The seventh and final episode of Season 2 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Rebecca Cypess. We discuss how she came to the field of Jewish music studies, and her ongoing work on music in early modern Italy, England, and Gregorian England.

Musicologist and historical keyboardist Dr. Rebecca Cypess is Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mason Gross School the Arts, Rutgers University. In July 2024, she will assume the position of Dean of Stern College for Women and Yeshiva College at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy (2016) and Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022), co-editor of Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin (2018) and Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives (2022), and over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Cypess is founder and director of the Raritan Players, whose concerts and recordings explore little-known performance practices and compositions of the eighteenth century, especially those associated with women. She has been the recipient of two awards from the American Musicological Society: the Ruth A. Solie Award for a collection of musicologist essays of exceptional merit and the Noah Greenberg Award for contributions to historical performance.