Verse:Irta/Music

Ăn Yidiș

Cantillation

Liturgy uses diatonic modes:

• Torah readings use Dorian
• Haftarot use Aeolian
• Non-Eicha Megillot use Mixolydian
• Eicha uses Locrian or Phrygian depending on community
• Some blessings and prayers use Lydian

Todo: Cantillation tropes

Folk music

Tsarfati Jewish folk songs are known as טאָנאן donăn (singular טאָן don; cognate to Irish dán 'poem (among other meanings)'). They may be in Ăn Yidiș or in a macaronic mixture of Ăn Yidiș, Hebrew, and other languages. They have some traditional Hivantish and Irish elements but are unique (for example the use of the Locrian mode). Some folk music uses diminished[8] or augmented[9] or their subsets.