… lived. My first observation was that all this music uses a scale of 22 notes -- 22 is also the exact number of letters …

… - Nusah - Nusakh … Magen Avot … Motifs … Werner, Eric … Scale … Structure … minor … mode … Modality … Phrase … …

… compositional route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its derivatives are generally perceived as being … first half of the musical section concludes on the second scale degree on a half cadence. After a repeat of the …

… … Shteiger … Ashkenaz … Hallel … Motifs … Ashkenazi … Scale … Modal system … Idelsohn … Variants … Ashkenazi … …

… degree (B flat), insinuating a switch to the parallel major scale (for more on this alternative version of section C, … Gorkovenko, “Ladovye osnovy evrejskoj narodnoj pesni [Basic Scales in the Jewish Folksong],” In: Pesennaja lirika ustnoj …

… this lacuna, is the detailed description of musical modes, scales, and melodic patterns of nigunim from Galician … Apparently, this practice fostered the shared musical scales in cantorial and Hasidic tunes. Schleifer points, … A shift to the “Altered Dorian” (i.e., to the traditional scale g–a–b♭–c’♮/c’#–d’–e’♮–f’♮–g’ ) in C has been noted. …

A song thus far undocumented in any other source. This is apparently a local creation,…

… of motifs that are built from melodic formulas within a scale system and used for improvisation by the cantor or the … contains within it the typical musical elements of a scale system: half and full cadences, typical rest notes, … that hold a special function for either the motif or the scale. Additionally, the extending of the motif can be …

… that the synagogue mode, unlike the Western major-minor scale system, was characterized by its non-dominant …

… this version, with its distinctive waltz rhythm and major scale, betrays its European pedigree. For a version from …