Re: Re[2]: Salamone Rossi

[elkahn <elkahn...>]

Richard:

You reckon right, landsman.

The JTS Music Library has the three vol. edition of Rossi's sacred vocal
music entitled: HASHIRIM ASHER LI'SHLOMO. Joel Newman and Fritz Rikko,
  eds., NY: Mercury Music; C.A.A./J.T.S.A., 1967.

You may find this edition in most university music libraries and it
contains his 3-8 voice choir settings of liturgy and psalms (in Hebrew).
Rossi published these pieces in Mantua in 1623. They are indeed in an
earlier Renaissance style and something like Palestrina's choral music.

Salamone Rossi did write instrumental music and was somewhat of an
innovator in the new trio sonata form of the early Baroque. He was
supposedly a virtuoso violinist, so most of his instrumental compositions
are sinfonias, etc. for 3, 4 or 5 unspecified voices. That's how they did
it in the early Baroque, but you can presume that the violin would at
least be one of the instruments. These were written ca. 1600-1625.

A new edition of Rossi's complete works (instrumental, sacred and secular
vocal) was published in 4 volumes in 1995 by the American Institute of
Musicology as part of the CMM series. (Complete works / Salamone Rossi.
 Neuhausen : Haensssler verlag, 1995)

We don't have it but you may find it at:

Cornell, SUNY Stony Brook, CUNY Grad School, Boston Public Lib., New York
Public Lib., U of Hartford (CT), Rutgers, Penn State, U of Toronto and
Univ. Laval Biblioteque in Quebec.

That's it. I've got to get back to work.

Wishing all a "Shana tovah,"

Eliott Kahn
Music Archivist
JTS Library
New York, NY


 On Wed, 16 Sep 1998
richard_wolpoe (at) ibi(dot)com wrote:

>      Dear List,
>         I don't know this for a fact, but I would strongly suspect that the 
>      JTS music/cantorial library would have a fairly complete collection of 
>      Rossi.  When we sung some fo his works in a choir, it was no big deal 
>      to get the sheet music. 
>      
>      I hope this helps!
>      
>      Shana/Tova Gut Yohr.
>      
>      Rich W.
> 
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator 
> _________________________________
> Subject: Re: Salamone Rossi 
> Author:  <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org> at Tcpgate
> Date:    9/15/98 10:49 PM
> 
> 
> Mike Morganstern asked:
> >I am looking for sheet music of any Organ Works by Salomone Rossi,  a 
> >baroque 
> era composer that preceded J. S. Bach.<
>      
> Dear Mike,
>      
> Although Rossi's life extended into the Baroque period (1570-1630), 
> stylistically he belongs more to the late Renaissance-at least the music I've 
> seen of his does. If you have access to a university music library, that's 
> where I'd start. To the best of my knowledge, at least his choral music has 
> been edited into modern notation in a "monument"-type book. I don't have 
> Grove's Dictionary of Music (any good music library would) at home, but they 
> will usually list a composer's complete works following the bibligraphical 
> article. My Harvard Biographical Dictionary mentions among the sources for 
> its 
> article: _A Thematic Index to the Works of Salamon rossi_, by Joel Newman and 
> Fritz Rikko (Hackensack, NJ, 1972), which also might be of help. It doesn't 
> mention any keyboard works of Rossi, but no doubt he must have composed some.
>      
> Good luck. Maybe one of the scholars on our list will have more complete 
> information for you.
>      
> Best wishes,
> Steve
>      
> Steve Barnett
> Composer/Arranger/Producer
> Barnett Music Productions
> BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com 
>      
>      
> 
>