[HANASHIR:5493] Re: minor/major?

[BZcantor <BZcantor...>]

> 
>  Just for the record, an A scale with a flatted seventh 
>  is a mixolydian scale,
> 
and, it happens to also be Makaam Rast, an Arabic
musical mode (Makaam) which we Jews use as the
HaShem Malach mode, and which is the basis of the
"Lithuanian-Jerusalem tradition" for Torah chant 
as taught by Rosowsky at JTS and Binder at HUC.

A good way to remember the scale of Mixolydian - 
Makaam Rast - HaShem Malach mode is to think
of the ascending passage in "If I were a Rich Man".
This shows the "Major" scale with the flat seventh.

BTW, when we use this mode during the first part of 
Kabbalat Shabbat services (such as "Arbaim Shana"),
the resting point is the fifth degree of the scale, which
also appears in this song from "Fiddler".

                        Cantor Neil Schwartz

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