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Songs for the First Hebrew Play Tsahut bedihuta dekidushin by Leone de’ Sommi (1527-1592)

Levenstein, Anna Shaari
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1138299788

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2006, Doctor of Musical Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Early Music Performance.
The first Hebrew play, Tsahot bedihuta dekiddushin (A Comedy of Betrothal/Wedlock), a commedia erudita in five acts, was written in Mantua in the 1550’s by Leone de’ Sommi (1527-1592), a playwright whose specialty was the production of theatrical intermedi. This document includes a study of the musical milieu of the play and an edition of songs arranged by combining secular Italianate Hebrew lyric poetry with Italian musical styles current during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The cultivation of Hebrew secular poetry and the proficiency of song composition and performance by artists surrounding Leone de’ Sommi, both in his lifetime and in the years following, all point to a strong possibility that similar songs were heard at performances of this first Hebrew play.
Ross Duffin (Advisor)
193 p.
Music
Jewish theater; Contrafacta; Song; Mantua

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  • Levenstein, A. S. (2006). Songs for the First Hebrew Play Tsahut bedihuta dekidushin by Leone de’ Sommi (1527-1592) [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1138299788

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Levenstein, Anna. Songs for the First Hebrew Play Tsahut bedihuta dekidushin by Leone de’ Sommi (1527-1592). 2006. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1138299788.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Levenstein, Anna. "Songs for the First Hebrew Play Tsahut bedihuta dekidushin by Leone de’ Sommi (1527-1592)." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1138299788

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