Articles and Books about Rossi and His Environment

  • Adler, Israel, ed. Hebrew Writings Concerning Music. RISM. Munich: G. Henle, 1975.

  • Adler, Israel. "Monteverdi: Some Colleagues and Pupils." In The Monteverdi Companion, pp. 110-30. Edited by Dennis Arnold and Nigel Fortune. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.

  • Adler, Israel. "Salamon Rossi, Hashirim Asher Li'shlomo." Journal of the American Musicological Society (1968): 105-108.

  • Adler, Israel. "The Rise of Art Music in the Italian Ghetto." In Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies, pp. 321-64. Edited by Alexander Altman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

  • Adler, Israel. La pratique musicale savante dans quelques communautes juives en Europe aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles. Paris: Mouton & Co., 1966.

  • Birnbaum, Edouard. Jewish Musicians at the Court of the Mantuan Dukes. Translated and edited by Judith Cohen. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1978. (Originally published as "Juedische Musiker am Hofe zu Mantua von 1542-1628." Kalendar fuer Israeliten fuer das Jahr 5654. Vienna, 1893.)

  • Bonfil, Robert. “Change in the Cultural Patterns of Jewish Society in Crisis: Italian Jewry at the Close of the Sixteenth Century.” Jewish History 2, no. 2 (Fall, 1988):11-30. Reprinted in Cultural Change among the Jews of Early Modern Italy, chapter 6. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

  • Bonfil, Robert. Translated by Anthony Oldcorn.  Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

  • Cohen, Mark R. The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena’s Life of Judah. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.

  • Cypess, Rebecca and Liza Malamut, eds. Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022.

  • Cypess, Rebecca and Yoel Greenberg. “Hearing the Ancient Temple in Early Modern Mantua: Abraham Portaleone and the Cultivation of Music within the Mantuan Jewish Community.” The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music, edited by Tina Freuhauf. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Davis, Robert C. and Benjamin Ravid. The Jews of Early Modern Venice. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2001.

  • Einstein, Alfred. "An Unknown Jewish Musician at the Court of Mantua." In "The Madrigals of Salamon de' Rossi," pp. 315-25, by Joel Newman. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1962.

  • Einstein, Alfred. "Salamone Rossi As Madrigal Composer." Hebrew Union College Annual 23 (1950-51): 383-96.

  • Garvin, Barbara and Bernard Cooperman, editors. The Jews of Italy. Univ. Press of Maryland, 2000. 

  • Golde, Kedem. “An Italian Tune in the Synagogue: An Unexplored Contrafactum by Leon Modena.” Revue des ´etudes juives 177, nos. 3-4 (July–December, 2018): 391-420.

  • Gradenwitz, Peter. "An Early Instance of Copyright -- Venice, 1622." Music and Letters 27 (1946): 185-86.

  • Harrán, Don. “A New Thing in the Land’: Jacob Segre as A Poet in Salamone Rossi’s Songs by Solomon" (1623)” Revue des études juives, 172, 3-4 (juillet-décembre 2013): 337-369.

  • Harrán, Don. “Cultural Fusions in Jewish Musical Thought of the Later Renaissance.” In Cantu et in Sermone: For Nino Pirrotta on His 80th Birthday, ed. Fabrizio Della Seta and Franco Piperno. 141-154. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1989 (?).

  • Harrán, Don. “Dum Recordamur Sion: Music in the Life and Thought of the Venetian rabbi Leon Modena (1571-1648).” AJS Review, 23/1 (1998): 17-61.

  • Harrán, Don. “Madama Europa, Jewish Singer in Late Renaissance Mantua.” In Festa Musicologica: Essays in Honor of George J. Below, edited by Thomas J. Mathiesen and Benito V. Rivera, 197-231. New York: Pendragon, 1995.

  • Harrán, Don. “Salamone Rossi as a Composer of Theatre Music.” Studi Musicali, 16 (1987a): 95-132.

  • Harrán, Don. “Salamone Rossi, Jewish Musician in Renaissance Italy.” Acta Musicologica 59 (January 1987b): 46-64.

  • Harrán, Don. Sarra Copia Sulam, Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose, along with Writings of Her Contemporaries in Her Praise, Condemnation, or Defense. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

  • Harrán, Don. “The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Mantua.” In Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the Sixteenth–Seeventeenth Centuries, edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto, 161-198. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012.

