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Book SynopsisHighlighting 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.
Trade ReviewBowring, 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.
-- Joshua R. Jacobson * Early Music America *
Table of ContentsList 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
