For aspiring ba’al koreh (readers) of Megillat Esther studying its various styles of cantillation (Hebrew, ta’amei hamiqra or in Yiddish, trope), a fair number of recordings are popping up online, but only one so far is being shared with a free/libre, copyleft license thanks to Gabriel Seed, lead developer of zemirotdatabase.org. The audio file is free to redistribute and remix under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license. We’re honored to share Gabriel’s recording of a zarqa table for Megillat Esther read in the Nusaḥ Ashkenaz style.
Megillat Esther – Ta’amei Hamiqra: MP3 | OGG
If you are familiar with other traditional styles of cantillation (Nusah Safaradi, Roma, Temani, etc.) please contribute your own recording of the trope read for Megillat Esther.
“Ta’amei Hamiqra (cantillation) for Megillat Esther” is shared by Gabriel Seed with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
Nusach Temani: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDPXR2BLEmc
Nusach Sapharadi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQz5T1KroQ
Nusach Morocco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1YYdF-q-I
Nusach Iraq: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNiY_sBXm_A
Also take a look at Rabbi Hillel Lavery-Yiraeli’s videos for teaching how to read Megillat Esther (nusach Ashkeanz).
[...] If you have any free licensed resources representing other nuschaot and minhagim, please share them. Sound recordings of the ta’amei miqra for the reading of Megillat Esther are located here. [...]