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OverviewIn discoursing on music, three early modern Jewish scholars stand out for their originality. The first is Judah Moscato, who, as chief rabbi in Mantua, preached sermons, one of them on music: there Moscato presents music as a cosmic and spiritual phenomenon. The second scholar is Leon Modena, the foremost Jewish intellectual in early seventeenth-century Venice. Modena deals with music in two responsa to questions put to him for rabbinical adjudication, one of them an examination of biblical and rabbinical sources on the legitimacy of performing art music in the synagogue. Abraham Portaleone, the third scholar, treated music in a massive disquisition on the Ancient Temple and its ritual, describing it as an art correlating with contemporary Italian music. The introduction surveys the development of Hebrew art music from the Bible through the Talmud and rabbinical writings until the early modern era. The epilogue defines the special contribution of Hebrew scholars to early modern theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Don Harran Z lPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 47 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.753kg ISBN: 9789004283022ISBN 10: 9004283021 Pages: 396 Publication Date: 31 October 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Music in Hebrew Writings from the Bible to the Early Seventeenth Century 1. Judah Moscato on the Spirituality of Music 2. Sounds for Contemplation on a Lyre 3 Leon Modena on the Legality of Art Music in the Synagogue 4 Is Art Music Permissible in the Synagogue? 5 Abraham Portaleone on the Practice of Music in the Ancient Temple 6 Music as Practiced in the Temple and the Modern Era EPILOGUE The Jewish Contribution to Music Theory in the Early Modern Era Appendix The Texts in Hebrew 1. Moscato: Sermon 2. Modena: Response 3. Portaleone: Selected Chapters Bibliography Abbreviations and Acronyms in Hebrew Lexicon of Hebrew Musical Terms Index of Sources General IndexReviewsHarran's approach is thorough, meticulous, and very readable. His knowledge of this subject is impressive. In addition to a lengthy bibliography and an index, he provides a lexicon of the Hebrew musical terms that he noted in his translations (again, transliterated), and an index of the biblical, rabbinic, and classical sources that the three writers used. Books on Jewish musical theory are rare, and this is an excellent addition to the corpus. Recommended for academic libraries with comprehensive collections focused on Jewish music. --Beth Dwoskin (Beth Israel Congregation, Ann Arbor, MI), AJL Reviews Vol V, No.4 Author InformationDon Harran is Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written extensively on Italian and Jewish art music (its composers, singers and instrumentalists-male and female, and theorists) in the early modern era. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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