Full Description
What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other—including gender, social status, and the role of the Church—to better understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Past / Russell E. Murray, Jr., Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus
Perspective 1
1. Some Introductory Remarks on Musical Pedagogy / James Haar
Part 1Medieval Pedagogy
2. Guido d'Arezzo, Ut queant laxis, and Musical Understanding / Dolores Pesce
3. Some Thoughts on Music Pedagogy in the Carolingian Era / Charles M. Atkinson
4. Medieval Musical Education as Seen through Sources Outside the Realm of Music Theory / Susan Boynton
Part 2Renaissance Places of Learning
5. "Sang Schwylls" and "Music Schools": Music Education in Scotland, 1560-1650 / Gordon Munro
6. A Proper Musical Education for Antwerp's Women / Kristine K. Forney
7. Juan Bermudo, Self-instruction, and the Amateur Instrumentalist / John Griffiths
Perspective 2
8. The Humanist and the Commonplace Book: Education in Practice / Anthony Grafton
Part 3Renaissance Materials and Contexts
9. Musical Commonplaces in the Renaissance / Peter Schubert
10. Music Education and the Conduct of Life in Early Modern England: A Review of the Sources / Pamela F. Starr
11. Vandals, Students, or Scholars? Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks / Susan Forscher Weiss
Part 4Music Education in the Convent
12. The Educational Practices of Benedictine Nuns: A Salzburg Abbey Case Study / Cynthia J. Cyrus
13. Nun Musicians as Teachers and Students in Early Modern Spain / Colleen Baade
Part 5The Teacher
14. Isaac the Teacher: Pedagogy and Literacy in Florence, ca. 1488 / Blake Wilson
15. Zacconi as Teacher: A Pedagogical Style in Words and Deeds / Russell E. Murray, Jr.
16. The Good Maestro: Pietro Cerone on the Pedagogical Relationship / Gary Towne
Perspective 3
17. You Can Tell a Book by Its Cover: Reflections on Format in English Music "Theory" / Jessie Ann Owens
Contributors
Index
