… in Anim Zmirot utilize the adonai malakh and magen avot modes. Stark’s style was heavily influenced by the classical …

… his course offerings to include a class devoted to Jewish modes. In 1958, Freed published the treatise, Harmonizing the Jewish Modes , in which he offers a systematic harmonic language by which to understand the Jewish modes as they have been treated by a variety of synagogue …

… feeling of the new Israeli musical idiom, based on modes and syncopation, to which he was introduced during his …

… University) from 1951 until his retirement in 1985. A modest figure, he declined any institutional role, and since … these pieces he further developed the use of the original modes that he had invented for  Midnight Vigil  and  … Jerusalem . He created during these decades 33 diatonic modes, which served as his core pitch material for 35 of his …