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Morgan Library - Oct '88 Exhibition -"Music & Music Making in
the Middle Ages & Renaissance.
Music iconography - the description of music in art works
1) Group of instruments
Mid 13th C - Apocalypse illust. - has been hailed
as England's most importatnt pictoral contribution of the
Later Middle Ages.
2)Dancing 3) Percussion instruments 4) Singing 5) String
Instruments 6) Wind Instruments
-N.Y.P. Library Oct.'88
In its common & most general usage Talmud refers to a compilation
of laws , legal briefs & commentaeries developed by the rabbinic
sages of Babylonia a) Babylonian Talmud.
3) Jerusalem Talmud.
-Renassance - Hebrew language & literature was studied along -
Latin & Greek as a classical language.
- Before the Renaisance the Gospels were translated
into Hebrew & studied in order to counter missionary
attempts to convert the Jews.
Biblical Targum - translation - commentary - paraphrase
of the Palestinian tradtion
-N. of Lyna - one of the Christian Hebraists of the medieval
period. The "Postillae Perpetuae super Isaism" were
very popular biblical commentary & contain many Translations
of the Hebrew comments of Rabbi Solomon ben Issac
of Troyes known as Rashi.
Masorah - a collection of the textual notes pertaining to specific
details of the text of the Bible, its spelling & reading,
including pronunciation , accentuation & chanting.
Avicenna (980 - 1037) was a major Islamic philosopher &
physician whose writings had a major influence on Jewish
thought. His medical code came to be a standard code for
European physicians until the 16 & 17th C.
Secular works, prayer books, philosophy, law, bibles & commentary