Gesenius defines the accents here. For the most part, his names and mine agree. A non-image version of the table below is here. I must mention the very clear writing of Beth Owen. I am very impressed by her dissertation and the clarity and completeness of her presentation. The pdf is available here and I highly recommend it. She also has fully useable lists of the te'amim and a fascinating summary of manuscript history.
Haïk-Vantoura suggests that these shapes are representing hand signals, the left hand showing the reciting note, and the right showing the ornamentation. This may be child's play as she says, but I, having been trained to read a score, cannot imagine the dance of the hands either conducting it or reading it from the air in order to sing.
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| Te'amim that appear above the text |
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