Music and Jewish culture in early modern Italy : new perspectives / edited by Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess, and Liza Malamut

Bibliogr. p. 259-283

Introduction / Rebecca Cypess -- Written in Italian, heard as Jewish : reconsidering the notated sources of Italian Jewish music / Francesco Spagnolo -- Miriam's timbrel : the Decameron as Exodus / Eleonora M. Beck -- Traces of Jewish music and culture at the Urbino court of Federico da Montefeltro / J. Drew Stephen -- The peripatetic career of a converted Jew : the music theorist Pietro Aaron / Bonnie J. Blackburn -- A fire, a fight, and a knight : Elye Bokher in verse and song / Avery Gosfield -- The Bassanos at the court of Henry VIII : a story of cooperation and protection / Dongmyung Ahn -- Jewish and converted musicians and musical instrument makers in southern Italy in the fifteenth through early seventeenth centuries / Luigi Sisto -- Salamone Rossi's Songs of Solomon : the pleasures and pains of marginality / Stefano Patuzzi -- Orality and literacy in the worlds of Salamone Rossi / Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring -- L'Accademia degli Impediti : a reevaluation / Liza Malamut.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.