A critical edition of a musical ceremony for the festival of Hosha'ana Rabbah from the Italian Jewish community of Casale Monferato (1732), found in Ms. Ginzburg 807[1] at the Lenin State Library in Moscow. Score for 5-6 voices, strings and oboes. Includes liturgical texts and the cantata "Dove in the Clefts of the Rock". The score is preceded by a historical introduction and a facsimile edition of the original Hebrew libretto.
Soft cover. Orchestral parts available on rental.
Cantata (text in Arabic by al-Khansa, a 7th century Arabic woman poet) for chamber choir, two oboes, ḳanun (or piano), 'cello, a set of ṭar-drums with supplements.
Brief analyses of five string symphonies used as overtures to Hebrew cantatas, dated 1732, 1733, and 1735. All works are anonymous, but the composer of the symphony in G for the 1733 cantata has been identified as Antonio Brioschi. The Article, though written in English, is appendix 3 to the Hebrew article by Israel Adler, which appears in the Hebrew section of this volume.