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The Old Testament in Music
註釋The Jewish Scriptures have been a profound source of musical creativity over the ages.They have inspired musical works ranging from the Passion plays of the Middle Ages to the folk and even rock music of today. The Scriptures themselves contain all forms of literature-poetry, epic, prayer, drama, philosophy and prophecy. The artists who have found the Scriptures to be a fountian of ideas of forty-four different nationalities and they form a long and immpressive list. "The Old Testament in Music", a major work by distingushed Israeli musicologist Moshe Gorali, is an extensive and beautifully designed anthology of more than 5,000 musical pieces spanning the last thousand years. The Old Testament in Music is an excellent reference book for professional musicans, institutions and libraries, and a perfect book for music and Bible students. In English.