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Salamone Rossi, a Jewish composer in the Mantua Ghetto, publishes in 1622 his unique collection of Hebrew texts set to music. The first of its kind. The music of it are in the general style practiced at the time by Christian composers [link to NL]
In 1987, Joshua Jacobson, a scholar from the US visits the National Library in Jerusalem and finds there that one melody by Rossi [link to NL] that has some similarity to oral recording from the 1950s made by the ethnoimusicologist Leo Levi [link to NL]. He publishes his finds in an article in Musica Judaica [link to NL].

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