Thanks to Brian K. Mitchell for this!
Accordance makes it easy to search for the טעמי המקרא (Teʿamim Hamikra / Cantillation marks). In Accordance, you can type or select the Cantillation marks you desire from the character palette into the search entry bar, or you can use a construct search. You can search for individual cantillations, pairs of cantillations, or strings of cantillations.
For example, if you were learning how to chant the Torah (Pentateuch) or teaching someone how to do so, most likely the first cantillation pattern you would encounter is the Etnachta Clause, and perhaps also the Sof Pasuq Clause. Both of these types of clauses appear in the first verse of the Book of Genesis. If you were teaching someone to chant, you might want to find other examples for practice—and with Accordance, that is easy to do.
The first pattern, the Etnachta Clause, is basically any clause that ends with an Etnachta accent. In Genesis 1:1, that would be Tipcha (Tipha) + Munach (Munah) + Etnachta (Atnah).
A construct search for the Etnachta Clause pattern found in Genesis 1:1 would look like the image below:
The next pattern found in the last half of Genesis 1:1 is the Sof-Pasuk Clause. A Sof Pasuk clause is any clause ending with a Sof Pasuk. In Genesis 1:1 that would be mercha (merka) + tipcha (tipha)+ mercha (merka) + sof-pasuk (silluq). A silluq will also pick up the sof-pasuk that it is attached to. You may also notice that the WITHIN box or set to 1-2 words the reason for this is that in this search prefixs are counted as words:
Now, if you want to search for verses that contain the same accent/cantillation pattern as the entirety of Genesis 1:1 then you might do so like this:
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