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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… case in hearing a harmonic minor that ends on the lower melodic scale fifth step (Tarsi 2002). Tarsi suggests … melodies share the opening motive, the cadences, the higher melodic area of mm. 3–4, the leap of a sixth to the higher … “the tune Melngailis transcribed appears to be unique. Its similarity to the American spiritual ‘Glory, Glory …