Verse:Irta/Music

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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).

Instruments from Gaelic music:

  • pib-ilăn - uilleann pipes
  • fithăł (from **fithal, from *vitola) - fiddle
  • criț (~ Welsh crwth) - a Celtic harp

Crackfic

Bjeheond

Cualand

Hebrew cantillation

Cantillation tropes in Cualand are inspired by Windermere/Lakovic chanting.