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Thorough, comprehensive; this book is a formidable reference for everything that has to do with trope

Ne'eman, Yehoshua L., Tz'lilei hamikra, Moreshet, Tel Aviv, 1955.

In Hebrew, but it's a good instructive manual

Portnoy, Marshall and Josee Wolff, The Art of Torah Cantillation: A Step-byStep Guide to Chanting Torah, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, New York, 2000.

This book teaches cantillation by emphasizing trope patterns

Rosowsky, Solomon, The Cantillation of the Bible, Reconstructionist Press, New York, 1957.

This a super-heavy-duty in-depth analysis of every trope mark and how it's used. May be useless to the layperson, but helpful for serious researchers

Sherman-Gold, Rivka, The Ohs and Ahs of Torah Reading, Yodan Publishing, Mountain View, CA, 1999.

Grammar buffs will love this book; it focuses upon the incidence of the kamatz katan and other grammatical oddities; a good reference for the serious ba'al q'ri'ah

Werner, Eric, The Sacred Bridge, Columbia University Press, New York, 1959.

Chapter 4 has some interesting historical information

Wickes, William, Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament.KTAV, New York, 1970.

This is a recent reprinting of two scholarly works from the late 19th century. Very sholarly with some useful history