Verse:Irta/Music

Tsarfati music

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 in Ăn Yidiș (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).