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On a Jewish musical Renaissance.(evaluating Jewish music that occured during the Italian Renaissance)(Critical essay)
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Daedalus
- Article date:
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Harran, Don
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The title of this essay is best framed as a question: Did the Jews have a musical 'renascence' in the Renaissance? It is impossible to answer it without asking a host of others: What is meant by Renaissance? How valid is the term as a chronological or conceptual marker in present-day humanist scholarship? How does it apply to music? Is it relevant to Jewish scholarship--was there in fact a 'Jewish Renaissance'? Does it include music composed by Jews? And even more fundamentally, what is 'Jewish music' and how does it differ, if at all, from 'music composed by Jews'?
That the literature contains no definitive responses to these admittedly trying questions dispenses me--to ...