  • Harrán, Don. “Tradition and Innovation in Jewish Music of the Later Renaissance.” The Journal of Musicology, VII (1 1989): 107-130.

  • Harrán, Don. Salamone Rossi: A Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  • Jacobson, Joshua R. “A Possible Influence of Traditional Chant on a Synagogue Motet of Salamone Rossi.” Musica Judaica X (1 1987-88): 52-58.

  • Jacobson, Joshua R. “Spazziam: A Balletto by Salamone Rossi.” American Choral Review, 22 (October 1980): 5-10.

  • Jacobson, Joshua R. “Salamone Rossi’s Synagogue Motets: The 400th Anniversary.” The Choral Journal, 63:2 (September, 2022): 9-23.

  • Jacobson, Joshua R. “The Choral Music of Salamone Rossi.” American Choral Review XXX (4 1988)

  • Jacobson, Joshua R. Salamone Rossi​​: Renaissance Man of Jewish Music. Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2016.

  • Jaffe-Berg, Erith. Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520–1650. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2022.

  • Mann, Vivian, ed. Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

  • Nettl, Paul. "Some Early Jewish Musicians." Musical Quarterly 17 (1931): 40-46.

  • New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The. S.v. "Rossi, Salamone," by Iain Fenlon.

  • New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The. S.v. "Mantua," by Claudio Gallico.

  • Newman, Joel and Rikko, Fritz. A Thematic Index to the Works of Salamon Rossi. Hackensack, N.J.: Joseph Boonin, 1972.

  • Newman, Joel. “The Madrigals of Salamon de’ Rossi.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1962.

  • Patuzzi, Stephano. “Music from a Confined Space: Salomone Rossi’s Ha-shirim Asher lishlomoh (1622/23) and the Mantua Ghetto.” In “Sacred Space.” Special issue, Journal of Synagogue Music 37 (Fall, 2012): 49-69.

  • Rikko. Fritz. Hashirim Asher Lish’lomo: The Songs of Solomon (three volumes). New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary, 1967-1973.

  • Rossi, Salamone, Complete Works, ed. Don Harran (CMM 100, 13 volumes in 5; Neuhausen-Stuttgart, vols. 1-12, 1995, vol. 13 forthcoming).

  • Roth, Cecil. "When We Remembered Zion: The Musical Academy of the Venetian Ghetto." In Personalities and Events in Jewish History, pp. 283-295. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1953.

  • Roth, Cecil. The History of the Jews of Italy. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1946.

  • Roth, Cecil. The Jews in the Renaissance. New York: Harper and Row, 1959.

  • Ruderman, David (editor). Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. New York; New York University Press, 1992.

  • Sendrey, Alfred. The Music of the Jews in the Diaspora. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1970.

  • Seroussi, Edwin. “Ghetto Soundscapes: Venice and Beyond.” In Shirat Devora: Essays in Honor of Professor Dvora Bregman, edited by Haviva Ishay, 157-171. Beer-Sheva: Ben Guryon University in the Negev Press, 2019.

  • Simonsohn, Shlomo. History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1962. Translation by the author. Jerusalem: Kiryath-Sepher Ltd., 1977.

  • Simon, Kate. A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

  • Spagnolo, Francesco. “The Bimah and the Stage: Synagogue Music and Cultural Production in the Italian Ghettos. “ In Venice, the Jews, and Europe, edited by Donatella Calabi, 264-269. Venice: Marsilio, 2016.

  • Zaslaw, Neal. "Choral Music in the Liturgy: Synagogue Music Rediscovered: 1. Salamon Rossi, The Songs of Solomon." American Choral Review 14 (1972): 21-28.

  • Zaslaw, Neal. "Hashirim asher lish'lomo." Musical Quarterly 55 (1969): 269-75.

  • Zaslaw, Neal. "Salamon Rossi Ebreo." American Choral Review 10 (1968): 132-35.


