
longer than they are inside Israel. When this extra day
occurs on Shabbos, in Israel the regular weekly Torah portion
is read, while the Holiday portion is chanted everywhere
else. Several weeks after that Holiday, those outside of
Israel read a double Torah portion, while those in Israel
read a single portion. In this way, those in the Diaspora
catch up to the portion read in Israel.
The "perpetual" Jewish Holiday calendar included
in TropeTrainer(tm) software helps you find the right portion
for your Bar Mitzvah. Simply click to the year and month
of your birth, click on the date, and see your Hebrew calendar
birth date. (Note: if you were born after sunset, the Hebrew
calendar birth date will be the next day.)
New Features in Version 4
* Choose between chanting or speaking of Hebrew text
* Improved Navigation
* Instrumental accompaniment with your choice of over 100
instruments. Select accompaniment with chanting, no accompaniment,
or just instrumental
* Improved speech synthesis with higher quality of voices
* Optional Download Audio* to your iPod™ or other MP3 players
using iTunes™ (allows 3 downloads)
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