Re: Folk Liturgy/New American Nusach

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I'm serious about that.  When I took a course on the history and
development of Jewish music, we heard someone's reconstruction of the music
as it may have sounded in Temple times, and it sounded very modal.  Plus
one of the "traditional" Ashkenazi modes ("Hashem Malach?") sounds a lot
like the Mixolydian mode.
        Finally, one of the songs on the "Voice of the Turtle" (Sephardic music)
Hanukah album sounded very much like Gregorian chant to me.
Historically, we started out modal. Emily

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> From: eblank <eblank (at) fac(dot)howard(dot)edu>
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: Re: Folk Liturgy/New American Nusach
> Date: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 1:47 PM
> 
> Lynn:  I thought that Pope Gregory (of gregorian modes fame) was born
> Jewish (converted to Christianity) and brought the modes into the church
> from the Jewish side!  Emily
> 
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> > From: LynnCGiff <LynnCGiff (at) aol(dot)com>
> > To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: Folk Liturgy/New American Nusach
> > Date: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 11:50 AM
> > 
> > Back in the "olden days" (c. 1977?) we used to have an organist who
> played
> > prelude music before Friday night services. (Now we have Adrian - G-d
> bless
> > him - who plays our wonderful Roland digital keyboard.)
> > 
> > The last organist employed by the temple was also the director of music
> for
> > St. Mary's (Roman Catholic) Cathedral. Most frequently he would play
> Gregorian
> > Chants. This didn't seem to bother anybody else, but it drove me crazy!
> > Because I am a Jew by Choice and a graduate of a Catholic university, I
> knew
> > all the words . . . in Latin.
> > 
> > I STILL like the Gregorian chants but I am happier not to hear them in
> shul.
> > 
> > Pax Vobiscum,
> > Lynn