Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Joseph I. Lauer" <josephlauer AT hotmail.com>]

    It may help the discussion if you have a copy of ArtScroll's "The
Chumash" (Mesorah Publications, Ltd.), which has the Ten Commandments with
the "upper" and "lower" cantillation marks in separate sections.  Page 406
has the Ten Commandments with the cantillation marks "used by the individual
who is reviewing the weekly Sidrah" (see the explanatory box on the bottom
of that page).  Page 415 has "The Ten Commandments with the trop or
cantillation notes used by the reader for the public Torah Reading on the
Sabbath and on Shavuos".  Comparing the cantillation marks on the two pages
for the same words will show the differences between the Ta'am Elyon and the
Ta'am Tahton.
    Joseph I. Lauer
    Brooklyn, New York