The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

Cantata Ebraica


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Judaic
Catalogue NumberRT400D
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Ramon Tasat
Record FormatCD
Shelf Number100454
Number of Tracks16
Date RecordedN/A
Album Artists
Notes In this album, Ramón Tasat includes a number of unique and rarely heard Italian melodies obtained through oral tradition in Livorno, Rome, and Florence. Collected, for the most part, by musicologist Leo Levi those songs have been transcribed and adapted for use by vocal soloists and instruments.

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Psalm 118 - I Praise You for Having Answered Me
Composer(s) : Livorno
2 - Shalom leBen Dodi
Composer(s) : Sh. Ibn Gabirol-Florence
3 - Ad�o Querida
Composer(s) : Traditional Sefardi
4 - Addio! Del Passato
Composer(s) : G. Verdi
5 - Lekha Dodi
Composer(s) : Sh. Alkabetz-Rome
6 - Hashkibenu
Composer(s) : Livorno
7 - Akh Ze haYom Kiviti - Fate Onore Del Bel Purim Wal Viva Nostro Burino - Alabemos
Composer(s) : Livorno-Tunis
8 - Psalm 114 - When Israel Left the Land of Egypt
Composer(s) : Traditional Italian
9 - Psalm 150 - Praise God in His sanctuary
Composer(s) : Livorno
10 - Psalm 117-8 - Praise the Lord all nations
Composer(s) : Rome
11 - Parigi O Cara
Composer(s) : G. Verdi
12 - Ye'Idun Yagidun
Composer(s) : Sh. Ibn Gabirol-Livorno
13 - Rachem
Composer(s) : Mana-Zucca
14 - Yigdal
Composer(s) : D. ben Yehuda-Rome
15 - Adom 'Olam
Composer(s) : Sh. Ibn Gabirol-Rome
16 - Amen Shem Nora
Composer(s) : N/A