{"id":5336,"date":"2022-03-18T01:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T01:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T09:58:05","slug":"the-online-thesaurus-of-italian-jewish-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/the-online-thesaurus-of-italian-jewish-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Centro Primo Levi New York partners with Centro Leo Levi in Florence to invite all to listen and sing at www.jewishitalianmusic.org<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music is a new resource offering access to the rich heritage of Jewish music in Italy, created by Centro Leo Levi (Florence) in collaboration and with the support of the Regione Toscana, Centro Primo Levi New York and the Viterbi family, San Diego. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was developed with the help of the Jewish Music Research Center of the University of Jerusalem and in partnership with the National Library of Israel, CDEC, and Fondazione Beni Culturali Ebraici Italiani (Italy). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Thesaurus is a map-based database, that allows users to explore the diverse liturgical repertoires of the Italian Jewish communities. Material is constantly added: recordings, printed music, manuscripts. After the first year of development, it now contains about 800 entries featuring musical material from Jewish communities including Venice, Florence, Ferrara, Siena, Casale Monferrato, and many more. The list is expanding rapidly and will eventually include all of the repertoires performed in the twentieth century on the Italian peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a first example of the richness of the Thesaurus and an invitation to browse its content, we will compare a famous composition by Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, Le Danze del Re Davide<\/em>, with the traditional melodies of the synagogue of Florence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Florence in 1895, Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco was already a renowned composer when he was forced to emigrate to the United States after the promulgation of the racist legislation of 1938. Le Danze Del Re David – rapsodia ebraica su temi tradizionali<\/em> was published and performed for the first time in 1926. It is dedicated to the author’s grandfather, Bruto Senigaglia, an amateur musician and a lover of belcanto<\/em>: his notebooks of musical excerpts from the Florence liturgy, notated in three-part harmony, were discovered by his grandson in the early 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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