Yazar: Rebecca Cypess

WINNER: Book Prize from the Jewish Music and Jewish Studies Group of the American Musicological Society A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonnière and skilled …

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition-but until now, the impul …

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 Ital …

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. Not only do many contempor …

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. Not only do many contempor …

A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds.In eighteenth-century Europe and America, musical salons and the wo …

Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran and much of his music was for Lutheran liturgical worship. As these insightful essays in the twelfth volume of Bach Perspectives demonstrate, he was also influenc …