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 Ionian

Todo: Cantillation tropes

Folk music

Tsarfati Jewish folk songs (which are in Ăn Yidiș) are known as טאָנאן donăn. have some traditional Hivantish and Irish elements but are unique as well (for example the use of the Locrian mode). Some folk music uses diminished[8] or augmented[9] or their subsets, however.