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Author Harrán, Don, author.

Title Three early modern Hebrew scholars on the mysteries of song / by Don Harrán
Published Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in Jewish history and culture ; volume 47
Studies in Jewish history and culture ; volume 47.
Contents Judah Moscato on the spirituality of music -- Sounds for contemplation on a lyre -- Leon Modena on the legality of art music in the synagogue -- Is art music permissible in the synagogue? -- Abraham Portaleone on the practice of music in the ancient temple -- Music as practiced in the temple and the early modern era -- The Jewish contribution to music theory in the early modern era
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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, approximately 1530-approximately 1593.
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648.
Portaleone, Abraham ben David, 1542-1612.
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648
Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, approximately 1530-approximately 1593
Portaleone, Abraham ben David, 1542-1612
Jews -- Music -- History and criticism.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Jews -- Music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004283640
9004283641