Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy (EPUB) von Lynette Bowring

— The lead editor, Rebecca Cypess, is a musicologist and historical keyboardist specializing in the history, performance practices, and cultural contexts of music in 17th- and 18th- century Europe. As a performer, a 2019 recording of hers won the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award for contributions to historical performance. She also has received the Provost's Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Lynette Bowring is a musicologist and violinist specializing in the instrumental repertoire of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque, and Liza Malamut rounds out the volume with her experience as a trombonist whose research has focused on the intersection of Jewish music and contemporary culture in early modern Europe. — Recent reevaluations of the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped the lives of early modern Jews in Italy, from scholars including Seroussi, Don Harrán, and several contributors to this volume, demand new accounts of music in those lives. — Early music studies is one of the strongest areas of our diverse music list. — This book will reach performers, scholars, and students in musicology and Jewish studies. It will be useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in these areas.

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: TheDecameron 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'sSongs 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

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.

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 ofCurious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy and editor (with Nancy Sinkoff) ofSara 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.