CDs

  • Salamone Rossi Hebreo: Baroque Music for the Synagogue and the Royal Court. The Zamir Chorale of Boston et al. Joshua Jacobson, director. https://zamir.org/recordings/cds/salamone-rossi-hebreo-910/

  • Italia. The Zamir Chorale of Boston et al. Joshua Jacobson, director. https://zamir.org/recordings/cds/italia-919/

  • Zamir Goes baroque. The Zamir Chorale of Boston et al. Joshua Jacobson, director. https://zamir.org/recordings/cds/zamir-goes-baroque-933/

  • Salamone Rossi: The Songs of Solomon (Volume 1 and 2). New York Baroque. Eric Milnes, director. PGM 108 and 113

  • Rossi: HaShirim Asher Lishlomo. Pro Cantione Antiqua. Directed by Sidney Fixman. Carlton Clasics 3036600452

  • Salomone Rossi Hebreo. Il terzo libro de’ varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi e correnete. Il Ruggiero. Diretto fa Emanuela Marcante. Tactus TC 571801

  • Musique Judéo-Baroque: Rossi, Saladin, Grossi. Boston Camerata. Joel Cohen. Harmonia Mundi 1901021

  • Synagogal Music in the Baroque. The Cameran Singers. Directed by Avner Itai. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jewish Music Research Centre AMTI CD 9101.

  • Salomone Rossi: 'The Song of Solomon' and instrumental music. Profeti Della Quinta and Ensemble Muscadin Pan Classics (PC10343).

  • Il Mantovano Hebreo: Italian madrigals, Hebrew prayers and instrumental music by Salomone Rossi (c.1570-c.1630) LINN records, November 2013 (CKR 429).


FILMS

Richlitz, Joseph. Hebreo: The Search for Salamone Rossi. Netherlands: Lasso Film & TV production, 2012. www.josephrochlitz.com, https://www.quintaprofeti.com , https://vimeo.com/37828414

Resnik, Regina. GETO: The Historic Jewish Ghetto of Venice (DVD) purchase — preview

SHEET MUSIC

Hashirim Asher Lishlomo — Modern editions

 Complete Works

Hashirim Asher Lish’lomo: Cantiques de Salomon Rossi: Psaumes, Chants et Hymnes a 3,4,5,6,7, et 8 voix, Transcrits en notation modern et publiés par S. Naumbourg, Paris, 1877. Reprint New York: Sacred Music Press: 1954.

Hashirim Asher Lish’lomo: The Songs of Solomon (three volumes). Ed. Fritz Rikko. New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary, 1967-1973.

Rossi, Salamone, Complete Works, Part III, Hebrew Texted Works, ed. Don Harran. Mergelberg, Germany: The American Institute of Musicology/CMM 100, volumes 13a and 13b; 2003. Click here.

Octavos recommended for American singers

Adon Olam (Synagogue Hymn) a8, Joshua Jacobson, editor. New York: Transcontinental Music Publications, 1993. Click here.

Al Naharot Bavel (Psalm 137) a4 (low voices), Joshua Jacobson, editor. Broude Brothers Publishers (distributed through C. F. Peters),

Barekhu (Call to Prayer) a3, Joshua Jacobson, editor. Broude Brothers Publishers (distributed through C. F. Peters), 1993.

Eftakh Na Sefatai (Festival Hymn) a7, Joshua Jacobson, editor. New York: Transcontinental Music Publications, 1995. Click here.

Elohim Hashivenu (Psalm 80) a4, Joshua Jacobson, editor. New York: Transcontinental Music Publications, 1993. Click here.

Halleluyah (Psalm 146) a4, Joshua Jacobson, editor. Broude Brothers Publishers, (distributed through C. F. Peters),1994. Click here.

Hashkivenu (Evening Prayer) a5, Judith Klurman, editor. G. Schirmer Publications. Click here.

Kaddish (Sanctification Doxology) a5, Joshua Jacobson, editor. Transcontinental Music Publications Click here.

Keter (Sanctus) a4, Joshua Jacobson, editor. Broude Brothers Publishers, (distributed through C. F. Peters),1988. Click here.

Odekha (Psalm 118) a6, Joshua Jacobson, editor. St. Louis, Missouri: ECS Publications 2002. Click here.

Shir Hama’alot (Psalm 128) a3, Joshua Jacobson, editor. Broude Brothers Publishers, (distributed through C. F. Peters),1988.

Shir Lamaalot Essa Eynai (Psalm 121) a5, Joshua Jacobson, editor. Transcontinental Music Publications, 1998. Click here.

Choral Public Domain Library

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