Salamone Rossi

Salamone Rossi
Author: Don Harrán
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1999
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 0195168135

Salamone Rossi occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi's life provides unique insights on life during the Renaissance and on such contemporary questions as how individuals respond to competing cultural influences.

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Author: Lynette Bowring
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2022-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253060087

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.

Hymns & Qualms

Hymns & Qualms
Author: Peter Cole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374173885

"A selection of Cole's award-winning poetry and translations together with new poems"--

Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua

Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua
Author: Donald C. Sanders
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 073916726X

In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders examines the history of musical composition and performance at the northern Italian court of Mantua from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Music is discussed in the context of the visual art, poetry, and theater that graced the court and of the Gonzaga family's interaction with the major European historical figures of the era.

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music
Author: Joshua S. Walden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107023459

A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Author: Lynette Bowring
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253060079

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.

The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music

The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music
Author: BrianE. Power
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351540459

The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of primary source materials. This volume of essays presents a cross-section of new research on performance issues in music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The subject is approached from a broad perspective, drawing on areas such as dance history, art history, music iconography and performance traditions from beyond Western Europe. In doing so, the volume continues some of the many lines of inquiry pursued by its dedicatee, Timothy J. McGee, over a lifetime of scholarship devoted to practical questions of playing and singing early music. Expanding the bases of inquiry to include various social, political, historical or aesthetic backgrounds both broadens our knowledge of the issues pertinent to early music performance and informs our understanding of other cultural activities within which music played an important role. The book is divided into two parts: 'Viewing the Evidence' in which visually based information is used to address particular questions of music performance; and 'Reconsidering Contexts' in which diplomatic, commercial and cultural connections to specific repertories or compositions are considered in detail. This book will be of value not only to specialists in early music but to all scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance whose interests intersect with the visual, aural and social aspects of music performance.

Festa Musicologica

Festa Musicologica
Author: George J. Buelow
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780945193708

George J. Buelow's distinguished career as author, translator, editor, and officer of numerous musical associations is celebrated in this collection of essays. The volume, planned by his colleagues in honor of his sixty-fifth birthday, concentrates on three of his active interests-Handel studies, vocal music and singers, and the history of music theory. The work concludes with an autobiographical sketch of the dedicatee's early life in Chicago and his formation as a musicologist.

From Enemy to Brother

From Enemy to Brother
Author: John Connelly
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674064887

In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Yet the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God, and had mostly kept silent as Jews were slaughtered by Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be unchanging undertake one of the largest, yet most undiscussed, ideological swings in modern history?