About this Book

— The lead editor, Rebecca Cypess, is a musicologist and historical keyboardist specializing in the history, performance practices, and cultural contexts of music in 17th- and 18th- century Europe. As a performer, a 2019 recording of hers won the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award for contributions to historical performance. She also has received the Provost's Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Lynette Bowring is a musicologist and violinist specializing in the instrumental repertoire of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque, and Liza Malamut rounds out the volume with her experience as a trombonist whose research has focused on the intersection of Jewish music and contemporary culture in early modern Europe. — Recent reevaluations of the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped the lives of early modern Jews in Italy, from scholars including Seroussi, Don Harrán, and several contributors to this volume, demand new accounts of music in those lives. — Early music studies is one of the strongest areas of our diverse music list. — This book will reach performers, scholars, and students in musicology and Jewish studies. It will be useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in these areas.