Freygish

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Freygish is a distinctive Jewish musical mode characterized by its augmented second interval and expressive, Eastern European cantorial sound.

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instanceOf Jewish musical mode
musical mode
hasAlternativeName Ahava Rabbah mode NERFINISHED
Freygish scale NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristicInterval augmented second
hasCulturalContext Ashkenazi Jewish music
Jewish music
hasExpressiveQuality Eastern European sound
cantorial sound
emotional intensity
lamenting character
hasFunctionIn Ashkenazi synagogue prayer modes NERFINISHED
hasGeographicAssociation Eastern Europe NERFINISHED
hasScaleDegreePattern 1–b2–3–4–5–b6–b7
hasTypicalUseOn minor tonic
influences Jewish popular music
isAssociatedWith Jewish modal system nusach
prayer Ahava Rabbah
isDocumentedIn ethnomusicology literature
isPerceivedAs Middle Eastern sounding
exotic in Western tonal context
isRelatedTo Phrygian mode NERFINISHED
harmonic minor scale
isTaughtIn Jewish music education
isUsedBy Klezmer musicians
cantors
isUsedFor Hasidic nigunim
Jewish folk songs
Jewish liturgical melodies
isUsedIn Klezmer music
cantorial music
synagogue music

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