page_title: Ukrainian Dorian scale
section_title: Use in Jewish and Roman music
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian Dorian scale / Use in Jewish and Roman music
caption_attribution_description: English: Misheberak scale on D.
context_page_description: In music, the Romanian Minor scale or Ukrainian Dorian scale or altered Dorian scale is a musical scale or the fourth mode of the harmonic minor scale.
  It is "similar to the dorian mode, but with a tritone and variable sixth and seventh degrees". It is related to both the Freygish and Misheberak scales and is used in Jewish music, "predominant in klezmer bulgarish and doina." "When the Ukrainian Dorian scale functions in the synagogue, it is a mode known as the Mi sheberach or Av horachamim. Arab and Greek scholars give other names to the scale: Nikriz and Aulos, respectively."
  "The pitches of the Mi Shebeyrekh [cantorial] mode correspond roughly to a Dorian mode with a raised fourth; alternately, it could be described as a variant of the Lydian mode, deriving instead from the harmonic minor scale, rather than from the major scale. Beregovski calls this pitch collection 'Ukrainian Dorian'."
  The Ukrainian Dorian scale is used particularly extensively within Julian Cochran's music including the Romanian Dances and Mazurkas. It has also been used by George Gershwin. Another example is the Bert Kaempfert tune "Sweet Maria".
context_section_description: In Jewish and Roman music the altered Dorian scale may be called the Misheberak scale. It may also be called Av horachamin (Compassionate Father), Mi Shebeyrekh, and Misheberach. This scale was used extensively by Erik Satie, especially noticeable in his Gnossienne No 3.
caption: Ukrainian Dorian (also known as Misheberak scale) mode on D. About this soundPlay (help·info)
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