Reply To: Abandonment of Nussach

Actually Queen the “Jewish myxolidian” has some other unique characteristics. The upper third (i.e. in a c-c scale, the e above the high c) is also diminished, and the seventh below the tonic is natural and not diminished, creating a thirteen note scale. It has to do with the joining of two overlapping tetrahords to the pentatonic major scale in creating the mode. Chazzan Leib Glantz z”l wrote extensively about this.