Re: Rossi

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Actually, I don't think he used *any* elements of (what was before him) the 
Jewish music of his time, or of any other time, in his compositions.  But 
they were, for a brief time, the sacred music of some Italian Jews, so I 
think they certainly count as Jewish music--though, indeed, they don't 
"sound" Jewish to us, and no doubt didn't, at least initially, sound Jewish 
then; they sounded Italian Renaissance.  Think Schubert's setting of the 
92nd Psalm, purely in the style of ("Romantic Classical") European music of 
his day (and his place).  That Rossi was himself Jewish was almost 
incidental.

--Robert Cohen


>hi Abraham, as far as I can xsee it, ROssi was a Jewish composer and 
>composed,
>among other things, on Jewish themes, and used some elements , one 
>supposes, of
>Jewish music of the time in his compositions; whether this makes everything 
>he
>composed "Jewish music" is another matter; personally, I don't think so but
>don't find it worth a huge deabte about what is and isn-t Jewish music by
>professional composers.... cheers, Judith
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