Echo-Poem for a Wedding in the Ghetto of Mantua

This is the last of eight double-choirs for 8 voices featured in Rossi's "Ha-shirim asher li-shelomoh". The literary species of echo-poems was widespread in Italian Hebrew literature of this period and we know of several references to musical settings of such poems. In Rossi's setting the role of the second choir is reduced to assume the "echo" nearly throughout the whole piece.