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Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought.
An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture.
Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.
Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought.
An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture.
Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.
List of Figures
List of Musical Examples
List of Tables
Editorial Principles
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Rebecca Cypess
1. Written in Italian, Heard as Jewish: Reconsidering the Notated
Sources of Italian Jewish Music , by Francesco Spagnolo
2. Miriam's Timbrel: The Decameron as Exodus, by Aaron Beck
3. Traces of Jewish Music and Culture at the Urbino Court of
Federico da Montefeltro , by J. Drew Stephen
4. The Peripatetic Career of a Converted Jew: The Music Theorist
Pietro Aaron , by Bonnie J. Blackburn
5. A Fire, a Fight, and a Knight: Elye Bokher in Verse and Song ,
by Avery Gosfield
6. The Bassanos at the Court of Henry VIII: A Story of Cooperation
and Protection , by Dongmyung Ahn
7. Jewish and Converted Musicians and Musical Instruments Makers in
Southern Italy in the Fifteenth through Early Seventeenth
Centuries, by Luigi Sisto
8. Salamone Rossi's Songs of Solomon: The Pleasures and Pains of
Marginality, by Stefano Patuzzi
9. Orality and Literacy in the Worlds of Salamone Rossi , by
Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring
10. L'Accademia degli Impediti: A Reevaluation , by Liza
Malamut
Bibliography: Manuscript Sources
Printed Sources
Printed Scores
Discography
Index
Lynette Bowring is Assistant Professor Adjunct of Music History at the Yale School of Music. She received her PhD in musicology from Rutgers University and has published on the intersections of orality and literacy in early modern Italian musical culture.
Rebecca Cypess is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where she is also Associate Professor of Music. She is author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy and editor (with Nancy Sinkoff) of Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin.
Liza Malamut is an independent scholar, educator, and historical trombonist; she is Co-Artistic Director of the ensemble Incantare and has been appointed Artistic Director of the Newberry Consort.
Bowring, Cypess, and Malamut's collection provides valuable
insights into this unique and colorful period of Jewish history, a
zigzag of alternating oppression and acceptance, a complex of
negotiated identities.
*Early Music America*
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