RARE monograph on 660 sources on Jewish music in manuscript and printed books in Hebrew characters until the early modern period, in which the author unravels unknown sources about Western music history that were buried under the Hebrew alphabet, also tracing the different lineages of rabbinical discourses about music by comparatively examining the wanderings of texts, concepts and ideas from one source to another. Contains facsimile b&w plates, preface, introduction, sigla, detailed listing of sources, abbreviations, bibliography and indices. 245x175mm. LVIII+389 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket spine slightly wrinkled. Jacket edges partly tattered, jacket spine bottom edge peeled. Spine edges bumped/wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is otherwise in very good condition.