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

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume 47
• VerfasserIn: Harrán, Don,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture ; Volume 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of 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.