Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives

by Lynette Bowring (Editor), Rebecca Cypess (Editor), Liza Malamut (Editor), Dongmyung Ahn (Contribution by), Aaron Beck (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253060099
Publisher:	Indiana University Press (Ips)
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	Music and the Early Modern Imagination
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

Tina Frühauf

This collection of essays extends beyond the metanarratives of Jewish culture in early modernity, offering fresh perspectives and novel directions. It opens a new chapter in the history of Jews and music in Italy and challenges the reader to rethink the very nature of Jewish music. It enriches our understanding of the varied trajectories of music cultures in early modern times.

Edwin Seroussi

This volume, a collection of papers on Jews and music in early modern Italy, reflects the continuous interest in, and even fascination with, this field, that is now addressed by a new generation of scholars from diverse disciplines. . . . Scholars and the general public less familiar with this field will find in it a plethora of suggestive ideas as to the nature and content of the musical culture of Jews.

Editorial Reviews

"This volume, a collection of papers on Jews and music in early modern Italy, reflects the continuous interest in, and even fascination with, this field, that is now addressed by a new generation of scholars from diverse disciplines. . . . Scholars and the general public less familiar with this field will find in it a plethora of suggestive ideas as to the nature and content of the musical culture of Jews."—Edwin Seroussi, author of Popular Music and National Culture in Israel

"This collection of essays extends beyond the metanarratives of Jewish culture in early modernity, offering fresh perspectives and novel directions. It opens a new chapter in the history of Jews and music in Italy and challenges the reader to rethink the very nature of Jewish music. It enriches our understanding of the varied trajectories of music cultures in early modern times."—Tina Frühauf, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies

"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."—Joshua R. Jacobson, Northeastern University, Early Music America

From the Publisher

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 - Joshua R. Jacobson