"Shir HaShirim Asher LiShlomo – Cantiques de Salomon Rossi, " musical scores for Hebrew prayers and liturgical poems (piyyutim) by Salomone (Salomon) Rossi; French edition, edited by Samuel Naumbourg. Paris: S. Naumbourg, [1876?]. French, Hebrew, and Italian. Thirty works for choir, with multiple-part harmony, composed for Hebrew prayers and liturgical poems, including "Shir Ha-Ma'alot, " "Mizmor LeDavid, " "Adon Olam, " "Al Naharot Bavel, " and other pieces, in addition to twenty-two multiple-part harmony compositions for works in Italian. Salomone Rossi ("Shlomo ben Moshe min Haadoumim"; 1570-1630), reputed to be one of the greatest of Jewish composers of the Italian Renaissance. His most famous work – "Shir HaShirim Asher LiShlomo" ("Song of Solomon") – was first published in 1623, and represented the earliest known collection of musical scores with multiple-part harmony ("polyphony") in the history of Jewish music. This edition was published by the French-Jewish composer Samuel Naumbourg (1817-1880) at a time when Rossi's original had been almost entirely forgotten, and was preserved only by scattered pieces housed in a number of different libraries. Naumbourg succeeded in gathering these pieces – locating thirty out of thirty-three of the scores Rossi had composed for Hebrew liturgical poems – and had them reprinted. [2] ff., 31, [1] 153, 50, 48, [1] pp., 26.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Numerous stains. Handwritten notations (in pencil). Tears to several leaves, mostly to edges. Small number of leaves reinforced with glued paper strips. Binding with leather spine and gilt design. Wear to binding.