Three early modern Hebrew scholars on the mysteries of song / by Don Harrán.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrán, Don, author.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history and culture ; Volume 47.

Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 1568-5004 ; Volume 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Music--History and criticism.

Jews.

Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, approximately 1530-approximately 1593.

Moscato, Judah ben Joseph.

Modena, Leone, 1571-1648.

Modena, Leone.

Portaleone, Abraham ben David, 1542-1612.

Portaleone, Abraham ben David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter / Don Harrán

Music in Hebrew Writings from the Bible to the Early Seventeenth Century / Don Harrán

Judah Moscato on the Spirituality of Music / Don Harrán

Sounds for Contemplation on a Lyre / Don Harrán

Leon Modena on the Legality of Art Music in the Synagogue / Don Harrán

Is Art Music Permissible in the Synagogue? / Don Harrán

Abraham Portaleone on the Practice of Music in the Ancient Temple / Don Harrán

Music as Practiced in the Temple and the Early Modern Era / Don Harrán

The Jewish Contribution to Music Theory in the Early Modern Era / Don Harrán

The Texts in Hebrew / Don Harrán

Bibliography / Don Harrán

Abbreviations and Acronyms in Hebrew / Don Harrán

Lexicon of Hebrew Musical Terms / Don Harrán

Indexes / Don Harrán.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28364-1

OCLC:

896796342

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004283640 DOI