Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28302-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

In 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrán Zl, Don

Harrán Z"l, Don

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 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 Index

Über Autor(innen)

Don Harrán 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.