Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque

Klappentext In considering the role of practical music in education, this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. Zusammenfassung In considering the role of practical music in education! this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The establishment of Lutheran musical practice in the sixteenth century; 2. The role of practical music in education c. 1600-1750; 3. The contents, layout and style of instruction books; 4. The development of performance practice and the tools of expression and interpretation in the German Baroque; 5. Ornamentation and the relation between performer and composer; 6. The decline of the Lutheran cantorates during the eighteenth century; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: John Butt, John (University of Cambridge) Butt
• Assisted by: John Butt (Editor), Laurence Dreyfus (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521034784
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03478-4
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Cambridge Musical Texts and Mo; Print on Demand
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory